What a week! It started with World Vision announcing that it had changed its employment policy to allow partners in a legal, same-sex relationship to be employees. This action set off a theological firestorm both because of the organization making the decision – World Vision U.S. ranks among America’s top ten charities and serves over 100 million people in at least 100 countries – and the breath-taking nature of the shift in theology and doctrine it seemed to signify.
Amazingly, in making the announcement, Richard Stearns, World Vision president, explained “this is not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. We have decided we are not going to get into that debate. Nor is this a rejection of traditional marriage, which we affirm and support.”
Stearns asserted that World Vision had “chosen to defer to the authority of local churches on this issue” and equated the same-sex marriage issue with such issues as baptismal methods, complementarianism vs. egalitarianism, reproductive issues, and divorce and remarriage where Christians adopt “a range of views.” Stearns denied that World Vision’s actions undermined their commitment to biblical authority:
People can say, “Scripture is very clear on this issue,” and my answer is, “well ask all the theologians and denominations that disagree with that statement.” The church is divided on this issue. And we are not the local church. We are an operational organization uniting Christians around a common mission to serve the poor in the name of Christ.
Now, in less than a week, as the result of much prayer and importuning by Christian brothers and sisters World Vision has reversed its original decision. World Vision’s board has discovered an essential truth: the same-sex marriage issue is a truth serum for Evangelical Christianity. Same-sex marriage CANNOT be squared with the traditional, historic, Evangelical view of biblical authority.
In their statement rescinding their policy change, Word Vision acknowledged that “we failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.’s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith, which says, ‘we believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.'”
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SOURCE: The Christian Post
Dr. Richard D. Land
BCNN1 WP 
Rather than take Mr. Land’s word for what reveals a person’s relationship with Christ best, I’ll take the Apostle Paul’s and my Lord Jesus Christ’s. According to them the “truth serum” is love and I do not see much of it in the so called “Christian leaders” who have spoke against World Vision. Arrogance? Fear? Dishonesty? Yes. But not much love. I wonder what the thousands of children who will not feel the pangs of hunger because their sponsers were told to drop them think of Mr. Land’s opinon.
If you disagree with me, read my post and let me know where you think I am wrong. Here is the link:http://www.darianburns.com/2014/03/27/world-vision/