Should I attend a controversial wedding on this edition of Truth and Love?

I'm Heath Lambert, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. Over the last couple of weeks, I have had numerous conversations with

pastors and various other Christians asking the question about whether loved ones should attend

the controversial wedding of someone they know.

Christians have been asking this question for years, decades, and probably millennia,

because we can be invited to attend weddings that we disagree with or that are biblically

disallowed. So, for example, if you have a daughter who is a

believer in Jesus Christ and she is going to marry an unbeliever, should you go to that wedding when

you have those objections, should you attend the wedding of your son when you strongly disapprove of the woman that he is going to marry?

She might even be a believer, but you have real doubts about their compatibility or other situations.

Should you attend the wedding of someone that you do not believe is biblically free to marry?

There are numerous Christian positions about marriage,

divorce, and remarriage. And sometimes we can believe that two believers are getting married,

even two responsible believers are getting married, even two believers who love one another.

But we don't believe that they meet the qualifications for marriage because of various and sundry

reasons.

So for all of those reasons, Christians have been dealing with these issues for a very long time.

The issue has gotten more acute in the last couple of years, and particularly since last summer,

with the legalization of homosexual weddings. And so now Christians have to wonder, should I attend

the homosexual wedding of my loved one? And so we want to tackle that issue on the podcast this

week. And it's not just an academic issue. It's not just a scholarly debate. This is an issue that

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