Because God still loves the homosexuals.

I have prayed and prayed over where to stand on the gay rights issue and God has pushed me in a direction and I’m here to try to explain.

No, theology and the bible do not agree with homosexuality. However, Jesus’s greatest commandment is to love my neighbor as I love myself and if my neighbor happens to be gay, that does not exclude them from this over-arching command. Jesus didn’t exclude prostitutes and tax collectors, and we don’t exclude the alcoholics, the liars, or the adulturers. When did I become so righteous as to decide who is worthy of God’s grace?

So no, I won’t support gay rights but yes, I will love you with every ounce of my heart. There is no judgement in my heart for you. I’m not going to waste my time telling you you’re in the wrong because my God sent his Son to lead by example and not through condemnation. There were pharisees who spent their lives hating and now they sit in hell.

I will not stand before God and have to explain to him that the reason I didn’t share His love with people I see every day is because they were gay. And on the same token, I cannot ignore the issue and hope it goes away.

Now I have to be honest, I always thought this whole idea of “love them through it” was a cop out. It’s the way the keep on the side of the world. And I’m still trying to make myself okay with it but it is not my theology, it is God’s absolute authority.

I think the world sees too much hate and not enough compassion from Christians.

What if we put more energy into looking mike Jesus and less into looking like the law? What if we tried less to follow a set of rules and tried more to live by example?

myisrael:

“I think it is important that as we grow in Christ, we learn to be like Him. And I think Jesus is a whole lot more interested in whether or not we are kind, humble, self-sacrificing, honest, gentle people who are willing to serve our brothers and sisters and willing to go to the lowest place,…

"Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"

(Source: kristiloos, via iambecause-heis)

I could write a book.

But I need sleep so I won’t type anything else. Night.

Just sent applications into like a billion places because I need a job and a car and some money and a reason to not sit at my house on the weekends.