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 There are trusted voices in the evangelical community who have responded to the Supreme Court decision.

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 And I'm going to read a piece from a man, his name is Russell Moore.

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 And Russell Moore is the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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 He works down at Southern Seminary.

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 And this past week, late week, he had an article in the Washington Post which read why the church should neither cave nor panic about the decision on gay marriage.

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 We have these articles on the tables on the other side just as you're leaving in the vestibules.

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 And we're also going to post this on our Facebook page as a church so that you can read the article in its entirety.

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 So we've stated our position as a church.

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 Let me read the position, the posture of our church.

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 Russell Moore speaks about as a result of this decision that there will be refugees from this sexual revolution.

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 People who are disappointed in getting what they want.

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 And finally realizing that it actually doesn't satisfy.

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 And so he writes,

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 We must prepare for those like the sexually wayward woman of the well of Samaria

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 who will be thirsting for water of which they don't even know.

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 There are two sorts of churches that will not be able to reach the sexual revolution's refugees.

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 A church that has given up on the truth of the scriptures, including on marriage and sexuality,

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 and has nothing to say to a fallen world.

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 We can't be that church.

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 We won't be that church.

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 And the second church is a church that we can't be either.

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 A church that screams with outrage at those who disagree.

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 A church like that will have nothing to say to those who are looking for a new birth.

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 We're not going to make either mistake.

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 We must stand with conviction and with kindness.

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 The truth with truth and with grace.

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 We must hold to our views and love those who hate us for them.

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 We will be hated.

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 We must not only speak Christian truth,

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 we must speak with a Christian accent.

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 We must say what Jesus has revealed

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 and we must say those things the way that Jesus does.

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 With mercy and with an invitation to a new life.

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 We must say we must call him.

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 You can say we must say he is not just in the beginning to get to your joy from the beginning,

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 but follow him in the beginning.

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 Without having to tell what Jesus said,

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 he will not call him so he is speaking to his family,