Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Heart of the Gospel in Matters of the Heart

In the last half century our culture has normalized pre-marital sex, abortion, cohabitation, and homosexual unions. The Christian response has ofen been to categorize these practices as sin and proclaim, "Don't do them." Is that the best Jesus can do?

Part 1 - If God is love, then he surely should speak definitively about the most intimate form of human love. Yet Christians do not agree on how to respond to the normalization of premarital sex, cohabitation, and homosexual unions. In the first half hour of this one-hour presentation, John Torgerson discusses why a topical bible study does direct us to a unified response.



Part 2 - John Torgerson explains that Christian living is not about following rules or avoiding "sin". It is about living in the reality of Jesus Christ. Jesus has brought all humanity into union with him and has forgiven the sins of all people - past, present and future. Marriage is a union that is a model for the union of Jesus and all humanity.