Jesus Loves Everyone- Even Gays!
A Response to K.B. Napier
Seriously, please stop. On behalf of Christian's who have gay friends, I would like to ask you to stop wasting your time writing articles that will keep gays away from the church, and start spending that time on something more productive- like loving people.
I am not even asking that you love gays. I don't care who you love, just love people. Stop focusing so much on what God hates and who hates God. Is hate really all that important? When Jesus was asked to name the two greatest commandments, they both focused on love. Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love God, and the second greatest was to love people. How are your articles showing love towards people?
In my opinion, they are far from loving. At best, they are slightly misguided. At worst, they will push homosexuals further away from Christ and closer to hell. I hope it is not the latter, but comments on these articles lead me to believe that it is.
Napier advises me to "find out what gays are doing to this world," as if I should be upset about this. I assume that you are talking about the fact that they want to be allowed in Christian universities, and AIDS, and stuff like that. However, I honestly think that "this world" is so far from important. My citizenship is in heaven. Rather than worrying how some gays on this planet may infringe upon my freedom, I would prefer to remember that I am free in Christ, and worry about my friends whose citizenship is not in heaven, who may not be joining me there. And yes, some of my friend's are gay, but I love them anyway.
I love them in spite of their sin. You are right that God does especially mention how much certain sins upset him, but the only one that you seem to focus on is homosexuality. Do you choose not to focus on divorce because it is so much more socially acceptable?
You say that we must shun gays and not converse with them, calling it a gross public sin. Divorce is also a gross public sin, but you say nothing about that. Unfortunately, there are also many people having sex outside of marriage nowadays, which I am sure is equally as upsetting to God. How can we expect anyone to come to know the saving grace of Christ if Christians do not converse with them? Shunning someone is never going to make someone want to become a Christian.
There is one thing that I will agree with you on: I do not think that gays should become pastors. I also do not think that the Christian church should embrace homosexuality as okay. You say in your article "Jesus and Gays," that many Christians would argue that homosexuality is okay because Christ does not specifically mention it. It may not be mentioned in the gospels, but it is mentioned in several other places in the Bible, so I am certainly not arguing that it is not a sin. It is certainly a sin. However, you make it seem that a gay person must change their ways before coming to Christ, and that is just not true. If everyone had to immediately stop all of their sinning before coming to Christ, then no one would ever come to Christ. Christ takes us as we are. Just like the Samaritan woman at the well. He knew that she had been married several times and was then living with a man she wasn't even married to. Yet, he didn't say anything to her about changing her ways. He just offered her living water.
Drinking the living water of Christ (metaphorically speaking) has a tendency to make people want to change their ways. For this reason, I think it is important that Christians befriend and love sinners, including gays. When we befriend them, we help them get to know our friend and savior, Jesus. Once they get to know Jesus, they will have a desire to be in an intimate relationship with Christ. Once they are in that intimate relationship with Christ, we can leave it up to the Holy Spirit to work on changing their hearts.
When the Pharisees present Christ with the adulterous woman, he does not condemn her. He first saves her from those who were about to kill her. THEN, he lets her go free with the hope that she will sin no more. I believe that Christ feels the same way about gays as he does about that adulterous woman. He wants to save them from the crowd that wants to condemn them. He wants to give them a great big hug, tell them that they are loved as children of God, and tell them that he wants a relationship with them. He wants to dine at their homes, as he did with the tax collector. He wants to wash their feet. He wants to heal their life threatening illnesses. When Jesus walks into someone's life, it's hard for that person to go on justifying their sin for long.
Unfortunately, Jesus the man no longer walks this earth. However, his Holy Spirit is inside each and every believer, and when we dine with people, love people, and serve people, we are showing them Christ- a Christ who wants to love them more than anything!
Published by Nicole Mohr
Niki lives in beautiful So. California, where she enjoys spending time with her friends and family. She is a high school English teacher, youth worker, freelance writer, wife, and mother. View profile
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16 Comments
Post a CommentThank you so much... I am a gay man and feel like I am judged for it. I think you are so right and you touched my heart and made me feel loved with your kind and graceful heart and I love you for that. You just warmed my heart and brought a smile to my face. I know with others as kind as you still alive that good still exists in this world and that Jesus does love me. Thanks... God bless you.
I think there is alot of words that need to be clairified and understood for the time and translation of what is being said in scripture, Jesus has saved all being gay is not a choice you are or not and the choice is not gay or not gay but have i had the new birth with christ. Focus on Jesus and his blessing this gay debate is really stupid.
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
God loves everyone on earth and created them in his image to be like him.
Im a gay person, and i've made the decision to follow Christ. If theres one thing i've learned, its that Jesus taught love towards eachother. So if i love another man. Is that not in conjunction with what Jesus taught. I love Jesus just as much as any gay person. And i know he doesn't want me to feel bad about my sexuality.
I did not choose to be gay, but I've chosen to follow Christ. I spent many years tormented by my homosexual urges, filled with shame, self-hatred, and disgust for myself. I attempted for many years attempting to live a "normal" heterosexual life and rejecting the "sin" but I ended up hating myself more, and hurting people around me I tried to engage relationships with. The outright hatred and bigotry of many Christians and many churches pushed me further from Christ, but now I realized how weak and foolish I was. Jesus loves everyone, and to compare peaceful and loving homosexuals to murderers, thieves, pedophiles is absurd. It is distasteful and heartless. Murderers, thieves, and pedophiles have a choice, and their actions cause serious harm to their victims, but in a homosexual relationship between two consenting adults where is the harm? Am I a victim, or just somebody trying to live their life?
being gay is not really a choice people make. its hard to figure out whether its in the brain or during childhood. however, do you REALLY think that just because a person chooses to share their love with someone of the same gender they'll go to hell? that it ridiculous and it does not fit with the way Jesus taught and lived his life. Jesus didn't say accept me into your heart and you will be saved...except if you're gay...no...he said to accept him into your heart and you'll go to heaven. God Bless and my Jesus be with you ¢¾
whay is it a sin to love somoene? i dont want a qoutation of scripture i want a real reason why there is anything wrong with bieng gay. it doesnt hurt anybody. its certanly not that abnormal seeing as many species including humans have some among them showing homosexual tendencys and it can be very pure and beutifull. do you feel that thier love towards thier partner is any less then your love towards anyone? why? simply because you have not experianced it or because you read in a scripture thousand of years old that it was true? didnt god give you a mind that so that you could use logic and reason? what logic says that homosexuality is wrong? and what heart can deny the existance of a love beetween any two people whatever thier gender? i am a christan but one who uses scripture to guide me through life rather then a literal play by play of wha i must do.
ok, im sorry. i agree with how distubing people like Anapier are but this artical isnt all that much bettier. Ok yes it is a lot better but thats not saying much. Isnt it possibal to be a christan and not think homosexualtity is a sin at all?
All I can say is that the Bible clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination. I love all people and so does Jesus. We do not have to love the sin. Beyond thier lifesyle, people still have a heart. We are all created by God, but that doesn't mean we are all children of God. I love murderers and gays the same as I love liars and theives. Remember love covers a multitude of sin. Hate the sin and pray for those who chose continue in habitual sin. Everyone of us will be judged..
I wanted so badly to write a counter article to any of K's stuff, but I'll be honest with you - I made a vow not to give that page a single page hit ever again - and writing an article that counter pointed it gave page hits too, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I don't know why, but I always just assumed Napier was a man - I guess it was a stereotype that I couldn't see a woman as being so filled with hatred. Thank you for your views and sharing them.