How do you respond?

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He reprimanded me harshly and honestly and it cut me to the bone… but he did it in such a soft loving way, it broke me, humbled me and I loved him even more for his friendship. 

 

 

 

 

How do we respond to sin?

2 Days ago an NFL player came out as being gay and there was a lot of chatter about it on social media… and Christians were not so kind. 

 

Made me think about my response.

So I have a few gay and lesbian friends… they know I love them and they know I don’t agree with their lifestyle.

 

When I am asked from someone living in that lifestyle if I think it is a sin, I first clarify their question.

Are you asking me If I love you?

Are you asking me if I think you are a second class citizen?

Now, if you are asking me wether or not I think it is right… I then begin to explain to them that everyone lives their lives according to some rule, religion or mindset. I choose to live my life according to scripture… so scripture is clear that God has chosen a better way for you. 

 

They often times want to debate me, hate me, berate me… I don’t fall for it. I just listen and love them. I do not get angry.

 

Look the truth is, we as humans do a lousy job of rating sin. Stealing is bad… unless you are rich and then if you steal it is really bad.

Lying is bad, unless it is a white lie then it’s ok, but if its a bad lie… well then its serious.

Murder is almost the worst

hurting or raping a child is probably top 1 sin… and of course Homosexuality is pretty bad as well….

This is nonsense. 

Our sin separates us from God… that does not mean If I sin on a 1.0 level I am separated at a 1.0 level. It just simply means I am separated. PERIOD.

 

MY POINT… Whenever I tell someone about Jesus, or we disagree about sin, life, death, religion, sexuality etc… I make it my main point to love them.

 

I used to sit in a sauna every day and have conversations with a muslim man. VERY muslim, from another country… very anti america. We had many talks, I would pray for him and his family in the sauna. One day I saw him walking in the dead of winter and stopped to pick him up. His car had failed to start and he was walking home. He seemed baffled as to why I would pick him up. I told him I loved him and wanted to serve him. He was still baffled. Well a few years went by and we did not see each other for a long long time. One day I went in to a new gym to work out… it is a huge big box gym and that evening it was packed. I am at the desk buying a day pass and I see him making a B line straight to me… I am smiling, he is smiling, we greet each other and he begins immediately to tell everyone at the counter… this is a real man of God, he truly loves people, please treat him well… shocked me.

 

There was another guy at my gym (when I owned a gym) he was gay and we talked openly about our views. He would tease me and say that if I was gay he would go after me (of course to get a reaction out of me… I would tease him back) But one day he came up to me and said something along the line of this… You have me puzzled, I asked why, he said I know you don’t believe homosexuality is right, but I have never felt loved by someone or as accepted by someone as much as I do by you. 

 

Look, as fare as I know my friend the muslim and my friend in the homosexual lifestyle are not yet living for God… but they have felt his love through me. Remember God said it is my his loving kindness that we are led to repentance… that kindness many times comes through us.