Can a gay person be a christian
This may not be a huge surprise, but we receive A LOT of questions via email, social media, and in person on Tuesdays. What gentle of questions? Well, anything from, Should I obtain back together with my boyfriend or girlfriend? to What should I complete next with my life? to How should I lovingly engage those in the LGBTQ community?
In this blog series “Ask The Porch,” we’re answering real-life questions that we’ve received from you. Disclaimer: our highest priority is always to first respond with biblical counsel from God’s Word. The hardest questions to answer are those in the “grey” areas. So we’ll do our best to share our biblically-informed opinion, but perceive that we may possess different convictions on the non-essentials (vs. the essentials).
Now, let’s dive into the question for this week emailed in from an online listener:
Can a Christian be gay?
“Hey David,
I am a Christian and own struggled with same sex attraction since childhood. I would not wish it on anyone. It’s very hard being alone and longing for someone to hold hands with. I want the chance to love and have someone love me back. I want to live a life for God but I also don’t desire to live on this earth alone.
Can Someone Be Same-sex attracted and Be a Christian?
Welcome friends in the room, friends in Fort Worth, Houston, El Paso, Cedar Park, Spring, wherever you are joining or listening from as we continue this series, Asking for a Friend. Hey, rapid PSA. Tonight's topic is mature content, so if you have children with you in the room, this would probably be a good time to head to Sonic or some other place, or if you're listening at a future meet, this would be a time for you to probably hit "pause" and listen to it yourself.
I'm going to start with a little bit of a story. Recently, I have been in preparation for a talk we may give at a future meet inside of this series or at least at some point in The Porch. In a number of diverse conversations, I've known, as I rest in a circle and have these conversations, a heightened sensitivity as I approach it. It's a conversation about race. Race is a huge issue inside of our culture right now, and just the conversation about, "How does the church play a role in bringing healing to an area where it seems like society is further getting divided, and how perform we be a part of that?"
As I've sat in conversations in circles with people and we try to li
Should a Christian have gay friends?
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In considering whether a Christian should have gay friends, we depend on to ask ourselves whether Jesus would have gay friends. The New Testament nowhere identifies any specific individuals as homosexuals. So, there are no records of Jesus interacting with a gay. We know from the gospels, however, that Jesus loved everyone He encountered. He did not consider one group of people less deserving of the gospel than any other. In evidence, He went out of His way to deliver a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1–20) and deliver hope to an immoral female from a despised ethnic background (John 4). He healed lepers (Luke 17:10–19), pardoned an adulteress (John 8:1–11), and ate with tax collectors (Mark 2:16)—all of whom were considered unfit for the company of righteous people. We can assume Jesus would have spent time with homosexuals as well.
Homosexuality was a sin in Jesus’ day, and it is a sin now. God’s standards of human sexuality hold not changed. However, Jesus came to seek and to rescue the lost (Luke 19:10). We learn from the gentle way He dealt with sinful people that He would have offered homosexuals the same compa
Can a Gay or Lesbian person proceed to Heaven?
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I know the Bible says it’s a sin, but it also says that the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus. If a Same-sex attracted person accepts Jesus but does not change his lifestyle, can he proceed to Heaven? I have a cousin who’s Gay.
—Lucy
You’ve asked a very essential question—and a very hard one.
And you are exactly right: there is only one sin that is unforgivable. That is the sin of not believing and not receiving Jesus Christ into your life.
A male lover or homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can accept Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is expose to everyone.
Your scrutinize is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still travel to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his animation, nothing can preserve him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,
“I offer them eternal animation, and they shall never perish; no one can grab them out of My hand.”
So, Lucy the real doubt, I believe, is whether your cousin had a life-changing experience with Christ. Jesus said in Luke,
“Why do you ca