You can’t be gay and a believer I’ve heard this too many times than I care
to mention. I used to get angry and go all “Bruce Banner” but that was before I
really embraced what it means to have a relationship with God. I thought I had
to impose my thought in power and might…but then I came to live and learn that
the Lord is mighty in battle and the battle was not mine. So, now whenever I hear the gay believer
insanity I just say “you’re looking at and talking to both. “
I wait for the old Sodom and Gomorrah verses from the book
of Genesis or Leviticus. I then tell them that they are going to believe what
they choose to believe but I also ask them to be open enough to read, study ad
challenge their faith constructs; noting that I no longer believe the same
things about God that I did as a child. My faith grew up alongside my physical
development and I continue to exercise my faith in hopes of development and
growth
Philippians 2:12 (NIV)
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always
obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to
work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
Now if you’re really opened to learning and understanding
you will make note of the fact that a great deal of the hate and fear that is
being spewed from the pulpit is a twisted eisegesis. We have accepted a practice
of an instant “just add people and stir” theology. We embrace a theology that
serves our ignorance. Listening to things taken out of context and historically
inaccurate; never questioning
Read 1 Thessalonians 5: 20-21
1 John 4:1
The Bible says to study to show yourself approved…it doesn’t
say let someone else study for you and feed you their beliefs…..it’s about
developing an individual relationship. Some of us have not learned how to be
intimate so we often allow outside forces to obstruct and we begin to embody
and live out a false prophecy for our lives.
Guilt and shame are not of God, please be aware of this…if
you have internalized it from various life experiences or if someone is trying
to give it to you from the pulpit…
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