'Inclusivity'

For those of you who don't know, I trust and follow Jesus Christ. I have heard alot recently of the term 'inclusivity', and how we should be inclusive, for example to allow people in openly homosexual relationships to be involved within leadership of the church. 

First thing to say is that the bible is the word of God and is the ultimate authority, secondly, according to Romans and backed up everywhere else in the bible is that we all rebel against God-Romans 3: 23 'all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' and so we are all on the same playing field when it comes to God-we can't get to him without help, so he came to us...which brings me to my third point, Jesus first words in Mark's biography are 'repent and believe the good news'.

The Christian life is shown through repentance-which means a complete turn around, turning your back from rebellion to God, this doesn't mean that we're perfect but it does mean a life time of pledging allegiance to the one true and living God who can forgive us for this. 

The problem with the term 'inclusivity' when it comes to Christianity is that it doesn't involve the term repentance and tells people to come into leadership regardless of their lifestyle...I am not saying I am perfect, but someone who is in an openly homosexual relationship hasn't repented. It would be like having the president of the sky diving society being someone who has never sky dived....it doesn't make sense.

I have friends who struggle with homosexuality, I have friends who struggle with heterosexual lust...I myself am one, but it doesn't give me the right to use the term 'inclusivity' to pass over it. 

A word that closely follows this term 'inclusivity' is the word 'love', I agree we all need to love everyone. But we cannot compromise the truth for the term 'love', in the same way we can't compromise 'repentance' for the term 'inclusivity.'

I once heard the story of a dad, whose son threw a hammer threw a window... he was a loving dad, but does that mean that he says, don't worry about it son, or does he set him straight and tell him he shouldn't be doing things like that? No one would think the dad loves the child less, but with the latter he wouldn't be compromising truth for love. 

As Christians, we are to speak the truth in love, remembering the first words Jesus spoke, 'repent and believe', he also said 'no one comes to the Father except through me', that sounds pretty exclusive to me... and since he's the only way to eternity, we better listen and tell other people the same, after all, it is eternity and the eternal God we are dealing with!