Those I know and love who struggle with same sex attraction or gender confusion also struggle deeply with self loathing. We must not celebrate pride in sin, but we also must not seek to push farther down those who are desperately in need of our Father’s love—even and especially our brothers and sisters in the faith who struggle with this particular area of sin. When the church has so often and loudly processed hatred and disgust of you and your ilk, how can you be confident in your identity as the beloved of God? But that is what these are, even as you and I are — Christlike humility is, must be, rooted in a deep confidence in the Father’s love for me, for you, for each of our brothers and sisters whatever their particular area of temptation and sin. This month, may those who struggle with same sex attraction or gender confusion come to know, or to know more deeply, the overwhelming love of our truly Good Father!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here, Rebekah. As I wrote in the post, we can't lose sight of the precious people caught up in the propaganda. Indeed, may the Church love well with the Gospel those struggling with self-loathing that sin so easily produces and exploits.
That "Reformed people" graphic was on point.
Ha, yes. Most Reformed folk I know have fairly thick skin; what's sad is the reason some of us do.
Those I know and love who struggle with same sex attraction or gender confusion also struggle deeply with self loathing. We must not celebrate pride in sin, but we also must not seek to push farther down those who are desperately in need of our Father’s love—even and especially our brothers and sisters in the faith who struggle with this particular area of sin. When the church has so often and loudly processed hatred and disgust of you and your ilk, how can you be confident in your identity as the beloved of God? But that is what these are, even as you and I are — Christlike humility is, must be, rooted in a deep confidence in the Father’s love for me, for you, for each of our brothers and sisters whatever their particular area of temptation and sin. This month, may those who struggle with same sex attraction or gender confusion come to know, or to know more deeply, the overwhelming love of our truly Good Father!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here, Rebekah. As I wrote in the post, we can't lose sight of the precious people caught up in the propaganda. Indeed, may the Church love well with the Gospel those struggling with self-loathing that sin so easily produces and exploits.