Highlands Church, Denver - taking user-friendly churches to their logical conclusion

MSNBC today has an article on Highlands Church in Denver, Colorado, which boasts its acceptance of practicing homosexuals into full fellowship.

Rev. Mark Tidd maintains that 'gay people can embrace their sexual orientation as God-given and seek fulfillment in committed same-sex relationships.'

Amazingly, Tidd says 'Our position is not one of lenience, but a matter of justice....It's not that we don't acknowledge the reality of sin. It's not a sin to be gay or act in accordance with your nature.'

If such is the case and my fallen nature tells me to rob the bank next door, then the gospel according to Rev. Tidd would tell me it isn't wrong!

Of course, in order to maintain his position Tidd must question God's Word. He states 'The Bible, read literally, suggests the earth is flat and could be used to justify slavery.'

Unfortunately, if Tidd had any real knowledge of what Scripture says, he would know that it neither justifies slavery in the sense that we think of it, nor promotes a belief in a flat earth.

For example, with regard to a flat earth, Revelation 7:1 mentions the 'four corners of the earth,' but that refers to the directions, north, south, east and west. The same term is used today by people who clearly don't believe the earth is flat. People today also refer to the sun rising and setting, even though we know it's the earth that is moving. Isaiah 40:21-22 refers to 'the circle of the earth.'

With churches that openly welcome practicing homosexuals into their fellowship, there is little to stop them from progressing to the next step. What about those who would prefer to marry a 10 year old girl, rather than a woman? What about acceptance of polygamy? After all, Solomon had countless wives. There are no limits to what such a church would accept - except, of course, those who hold to correct biblical beliefs.

Jesus held the Old Testament to be God's Word, and both it and the New Testament clearly condemn homosexual behavior.

Lev 18:22-23 'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.'

Lev 20:13 'If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death.'

1 Cor 6:9 'Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals.'

Highlands Church claims on its website that it hold to the Apostle's Creed. Why, then, do they insist on acting in direct contradiction to the Savior they claim to worship?

Alexander Hamilton once said that 'those who will stand for nothing will fall for anything.'

Those who will not stand up for what Scripture clearly teaches, and watch their doctrine closely, will similarly fall for anything. Unfortunately, this is a practice that is becoming all too common in churches today,