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.