All Have Sinned!

Each person must seek the Holy Spirit for how to interact with those who are lost. God has principles in His word that clearly show us what to do. The unsaved are not to be our closest friends, but we are not to completely ignore them or we would not be bringing the gospel to them.

Who of us could say that we never needed to hear the gospel because we were so much better than those who do certain sins. All sin sends the unbeliever to hell.

There are those who have opted not to serve those of same sex marriage proponents in their businesses, and I would applaud them for their sense of disgust at unrighteousness. I wonder though if they would show the same disgust toward those who are remarrying after a divorce. Both situations are sin and both are condemned by God.

One seems worse than the other because it is unnatural, nonethless both are sins that can send someone to hell.

We used to have an ice cream business, we worked fairs, festivals and high schools, selling our product. When someone came to shop at our booth, we didn't ask what sin they were involved in, we simply sold to them. Everyone must make their own decision on this matter, but doing business with the world is not a sin.

Many of the people who bought our product were living in all kinds of sin, just by the way they conducted themselves and who they were associating with. Why would we take a stand against one sin over another in our business. I agree that same sex marriage is debauchery, but as long as they are not getting married in my house or church, I leave them alone. I do not attend remarriages from divorce, nor would I attend a marriage of a couple of the same sex, but we would sell our ice cream to them, while sharing the gospel them.

God gave clear commands to withdraw from a person who says they are a believers, who have become a part of our Christian gathering, who is in open sin. This is to discipline them to repent and become restored, or if they are proven to be pretenders, then they will choose never to return and remain in the sin as unsaved people, preventing them from infecting the body of Christ.

If we are to avoid them entirely then they would never hear the gospel. Looking down our noses at the unsaved does not show Christlike love. Showing them their sin because of the Christlike love in us, that desires for them to be born again, is the mandate given to us by God. Christ died for those people too, just as He died for us. We had to repent and become born again once, just as we should desire that they do.

1 Corinthians 5
" 5 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.
2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
3 For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit,with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 1
10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
13 But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves. "

Each one must seek God for who they do business with, but remember, we are no better than the people we serve, it is only Christ in us, that we share with them Who is righteous.