Elijah saw the situation in his day very clearly. There were three groups of people, those who were on the side of the Lord, those who were on the side of Baal worship, and those who were halting between the two. To this company of indecisives he asks the question in verse 21, How long halt ye between two opinions? In view of the recent decision of the General Assembly to uphold and sustain the call of an openly professed homosexual to an Aberdeen church, this question travels down through the centuries of time and faces every evangelical in the Church of Scotland. How long halt ye between two opinions? |