Are People Born Gay? (Part 4)

It's hard to bring this discussion to an end.  There is so much more I'd like to say, but it's time to bring these posts to a conclusion.  In doing so, I'd like to share with you three things the church needs to realize concerning this issue of homosexuality.

First, the world (and even some churches) are going to continue to promote the lie that people are born gay, despite the fact that Scripture, good science, and even philosophy teaches us otherwise.  For that reason, we can expect the media (TV, internet, music, etc.), retailers, and even our government to continue to push the homosexual agenda.  For the past two years, the current administration has declared June to be "Gay Pride Month" in the United States.  And as I mentioned, some churches have even gotten in on the act.  Entire denominations are now proclaiming the merits of the homosexual lifestyle.  Where those denominations once denounced homosexuality as sin, they are now celebrating it as an alternate lifestyle.  These types of things will only grow worse if our Lord continues to tarry in His coming.  It's for good reason we say, "Even so, come Lord Jesus!" (Rev. 22:20).

Second, if you faithfully teach and share what the Bible has to say about homosexuality, you will be despised by many.  You will be called narrow-minded, mean-spirited, and just plain ignorant.  You will be marginalized as a mind-numbing neanderthal who hasn't made his way out of the caves and into the light quite yet.  But didn't Jesus tell us to expect such things:  "If you were of the world, the world would love its own.  Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you...if they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you" (John 15:19, 20).  Paul echoed the words of our Savior in his second letter to Timothy:  "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables" (2 Tim. 4:3-4).  We must decide if we are going to cave in to political correctness, or if we're going to stand with the Savior and "preach the Word" (2 Tim. 4:2).

Finally, as the Body of Christ we've got to do much more to share the truth with homosexuals and love them to the Savior.  This is where I have to take a long look in the mirror.  I have to confess that I've made fun of homosexuals and said some very hurtful things about them.  But how much time have I spent trying to reach them for Christ?  Didn't Jesus die for homosexuals too?  I hope we'll all remember that Christ spent a great deal of His ministry around those whom the religious right had excommunicated - the lepers, the harlots, the tax collectors, the demon-possessed, etc.  It's time to ask ourselves some hard questions.  Would homosexuals feel welcome in our churches?  Do our houses of worship feel more like hotels for saints or hospitals for sinners?  God help us to reach reach men, women, boys, and girls of every status and lifestyle with the life-changing Gospel of our Savior (Rom. 1:16).