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I'm going to this progressive church and the discussion today was on sexuality😬don't worry the kids were excused to their church class

before the discussion started. It was about the churches view on sex and purity and maybe the churches went at it the wrong way. They showed a video about a couple of people's experience being LGBT and either being shunned or asked to leave and never come back. Just because they talked to someone about their sexuality.

To me God loves everyone and he wants everyone to experience love and by shunning people you only make things worse and you make people get further away from God rather than come closer to him.


I come from a religion that you can't even discuss sexuality anything outside of marriage is considered sinful. Even just having thoughts about sex was considered adultery. I knew kids that got kicked out of the church and excommunicated. And it only made them rebel more.

I think only God can judge someone so why not wait and let God do his will. Me personally I don't believe LGBT people necessarily go to hell. I also don't think being LGBT is a lifetime punishment. I've known people that thought they were sexually gay later on get married to the opposite gender and have large loving families.

What is your opinion on this?
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PatientlyWaiting25 · 46-50, F Best Comment
I think we miss the point as Christians when we are judging people, the most important thing should be to lead people to develop a personal relationship with Jesus. Everyone falls sort of the glory of God and sin is sin, it's up to God to draw the line. Jesus gave us a propitiation through the cross. That doesn't mean we blindly accept all sin though, we just need to approach it with sensitivity and compassion. I'm a big believer that people need to belong before they belong so I go out of my way to be warm and welcoming to anyone, in particular those that might be on the fringes or sidelined because of some reason. As for LGBT people going to hell, again whoever says this is missing the point. It's about Jesus and what he did for us. All of us deserve to be in hell. None of us are perfect. If we were, we wouldn't need a saviour.

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works so that no man can boast." Ephesians 2:8

When we start condemnation for anything, we undermine Jesus and the work he did on the cross and that's a serious thing. It's attacking the character to God, taking away from his love and from the gift of salvation when we can draw people in and mirror the love and acceptance of Christ.

BrandonWyatt36 · 36-40, M
No Bro... NOT saying this to be offensive or anything I just don't know how else to put it... But YES a True Relationship with God he wants you Sexually Pure... PART of the reason for that is to test your Loyalty to him and his word and not being Tempted by Satan... And no I'll admit it's NOT the easiest thing to do... But I have said it before their is A LOT of "Fake Christians" out there that have NO Clue what a True Relationship with God even means... I've said it before... God said "Observe the world but be not part of it" Means you are just happy to eat everyday... And YES when he first started trying to get my attention I DONE THAT... He doesn't want you to part of ANYTHING "Wordly" Satan is the king of this world and he wants your Loyalty to be to him.. But again he DID show me who he was and let me know he was watching over me me when I started being Loyal to him I had my "Supernatural Experience" with him as my Religious Aunt calls it... But that's what a True Relationship with him means.. your just passing by in this world and not supposed to take part in any of it... And that's NOT just LGBTQ... That's everyone regardless of Sex or race... But I get it it's NOT easy to do and I'm STILL Back sliding... But..
GoFish ·
i know God said not to be gay but i don't discriminate as long as they don't perv on children

my dad is super religious and anti gay and against premarital sex so my lil sister ran away and got married recently.. she's almost 40
GoFish ·
@Lostpoet i thought you did?
Lostpoet · M
@GoFish 😄I was thirty years old before I did though. And I've done nothing but cry online since.
GoFish ·
@Lostpoet awww
bookerdana · M
Nobody "knows who is going to Hell,no one,we just don't know God's providential will

Lostpoet · M
@BlueSkyKing You have to read and study the Bible and understand what cultural times it came from.
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My opinion is that there's a difference between accepting people for who they are and normalization of the lifestyle. Not only is the Bible very straightforward about this but you don't even need to believe in the Bible to have misgivings about the LGBT lifestyle. This recognition of it is confined to a very small period of recent history, and only among caucasian circles in Western civilization.
But good luck expecting anyone in "homophobic" parts of the world to accept gays for who they are without the Bible as influence
Lostpoet · M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I don't think you do and I think it's good that the church is willing to discuss these kinds of issues.
@Lostpoet I mean to understand the threshold for "progressive" there. If I was in a church that threw gays out, I wouldn't go back. But a biblical church would be preaching things that would likely make gays uncomfortable because of what the Bible has to say about the lifestyle. But when I hear "progressive" I think of a church that welcomes the gay lifestyle as surely as it welcomes gays.
Maybe to you "progressive" means recognizing that Jesus also ministered to untouchables
Lostpoet · M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I haven't been in the church very long but I've noticed that they are open to everyone. I don't ask people their sexuality, but you can kind of guess by their mannerisms and the way they carry themselves.

 
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