"Why Don't God Answer Prayers to Take Away Gay Feelgs?"

Contents:

• “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
• “HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”
• HOW TO BE (BIBLILLY) LS OFFENSIVE TO GAY PEOPLE
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
• HOW TO RENCILE YOUR CHRISTIAN FAH WH YOUR GAY LIFE
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

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.

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.

“HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”

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?

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.

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.

HOW TO BE (BIBLILLY) LS OFFENSIVE TO GAY PEOPLE

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. A mon argument for the acceptance of homosexualy and same-sex marriage is that, if God is love, He would not nmn the love of others. The world and maybe even our own sensivi might say that allowg others to live a homosexual relatnship is to see to their well-beg.

First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body. If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om . That beg said, those wh homosexual attractns are sperate need of love.

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. The need for love is no different for sgle heterosexuals than is for those wh homosexual attractn. Bee homosexualy is a rponse to beg wound, there is hope for healg.

HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS

He put down his Gay Pri sign, left the para, sat down a nearby stairwell, and repented of his rebelln. He gave his heart to J Christ and startg walkg out of homosexualy that day. Pl was on a self-stctive path of dg and alhol abe and homosexual activy.

HOW TO RENCILE YOUR CHRISTIAN FAH WH YOUR GAY LIFE

When he told his mother he was gay, she threw him out of the hoe, and the only place he uld fd belongg, safety, and inty was the gay muny.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Pl was ved to a Bible study where he met a man who had left the gay liftyle and was livg a changed life. He asked her about homosexualy and was angered by her ial rponse. Two months later, he was led to an anizatn that helps people al wh unwanted homosexualy through an timate relatnship wh J Christ.