Biblilly fahful Christians do not disapprove of Gay Pri the way non-Christians do. Christian disapproval is peculiar.
Contents:
- A PECULIAR DISAPPROVAL OF GAY PRI
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE AFTER A MONTH OF GAY PRIDE
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
A PECULIAR DISAPPROVAL OF GAY PRI
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The Pew Rearch Center shared last year that the majory of people who approved of homosexual liftyl didn’t nsir relign important their daily liv. And holdg to God’s revealed tth His Word ncerng homosexualy is even more dangero, ” Becket Cook wrote his book, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn. “If you believe that homosexualy is a s, you are immediately labeled a bigot or homophobic.
Homosexualy is plited, but ’s not a gray area. Cook remds his rears, there are gay pri paras but not gossip pri paras.
“Homosexual orientatn affects the whole person: the md, will, emotn and body, ” he wr. “The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said. I am not terted makg mon e wh non-Christians my disapproval of the celebratn of homosexual sir or acts.
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
The month of June marked a month-long celebratn of Gay Pri. The qutn we should be askg ourselv as Christians is “How do I rpond?” We live * god and gay pride *
In what follows I will try to expla om Scripture why biblilly fahful Christians disapprove of homosexual sir and practic. Then I will try to illumate the nature of homosexual sir, showg how they relate to my own sful sir.
The apostle Pl lot the orig of homosexual sir the humany-wi exchange of the glory of God for the glory of man. Pl knows that thoands of people — men and women — exchange the glory of God for the glory of self whout experiencg homosexual sir. The rrelatn between exchangg the otherns of God for the samens of man do not always rult homosexualy.
There are lns who prefer self over God, but who are not homosexual. Homosexualy is only one exprsn of the distortns that have entered the human race bee of idolatry. Therefore, the experience of homosexualy is not always rooted one’s personal idolatry.
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE AFTER A MONTH OF GAY PRIDE
Pl is not sayg that everyone who experienc homosexual sir has ma a nsc cisn to prefer man over God.
There are idolatry-renouncg Christians who experience homosexual sir. Homosexualy is one form of that disorrg.
Why Wre About Homosexualy? How do homosexual sir relate to other kds of disorred sir?
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
It is important to ask this, bee will affect the way we talk about the disapproval of homosexual sir. One way to answer this qutn is to pose another one: Why are you wrg about homosexualy, and not about theft, or greed, or dnkenns, or revilg, or swdlg? I mentn the ss bee the Bible lists them alongsi homosexual practice as ss that will keep out of the kgdom of God (1 Corthians 6:9–10), unls we are fiven and jtified by fah Christ (1 Corthians 6:11).
My answer: I am wrg about homosexualy bee lns of people this month are celebratg . In fact, I have wrten ten tim as much about vetons as about homosexualy, bee (to be nservative) ten thoand tim more people will be hell bee of unrepentant vetons than bee of homosexualy. How Are Homosexual Dir Like My Sful Dir?
Homosexual sir are like and unlike other sful sir. I would lote homosexual sir on this same battlefield of the human soul.