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➡️I was raised in a society were the scripture was very clear about issues like homosexuality, the church was clear, and even the government said homosexuality was against the law.  However, my kids are being raised in a society were the church is unclear, the scriptures are questioned, and people, Christian and non-Christian,  seem wide open to whatever.  For example, Christian singer Amy Grant says that homosexuality is not a big deal at all, because “everyone is welcome at the table”; pastor and best-selling author, Andy Stanley believes and teaches a biblical view of marriage, yet he has homosexuals on his church staff and speaking on his stage; and in our society, where homosexuality was once against the law, boys are now walking around dressed up like girls, and it’s totally accepted, even in the girls locker room.  Lots of views – but what does the BIBLE SAY?  We have to look to the Bible to define what is right and what is wrong.  Remember what’s cool today, is often cancelled tomorrow.  Everyone has an opinion – but what does the Bible say?

1. Homosexuality is a sin.  The word sin means to “miss the mark”.  God has a plan for our lives, and anytime we turn from that plan that’s called sin. God laid out his plan for our sexuality in Genesis – one man, one woman, one life. According to Leviticus 20:13, “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”  1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says, “Do not be deceived (Paul said this because, just like today, people were deceived): Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”  It’s clear that homosexuality is a sin.  However, “All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”, according to Romans 3:23…not just the homosexual. All of us. 
2. Homosexuality is a sin, but feelings of homosexuality is not.  For example, I may be tempted to say things I shouldn’t say, do things I shouldn’t do or maybe look at something I shouldn’t look at, but those feelings or temptations are not sin. It becomes sin when I carry it out and say things I shouldn’t say, do things I shouldn’t do and look at things I shouldn’t look at.  According to James 1:14-15, we are tempted when we are dragged away by our own evil desire and enticed; then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin”. Our temptations can lead to sin, but our temptations are not sin.
3. Like any sin, you can overcome it.  Romans 6:2 says, “No one who is born of God continues to sin”.  It goes on to say in verse 6 that our “old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away “.  If you’re struggling with same sex attraction, hear me:  you were born that way, all of us were born into sin. But you do not have to remain there. God gives us forgiveness and grace to overcome any sin that is separating us from him.  And all sin separates us from God. 
4. Christians – not loving the homosexual is the worst sin of all.  When the religious leaders brought a woman caught in sin to Jesus, he did not condemn – he only loved, and she felt that love. But in John 8:11, Jesus said, “I do not condemn you. Now go and sin no more.”  We want sinners to feel welcome in our presence, welcome at the table, but never to feel comfortable in our presence. Sinners came to Jesus, but they did not remain sinners, they changed.  

Our job is to be like Jesus – what would he do?  He would love the L’s, the G’s, the B’s, the T’s and the Q’s – because according to John 13:35, “people will know that we are Christians by our love”.  It’s in the Bible, and the Bible is always right.