Gay and a Christian?
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?”
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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”
Read How to Be (Biblilly) Ls Offensive to Gay People by Doug Ponr and more articl about Christian Life and Wiki on * how to stop being gay for god *
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
There is hope for those who don't want to be gay. Bee homosexualy is a rponse to beg wound, there is hope for healg. Probe's Sue Bohl exam paths to te change om a passnate Christian perspective. * how to stop being gay for god *
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.
I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
When a child first out as eher beg gay or havg same-sex attractn their parents' ial rpons are ually the wrong on, says Chris Doyle, a psychotherapist who specializ SSA. * how to stop being gay for god *
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.
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.
HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
Bee homosexualy is a rponse to beg wound, there is hope for healg. 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. 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. 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. He left his homosexual inty behd and embraced his te inty as a child of God, mted to hols and pury.
HOW TO RENCILE YOUR CHRISTIAN FAH WH YOUR GAY LIFE
Pl is now director of that mistry and is helpg others walk out of homosexualy.
They went through a mment ceremony a gay church, and raised a dghter together. She enjoyed a posn of learship as a bright and articulate spokperson for a gay church. " Acknowledgg one has a homosexual orientatn is like seeg the red light on your r's dashboard; means somethg is wrong somewhere.
A homosexual orientatn isn't the actual problem; 's the symptom of a eper issue--legimate, God-given needs for relatnship and timacy that have been channeled unhealthy and sful directns.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
But is not a simple matter, and would be disrpectful to imply that there is an easy solutn to the plex issue of homosexualy. They say that homosexualy is ed by a mon, and if we n jt st out the mon, the problem is gone. Sounds like an easy fix, but ends up g even more problems bee homosexualy isn't ed by a mon.
A send and more effective treatment for homosexualy is reparative therapy. There is a lot of wisdom to be found here bee many therapists believe that homosexualy has s roots hurtful relatnship patterns, pecially wh fay members, and many homosexual men and women report exactly that.