1 Corinthians 4:9-15
Finally, we get a leg up. I think it is easier to be a good Christian when you are gay. One of the things that this passage speaks of is being different. Not only being different but revelling in your difference and being happy about it. This passage calls it being a fool for the sake of Christ. Look at the parallels.
When you are gay, many people look down on you. You are different, misunderstood. Yet, we are happy with who we are, comfortable in our own skins. We know that God made us this way. We know better than to vilify sex and loving. We have a heightened sense perhaps of the joys of our sexuality and the ability to love and appreciate others. We know our self worth, we may be described as "out and proud". We live our own lives confident in our skin, our love and our God.
When you are a Christian you may also find yourself at odds with the world. You often will. Your actions are centered in another world, not this world. You love and forgive others which many might say is admirable yet they would not practice it themselves and really don't understand it. Christian values are not the values of this world. We love when others choose to hate. Our standards are not the same standards as that of society. We do not buy into the materialistic rat race as a source of satisfaction and destiny and completeness of our being.
Being gay and being different is very much how a good Christian feels. Many of the same feelings arise. Misunderstood, acting out of a paradigm that is misunderstood and not fully appreciated. You know that you are acting how God wants you to act but yet not as the rest of the world acts.
Fundamentally, being gay and being Christian is about love, loving others being the person that God wants you to be because it is what He created us to be. In our case, that is gay (check) and loving (check). Go forth ad love.
When you are gay, many people look down on you. You are different, misunderstood. Yet, we are happy with who we are, comfortable in our own skins. We know that God made us this way. We know better than to vilify sex and loving. We have a heightened sense perhaps of the joys of our sexuality and the ability to love and appreciate others. We know our self worth, we may be described as "out and proud". We live our own lives confident in our skin, our love and our God.
When you are a Christian you may also find yourself at odds with the world. You often will. Your actions are centered in another world, not this world. You love and forgive others which many might say is admirable yet they would not practice it themselves and really don't understand it. Christian values are not the values of this world. We love when others choose to hate. Our standards are not the same standards as that of society. We do not buy into the materialistic rat race as a source of satisfaction and destiny and completeness of our being.
Being gay and being different is very much how a good Christian feels. Many of the same feelings arise. Misunderstood, acting out of a paradigm that is misunderstood and not fully appreciated. You know that you are acting how God wants you to act but yet not as the rest of the world acts.
Fundamentally, being gay and being Christian is about love, loving others being the person that God wants you to be because it is what He created us to be. In our case, that is gay (check) and loving (check). Go forth ad love.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last
of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the
world, to angels and to mortals. We are fools for the sake
of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are
held in honour, but we in disrepute. To the present hour
we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled,
we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we
speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all
things, to this very day.
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