Piper ;)

genevieveolivia:

So okay, I’m expecting a ton of hate mail after this but I need to say this, and since I can’t do it the way I’d like to, I’m going to paste something from another post that I think is accurate. You can find it here. I believe we are addressing this issue in an incomplete and unbiblical way if we leave it here, and potentially endangering people to believe lies.
Homosexuality has been something that has been a personal struggle for me. I hold the biblical view of it being a sin. That no, God does not hate me, he actually adores me and I’m his daughter, I love his son Jesus, I love his sacrifice. He gave everything for me. BUT should I go and live a homosexual lifestyle, (or an immoral one, or an idolatrous one, or a party-filled-drunk-one, or one based on deceit), I will not go to heaven. No, I wont. He’s not hating on me, he’s not telling me there’s something wrong with me. He’s not going “HAHA THIS IS THE WAY YOU ARE SO YOU FAIL, NO CHANCE” He made the world, he made me, and he has the right to decide what sin is, and what sin isn’t. Yet I find myself in the heart-realities of being attracted to women on a daily basis. All that to say, I’m not saying these things out of that place, you know, where people who haven’t experienced things try to speak into situations they know nothing about. Ex: much of the church and this entire issue.

Homosexuality is a sin(1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10). Not in any way unlike the ones you and I have both committed(Rom 3:9-20), but with equal measure, not in any way excusable before God (1 Cor. 6:9-11)
Homosexuals should not be ostracized or attacked (1 Cor. 5:9-10) and should be loved selflessly, we should expect nothing in return and be willing to receive pain in return (James 2:8)
One of the multiple expressions of that love which cannot be avoided isto tell them of the Gospel (1 Cor 9:16) and the reality of the eternal danger of unrepentant sin (2 Peter 2:4-6), but this cannot be done by itself (1 Thess. 1:5).

To any homosexuals who read this:
I’m sorry for the way the Church treats you. Ironically, for the most part, it’s not even biblical.
I have drawn a firm line in the sand that says I’m going to love you. No ill-meaning other Christian can talk me out of it: The Bible “talked me into it”.
That line is just as firm on this point: Yes, I still believe that you are in sin, and that if you don’t repent, you will go to hell. I really don’t want that to happen. So until that moment is decided, I will keep hoping and praying, heavy on the praying, that you repent.
But even if you never do, I will love you to the end, because the One who saved me loved me to His very last breath, and is alive again, and loves me still.

So okay, I’m expecting a ton of hate mail after this but I need to say this, and since I can’t do it the way I’d like to, I’m going to paste something from another post that I think is accurate. You can find it here. I believe we are addressing this issue in an incomplete and unbiblical way if we leave it here, and potentially endangering people to believe lies.

Homosexuality has been something that has been a personal struggle for me. I hold the biblical view of it being a sin. That no, God does not hate me, he actually adores me and I’m his daughter, I love his son Jesus, I love his sacrifice. He gave everything for me. BUT should I go and live a homosexual lifestyle, (or an immoral one, or an idolatrous one, or a party-filled-drunk-one, or one based on deceit), I will not go to heaven. No, I wont. He’s not hating on me, he’s not telling me there’s something wrong with me. He’s not going “HAHA THIS IS THE WAY YOU ARE SO YOU FAIL, NO CHANCE” He made the world, he made me, and he has the right to decide what sin is, and what sin isn’t. Yet I find myself in the heart-realities of being attracted to women on a daily basis. All that to say, I’m not saying these things out of that place, you know, where people who haven’t experienced things try to speak into situations they know nothing about. Ex: much of the church and this entire issue.

Homosexuality is a sin(1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10). Not in any way unlike the ones you and I have both committed(Rom 3:9-20), but with equal measure, not in any way excusable before God (1 Cor. 6:9-11)

Homosexuals should not be ostracized or attacked (1 Cor. 5:9-10) and should be loved selflessly, we should expect nothing in return and be willing to receive pain in return (James 2:8)

One of the multiple expressions of that love which cannot be avoided isto tell them of the Gospel (1 Cor 9:16) and the reality of the eternal danger of unrepentant sin (2 Peter 2:4-6), but this cannot be done by itself (1 Thess. 1:5).

To any homosexuals who read this:

I’m sorry for the way the Church treats you. Ironically, for the most part, it’s not even biblical.

I have drawn a firm line in the sand that says I’m going to love you. No ill-meaning other Christian can talk me out of it: The Bible “talked me into it”.

That line is just as firm on this point: Yes, I still believe that you are in sin, and that if you don’t repent, you will go to hell. I really don’t want that to happen. So until that moment is decided, I will keep hoping and praying, heavy on the praying, that you repent.

But even if you never do, I will love you to the end, because the One who saved me loved me to His very last breath, and is alive again, and loves me still.

(via genevieveolivia-deactivated2011)

Piper ;)

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