Judgment Is Here, Battles Lines Are Drawn And ‘Massive Fallout’ Expected As Call Goes Out For Millions To ‘Prepare For Civil Disobedience’
By Susan Duclos
All News PipeLine
June 18, 2015
Church leaders are sending out a call and a message across America to “prepare for civil disobedience” in the face of a Surpreme Court decision that would take away their right of Religious freedom.
Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas, a man not given to hyperbole, is warning American Christians to be “prepared for massive fallout” if the Surpreme Court legalizes same sex marriage, stating “there’s a coming a day, I believe, that many Christians personally and churches corporately will need to practice civil disobedience on this issue.”
Recently a full page ad was taken out in Washington Post by Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian pastors, clergy, lay leaders and Jewish leaders, who collectively represent millions of people in their specific churches, parishes, denominations, synagogues andmedia ministry outreaches, as an “Open Letter to the Supreme Court Justices of the United States,” informing them “we will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clearbiblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.”
That ad ended with Acts 5:29 “But Peter and the apostles answered, We must obey God rather than men.”
50,000 pastors and church leaders have signed a petition which states in part, “We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no mistake about our resolve. While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross.”
Grahamn’s warning comes just a day after the current and 16 former Southern Baptist Convention presidents released a statement along the same lines, shown below:
As Southern Baptist Christians, we are committed to Biblical faith and ethics. As a result, this body of Believers stands on the authority of Scripture and God’s Truth as central to our lives.
What the Bible says about marriage is clear, definitive and unchanging. We affirm biblical, traditional, natural marriage as the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. The Scriptures’ teaching on marriage is not negotiable. We stake our lives upon the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Consequently, we will not accept, nor adhere to, any legal redefinition of marriage issued by any political or judicial body including the United States Supreme Court. We will not recognize same-sex “marriages”, our churches will not host same-sex ceremonies, and we will not perform such ceremonies.
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