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Label 'Gay Activity' Sin
Northwestern Lutheran, March 1996; Reprinted with permissionFourteen professors at Calvin Seminary, the Grand Rapids (MI) theological school of the 140,000-member Christian Reformed Church, are asking that the local church body where the school is located condemn homosexual practice as sin.
The extraordinary action said that the Classis Grand Rapids East (a body of churches similar to a WELS conference) had created "unrest in the church" by failing to clearly condemn homosexual activity when it considered a report on ministry to homosexuals. The report deliberately sidestepped taking a stance on whether homosexual practice or orientation is a sin.
That refusal prompted the seminary professors' letter. "In our judgment, the church cannot afford to be anything less than clear on this subject," the Rev. John Bolt, one of the signers of the letter said. "We (the church) have a clear position on this issue, and we are convinced as a seminary faculty that that (position) is biblically, theologically, (and) morally the right position to take, and any ambiguity on that is troubling."
The denomination's 1973 statement says that "homosexualism -- as explicit homosexual practice -- must be condemned as incompatible with obedience to the will of God as revealed in Holy Scripture.
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