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TechnoratiThousands of believers across the state of California were encouraged and empowered to take a stand against same-sex “marriage” Wednesday through an event that was broadcast live to more than 160 churches in California and countless others across the World Wide Web.
(Photo: Rock Photo / Brother Joe)Hundreds of California Christians are encouraged to take a stand against same-sex “marriage” at "The Fine Line" rally at the Rock Church in San Diego Wednesday, October 1, 2008.
“When He (God) said in Genesis, ‘Man should leave his mother and father and be cleaved to a woman,’ He didn’t say ‘be cleaved to the same sex,’” Miles McPherson, senior pastor of the Rock Church in San Diego, told thousands of youth gathered for “The Fine Line” rally.
“We need to stand up for righteousness. We need to stand up for what the Bible says. We need to be a voice for America,” he cried out. "I believe we can change America if we do that."
On Wednesday, McPherson hosted “The Fine Line” at his San Diego megachurch – the city’s largest Christian congregation and one of the fastest growing in the United States – as part of an effort to equip and empower young people and their parents to engage on the issue of same-sex “marriage,” and mobilize them into action.
With only one month remaining before Californians head for the polls, pro-marriage advocates have been mobilizing believers to cast their vote for Proposition 8, the Protect Marriage Amendment, which would ban homosexual “marriages” in the state.
In front of an energetic crowd of Christian youth, McPherson reminded potential voters of their commitment to love God and to love their brothers and sisters – the greatest commandment – and also what it truly means to love.
“If I want to be blessed, I obey God. If I want you to be blessed, I help you obey God. And if I love you – if I really sincerely love you – I will help you obey God. If I cause you or influence you to disobey God, that is not love; that is hate,” he said, explaining the connection between true love and obedience.
“Love is not just you feel something and you have an emotion. Love is not based on your emotion. It’s not based on your hormones. Love is based on truth,” he exhorted.
“All you who have ever had a relationship, you know that sometimes you don’t feel it (your love in the relationship). You get into an argument; you have a difference,” added McPherson, who once played professional football for the San Diego Chargers.
“You do that (love) by obeying God. You do that by obeying according to His Word and not your emotion, not political correctness, not your feelings,” he said.
In addition to McPherson, rally participants heard from a panel of experts who offered answers to some of the most common and hard-to-answer questions regarding the marriage issue.
When asked how same-sex “marriage” directly affects each person in the state and even in the country, Christian apologist Sean McDowell quickly shared how “this social reengineering of marriage will have profound implications for every single one of our lives.”
To explain, McDowell took the example of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago.
Though most Americans may not have known someone who was on board one of the hijacked planes or in a building that was hit, almost the entire country – and even the world – was affected.
“After 9/11, the world was a fundamentally different place, and that has affected me,” said McDowell, whose father is popular speaker Josh McDowell.
“The change in the redefinition of marriage is the same type of thing. It will trickle down and affect our lives,” the panelist added.
When asked why homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to marry according to their “orientation” while heterosexuals are, panelist Yvette Schneider of Exodus International said allowing them to marry according to their “orientation,” or more accurately sexual preference, would open the floodgates for those who would want incestuous, pedophilic, or bestial relationships to be socially recognized. Continue >>
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