Breaking ties takes time and patience

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The Church needs to find a balance between the call to holiness and the merciful heart of God. While the writer is opposed to any practice that goes against the Word of God, such as homosexuality, adultery, or any type of lust, they also recognize that people fall into spiritual traps due to the highly experimental world we live in. This can include falling into the addiction of pornography, adulterous relationships or sexual relationships outside of marriage. Churches need to be places where people can feel safe to express their struggles without fear of condemnation, and where there are Pastors with experience and knowledge of the dynamics of sanctification and transformation of mind. Churches of grace, love, and mercy combined with a commitment to holiness will be most effective in drawing people to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Devotionals based on Galatians 6

1 The Church must have a balanced position

2 Consider yourself lest you too be tempted

3 Breaking ties takes time and patience

4 Restoration Churches Needed

5 God is a God of mercy

6 When we sin against God there is always some kind of cost

7 The terrible cost of sin

8 Fall into the trap of sin

9 The balance between justice and mercy

10 The Lord's mercy can provoke repentance

11 Trade destructive patterns for healthy ones

12 The balance between the instruments we use

We need a balanced Church that combines as perfectly as possible the call to holiness with His paternal and merciful Heart. And we will remember that I originally said that this concern arose in my spirit as a consequence of my writings concerning homosexuality.

And I want it to be understood: I have dealt a lot with that issue over the years and right here in the city of Boston we have been fighting for a long time to try to stop a law that finally did not succeed to legalize same-sex marriage. Boston was the first city in the entire United States or the state of Massachusetts that also legalized homosexual marriage and from there it opened a door to other states that have followed the example of this state of Massachusetts and I was very involved in trying to fight against that law that, unfortunately, was finally put into effect.

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