The Importance of Confessionalism Amidst Cultural Decline

On Sunday, June 28, 2015, two days after the US Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing so-called “same-sex marriage”, a deacon came up to me before our evening service. “Pastor, there’s a camera crew here that wants to speak with you.” I went outside to find a reporter from a major broadcast TV network who asked me, “We have heard that some churches actually don’t agree with the recent Supreme Court ruling and wondered if you’d be willing to comment?” I declined to comment on camera, but I did say to the reporter and his camera crew, “Our understanding of what the Bible teaches on marriage was written down in 1677, in agreement with what Christians have publicly confessed for centuries. Nothing the Supreme Court ruled on Friday has changed that.” That is not all I could have said, of course. In many ways, it barely scratches the surface. We could have discussed the key passages of Scripture that speak to men, women, sexual morality, and the purpose of marriage that our Confession summarizes in 2LCF Chapter 25.

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