For a legalistic covenant is really a secular contract which the world knows all too well. We fear what our church might become if we cannot abide voluntarily in our covenant together. A strong and united church is desperately needed today to minister in our weak moral climate. People are flocking to churches which set moral standards. We are concerned about lying, cheating, stealing as well as loose sexual standards.
Immorality weakens families and causes divorce.
Divorce has economic repercussions as more housing and more jobs are needed. The impact on children has been negative. The waste in human life and potential has been tremendous. A church which cannot minister to this modern age in its great need for renewed morality will be irrelevant in the next century. We are not saying that gay men and lesbians are destroying families.