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Thinking Biblically About So-Called Same-Sex Marriage

June 18, 2012 by Alex Chediak

On Father’s Day John Piper preached on the theme “Let Marriage Be Held in Honor.” The eight points from Piper’s sermon are below. Under the 7th point, Piper addressed the proposed Marriage Amendment, on the Minnesota ballot this November. [It’s similar to the “Prop 8” that narrowly passed in CA in 2008.]

1. Marriage is created and defined by God in the Scriptures as the sexual and covenantal union of a man and a woman in life-long allegiance to each other alone, as husband and wife, with a view to displaying Christ’s covenant relationship to his blood-bought church.

2. There is no such thing as so-called same-sex marriage, and it would be wise not to call it that.

3. Same sex desires and same sex orientation are part of our broken and disordered sexuality owing to God’s subjection of the created order to futility because of man’s sin.

4. Therefore, same-sex intercourse, not same-sex desire is the focus of Paul’s condemnation when he threatens exclusion from the kingdom of God.

5. Therefore, it would contradict love and contradict the gospel of Jesus to approve homosexual practice, whether by silence, or by endorsing so-called same-sex marriage, or by affirming the Christian ordination of practicing homosexuals.

6. The good news of Jesus is that God saves heterosexual sinners and homosexual sinners who trust Jesus, by counting them righteous because of Christ, and by helping them through his Spirit to live lives pleasing to him in their disordered brokenness.

7. Deciding what actions will be made legal or illegal through civil law is a moral activity aiming at the public good and informed by the worldview of each participant.

8. Don’t press the organization of the church or her pastors into political activism. Pray that the church and her ministers would feed the flock of God with the word of God centered on the gospel of Christ crucified and risen. Expect from your shepherds not that they would rally you behind political candidates or legislative initiatives, but they would point you over and over again to God and to his word, and to the cross.

The text, video, and audio of the sermon are all available.

For more on this topic, see these posts:

North Carolina pastor’s plan to ‘get rid of’ gays goes viral

Shift in Evangelical Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage
Biola University Releases Statement on Human Sexuality
Mark Dever and Albert Mohler on Same-Sex Marriage

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