<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]More than anything, my focus has been on the heart - opening and submitting it to the Lord - calling others to do so rather than place themselves into bondage to men's perverted ideas of sexual ethics based on their ideals (or, the "wicked heart" that you rightly condem) rather than based on the nature of God and His creation (specifically our bodies in this case).</font><hr></blockquote><p>But God uses people as well to make His will known.<blockquote>[color:green]But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?</font color=green> Romans 10:14 (ESV)</blockquote>And if God uses men as a means to bring people to Himself in salvation, then can't He also use men as a means to draw people to Himself in other ways? I think that He can and that He does. <br><br>True, our own definitions of stuff has permeated much of what is commonly held to these days, but that is not always necessarily a bad thing. I see no problem with holding people to a standard of holiness that goes beyond what the world considers being holy. Afterall, God does command us to be holy as He is holy.