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What a rush…

This weekend was fairly busy. On friday I spent the day helping prepare for the OMF Conference in Castle Erin up in Portrush.

Last night was RUSH (R U Serving Him, I didn’t make it up, but perhaps we should as ourselves more often…)

There was a guy there to speak about homosexuality. Now this is a sensitive issue and I honestly have only ever once heard a Christian speak biblically on it with any real kind of personal experience and that was a download from Veritas (found here). so it was quite interesting.
The speaker approached the topic from the popular viewpoint, he sought out media relating to homosexuality, the more shocking the better, told some stories of being caught up in a gay pride campaign and then went on to quote how the bible says that its a damnable offence. Thankfully towards the end he pointed out that while it’s sin, so are lots of things and we are guilty too.

But in all of it I couldn’t help thinking there was too much emphasis on what we know, ie that homosexual activity is sin, and not enough on what we are forgetting, that adultery, and this includes premarital sex and even lustful thoughts from Jesus’ bar raising in the sewrmon on the mount, are sexual sins also and fall under the same umbrella. Practising homosexuals were to be put to death in OT times, but so were adulterers. And we know and thank God for the approach Jesus took when the pharisees brought the adultress to him to be stoned and we must follow his commands in how we treat people due to their sexual sin. But they (and we in our sin) must follow Jesus’ command to go and sin no more, an often overlooked part of the passage.
All in all when we are deciding how to treat homosexual people we must basically treat them as anyone who is sinning sexually, if we treat them differently from a guy who is off out to try and get laid every weekend then we are being hypocritical.

In the end we need to take a no nonsense approach to sin, but not one sin rather than another. We also need to take a loving approach to people and there should not be anything that can get in the way of that. We are all people made in God’s image and we need to remember that.