What if your prayers were the beginning of someone’s transformation? Learn how to pray with purpose for those wrestling with identity and sin, asking God for holiness, freedom, and the power of unconditional love.
It’s our job to be Jesus to our lost friends. To encourage those who know God but continue to struggle with sin. We need to remain faithful to the standards God gives us for living in the Bible. We must also ask God to help show us how to love well. When sin exists, wisdom is necessary in each and every situation.
Are you looking for solid Biblical evidence and truths on which to set your convictions, even if they’re contrary to current societal attitudes? If so, read on.
How can we, as believers who espouse Biblical tenants, exude Christ to all people, including those in the LGBTQ+ community? Let me suggest three right ways and three wrong ways.
There is not a single place in God’s word where scripture is ambiguous or silent regarding the sanctity and fidelity of God’s purpose for marriage. It is inconceivable that two people of the same sex, attempting to live in union with one another, could faithfully model and image Christ’s love for his bride. And this is the highest purpose of God’s design for marriage.
Those who decry the sexual revolution, but approve or excuse adultery, sexual abuse, or pornography—should have, no credibility. Instead, what is needed is an ongoing demonstration of counter-cultural fidelity, accountability, love, and a recognition of the limits that make life good and livable.
Perhaps the United Methodist Church can learn from its Methodist cousin…before the “traditionalists” have to separate and start their own denomination.
Sexual minorities aren’t simply abstractions, people hidden from view in some distant place. They have names we recognize, faces we love and live with.
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