“A new commandment I give you; love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34-35
Love comes from engagement with others in truth. One on one. It doesn’t come from bringing division to our Church in the form of radicalism, picking and choosing which aspects of God’s Word we’re going to obey, and then trying to shove everything else down the “collective throats” of our “church culture.” Trying to make the Church fit in with the times as opposed to bringing the world into the Truth of God’s Word. We so often sit in our glass houses pointing fingers proclaiming “the other” to be the “cause of division,” when we really need to look in the mirror as the “three fingers pointed back at ourselves” are usually pointing at the true cause of said “division.”
It’s very important that we welcome and embrace every soul who comes to us, but when we divorce ourselves from God’s Truth, whether it be from our deviant acts, or trying to recklessly draw our “politics” into the equation, we foment the very division that we try so hard to blame on others, and end up actually being everything we pretend to despise.
Unification comes through our humility. I’m going to say this again- “Unification comes through our humility.” Jesus taught us love through humility, up to and giving His life for us, and bringing symbols of “pride” whether it be “gay pride, “black pride,” “feminist pride,” “white male” pride or “pedophile priest pride,” “pride” has no business here. It contradicts everything Jesus stood for, and it cuts through the core of everything Christianity should stand for. 
Our greatest downfall at the present comes from our sexual indiscretion as a culture. Whether it be the mass execution of the unborn, our priests who can’t keep it in their pants, or the thousands of children with questionable parenting who don’t feel the love of a family unit, we’re right back in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and if there’s ever a story we need to be paying attention to, it would be that one.
I’m not out to blame this on LGT culture, as they bear little responsibility in this, but they are still called to the same level of humility as the rest of us. We ALL need to practice restraint, and that “pride” symbolism in this particular context flies in the face of everything we’re supposed to stand for as Christians in more ways than one. To align our Church with that ideology is not only reckless and divisive, it’s just wrong. It’s been one of the “seven deadly sins” for over a millennium and a half, and it “went before a fall” about three and a half millennia ago.(Proverbs 16:18) How this isn’t a “no brainer” is mind boggling, but in this case, it’s allowing the culture to override the Word for temporal appeasement, and it’s going to call for the production of “millstones” in the upcoming years if we fail to turn this around.(Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2) Note that the “millstone reference “ makes it into all three of the synoptic Gospels, and there will be millstones awaiting many of us if we aren’t careful.
We’re all called to love, no more no less, and it’s beautiful to see so many churches out there in the streets and trenches serving with their hearts souls and minds, while others attempt to serve by practicing politics like the waitress in the Billy Joel song “Piano Man.” From pedestals inside of glass houses. I pray that we “drop our nets,” those things that weigh us down and keep us from truth, and fall deeply in love with God and with each other, for it’s those “nets,” the “politics of sin,” that keep us from being all in, and totally His.❤️🙏