Lets Stand For Nothing

I just read AP sports writer’s Teresa M. Walker’s article on McNair’s pastor and close friend cautioning against judging the ex-NFL quarterback, reminding people who gathered for his memorial not to cast the first stone.

Tolerance is going to be the death of the US. As the everyday Christian’s values are daily under attack and repressed the so called leaders of the kingdom of God have become weak and compromised.

First it was Micheal Jackson now McNair’s sexual exploits are being over looked due to lifetime achievements. There are ways to comfort a family in loss but please don’t cheapen the Gospel by allowing these high profile individuals sins go unchecked. Give me a break, don’t cast the first stone is what Bishop Joseph W. Walker brought to McNair’s funeral? How about he was a great athlete and a godly man that was imperfect like the rest of us. But Steve’s Lord and Savior overcame our sin so that Steve can live this day in heaven.

But please don’t tell me to not use my God given ability to discern what is right and wrong. Here’s some verses that come to mind…

2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

Where was McNair’s “good friend” Bishop Joseph W. Walker’s correction of 2 extra martial affairs?

1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Can the world say they saw God in McNair’s example?

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Where’s the old/new?

John 13:35
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Our action are to set us apart.

1 John 5:18
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Two extra martial affairs at the same time?

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

James 2:8-9
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

We have all sinned but lets not dilute the message that it’s acceptable because we’re all sinners. What kind of “man of God” does that?

Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Is it possible provide here means more then just a financial obligation? Perhaps the father of his house is also provide a spiritual example.

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Isn’t time the clergy of the kingdom start stepping up and calling sin “sin”. Lets not put earthly achievements such as scoring touchdowns over parenting, role modeling, and setting ourselves apart from the world. I would expect the “don’t throw the first stone” argument to come from a teammate. Men of God need to lift up JESUS CHRIST not Steve McNair.