Mark Lauterbach discusses what it means to live out the Gospel. He explains,

One person told of a lady, in her 40’s, who has always been single, sexually active, but never married. This woman is now adopting a child since she does not think she will marry, but wants a baby. Another told of lesbian lovers where a similar choice has been made, but this time there is an artificial insemination so one of them carries the child. They will be the parents of this child when it is born. Or take the couple who were married, are now divorced for financial reasons, but live together. Or the lady who has sold her womb to be a surrogate mother for another couple. Another person is given to a rabid anti-Iraq War position and spends hours fighting President Bush.

Most of my visceral reaction to such things is revulsion and sadness – and both reactions have a place, but not unless mixed with a third. I should desire their salvation. These kinds of people are modern expressions of sin – no worse than the sin of our moralistic and conservative grandfathers and grandmothers. It is the height of self-righteousness for me or others to look down our noses at them. But these are the kinds of sin we find around us today.

He continues,

This is not a Leave it to Beaver era. We live in different times. Yet one of them made a great observation: most of the churches they have known want to engage in evangelism with people around them, but not these kinds of people. They have a fear of what disruption may come when they come to church.

What does that mean? Well, it is simple.

You will need to click through to his blog to find out the conclusion. But before you go, read this portion:

It has occurred to me that what I am describing is what we must face if we do the hard work of evangelism. The first question is this – do I believe that Jesus came into the world to save sinners, or to make them into good people? Do I think the Gospel is at all a moral message – or is it a redemptive message? Only the true Gospel would compel me to love and bring Jesus to people so far off.