A new church for gay “believers”
August 12th, 2005 by Carl Thomas.I am not into bashing sinners since I am one. But I don’t mind bashing sin. One of the reasons I attend church is to be challenged in my walk. Apparently not everybody is really seeking that.
While setting up the Spirit Filled Aggregator, my new news group aggregator for post Azusa bloggers, I ran across this article titled “A new church for gay believers”.
After reading the story we find this is not new at all,
There have been pro-gay churches in America since 1968, when the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, also known as MCC, was founded by a defrocked Pentecostal minister. The predominantly gay church claims more than 44,000 members in 300 churches
Yikes! A pro gay church! I can see why people would want to grow a church and not say anything about sin but to be pro sin? I wonder what the “spirit” is like in that church? I was in a service one time where a majority of the worship team was in openly sexual sin and the place was crawling with funk. I took my wife and kids and left. I felt like I was being defiled. The worst part of this is that I was a leader in that church! But that’s another story.
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There is this new church in Singapore, of all places, similar to that kind of church [I'm from Malaysia, BTW]. I’m gay. But I’m not stupid to think that suddenly homosexualism is alright in the Bible. Just because it is more common and more acceptable in popular culture doesn’t mean the Bible changes for them. There is only two choices I could make, whereby I change not Christianity - mainly either I change my ways, or I change religion.
So far, I’m trying, or rather working out with the prior.
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Like I said, I am a sinner. But I don’t go to a church that says my sins are ok. I am a Christian. I do sin. I do got to church. I hope that in time I will overcome certain sins in my life. Others I have already overcome. Others, I do not know about yet but are latent. As they are revealed, I will deal with them by the grace of God.
It is my goal to live right before God. Acknowledging those sins and repenting for them is a big part of that walk.
It is by His sacrifice that I am righteous before Him, not by my works.
So like Paul, I press on that i may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus laid hold of me.
So don’t stop being a Christian. Don’t stop going to church. Believe that one you will behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin.
Also, visit this ministry
http://www.exodus-international.org/
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Found a link to your site from Mary Powell’s blog. Don’t know how you know her, but I think you have some great thoughts and comments being shared here. Keep up the good fight/walk.
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Even when I was gay I didn’t understand the “gay” church. Now that I am not, I still don’t completely understand how you can define your Christianity by anything specifically contrary to the Bible.
It has also been said that the gay church is a product of the American *cultural* church’s apathy toward those with same sex attraction.
It’s a tough thing.
I agree, I like your blog Carl.
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carl: Precisely my point. I wouldn’t mind gay churches - in a manner that churches help their members deal with their sin and their past and their other sins, like bikers’ church or some outreach to some communities like prostitutes.
Quite on the contrary, these kinds of churches preach that your favourite sin and burden is quite alright. Church in that sense becomes little more than a feel good exercise, some sort of society you join just to belong.
And that’s sad.
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Love your blog.
It is so sad that large parts of the church exist to rationalize sins like GLBT behavior and abortion.
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The problem is that the Church is supposed to be birthed out of a relationship with Jesus.
Instead you have people of likeminded views having “church.”
Different birth and different fruit.
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