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:
- “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
- “HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”
- 'HELP, I'M GAY'
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- DO GOD LOVE ME EVEN IF I AM A GAY CHRISTIAN?
- DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
Gay and a Christian? * god help me i'm gay *
I was readg your article about Gay Teen Suicis and Bullyg, about how some people pray and pray for God to take away their gay feelgs and there is a reason that he don’t that they don’t know about.
“HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”
* god help me i'm gay *
My bt iend mted suici when we were both 18 bee he uldn’t accept that he was gay. I want to VERY rpectfully suggt that “acceptg one’s gayns” is not the bt solutn to the grief and sadns that bound up realizg one has same-sex sir.
I know the culture’s pro-gay msage is that there’s nothg wrong wh homosexualy so jt accept , but that’s not God’s posn. Which leads me to answer your qutn: why would God not take away someone’s gay feelgs?
'HELP, I'M GAY'
So often, people pray and ask God to relieve their symptoms and make their liv easier (and this, of urse, go way beyond askg God to take away gay feelgs. No one is born gay; we are such plex creatur, beg ma the image of God, that feelgs, attus and beliefs are shaped over time by our life experienc, and filtered through our temperaments.
When someone buys to the lie that “if I feel , mt be te, ” the end rult n be a homosexual inty. Why don’t God take away homosexual feelgs? Homosexual feelgs e om legimate, unmet longgs for nnectn, for the “three A’s.
I believe that God says “no” to zappg away homosexual feelgs bee He has somethg better. She is a equent speaker for MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) and Stonecroft Mistri (Christian Women's Connectns), and serv on the board of Livg Hope Mistri, a Christ-centered outreach to those alg wh unwanted homosexualy. I’m 18 and I’ve known for a while now that I’m gay.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Yep, GAY!!!!! What is your opn on gay people? The world tells you that you have two choic: Accept that you’re gay and fd a way to be a gay Christian even though the Bible says not to, or be alone and lonely forever.
DO GOD LOVE ME EVEN IF I AM A GAY CHRISTIAN?
You n’t glorify God gay relatnships, pecially sexual relatnships. In terms of my opn of gay people?
Well, God passnately lov gay people, so who am I to argue wh that?
I thk that the reason gay people are so much pa isn’t bee the world hat gays and is homophobic, which is the polilly rrect explanatn you get the days, but ’s bee somethg went wrong and ’s paful not to be able to relate rrectly and healthily to people of the oppose sex.
DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
It don’t necsarily mean someone is hard-wired to be gay. I thought I was about the only gay man that ever tried to pass for straight by marryg a woman and livg wh her for 15. The prsur put on through homophobic “relig” people to nform to their versn of moraly many of to avoid tellg our fai that we are gay, or lbian, or bisexual, or transgenr.
My life has been so much better than before when I crged fear of lettg J down by beg gay. And He knows I am gay. I felt posively supercharged for Christ at a Promise Keepers rally until the afternoon when they went on the attack agast gay men.
I knew si that I was gay but uldn’t adm to me or to others. HE lov me, and he knows I am gay. He ma sure I had shelter while knowg I am gay.