God, Gays, Gospel

This is a subject that has been covered backwards and forwards by all sorts of smarter deep thinkers than I am. However, I do feel the need to throw my 2 cents into the overran pile.

So what’s the big deal with how God feels about gays, and feels about the treatment God’s people give to gays, and how the gospel factors into all of this?

In an effort to be short and sweet, allow me to be frank.

Gays are boastful. Gays are proud. Gays like to push the limits of their ability to flaunt their lifestyle in your face while daring you to judge or discriminate. Gays hold to the double standard. I know some gays are extremely personable and easy to get along with on a regular basis. Bottom line is gays are unashamed of their lifestyle and expect God and God’s people to be accepting of it. But God is the creator of the living and the dead, and Psalm 5:5 clearly says God hates all evildoers. Therefore, God hates gays.

The aforementioned paragraph applies to lots of groups, not just gays. You could swap out the word unrepentant, pedophiles, hypocrites, etc. God hates all evildoers.

God’s people are followers of God. They are hearers and doers of God and his Word. With that being said, they are to maintain that God hates evildoers and sin without a wince. They are also to maintain the beauty of the gospel in conjunction with telling gays where they stand with God. The gospel is the good news brought to dark, wicked places where dark, wicked people live. That’s Romans 1:16.

The gospel tells gays that how they are living isn’t consistent with what God planned for them, nor will it be tolerated forever. The gospel tells gays that at this moment the wrath of God lies on them, but there has been a substitute given by this same God to embody all the punishment of sins for those who put their repentant faith in Jesus.

The gospel should humble God’s people as they are having conversations with gays, bottom line. The gospel is about what God did for the world through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which ultimately means humility and grace ought to shower the voice and demeanor of God’s people.

So to wrap this up – gays are boastful and expecting something God will never grant them; God hates all evildoers which includes gays; God’s people ought to be graceful with gays while maintaining the character of God hating them and extending the call to believe the gospel to them.

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