Deep, dark eyes, barren and empty, filled with tears as he spoke in tones hushed by fear. He sat across from me and let out the guilt, shame, and rejection he was experiencing from his family and church. He grew up in the church and knew the Leviticus and 1 Corinthians texts about homosexuality. Reiterating these truths would be moot and wasteful.
He wasn’t asking for spiritual insight or forgiveness, but rather crying out as a broken man in need of love. In that moment I remembered a quote from one of my favorite pastors, “It’s God’s responsibility to save. It’s our responsibility to love.” My friend didn’t need condemnation. So many others already had. He needed to know he was a child of God who, like me, needs a Savior.
I came across this article on the Marin Foundation blog and was completely taken back at what is occuring in Africa. There is a grave injustice occuring and if the church believes in the sanctity of Life, this matters. Despite gender, color, race, or ethinicity, we are all children of God. Advocate life. This is not a social gospel. This is the gospel.
We would like to thank you yet again for the lovely ideas you gave Jeremy when preparing her post-graduate research plus, most importantly, with regard to providing every one of the ideas in one blog post. Provided we had known of your site a year ago, we will have been kept from the needless measures we were taking. Thanks to you.