How Can We View LGBT People?

How can we view LGBT?

I would like to confess that when the Aids epidemic appeared in the 80’s, I thought, “Serves them right.”  Where was my love for a suffering people? God did not send me to condemn or disdain.

There is now no condemnation.

I list Romans 8:1 here as reminder that it is God who condemns. That day will come and God will handle it well.

It is not at all for us to condemn these people. While here on earth, they are lost as each of us once were.  We need to love and accept them just as the are. God will lead them in to His path more clearly in His time. Preaching morality to those we see as lost is not a good path.

People have reasons for entering the LGBT world. They usually do not do it in rebellion to God. The world and all the hard issues in it leads people into these places.We need to understand and comfort them more.

Unfortunately, hurting people can even turn to LGBT to be popular when otherwise they may have been forgotten or even cancelled. Let’s see these hurting people better. We need to be the love they find via Christ.

How Can We View LGBT? With Love

God’s love and seeing hope can often turn them to God and gradually they have strength to make families with people of the other sex. Our goal should not be to change them. Love and understanding should ever be our role.

If we say they cannot be in leadership in the church, then we must say that those who are proud cannot be leaders in the church. For God certainly hates pride more than immorality. Jesus was much harder on the Pharisees than he was on the prostitutes. My sense is we need to keep the active LGBT out of leadership, but I want to keep the proud and self serving out of leadership even more. Finally, we need to welcome and love them in our fellowships without joining them.

We are all sinners. Let’s not look down on people who have a more public or measurable sin.. It is hard to measure love and pride, so these issues do not get enough energy while measurable issues are attacked negatively. Let’s do better on the unseen and not be so hot after LGBT.