The Bible is full of stories and affirmations about God’s love for us. The Old Testament shows us many examples where we rejected and disobeyed God, yet He continued to pursue us. God’s grace and love for us was best demonstrated by the ultimate sacrifice… sacrificing His son for us, while we were still sinning, when we did not deserve it.
He also makes it very clear that the most important commandment He gave us was to love others (after loving Him). His word not only explains what love is, but also shows us by example how we are to love. That is our job. That is what we are commanded to do. It is not a Christian’s job to judge others, or to make sure others are aware of their sin. That is God and the Holy Spirit’s job. We get the fun part… to love God and others. The closer we are to God, then the deeper our love gets.
So why, do many professing Christians feel like it is their duty to point out how awful they think my daughters are for being gay. My daughters have Christian family member on my side as well as their dad’s side that have been very abrasive and downright hateful about them being gay. They weren’t asked their opinion. They didn’t even have an active relationship with either of my daughters. Yet, they clearly thought it was the right thing to do, to verbally assault them. One even went so far as to actually say that he hated all lesbians, which of course meant he hated them. Needless to say, I will no longer have anything to do with that family member, other than to continue to pray for him.
This issue goes beyond others simply thinking homosexuality is a sin. There are many other things they think are a sin, but none where the individual committing the sin receive so much hatred. What about other sexual sins, gluttony, gossip, lying, pride, love of money, drunkenness, or judging others? Do you ever see individuals committing any other sin, receive so much rejection or hate? Doesn’t everyone respond better to love? Do these Christians realize how far they are pushing gays away from Christ? Would they continue if they knew how many gays will not step foot in a church or open up to the possibility of having a relationship with Christ because of the way many Christians treat them?
And, it goes beyond hate the sin, but love the sinner. But, I’ll write more on that some other time.
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