As I jump from one author to another, I feel I have to post a “Don’t Lose Sight” post. 

I have just spent three posts on Peter Gomes and his book entitled The Good Book.

Gomes is an author who represents a particular view, a view that is “friendly” to the LGBTQ+ community in the Christian church. 

My comments in those posts had to do with Anti-Semitism in the Christian community, but it is imperative to know that Gomes has a bigger idea in mind. He is trying to produce some “wiggle room” within Scripture for his eventual argument that this is nothing wrong with LGBTQ+ people in the church. After all, Gomes was a gay pastor of Harvard’s Memorial Church. 

Essentially what Gomes is doing is arguing that Christians have taken God’s word and have used it against others. Essentially, there are instances when Christians have not gotten “it” right. Is this what we have done to homosexual people?

Kevin DeYoung says no.

In fact DeYoung presents the exact opposite viewpoint from Peter Gomes. Scripture does not have it wrong. Homosexual behavior must be condemned.

Don’t lose sight of what I am doing here. I am trying to understand this controversial issue of the day by looking at the opinions of three authors: Peter Gomes in The Good Book, Kevin DeYoung in What does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? and Preston Sprinkle People to be Loved: Why Homosexuality is not Just an Issue.

In my next post, we move from “friendly” to extremely unfriendly– Pastor Kevin DeYoung.