Troublesome Topic: GENERAL POINTS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY

1. Everyone has great God-given potential. I want to make it personal to each reader, so I will say it this way: You have great God-given potential. God put that potential within you and He alone knows what you are capable of. He wants you to reach that potential and He will help you if you allow Him to, which includes getting rid of the barriers between you and Him. I am convinced that when God looks at you, and when He looks at me, He sees our weaknesses or our sins in the context of our potential. He knows about our weaknesses and sins but He does not look at our sins alone; He chooses to focus on the great potential we could fulfill if we chose the remedy for sin that He makes available to us through Jesus.

2. Homosexuality violates all three major principles that form the foundation of the Old Testament laws about sexuality – lines of authority, type of relationship, and God’s design. It is sin, as are other sexual deviations.

3. Followers of Jesus should not expect those who don’t follow Jesus to live by God’s standards. They won’t do so until they have a change of heart. We should love people the way they are while expressing our willingness to help them get from there to a better place, i.e. to a close relationship with God, the Creator of the universe. We should let them know that God wants to radically change their lives and that includes things like sexual habits and how they deal with their “big test”, whatever that may be. God wants all of us to learn from experience what it is like to live according to how He designed us. It is a high calling, one which, if followed, would allow us to show others that it is possible to live above the pull of our “biggest test”, be it anger, insecurity, lust, or homosexuality. God’s solution is wholistic – it touches every part of our lives.

4. Tolerance should be a two-way street, but it isn’t. At least in America, everything is tolerated, everything is accepted without question, except Christianity. In one way I take it as a badge of honor that Christianity is singled out in that way. It tells me there is something different about Christianity. However, another part of me wants to point out that it is a contradiction to single out Christianity for attacks while accepting anything and everything else without question. What we are seeing today is not tolerance, but selective acceptance. I call everyone on all sides of this issue to demonstrate intellectual honesty.

5. Everyone struggles with more than one area of weakness. Some are struggling to overcome sexual tendencies and attractions while others of us are struggling with a different set of weaknesses. We are all weak; we are all broken; we all need a savior. Even after we find the Savior we are still weak and need lots of healing, rebuilding and remodeling.

6. Many promoters of the homosexual lifestyle imply that all of us should choose it. Those who do not want to choose it are required to condone it. Not one word can be spoken against it without receiving a whirlwind of backlash. In other words, homosexuality is treated differently than most other activities people can choose that bring negative consequences. One can choose any number of risky, foolish, wrong-headed pass-times and people just say, “If they want to take that level of risk, they have the freedom to do so.” If it’s not illegal, no one says, “He can’t do that.” And the person doing it seldom expects everyone to try the risky stunt he is doing. But homosexuality has been raised to a different level because everyone is required to affirm it. In response, many Christians have singled out homosexuality as a sin that is worse than other sins, although, as I said above, I see it as a symptom, not a root cause; it is not the primary reason people will be punished by God.

7. Unfortunately, the greatest harms done by the LGBTQ+++ movement have been to children! Despite what has been said or how loud it was shouted, children need a mother and a father! We should focus on the obvious needs of children. The happiness and dreams of the adults in the picture should never take first place over the undeniable needs of the children! Sex-change operations, falsely called “gender affirming care”, do nothing to affirm the child, they only destroy what God has made and leave a child mutilated, confused, and broken.

8. In his book, The Good Life, Chuck Colson pointed out that we were made to find our utmost fulfillment in serving others, not self. Homosexuality, like all other forms of sexual sin, is an endless and futile search for the satisfaction of self. A person will never find joy and fulfillment going down that road because such a search is contrary to our design. People who have chosen a homosexual lifestyle need to see living examples of husbands and wives who care for and serve one another joyfully. This will stand in stark contrast to their own focus on self which never brings joy, only more intense craving.

9. We cannot force people to change. Trying to force them only makes things worse. We need to be there for them in as many ways as possible right now, and pray that God makes them hungry for the change they need.

10. We are all weak, broken and in need of a savior!

The next lesson in this series is: WHAT SHOULD A CHRISTIAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HOMOSEXUALS LOOK LIKE?