I have changed this post at the suggestion of a brother in Christ.
As I said, the discovery that the Orlando shooter was tempted by homosexuality is so very sad. Sadness upon sadness. What does a Muslim do with his sin and shame? Can he be forgiven? Does the Koran and the god of the Koran offer redemption? Forgiveness? Mercy?
No. Mercy, forgiveness, and peace are only found in Jesus Christ Who came to save sinners.
This is the message we have been given for such men, as well as for the men he murdered and his wife and family he left behind.
Do we have faith to spread the message of reconciliation...
God has entrusted to us with such men?
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:16-20)
May God find us faithful in this work. Jesus is the onlyl hope—both for murderers and homsexuals; but also, and even more so, for white heterosexual fornicators in bondage to all the clean sins of middle class America.
Tim serves Clearnote Church, Bloomington, Indiana. He and Mary Lee have five children and big lots of grandchildren.
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