Welcome, welcome to the line of fire. Michael Brown with you as we all stand together in the line of fire. It's unavoidable. It's the world we live in today. But we don't stand alone. We are together in the Lord. And Jesus, our Lord and Savior goes before us. He has risen from the dead. He has ascended to the right hand of the Father. All authority in heaven

and earth is his. Therefore, we don't walk in fear. We don't cower in the corner. We don't throw in the towel.

We stand boldly. We stand clearly. We stand unashamedly for the gospel, knowing that he who is within us

is greater than he who is in the world.

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We continue our series, Can You Be Gay and Christian?

Where do Christian stand in the culture wars?

How do we walk out the practical decisions?

What do we say when we're invited to a gay wedding?

What happens when there is gay activist curriculum in our kids' school?

How do we combat the social media influences, what's right to say from the pulpit and not right, how far do we

go, how can we reach out to people with the compassion and love of God without compromising our

values?

We've talked about three principles thus far, the principle of reach out and resist,

reach out to the people with compassion, resist the agenda with courage. We talked about the

principle of having hearts of compassion and backbones of steel. And then the principle of humanizing,

not demonizing, those we differ with., we begin our journey into the question of

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