The PC(USA) is now debating whether ordained ministers should be required to live in a monogamous sexual relationship. That sentence should stop every Christian in his tracks.

This is what happens when churches learn to treat God’s Word as negotiable. First, the questions sound compassionate. Then they sound reasonable. Soon, the old boundaries are treated like embarrassments, and the church finds itself debating what Scripture has already made plain.

This is not about hating anyone. It is about loving Christ, loving His church, honoring faithful women, and refusing to let the serpent’s old question become the church’s new posture: “Did God actually say?”