August 22, 2018 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Gays & Jesus Christ (G&JC Series #1)

As a Christian, I was told for many years that the homosexual lifestyle is about the judgment of God and the gospel of damnation. Much too often the Christian church failed the homosexual and brought God’s displeasure on the Church. God came to save, redeem, and offer freedom to anyone that is a sinner—no matter the severity or depth of one’s sin.

Gays do not frighten me nor do I find it difficult to show the love of Christ to anyone in the gay community. What I have problems with is the ignorance of the Church and their fear of gays, as well as, the flagrant lies and the promotion of sex within the homosexual community. Both sides of the spectrum walk in denial and in hate.

The issues a gay man faces just do not affect me. Yet I have friends that have to be very careful what they do in order to not experience the sins of homosexuality. Homosexuality has deep roots in one’s personality, mental state, and emotional makeup. One cannot simply overcome the homosexual lifestyle by ‘mind over matter’. It takes the love of Christ and the deliverance of the power of the Holy Spirit dramatically working in one’s life.

Those who have ‘gay ministries’ have to work on three fronts—the fight against the ignorance within the Church, the gay community and it’s culture of deception, and the public at-large willingness to ‘buy-in’ to the perception that being gay is OK and natural.

This is a spiritual battle! Satan comes only to kill and destroy all of God’s creation, hinder and make void the Gospel of Christ, and last of all to steal the blessing and goodness Jesus has placed in anyone’s life. Satan cannot tell the truth and neither does the gay community—it is in a lifestyle of lust and denial.

This is why Jesus has called me—to proclaim freedom to the captives and setting free those that are in their own personal prisons. There is no greater calling in Christ than to do what Jesus said He came to do (Isaiah 61:1-3). This is what Jesus wants me to do.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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