One of my core priorities and chief concerns is to help my seminary students not only adopt opinions but also develop convictions. We can live with our opinions, but we must be willing to die for our convictions. I am concerned about central theological truths.
It takes little discernment to realize the connection between theological truths and ethical standards. But today our culture is trying to make ethical and moral pronouncements without a theological foundation. It is worse than that. Our cultural leaders are trying to force ethical standards without a belief in what is true as they pronounce what is right and wrong.
The epistemological trajectory is simple to track. We have moved from a pre-modern world to a modern world and now a post-modern world that is not only neutral to Christianity but downright hateful.
Examine the new moral order of our country to see that Biblical Christianity has no place in making social comments about what is right or wrong. There is no longer purity only perversity. The sacred has become secular.
Tomorrow, I will celebrate my 71st birthday. But even more important, it is the start of “gay pride month.” We will see not only civic celebrations but also many churches joining in, declaring God loves homosexuality and that it is a gift of God---so much for central theological truth. The frog in the kettle comes to mind.
Today is the time for the Biblical Church to flex its muscles of compassion and conviction based upon Biblical truth.
There is something to be said for what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
