Earlier this year, I posted a short video on the importance of connection. As believers, we need to be very careful who we are connected to! We cannot profess to be born again believers and spend most of our time connected to unbelievers. Jesus said that we are in the world but not of the world (John 15:19), and Apostle Paul wrote the following to the Corinthian believers about living a separated life:

“Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise; leave it for good,” says God. “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you. I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you; you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God.”
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (MSG)

As believers, we cannot connect or become partners with those who reject the God of the Bible. To say you don’t believe the Bible is a rejection of God and all that He stands for. We cannot accept only part of the Bible and reject the parts that make us uncomfortable. As the text says, “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.”

Love and acceptance are not the same. I can love you without accepting a lifestyle that is contrary to my principles and beliefs.

Be Blessed,

Bishop Jemmott