Several years ago i was going thuorgh a painful and turbulent time when my college aged
son came to me in love and told me he was ***. I could not accept it then so i shelved it
for a time that i could process it wholly. Now, 3 years later, i have gone to visit him
ever so humbly and ashamed at how (i and ) the church of jesus christ (his body and not
denominations) have treated the homosexuals. It broke my heart to see that as christians
we shun them when they most need our love and acceptance (their love and acceptance and
not condoning of the sin. ) i was so heartbroken to realize that i really did not know my
birthed son if i did not know that he was lonely, rejected, and ostracized from the
christian community for difference views and mixed feelings of identity. I did not know
that i, his very own mother was a part of the problem and he had no one to go to for help.
Now i am concerned of the church overall. Why do we not welcome wounded people into
jesus’ arms? Don’t we have to minister to their soul before we minister to the
sexual preferences or other sinful weaknesses? Are we so much a hypocritical church that
we believe their sin is greater than our own ones? I have never attended a church in which
some one is told, “you must first quit smoking, drinking, (or whatever) before you
can be accepted and be prayed for here. ” yet that is exactly what we are saying to
the gays. It’s no wonder that they see us as hypocrites. We are. I do not say that i
am condoning homosexuality, it is a sin; but so is over indulgence, drinking, stealing,
cursing god’s name, and list goes on. Unless the church (body of christ) gets over
this and can see people as people and not sexualize them, we will never be able to
intermingle with them when they (and if they) come to visit us at church. They are more
than their actions (homosexuals), they are human beings, interesting, intelligent,
talented, curious and hurting for god’s love and acceptance. So what sets
homosexuals apart from say drunkards, fornicators and all the other moral sins in the
bible? It may come as a surprise to you but only a simple comma between the words is what
sets them apart. Object lesson: we are all sinners, we all have weakness. Where as we do
not have to condone the lifestyle, we also don’t kick them when they are down and
lonely. Lets just grow up (in the word! ). I wonder what jesus would think of our
behavior. Our behavior is certainly not like the one that jesus exhibited with the woman
at the well! Blessings to all of you. I do not want you to think that i am judging or
condemning any of you because if you notice i have put this in a first person tense. I am
the guiltiest of all.