Okay, I may regret this… (that should probably be a warning to me to stop now) but here’s a quote taken from a newsletter I got in the mail today. I’m NOT interested in blasting anyone nor am I interested in fighting, arguing, debating with readers whether homosexuality is a sin or not. Save that for a different blog please. But, I WOULD be interested in how you would lovingly respond, as a Christian, to this quote should the author have made it in your presence.
“I fully understand that a person who IS a homosexual (lesbian) or effeminate IS NOT a Christian no matter how passionate his or her claim.”
How might you respond? What questions would you want to ask? How might you challenge this thinking with Scripture?
It would seem to me that if you followed this quotation to its logical end, you would have to say that anyone who is a gossip, who is a cheat, who lusts, who is embittered, who struggles with any sin pattern is not a Christian.
The author also assumes effeminate means wrong. So, the guy who hates sports, doesn’t like beer, likes to garden, is quiet and introverted is living sinfully?
Musings on Faith and Psychology 