The purpose of this blog is really to try and give a biblical reflection on a news event and look at things from a Christian perspective. Anybody who has a TV over the past few weeks cant have missed the spotlight programme regarding Irish Robinson and her affair with a 19 year old man Kirk McCambley, but as Christians how should we respond to this? What should we do or say to Iris Robinson? Well firstly the important thing to remember is that Iris is a sinner saved by the grace of God, and along with us will not be perfect this side of heaven. Faced with someone caught in a similar situation. We are told that the religious leaders of Jesus day bring him a woman who had been caught in adultery and they say that this woman should be stoned according to the law of Moses, but Jesus replies to them that the one who has not sinned can throw the first stone. The self righteous people of the day were looking to kill her and castigate her, and the same is true today of Iris. I think this is what we need to rememeber we are all sinners, we are all saved by the grace of God alone. None of us can afford to get on our moral high horse over this issue and castigate Iris and the family instead we must pray for them, we must point out the sinfulness of her behaviour and not endorse that but remember that there but the grace of God go I.
On a second level however there is something much more damaging that has occured, more damaging even than to the strained family relations i now imagine exist, and that is the damage to the gospel of our Lord and Saviour, it has emerged that this affair was going on at the same time that Iris was making her comments about homosexuality, and unfortunatley this has caused many people to scoff at the message she brought. I think the warning for us here is the importance of living a consistant, clear Christian life. The latest revelations have impacted severely the message of the gospel. Im not advocating a perfect life this is unrealistic, but to lambast people for sexual sin whilst being caught up in sexual sin yourself is hypocritical and will prove your message false. So this whole affair then should be an encouragement to us to life a consistant life, to life a life worthy of the gospel we have recieved
