I am interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this topic. (It is unclear if this is a "gay wedding" or not, but we do know for certain her grandson is planning to marry a transsexual.) Should a Christian attend such a wedding?I said, “Well then, okay. As long as he knows that, then I suggest that you do go to the ceremony. And I suggest that you buy them a gift.”
This is quite a position for an evangelical pastor of what is often presumed to be a "conservative" megachurch to take, but I am also not too surprised, given the general trends I see sweeping over the evangelical world.
I note that this is much of the same argument made in mainline Protestant denominations to allow the camel's nose in the tent for gay marriage or "celibate" gay clergy; claiming that we're supposed to show the "love of Jesus" to them, even though Jesus never did stuff like this - he did actually tell people to repent, and as far as we know, he didn't participate in homosexual or transsexual wedding ceremonies.I said, “Well, here’s the thing: your love for them may catch them off guard, but your absence will simply reinforce the fact that they said, ‘These people are what I always thought: judgmental, critical, unprepared to countenance anything.’”
And it is a fine line, isn’t it? It really is. And people need to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling. But I think we’re going to take that risk. We’re going to have to take that risk a lot more if we want to build bridges into the hearts and lives of those who don’t understand Jesus and don’t understand that he is a King.