The world may love homosexuality, but God loves homosexuals
In case you’ve been hiding somewhere underground for a couple of decades and just came up for a look see, you’re already aware of the push by every possible media outlet for homosexuality to become acceptable. Gay and lesbian couples have been featured more and more prominently in any number of the popular television shows and movies over the last handful of years, and this past Sunday night’s Grammys – the music awards show turned political talk show – was just one more step, albeit a pretty dang big one.
Towards the end of the show, 33 couples lined up to be married as Queen Latifah officiated the ceremony. The wedding singers were none other than Macklemore & Ryan Lewis singing “Same Love” and even Madonna got into the mix with a special verse for the wedded couples. Some were old, some young, some straight and some gay. But all of them took part in another push for a homosexual agenda.
And it isn’t just the Grammys. That’s never been a surprise. This is the season on The Biggest Loser when Bob and Jillian made sure to let viewers know that they’re gay, and one of the biggest themes of the season has been how one of the contestants (Bobby) found the strength to come out to his dad. There’s the (admittedly) hilarious gay couple on Modern Family, and the icing on the cake (at least for our family) was the introduction of a lesbian couple on the Disney show “Good Luck, Charlie” with just 3 episodes remaining until the series is over for good. Really? You’ve had 4 seasons of a really good show and pull that out of the hat with 3 shows left? Talk about an agenda.
And as much as you think you know where I’m going with this (because it’s easy to spot an agenda, right?), I’m pretty sure you’ll be wrong. I know I’m running the risk of being labeled a homophobe or a gay-basher just for writing on the subject, but what I really want you to see is that the people who seem to love homosexuals the most really don’t, and the people you thought didn’t love them really do.
I know this will be a tough pill for a lot of people to swallow, but the world doesn’t love homosexuals. The world loves homosexuality, and there’s a big difference. Because the world loves homosexuality, it will gladly accept anyone – or anything – that will help it push its agenda. Heck, even the recent uproar in the church over the Duck Dynasty controversy was probably welcomed by pro-homosexuality groups because the attention in the media gave them another opportunity to show Christians as uneducated and unwilling to accept anyone different than us.
But what happens when a homosexual walks away from that lifestyle? Does the same world that appeared to love them as homosexuals still love them as straight? At least one group found the answer to be a resounding “no” when they were routinely discriminated against by the very people who used to accept them.
If you’ve hung in here this long, thank you. Now let’s try to land this thing with some extremely clear, easy-to-understand statements. God loves homosexuals, and so should his church. Not because he – or we – approve of homosexuality because we don’t, but because approval has never been a prerequisite to God’s love. God has an incredible capacity to love, and the best evidence of God’s love in us isn’t when we love those who like us, but when we love those who don’t.
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. (Romans 5:8-10, NLT – emphasis added)
Make no mistake: God loves his enemies. I’m proof of that, because I was born his enemy, and every desire I had at birth not only took me farther from God, but also made me his killer when I got close to him. Asking whether or not we were born gay or straight is the wrong question because the answer will always be that we were born sinners and enemies of a God who always meant for us to be his children. That’s why he sent Jesus to die on a cross. It wasn’t to make gay people straight. It was to make dead people live.
It was a clear statement that, while the world loves homosexuality, God loves homosexuals. It’s the difference between an agenda and a Saviour.
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What I got at the end of that was “homosexuals are the enemies of God, but God loves his enemies.” Which is interesting, but maybe not what you were trying to say? I specifically would say, “homosexuals are not the enemies of God,” not for being gay anyway. I have homosexual friends who truly profess God, and while I don’t agree that they should be pursuing that lifestyle, I cannot doubt their faith in Christ because they are sinning any more than I doubt my own faith for being sinful in my own pride. Christ died for the ungodly (Rom 5:6 KJV)–and that we all were until we chose him. Which means Christ died for all, and he is waiting for them (everyone) to see it.
Thanks for the comment, and I’m pretty sure you just said what I said. We were all born enemies of God, homosexual or not. And that’s why I mentioned specifically that I was God’s enemy, and I’m not homosexual. The point is that the world that appears to love homosexuals really just loves the idea of a homosexual agenda, but God (and his church) love people even when they disagree with them and are “enemies.”
Once same-sex relationships are completely normalized in culture, I think you’ll see a lot more comfort from the LGBTQ community over people who call themselves ex-gay or post-gay (that “Q” has been added is an indicator already). But whenever a person leaves a minority group that is fighting for their rights/agenda/etc, that person will inevitably be viewed as injurious to the cause. The animosity gets amped up especially if that person were then to work against your cause, as some very zealous allegedly ex-gay Christians have done.
And have you read this book by chance? I would be really interested to hear your take on it. I know your take would be refutation, but it’s interesting to see how some Christians go about refuting it. http://www.amazon.com/Melt-Golden-Calf-Evangelical-Relationships/dp/1490429956/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392995646&sr=1-1&keywords=to+melt+a+golden+calf
I haven’t read that book, but if I do, I’ll gladly offer a response. Thanks for taking the time to share!