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To: CitizenUSA

Well said. Homosexuality is more subjectively repulsive to most people than is fornication, but sexual sin is sexual sin.


25 posted on 01/26/2013 7:01:13 AM PST by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: jagusafr

This is a very difficult topic. I appreciate the thought, study and prayer that are obvious in your statement.

On one hand we should not be comfortable with sin- be that lust, adultery (the divorce rate in the Church is the same as in the world), greed (the prosperity gospel), hate, gossip, or any other sin.

Yet we live in a world filled with sin. Do we let the divorced sit with us on Sunday? If not, we will exclude about 50% of our country.

Christ died for everyone. In good conscience I can not block someone who is divorced from Christ.

Likewise, maybe 3 to 5% of the world is homosexual. I think that for some it may be a choice, for others I think they were just born that way. How do we deal, in the love of Christ, with this group?

I am not smart enough to judge, nor have I been called to do so. I think my duty is to tell them that Jesus died for them, and loves them. Let God take it from there. I need to, the best I can (and it isn’t easy), show them love, not judgement. The challenge is to balance Christ’s love so that it is not seen as an endorsement of their behaviors.


29 posted on 01/26/2013 7:56:59 AM PST by AlbertWang
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