Greetings and salutations.

Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.

This is Kevin D. Young.

Today I'm reading my latest piece in world opinions,

entitled An Open Statement of the Truth, three places to start Living Not By Lies.

You may have wondered in recent days, when did I become a bigot?

Not that you are likely a bigot, but that the world now considers you one.

Beliefs that used to be obvious to Christians

and to almost everyone else have now been called hate speech, while practices and spectacles

that wouldn't have been whispered in private have become public celebrations. Recently, I traveled

across the country to preach at another church. On one of my flights, I overheard the male flight attendant talk loudly and boisterously about, quote, his husband.

During my trip, I went into a local bookstore, and the two women next to me talked at length about lesbian volumes on the shelf and their own experiences with lesbianism.

While walking through the downtown of that

same city, a city with a reputation for being conservative and Christian. I noticed that most

of the restaurants and shops were flying rainbow flags. I couldn't help but feel that my beliefs,

and not just my beliefs, but the truth of God's word, were now the very beliefs that should only be spoken about behind

closed doors. The world wants to press us into its mold, and that mold is getting very tight,

very quickly. You don't have to go looking for the sexual revolution. It will find you.

What then is an Orthodox biblical Christian to do? Lots of things.

We can pray and plan. We can invest in our church, in our communities, and in our families.

We can be involved in politics, media, education, entertainment, or law. We can be good neighbors.

We can love. We can worship. There are as many things to do to, quote, live not by lies as there are ways to be salt and light in the world.

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