A California Baptist association's executive board has recommended that the body not seat messengers at its fall meeting from a church whose pastor has said he does not believe all homosexual acts are sinful.
"We adhere to the Baptist Faith and Message and the amendment of 2000," Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association director of missions Mark Hammond told Baptist Press. New Heart Community Church in La Mirada, Calif., a member of the association, "has stated verbally and in text that they do not adhere to that. When you come in our association ... you agree to the Baptist Faith and Message. Therefore they are out of fellowship with the rest of the churches of the Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association."
Article XV of the BF&M states, "Christians should oppose ... all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography." Read more
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