Jesus would have Baked the Cake??????????

This post is time-sensitive and, perhaps, already past its expiration date.

The title of the post refers to the recent U. S. Supreme Court decision supporting a Christian baker who refused to bake a cake for a same sex wedding and a church near where the event took place which posted on its church sign, "JESUS WOULD HAVE BAKED THE CAKE."

Clearly, though, Jesus would not have baked the cake.

Certainly, He would have loved the couple planning the wedding. He DOES love them.

Yet, Jesus could not have been more clear about who marriage is appropriate for.

Jesus said, straightforwardly, that the Creator made humans male and female.

And He added that it was for this reason "a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

Jesus would have loved that same sex couple but he would have stood up for truth. He would have called them to repent and to turn from their sin.

He would have, therefore, stood for truth above relationship.

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It strikes me, as a member of the Churches of God, General Conference, that the assertion that Jesus would have baked the cake illustrates why our body will fail, unless it engages in repentance.

I'll be clear.

The overwhelming majority of the people of the CGGC are socially conservative. No doubt, most of them were overjoyed to hear that the court sided with the baker in this case.

But, on the broader issue, when they are put in the position of choosing between truth and relationship, unless the issue of truth is radical and extreme, and unavoidable, they choose relationship.

They almost never, ever choose truth.

They practice lukewarmth and tolerance, not the sort of love for His Father's truth Jesus demonstrated when He fashioned a whip with His own hands and physically drove the moneychangers out of the temple, calling them thieves.

They don't love in the way Jesus commanded when Jesus said, after washing the disciples' feet, "as I have loved you so you must love one another."

There is nothing about the CGGC that makes it possible for it to be a prophetic witness in the world today.

Until we change, we will remain bland. There will be nothing about us to recommend us.

We will be a nonfactor in the world...

...and for the Kingdom of God.

No doubt, we will continue to talk, from our mountaintop, about being radical. We will converse among ourselves about how good it is that some people are radical.

But, unless we begin to grieve over our lukewarmth, we will always choose relationship over principle, over truth.

And, our decline and our decay will continue.

And, we will fail the King.

We must repent.