Article by: Kenneth J. Ester
Homosexuals Churches are Not the Enemy of Christianity
I am not intending to promote homosexuality in any way with this. It is a sin. There is no doubt about that. The Bible is very clear it is a sin. What my intentions are here, is to bring awareness to Christians that mainstream Christianity is making a terrible mistake on how to deal with homosexuality.
For as long as I remember, Christianity has been at war with homosexuality and erroneously it has turned homosexuals into the enemy. Many Christians see them as the devil incarnate. When someone posts something about homosexuality, the Christians will jump in and say how they are going to hell and how they are an abomination etc...
When Christians talk about salvation, they will tell people that all they need to do is accept Jesus into their heart and Jesus will take them as they are. They don't need to clean up their act first. Jesus will take them just like they are and change them into what He wants them to be. For some reason that same offer is not made to homosexuals.
With homosexuals we tell them to clean up their act or they are going to hell! What happened to Jesus changing them? It has gotten so bad that Christianity has nearly turned homosexuality into the second unforgivable sin.
When Christianity threw homosexuals away instead of drawing them to God to change them, those God called began making gay churches and Christianity gets all up in arms like those churches are of the devil. Why are they of the devil? Because they accept one sin? As if all of the gossip, sex out of wedlock and lying going on in most churches isn't sin?
Has Christianity ever thought that maybe if they wouldn't have pushed homosexuals to the curb as the spawn of Satan, that just maybe God would have had a chance to change them and they wouldn't have needed to make their own churches so they can love the Lord too?
Let me make a point very clear here. Did you know that the sins you commit are not going to send you to hell?
You are probably huffing and puffing over that sentence and saying it is blaspheme. Maybe if more Christians actually studied their Bible themselves, they would actually know what it says.
Hebrews 9:28 (NASB)
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Did you catch the important part of this verse? Jesus will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin! This means that when Jesus returns to save His believers, he will not even look at the sin in your life. He will look only at your faith in Him and if it is there, he will take you from this world. You see, it is important to understand how we are saved to begin with.
Romans 10:9-13 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Ephesians 2:8 (NASB)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Our salvation rests solely upon our faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. It has absolutely nothing to do with works. For if it had anything to do with our own achievements, we could then boast that we saved ourselves. But we don't save ourselves. Salvation is a gift from God to those who have faith in Christ!
If someone addicted to porn goes to church and gets saved, do you think they will stop looking at porn that very moment and never return to it? Not very likely. But as they read His Word and pray every day, the closer they get to God, the more God will change their desires. And they sure didn't have to go clean up their act before they were saved now did they?
I have news for you. It works the same way for homosexuality!
Christians have been on such a war path against homosexuals for so long that they stopped forgetting that the homosexuals are part of the world God wants to save.
Is homosexuality a sin? Absolutely! Can you truly look in the mirror and tell me you never sin? No, it isn't much different, either! A homosexual can be a Christian just like someone who is a kleptomaniac can be a Christian. Just like a gossiper can be a Christian. If we would have brought them into the church and explained to them that even though it is a sin, God still loves them and God can change them like He changes so many of us, maybe we wouldn't have churches trying to claim homosexuality is not a sin.
Most of the Christian churches today push the sinners prayer. Even though it is not even biblical. Many churches teach that we all spend eternity in heaven, even though that's not exactly what the Bible says. A whole lot of churches push speaking in tongues as something every Christian should do and they teach people to just utter gibberish and claim it is tongues. That's not what the Bible teaches.
There are over 9,000 denominations in Christianity today. That's 9,000 different sets of doctrines. Since there is only one true God, that means only one set of doctrines can possibly be right! That means there is a whole lot of bad teachings going on in churches all over America today.
If a church teaches that homosexuality is not a sin, yes that is wrong, but if they teach everything else right? They are still saved and they are still Christians! As Christians we should not be at war with other Christians but we should be focusing on bringing more to Christ.
As Christians, we need to wake up and recognize who the true enemy is. If someone lives every day for Jesus. They pray morning and night and during the day sometimes. They read the Bible every single day. They study the Bible once a week. They listen to Christian music and the go to church every week and worship the Lord. But they happen to be gay... let's take this to the extreme, if they happen to be married gay, they are still going to heaven! Will God honor that marriage in heaven? No. Will they lose some of their rewards in the afterlife? Absolutely. Will they still go to heaven? They sure will! Because as I have showed you, Jesus comes to save without reference to sin!
Please people, if you are a Christian, we need to start loving other Christians, even if they are not perfect! We need to band together with the love of Jesus Christ. Not hate each other! The end times are definitely coming soon. There is no doubt of that. Jesus is going to return in our lifetime. I truly believe that! There are a lot of people who need Christ in their lives. We don't need to spend the time fighting among each other just because you don't like a sin in their lives.
Should we be holy and pure? Yes! But there is nobody in this world who is perfect! When we attack Christian homosexuals, we are acting like the Pharisees who wanted to stone Mary Magdalene. None of us are sin free, pure and holy! We all have imperfections. Thank God we can be forgiven for them. Which is what homosexuals need as much as anyone else. Forgiveness!
For as long as I remember, Christianity has been at war with homosexuality and erroneously it has turned homosexuals into the enemy. Many Christians see them as the devil incarnate. When someone posts something about homosexuality, the Christians will jump in and say how they are going to hell and how they are an abomination etc...
When Christians talk about salvation, they will tell people that all they need to do is accept Jesus into their heart and Jesus will take them as they are. They don't need to clean up their act first. Jesus will take them just like they are and change them into what He wants them to be. For some reason that same offer is not made to homosexuals.
With homosexuals we tell them to clean up their act or they are going to hell! What happened to Jesus changing them? It has gotten so bad that Christianity has nearly turned homosexuality into the second unforgivable sin.
When Christianity threw homosexuals away instead of drawing them to God to change them, those God called began making gay churches and Christianity gets all up in arms like those churches are of the devil. Why are they of the devil? Because they accept one sin? As if all of the gossip, sex out of wedlock and lying going on in most churches isn't sin?
Has Christianity ever thought that maybe if they wouldn't have pushed homosexuals to the curb as the spawn of Satan, that just maybe God would have had a chance to change them and they wouldn't have needed to make their own churches so they can love the Lord too?
Let me make a point very clear here. Did you know that the sins you commit are not going to send you to hell?
You are probably huffing and puffing over that sentence and saying it is blaspheme. Maybe if more Christians actually studied their Bible themselves, they would actually know what it says.
Hebrews 9:28 (NASB)
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Did you catch the important part of this verse? Jesus will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin! This means that when Jesus returns to save His believers, he will not even look at the sin in your life. He will look only at your faith in Him and if it is there, he will take you from this world. You see, it is important to understand how we are saved to begin with.
Romans 10:9-13 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Ephesians 2:8 (NASB)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Our salvation rests solely upon our faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. It has absolutely nothing to do with works. For if it had anything to do with our own achievements, we could then boast that we saved ourselves. But we don't save ourselves. Salvation is a gift from God to those who have faith in Christ!
If someone addicted to porn goes to church and gets saved, do you think they will stop looking at porn that very moment and never return to it? Not very likely. But as they read His Word and pray every day, the closer they get to God, the more God will change their desires. And they sure didn't have to go clean up their act before they were saved now did they?
I have news for you. It works the same way for homosexuality!
Christians have been on such a war path against homosexuals for so long that they stopped forgetting that the homosexuals are part of the world God wants to save.
Is homosexuality a sin? Absolutely! Can you truly look in the mirror and tell me you never sin? No, it isn't much different, either! A homosexual can be a Christian just like someone who is a kleptomaniac can be a Christian. Just like a gossiper can be a Christian. If we would have brought them into the church and explained to them that even though it is a sin, God still loves them and God can change them like He changes so many of us, maybe we wouldn't have churches trying to claim homosexuality is not a sin.
Most of the Christian churches today push the sinners prayer. Even though it is not even biblical. Many churches teach that we all spend eternity in heaven, even though that's not exactly what the Bible says. A whole lot of churches push speaking in tongues as something every Christian should do and they teach people to just utter gibberish and claim it is tongues. That's not what the Bible teaches.
There are over 9,000 denominations in Christianity today. That's 9,000 different sets of doctrines. Since there is only one true God, that means only one set of doctrines can possibly be right! That means there is a whole lot of bad teachings going on in churches all over America today.
If a church teaches that homosexuality is not a sin, yes that is wrong, but if they teach everything else right? They are still saved and they are still Christians! As Christians we should not be at war with other Christians but we should be focusing on bringing more to Christ.
As Christians, we need to wake up and recognize who the true enemy is. If someone lives every day for Jesus. They pray morning and night and during the day sometimes. They read the Bible every single day. They study the Bible once a week. They listen to Christian music and the go to church every week and worship the Lord. But they happen to be gay... let's take this to the extreme, if they happen to be married gay, they are still going to heaven! Will God honor that marriage in heaven? No. Will they lose some of their rewards in the afterlife? Absolutely. Will they still go to heaven? They sure will! Because as I have showed you, Jesus comes to save without reference to sin!
Please people, if you are a Christian, we need to start loving other Christians, even if they are not perfect! We need to band together with the love of Jesus Christ. Not hate each other! The end times are definitely coming soon. There is no doubt of that. Jesus is going to return in our lifetime. I truly believe that! There are a lot of people who need Christ in their lives. We don't need to spend the time fighting among each other just because you don't like a sin in their lives.
Should we be holy and pure? Yes! But there is nobody in this world who is perfect! When we attack Christian homosexuals, we are acting like the Pharisees who wanted to stone Mary Magdalene. None of us are sin free, pure and holy! We all have imperfections. Thank God we can be forgiven for them. Which is what homosexuals need as much as anyone else. Forgiveness!
