Excellent article:
Homosexuality and Your Church by Thom Hunter
What do the gay people in your church look like? Do you spot them by their flamboyant clothing, their mannerisms, their declarations?
When a brother or sister in your church came to you to ask you for your help and support in their personal struggle against homosexuality, what did you do to walk with them? How did you respond the last time this happened to you?
“Oh, we don’t have that problem in our church,” you say?
If yours is a typical Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma, you do. If it is not a problem for Southern Baptists, why did Jimmy Draper lead in the creation of “The Way Out,” SBC’s Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals, now led by former Texas SBC minister, Bob Stith?
Statistics show that one out of every five church members has a family member or close friend who struggles with homosexuality.
So, again, what do the same-sex attracted people in your church look like? Could they sit there looking like you, dressed like you, acting like you, worshipping in the pew with their spouses and children, or moms and dads, Bibles open, faces forward, smiles on, handshakes offered, singing alongside you in quiet despair? Are they hiding their pain and confusion behind their Sunday smiles?
Like me. …
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I will be spreading this one around. Thanks, Thom. Had read it already. And thanks, Randy, for re-posting this.
I will be spreading this one around. Thanks, Thom. Had read it already. And thanks, Randy, for re-posting this.
Pastures have long side steped homosexual isues god does not hate you he hates your sin the bible says repent, homosexaual have the same word as anyone else repent. If you die in your sin without repenting and asking for forgivence you will go to hell. this is the same for everybody not just one person. as long as we love one another, and dont judge we may all make it.
Pastures have long side steped homosexual isues god does not hate you he hates your sin the bible says repent, homosexaual have the same word as anyone else repent. If you die in your sin without repenting and asking for forgivence you will go to hell. this is the same for everybody not just one person. as long as we love one another, and dont judge we may all make it.
Our church (Evangelical Free) long ago composed a statement about homosexuals in our church. Our Pastor is loving but firm on the sinfulness of practicing homosexuality. He however lists this sin as no worse than any sexual sin with unmarried adults. The homosexual is welcomed as a sinner who needs salvation and repentance of sins. Homophobia has no place in the body of Christ. However, neither do practicing homosexuals.
Our church (Evangelical Free) long ago composed a statement about homosexuals in our church. Our Pastor is loving but firm on the sinfulness of practicing homosexuality. He however lists this sin as no worse than any sexual sin with unmarried adults. The homosexual is welcomed as a sinner who needs salvation and repentance of sins. Homophobia has no place in the body of Christ. However, neither do practicing homosexuals.