Monday, June 29, 2015
"Marriage is meant to be for life," Cameron said. "When we do things God's way, there's a blessing.
Kirk Cameron, star of the sitcom "Growing Pains," is leading marriage seminars in Alabama this month. (Love Worth Fighting For Ministries)
Christians should clean up their own act before condemning gay marriage, said actor Kirk Cameron, who visits Alabama this month to lead marriage seminars.
"When people get too focused on redefining marriage, you're distracted from the bigger problem - fornicators and adulterers," Cameron said.
"If the people sitting in the pews are fornicators and adulterers, the church will destroy marriages much more quickly than those outside the church. When God's people mock marriage, God doesn't take that lightly."
Cameron declined to criticize gay marriage and same-sex unions, saying that's not a priority.
"I think the greatest threat to marriage is not other people's definition of marriage," Cameron said in a telephone interview with AL.com. "The church isn't taking God's definition of marriage seriously. It's not other people sabotaging marriage that's the problem."
Cameron will be leading the "Love Worth Fighting For" marriage seminar at First Baptist Church in Fairhope on Saturday, May 3, from 12 to 3:30 p.m. and 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Then he'll be at First Baptist Church in Gardendale on Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m. The seminar also features singer Warren Barfield, who wrote the music for the movie "Fireproof," which starred Cameron as a firefighter. Cameron was a Golden Globe nominee for best actor for his role as Mike Seaver on the TV sitcom "Growing Pains" from 1985-92. Cameron and his wife, Chelsea, met as on-screen sweethearts during "Growing Pains."
They are the founders of Camp Firefly, where terminally and seriously ill children and their families are provided an all-expense paid retreat (www.CampFirefly.com). Together, Kirk and Chelsea live in California with their six children.
"Marriage is still important to people," Cameron said. "They know that marriage is worth fighting for. They want it to be strong."
The seminar grew out of the "Fireproof" movie. "We took the 'Fireproof' movie, the top grossing independent movie of 2008, and turned it into a three and a half hour live experience," Cameron said. "It's a home run date night for you and your spouse. Couples come and watch clips from Fireproof, sing together, pray together, laugh together, learn together."
A lack of faithfulness and commitment to marriage has been epidemic in Christian churches, he said.
"Marriage is meant to be for life," Cameron said. "When we do things God's way, there's a blessing. The path of obedience is the path of blessing. Love is worth fighting for. You need to learn how fight together for your marriage. Sometimes the battle is so bloody that you walk out. You have to learn how to fight the right way. We'll teach you how to fix your wife and your husband, make sure how your marriage gets better not bitter. Where joy is found, that's where hope and healing is found. You get in partnership with God. The enemy is not your spouse. The enemy is in your own heart - it's selfishness."
Couples focused on self-interest play the blame game, he said.
"For people who say the problem is not me, it's my spouse, you've just proven the point," Cameron said. :God reopens the path to light and hope and healing. God is faithful to honor those who will put him first."
The seminar is not just for married couples, Cameron said. "It's for couples who are married, separated, engaged, and even those who have never been married. It's really about relationships."
Christians who focus on the behavior of non-Christians need to refocus, Cameron said.
"The church determines the moral temperature of the culture," he said. "On our watch we've let morality decay, the commitment to love and marriage fall apart. We've given in to an anti-biblical Christian worldview. We're simply failing to do our job as the church. Other people are moving into the leadership positions and steering the car right off the cliff. They're not the problem. It's those in the church who have taken their hands off the wheel and given up our place in the driver's seat."
The church has to reform itself in order to reform society, Cameron said.
"We need to be faithful in our own house," he said. "Jesus didn't go shouting at the Romans. He went into the temple. We have the same problem today that people had back then. We've had pastors drop like flies, guys I know. When that happens, it drags the name of Christ through the mud. When hypocrisy grows within the church, it's like pouring fertilizer on the weeds in your garden."
Christians need to get busy influencing the culture and society for God, Cameron said.
"I think there's great hope," he said. "There are those who want to get it right, to turn from our wicked ways, to get marriage right, to get family right. Instead of complaining about a culture, we need to say, 'Show me how to create a culture.'"
Tickets for "Love Worth Fighting For" range from $20 to $35 and are available as reserved seats or general admission for singles, couples and groups of 10 or more.
For more information or to order tickets, visit http://www.loveworthfightingfor.com/.
Reference Used http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/05/forget_gay_marriage_fornicator.html
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As you can imagine, I am disappointed with today’s Supreme Court ruling on marriage.
"I just filmed a quick video in my office to explain what happened today in the Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell. Today's decision will change forever the way the Court can interpret the law. Now, when the Court believes a law meant to say something even though it is not explicitly in the text, they can rewrite the law to say what they think it meant to say"
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".As you can imagine, I am disappointed with today’s Supreme Court ruling on marriage. However, just like there remains a diversity of opinion on abortion, decades after Roe v. Wade, there will remain strong opinions on marriage long past today’s decision. Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected. After the ruling, the President was right to call the nation to respect and "revere our nation’s deep commitment to religious freedom."
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".As you can imagine, I am disappointed with today’s Supreme Court ruling on marriage. However, just like there remains a diversity of opinion on abortion, decades after Roe v. Wade, there will remain strong opinions on marriage long past today’s decision. Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected. After the ruling, the President was right to call the nation to respect and "revere our nation’s deep commitment to religious freedom."
My faith teaches that every person should be respected, no matter if I agree with them or not. My beliefs define my respect for people as individuals but it also sets a standard that will not change with a Supreme Court decision. Now the Courts must stand for the First Amendment of the Constitution and the faith traditions of millions of Americans.
It is noteworthy that Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in today’s majority decision, “It must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered.”
Genesis 9:13-17King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 9:13-17King James Version (KJV)
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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