Homosexuality (plus LGBTQ etc.)

I have friends who are slaves to homosexual desires. And I have friends who are slaves to heterosexual desires. I have been a slave to pornography, and in some ways I still am but I do see the new man that Jesus is raising up in me. We all need Jesus. We all need to be saved from loving something else more than Jesus. I love my job more than Jesus. I am an idol worshiper, worshipping that which is not important. I have to trust Jesus to save me. And that's true of all of us.

I am pretty much just as nervous about being friends with those who are slaves to their heterosexual desires as those who are slaves to their homosexual desires. While I agree that heterosexual physical sex in the context of marriage is a beautiful and God given thing that is life giving, it has the ability to bring forth life both spiritually and physically the problem is that if it becomes an idol than that's loving sex more than God. But we all need Jesus, and Jesus will give me the ability to love them and tell them the truth. I just need to ask him for the faith.

I really liked this podcast yesterday related to the topic of sex and how it should be life giving. I really thought it was very thoughtfully said. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-6mnwn-6830147

I also really like this quote from C.S. Lewis "If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

 

There's a sense in which we can welcome LGBT people. We can welcome them to the faith, if we welcome them as people who are struggling with things that do not meet God's pleasure. However, if they say to us "You christians must accept homosexual acts as being acceptable and permissible", I don't see a place for that. In the same way, I would not see a place for "You christians must accept adultery as being acceptable and permissible" or "You must make a place for alcohol abuse in your religion".

In other words, we have no right to change our religion simply to accommodate people. The sinfulness of homosexuality will become harder to believe because the world is putting so much pressure on us, in an attempt to get us to conform to their carnal ways. We have to cling to Christ, though, no matter what it costs us. We cannot cave in to the trends of the day or the desires of carnal activists.