A blog to share thoughts, experiences and feelings, not to mention the history of a gay mormon who just happens to have been married, gay or bisexual (depending on your definition) and is experiencing a whole new world right now...
Insomuch as this church, or any church, is a true church of Jesus Christ, it includes everybody. Most church leaders today--of every church, in my opinion--are more like the hypocrite pharisees Jesus castigated and less like Jesus Himself. They're all about the rules, but they've forgotten the purpose behind the rules.
Anybody who, today, feels capable of deciding who's included and who's not is "shutting the kingdom of heaven in men's faces" (Matt. 23:13--24), just like those pharisees. Jesus Himself included everybody. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, he taught us to "go and do likewise"--to internalize the true morality of inclusion, and go practice it in our own lives. Any less, and we're not His true followers.
If you weren't supposed to be gay, God wouldn't have made you that way. If transgendered people weren't supposed to be transgendered, God wouldn't have made them that way. One thing I do know is that, imperfect as man's understanding of His will may be, God loves us and wants us to be happy. I honestly believe that, just like it says in the Scriptures, salvation is a free gift. Anybody who asks for it, receives it. There was only ever one perfect man, and none of us are Him--but, luckily, we don't need to be perfect. Jesus came for the sinners, not the saved.
Insomuch as this church, or any church, is a true church of Jesus Christ, it includes everybody. Most church leaders today--of every church, in my opinion--are more like the hypocrite pharisees Jesus castigated and less like Jesus Himself. They're all about the rules, but they've forgotten the purpose behind the rules.
ReplyDeleteAnybody who, today, feels capable of deciding who's included and who's not is "shutting the kingdom of heaven in men's faces" (Matt. 23:13--24), just like those pharisees. Jesus Himself included everybody. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, he taught us to "go and do likewise"--to internalize the true morality of inclusion, and go practice it in our own lives. Any less, and we're not His true followers.
If you weren't supposed to be gay, God wouldn't have made you that way. If transgendered people weren't supposed to be transgendered, God wouldn't have made them that way. One thing I do know is that, imperfect as man's understanding of His will may be, God loves us and wants us to be happy. I honestly believe that, just like it says in the Scriptures, salvation is a free gift. Anybody who asks for it, receives it. There was only ever one perfect man, and none of us are Him--but, luckily, we don't need to be perfect. Jesus came for the sinners, not the saved.