When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians.
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
Biblilly fahful Christians do not disapprove of Gay Pri the way non-Christians do. Christian disapproval is peculiar. * god and gay pride *
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.
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 *
“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.
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE AFTER A MONTH OF GAY PRIDE
I am not terted makg mon e wh non-Christians my disapproval of the celebratn of homosexual sir or acts.
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.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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.