Can u be gay and christian
This may not be a huge surprise, but we accept A LOT of questions via email, social media, and in person on Tuesdays. What caring of questions? Adequately, anything from, Should I get support together with my boyfriend or girlfriend? to What should I do next with my life? to How should I lovingly occupy those in the LGBTQ community?
In this blog series “Ask The Porch,” we’re answering real-life questions that we’ve received from you. Disclaimer: our highest priority is always to first respond with biblical counsel from God’s Word. The hardest questions to answer are those in the “grey” areas. So we’ll do our leading to share our biblically-informed opinion, but know that we may have other convictions on the non-essentials (vs. the essentials).
Now, let’s dive into the scrutinize for this week emailed in from an online listener:
Can a Christian be gay?
“Hey David,
I am a Christian and have struggled with same sex attraction since childhood. I would not aspire it on anyone. It’s very unyielding being alone and longing for someone to hold hands with. I yearn the chance to love and own someone love me back. I wish to live a life for God but I also don’t want to live on this earth alone.
How Should Christians Respond to Gay Friends or Family Members?
Caleb Kaltenbach (M.A. ’07) is an alumnus of Biola’s Talbot School of Theology, lead pastor of a large church in Simi Valley, Calif., and a married father of two. He’s also an emerging voice in the discussion of how Christians should engage the LGBT community. That’s because Kaltenbach has an insider perspective, having been raised by a dad and mom who divorced and independently came out of the closet as a gay guy and a queer woman . Raised in the midst of LGBT parties and lgbtq+ fest parades, Kaltenbach became a Christian and a pastor as a young elder. Today, he manages the tension of holding to the traditional biblical training on sexuality while loving his same-sex attracted parents.
Kaltenbach’s unique story is detailed in his new manual Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction and landed him on the front page of the New York Times in June. Biola Magazine reached out to him to talk about his book and his perspective on how Christians can beat navigate the complexities of this issue with truth and grace.
In your manual you say that it’s time for Christians to possess the iss One night I was reading the stories of people who had left the church because they thought God hated them simply because they were attracted to the alike sex. I was so overcome with emotion that I put the book down, got alone in another room, fell to my knees and wept. The pain of these men and women for whom Jesus died was palpable and heartbreaking. Could it be that we have been misinterpreting Scripture when it comes to their salvation? Could it be that there is some brand-new understanding of the Bible that would allow us to affirm committed, queer relationships? If not, does that mean that we inform a 15 year-old young woman who identifies as sapphic, “If you want to follow Jesus, you will have to be celibate for the rest of your life, never enjoying the companionship of a spouse and abstaining from sex for life”? Complete we tell her, “If you do want to be married, you’ll possess to find a way to be attracted to men”? Is that the good news of the gospel? A spate of books and videos and article and blogs would inform us that, indeed, that is not the gospel and that the great news of Jesus is that you can pursue Him and enjoy a committed, homosexual relationship to There’s a name for what’s happening here: proof texting. Theopodia defines proof texting as “the method by which a person appeals to a biblical text to prove or justify a theological position without regard for the context of the channel they are citing.” If you catch someone say “the Bible says…” run in the other command. The Bible says lots of things! That the Earth was covered in water when created until God formed land (Genesis 1:9) but also that the Planet was completely dry until God brought streams up and watered the planet (Genesis 2:5-6). That God created animals first and then humans (Genesis 1) but also that God created Adam first, then animals, then Eve (Genesis 2). That’s right, the Bible contradicts itself in the first two chapters! “The Bible says” in Exodus and Deuteronomy that if a woman is raped her rapist must either marry her or pay her father (because he’s “damaged” the father’s “property”). Paul says in 1 Thessalonians that Jesus will return in his control lifetime (4:15-17). The Bib
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