Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Being a Homosexual and a Christian
There is a great little article on what it's like being a celibate homosexual and a Christian. The author is a PhD. student at Durham and writes candidly about the struggles he has with loneliness. He stresses the need for other Christians to compassionately support our brothers and sisters who struggle with this sin in the same way we would gather around any other brother or sister struggling with any other sin. Amen to that.
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I really liked this article. It seems to be both encouraging to those who struggle and a wake-up call for the Church in general.
In Barna's book "UnChristian" he gave a list of words to church goers and non-church goers and asked them which ones they felt described present-day Christianity.
Antihomosexual was at the top of the list with 91% of non-church goers picking it as a descriptor of present-day Christianity and 80% of the church goers. Judgmental and Hypocritical came in 2nd and 3rd.
I agree with the writer of the article that the bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin. This fact is not in dispute in my mind whatsoever. In addition, many of the church-goers may have been thinking about this as well. That being said, based on the conversations I have been in, as well as the reports I have received from Christians who are struggling with homosexuality,the attitude toward those who are struggling with homosexuality needs to be improved greatly in the church today.
We know that as Christians we are the smell of death to those who are perishing. We know that the world is going to hate us for Christ's sake. We know this because the bible tells us these things. All I am saying is lets try to do everything we can not to give people more reasons to hate us. Lets try and love our neighbors.
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