with our worship
June 2, 2024
with Pastor Terrell
A Life Giving Church … Giving Life
Welcome to Morning Worship In honor of the God we worship, you are invited to stand during congregational singing, as you are physically able.
“O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” “Fly” “Spirit of the Living God” GOSPEL Welcome & Offertory Prayer Kidz4Christ dismissed
“Come Holy Spirit” “We Will Remember” “Open the Eyes of My Heart”
FIRST CORINTHIANS Good News for the Not-So-Good Living in the Spirit 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 “Lord, Be Glorified” “We Will Remember”
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Pride Month (June) is once again upon us. This year Walmart chose to make this past weekend all about Pride Month and nothing at all about Memorial Day! They refuse to step back from wholeheartedly indorsing the LGBTQIA+-/ agenda. A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO PRIDE MONTH
Church Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30AM - 2:30PM
(First Posted by Dr. Matt Ayars, President of Wesley Biblical Seminary, June 14, 2023)
Senior Pastor Terrell Eldreth: 619-244-6265 PastorTerrell@firstsouthernpv.org
The Christian conviction against Pride Month is rooted in and compelled by deep concern, care, and ultimately love for individuals who view themselves as members of the LGBTQA+-/ community, even though proponents of Pride Month would suggest exactly the opposite (i.e., that Christians are against Pride Month because they hate members the LGBTQA+-/ community).
Worship Pastor Bart Young 928-254-8713 PastorBart@firstsouthernpv.org
Advancing the Kingdom of God one heart at a time.
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Proponents of Pride Month understand their celebration as preventing self-harm among the LGBTQA+-/ community. The argument goes something like this: “If we celebrate, rather than condemn non-traditional sexuality, then individuals of the LGBTQA+-/ can come out and live a shamefree life, celebrating who they are rather than suppressing their sexual identity, which necessarily leads to depression and self-harm.” In sum, Pride Month prevents self-harm, including suicides. This means that proponents of Pride Month naturally see those who are against Pride Month as not caring for members of the LGBTQA+-/ community. This is dead wrong. In fact, the Christian stance against Pride Month is driven by love and concern for the LGBTQA+-/ community. As a Christian, I firmly believe that the message and ethos of Pride Month are deeply harmful to LGBTQA+-/ individuals (and society as a whole), and Christian opposition against it is an attempt to best love LGBTQA+-/ individuals from what the church sees as ultimately harmful and destructive. From a Christian perspective, Pride Month is harmful because it affirms, encourages, and celebrates what Scripture plainly identifies as sin, which is against God, nature, individuals, and communities. As such, sin is destructive and thwarts the generation and sustaining of life as God intends it. Pride Month is an act of rebellion against God, who deeply loves us and expresses such by prohibiting that which is against our well-being. Pride Month wrongly assumes that all sexual desire is natural and therefore right, normative, and good (an idea associated with philosophers during the age of the Enlightenment). The Scriptures say otherwise. continued