Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
We have a neighbor who is a tennis coach. She stopped by our house one day and I showed her my colorful tennis wrist bands that I have been using to help with my two broken wrists.
As she looked at them, she asked,
"Does this mean you support gay rights." I was very shocked.
I replied,
"I don't think so." (I couldn't understand why anyone would think my tennis wristbands would imply that.) I looked on Amazon where I had ordered the wristbands to see if in any way these referred to homosexual/lesbian and they did not.
Then I recalled an organization formed years ago to support black people and it was called
"Rainbow Coalition". The wrist bands have several colors:
purple, green, yellow, orange, red. I think our neighbor wanted to know our view concerning homosexuals and lesbians.
I prayed:
"What do I do about this?" Immediately I felt I had God's answer.
Pam Padgett heard this neighbor's question, so I called Pam into my room and asked her to send an email and a Podcast to this neighbor.
Pam sent the following:
"Since you mentioned "gay / lesbian support" yesterday when Joan showed you her wrist bands, you may be interested in God's view of this. Here is a podcast: " Homosexual/lesbians. What Bible says. https://jesusministriespodcasts.blogspot.com/2020/02/homosexualslesbians-what-bible-says.html As Pam and I spoke about this subject, she was reminded of the following:
When you showed neighbor your colorful tennis wristbands and asked if she knew what they were, and she replied, "Does it mean you show support for "gays" and lesbians?", I kept thinking "Why would she say, or even think of that? Nothing other than the bands being colorful ever came to our minds regarding the bands. Then I was reminded of the following scripture: Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. Neighbor thought of "homosexual/lesbian" because her mind is defiled. (defiled: foul, dirty, polluted, corrupted) Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny HIM, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. (Neighbor identifies herself as "Catholic" and she attends Catholic church.)
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