"The Christian Message"

Is taking a stand against same-sex marriage "the Christian message".  I know plenty of people, who are not Christians who would stand right along side you on this issue.  The Christian message is the gospel.  The Christian message is that both moralists and the immoral are condemned and guilty before God.  The Christian message is that we have no hope out side of Christ regardless of where we stand on a moral or civil issue.

You want to talk about morality? You want to talk about sin? Let's not pick out five that we can easily assault because  we don't do those five. Let's talk about the fact that we have all broken the greatest commandment; committed the greatest sin that any human being can commit.  We have all failed to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. And, as R.C. Sproul one time said, "And you know you haven't kept that commandment at any time in your life for five seconds." You can't keep that commandment. It's impossible. Well let's talk about that.

If you want to go after America's immorality, then let's indict the whole nation for not loving God. That is not only the first and great commandment, that is the sum of the commandments. And the second commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself, and you can't keep that one for five seconds. So if we're going to get moral, then let's go where we need to go because that, wrote the apostle Paul, is  the sum of all the law. Why do we have to pick these selective ones?

If we're going to call America to morality, then let's indict them where they need to be indicted and let's indict our own hearts where we need to be indicted and say we've broken the first and great commandment, and we've broken the second one, and we do it all the time and therefore we are all condemned to hell in desperate need of grace and forgiveness and salvation.

That's the Christian message.

(Several excerpts by other writers were used in the composition of this post)