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 Well, this morning, before I preach, before we turn to Jonah 4, I want to make some statements

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 regarding this past week's Supreme Court decision that is legalized same-sex marriage.

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 The elders of our church have been talking, and one of the things that we've been talking

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 about is how do we respond?

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 What do we say?

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 Is there something to say?

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 And we believe that there is.

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 And so I have a handful of statements I want to make that are position statements.

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 This is what we believe as a church.

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 And then following that, I'm going to read you a piece from an article that gets at our

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 posture as a church.

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 How we want to be here in this country, in this city, in light of the changes going on

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 around us.

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 And I want to first say this.

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 These statements that I'm about to make are from a man who has been redeemed and restored

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 from sexual sin myself.

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 And so these words are spoken as one who's been redeemed.

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 As a church who's been redeemed.

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 A church who knows and tasted and experienced the hardship of sin.

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 We as a church believe the only marriage legitimate in God's sight is the uniting of one man and

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 one woman in a single exclusive union as revealed in Scripture.

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 We also believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between one man and one woman who are married to each other.

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 We believe any form of sexual immorality including but not limited to homosexual practice is sinful in God's sight.

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 We also believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin.

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 Seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

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 That's what we hold to as a church.

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 And many of us in this room have been called out of the very homosexual lifestyle that has been now legalized.

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 That's our position.

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