from Gay Christian Movement Watch:
Excellent rebuttal by Todd Wilken to those who equate standing for doctrinal purity and sound doctrine as pharisaical.
An excerpt:
“The Pharisees’ error was not the a lack of missionary zeal; it was that their false teaching (however zealously preached) damned rather than saved. Moreover, contrary to everything the Pharisee Card is meant to imply, just because someone is concerned for doctrinal purity and resistant to theological innovation, does not mean that he is unconcerned for the lost. On the contrary, departure from the pure Word, in doctrine and practice, does not help, but hinders the preaching of the Gospel therefore impedes the mission of the Church. False teaching does not save sinners. Purity in doctrine and practice makes the preaching of the Gospel possible. Purity in doctrine and practice makes the preaching of the Gospel imperative.”
Another really good article:
This word and the Jewish party to whom it referred had a characteristic that is oft times misapplied to those of us who hold to a literal interpretation of Scripture, “pharisaical”. The main characteristic of this party of the Jewish people in the first century was a strict adherence to the law, all 600+ of them. The problem is that they placed the importance in the interpretations of the law, more then in the law it self. It would be more like those today who put more emphasis in what some people say about the Word of God, then what the Word of God actually says. So since the Word of God really does place homosexuals under judgment, then that just plain settles it, there is no interpretation here, it is what God said and that settles it.