UPDATE: TX Church Receives Surge of Support from Christians
Excerpts from “TX church’s principled stance brings surge of support”
By Allie Martin, OneNewsNow.com – August 17, 2007
The pastor of a Texas church that refused to hold a memorial service that would have glorified the homosexual lifestyle of the deceased says the incident has caused many to search God’s Word.
[During the week of August 5th], Gary Simons, pastor of Arlington’s High Point Church, was contacted while on vacation by church staff about a planned memorial service for the brother of a church employee who is also a member. Church staff realized the memorial service for 46-year-old Cecil Sinclair, who was not a church member, was going to be a celebration of Cecil’s homosexual lifestyle.
Pastor Simons decided High Point Church could not host the service. (See related story)
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Simons says initially, he feared an extended public backlash. “It seemed to me that was all that we were getting,” he shares. “And then a day or two later, the Christian community started kicking in and now we’re being blessed and inundated, really, with positive e-mails of support.”
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