Dear People Who Keep Company With God,
Regardless of what we think, feel, or believe about the place same-sex marriage has in the United States, we now live in the reality that it is legal. The government has re-defined marriage as it pertains to the laws of our nation. 
The ruling has the potential to pit us against the law, forcing us to choose between our beliefs and the government. The church and other para-church organizations may likely come under fire, with efforts to take away our tax-exempt status for not complying with the laws of non-discrimination with regard to same-sex marriage.
We have already made our choice. We will stand firm in the truth of scripture that marriage is a divinely ordained covenant between a man and a woman and that doesn’t change no matter what anyone says.
Yet, we have to face that we are in a new reality. We are becoming more and more marginalized and our views on sexuality and many other important topics are no longer accepted or even being heard. We have been losing our voice in the moral and spiritual direction of our nation for many years.
The men and women of faith who have gone before us did some amazing things for the church and our nation. They deserve great honor and we do not want to lose the blessings they worked so hard for us to have.
The Preamble of our State’s Constitution is a shining example of this.
“We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain and establish this Constitution.”
Yet, we haven’t always carried on with their wisdom and understanding. At the end of the 1970’s and all through the 1980’s, the church began to put a lot of focus and effort in shaping our nation’s culture and future through political means. I don’t think we ever stopped focusing on the spread of the Gospel, but there was a significant emphasis on leveraging things politically.
Am I saying this is all a bad thing? No, like those who wrote our state’s constitution, we want and need God in our government. But, just being a moral voice is not what God has called the church to be. We are called to be the spiritual voice to our nation. I think we lost our spiritual voice while trying so hard to be the moral voice. Jesus didn’t expect people who did not know God to live like they did and neither should we.
The focus of the church is not to build a moral majority or a political machine. We are to be the “the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Tim. 3:15) We have the Presence of God and we are the house of God. We have the Spirit of Truth. We have real hope for the future. We have the Prince of Peace.
We are a community, a family that is not of this world. No other organization, religion, government, and so on can offer the treasure we have. Let’s focus on being our unique, genuine self and we may regain our place in the spiritual, cultural and moral direction of our nation. America needs us to be that more than ever.
Many Blessings, BW