I´m not cocksure about what I´m saying now, so maybe you can help me.  We´re in my country facing the same moral issues that you are facing in America, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, nay, the whole of Europe for that matter, and one of the biggest issues that is now bringing our old Christian cultures to the abyss is the legislative consensus about same sex marriages.

I  – and many with me - have challenged our good Queen, Margrethe II, to pluck up courage and refuse to sign the bill imposed upon her, the state church and the whole of Denmark concerning homosexual marriages in the church. Our Queen is a professing Christian, supposedly well taught theologically, so if she refuses to sign the bill for reasons of conscience, she´ll also sign her own death warrant as Queen.  In fact it will be the death warrant for our 1,000 years of monarchy, so that will not happen, unless a supernatural miracle happens.  For that miracle many Christians are praying.

What am I not so sure about then?  Well, I´m sure about calling homosexuality shameless sin “against nature” (Rom. 1:26-27) for that´s what God says through the apostle Paul.  And that should be said in no uncertain terms as did the apostle.  However, I´m not so sure if I would start a lawsuit against our government about it.  Some sincere brethren whom I dearly love think in those terms.  But here´s the way I see it, and if I need to be jacked up, please help me:

When the apostle exposes the horror of homosexuality and other sins listed in his epistle to the Romans it is to give the dark background for the need of the gospel!  Even if I would morally or legally win the case in a Danish courtroom, the gospel is still at stake.  The beast has seven heads, and there will always be more than one head of sin coming up.  So the answer is not a lawsuit against these “heads”, but the preaching or proclamation of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit who always exposes sin in all its horror but also points to the remedy of sin, the Lamb of God.

Or am I wrong?  Am I belittling the issue of sin?  God forbid.  But my calling is not to be a moralist, but an evangelist, or at least try to “do the work of an evangelist”  (2 Tim. 4:5).  My time is short, I know, but is there a better way of fulfilling my ministry than to preach the word of the cross, the sin bearer of Calvary, the cleansing power of His blood, the urgency of repentance, God´s yearning for showing mercy and forgiveness of sins, - rather than being a straitlaced moralist? 

A few days ago I asked a gentleman in CA, “Have you ever received Christ as your personal Savior and Lord?”  His answer was, “No, I have too many sins to confess.”  Later I was sitting in his house to explain to him and his wife what the gospel is really about, namely to come to the place of the tax collector in Luke 18:13, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!”  And from there we went on, and they begged me to come back.

O, may the Lord grant us in a powerful way His Holy Spirit of conviction!  It´s not so difficult to excel in some moral rectitude, but it takes the anointing of Heaven to preach the gospel.  Nevertheless, gentlemen, it is the gospel that is at stake!   

May 5, 2012, - jn