It's not a gay thing, it's a God thing

Today I had the privelage of hearing Sy Rogers, the best speaker I have ever heard! Sy's testimony was all about sexual healing and his testimony from being helped through his homosexual / transvestite lifestyle. He talked about his life and his abandonment by Christians and those around him because of his sexuality. Some amazing points were made about Christian's view on this topic of homosexuality.

Snobby Christians had driven him to believe, beacuse of his mannerisms (which he learned from being raised by women and a dad that sexually molested him) he was gay. But he made very valid points to which I feel the Church should be practicing.

1. Homosexuals know the views that Christians have on the issue. To continue to beat this dead horse is only a waste of breath.
Why are we trying to win an argument instead of winning a heart?

2. Often times we put the cart before the horse. Thinking we should make them "heterosexual" before Christian. But the fact is, heterosexuals go to hell. Jesus did not say "be heterosexual as I am heterosexual." He said "be Holy as I am Holy." The Savior must access the sexuality as a result of growing in God. This is NOT our place. Our place is to love as Christ loved.

3. It IS possible to have homosexual tendencies and still be a Christian and go to Heaven. EVERYONE deals with their own sins. But just becuase we have these does not mean we are going to hell. Sy has a constant struggle with his homosexuality but he believes that God takes the guilt, not the human vulnerability, and gives us a new way to deal.

4. There is not a cure-all for homosexuals or any sin in general. All of us my TRAIN to become better people, it does not happen instantaneously.

5. God will use anyone who will obey him. Even if it means using non Christians. Sy attended a gay church because his church rebuked him as a sinner. But aren't we all? But there, he found God. Eventually he found a church that loved him and nurtured him into the man of God he is today. After the church that rebuked him, he decided to become a woman. He was not convinced he was supposed to be a woman but the Church and society had made him feel like a failure as a man and therefore left him no other choice.

How blessed are we who can love unconditionally as Christ loved us. Faults and all. How blessed are we who can learn from different cultures, religions, and ways of thinking to add to our own knowledge. This in fact, is the test of a true Christian.