1. Homosexuality – same-sex marriage & the gospel
Part 1

2. Logical and Sociological window
1. Theonomous culture: God’s laws rule and shape culture

3. Logical and Sociological window
Theonomous culture: God’s laws rule and shape society
Heteronomous culture: Small group of people on top make a decision about society.

4. Logical and Sociological window
Theonomous culture: God’s laws rule & shape society
Heteronomous culture: Small group on top make decisions about society.
Autonomous Culture: All the people have a say on issues affecting society.

5. Marriage & Sexuality are sacred [From and of God]
Theological window
Marriage & Sexuality are sacred [From and of God]

6. Theological window
LOVE Phileo: brotherly love Storge: parental love Eros: romantic/physical love Agape: Self sacrificial, other centred godly love

7. Theological window
Biblical love finds its full earthly expression in marriage & family and spiritual expression in God through jesus

8. Christian position on sex & Marriage
Sacred union of male & female becoming one.
Covenant under God to be committed to the one person till death.
The gift of sex and procreation to create family

9. Freedom of choice is also a sacred gift from God
The relational window
Freedom of choice is also a sacred gift from God

10. Can a person live a sincere Christian life as a homosexual?
“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” John 10:10

11. “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’, and said, “For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.” Mt 19:4-6

12. Locating the cause of homosexuality
The [ broken ] soul of humanity