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June 2025

Firstly, let me start off with defining what “SIN” is. Sin is an old archery term that was used when someone “Missed the Mark,” missed the bull’s eye. They fell short. Well, guess what, God is the Bull’s Eye and we all have “sinned” and “missed the mark, we have all fallen short.(Rom 3:23) I don’t care what your sin is, in God’s eyes, sin is sin, is sin, because He is perfect, (Matt 5:28) therefore no one measures up! Not the person who has stolen $1.00, to the person who has murdered, and the homosexual. In God’s eyes, it is the fact that one has stolen what isn’t his, one has taken a life that wasn’t his to take, and one has exchanged the natural for the unnatural. They have ALL violated God's laws and WHO GOD IS! We are all guilty before a Holy God, unless we have been FORGIVEN ALL OUR SINS by God through FAITH in what Jesus did on the cross. (Eph 8:9-10.) Once saved, all our sins are forgiven even the homosexual, even though they may struggle with sin like everyone does. (Col 2:13-14) Doesn’t matter what man’s views are either way, if they do not line up with God’s word and WHO HE IS, they are wrong...As Christians we are under the New Testament, under grace, (Rom 6) not the law, so I ask, ”What Would Jesus Do?”

Some would say that homosexuality is NOT a sin, because some people are just born that way. Yes and no. There are a few verses in the NT, that say homosexuality and other sexual perversions are UNNATURAL. (Rom 1:26-17 list many sins and 1 Cor 6:9) I would have to say from my study and observation that those who "ARE BORN" with this bent could be just one factor. No sin or bent is due to only one factor, there could be many. And right here is where both sides have a few misunderstandings. In some ways each view is right and I will do my best to try and break each down and find a median of the HEART! For it is always the HEART that matters to God, is it not? (Matt 22:27-29) God and Others. I will need to break this topic down into some basics for a better understanding. I will start with WHY homosexuality or the ACT of it is sin, and not the thoughts per say, or we are all doomed, if it came to our thoughts on anything! I could go much deeper, but for time sake and space, I will summarize. The bible is very clear that all sexual sin is wrong, Fornication-Adultery-Bestiality-Homosexuality-Incest-Plural relationships-Pedophilia, etc. The main reason is, “That the act (not feelings. ”You can’t keep a bird from flying over your head, but you can keep him from building a nest there”) goes against “WHO” God is and how He made us…He made us both male and female, like Him (Gen 1:27) To say that same sex union is “normal or natural” is to “SLAP” Almighty God in His face and say He was wrong in His creation, that man knows better. WOW!

God’s commandments are for OUR BEST, not to hurt us. In many areas of our lives we have choices to do what is going to be best for us, those around us and to God, or we choose not to and suffer the consequences.

Do I believe all homosexuals choose the lifestyle they are in? No, I believe there are many reasons why one ends up being attracted to the same sex. And they go back to four of the five factors. 

1) THEIR SIN NATURE, (choice)…

2) OTHERS SIN NATURE (many have been bullied, experimented, or molested as children, or women who have had abusive men) 

3) A FALLEN WORLD (hormones or predisposition, they are usually melancholy in temperament, sensitive) 

4) EVIL FORCES, (There are always evil forces at work when it comes to doing opposite of God’s will, homosexuality one of them. The lifestyle is rarely a happy one, it is a LIE!)

Our goal as Christians isn’t to judge the homosexual, but to help them like we would anyone else struggling with sin get back to the # 5th factor, being in GOD’S WILL. Let God, do the judging and the work, we are to be the tools, and the catalyst for change. This would be true for anyone struggling with any temptation. Of course, I could write a whole book on this subject that would explain more deeply why homosexuality is a sin, and how a professing Christian can reconcile this “STRUGGLE” in their life and still be God honoring. I believe the process for change or acceptance (one may just have to remain pure) would be the same way for any struggle anyone would have.

I think the church has a huge misunderstanding of how it is suppose to deal with “SIN” among their members (not visitors) for one; the church NO LONGER applies church discipline, (Matt 18 and 1 Cor 5) so right there you have NO ACCOUNTABILITY. The church today is one extreme or the other (more liberal/worldly than ever before) they see no middle ground. The bible is clear that sin needs to be dealt with and believe me, I’m all for that and I preach about ACCOUNTABILITY. But accountability without “Love/Agape and Restoration, is like a parent who beats their child all because of their “behavior” never taking into consideration the steps it takes to GUIDE that child through the process of LEARNING proper SELF DISCIPLINE and CORRECT BEHAVIOR, get it? GROWTH IS A PROCESS. What is the goal of one who would DISOWN their own child or even a wayward Christian brother or sister? Don’t get me wrong, I understand the bible verses such as Matt 18 and 1 Cor 5. when it comes to church discipline. But I’m not talking about a person who is blatantly living in sin (sins fitting into the category of all NT sins that are listed, even GOSSIP) with no regard to those around them or their God, they do not see that a “little leaven ruins the whole loaf,” that “one bad apple soars the whole barrel”(if only those same chapters applied other places as well!) Accountability is given for the benefit of the WHOLE BODY (I believe when it comes to an unsaved person, we should never hold them to the same standard…we can vote for laws, but not force individuals to have our same principles) Accountability keeps the church/the body “Pure” and “Holy”. So my stance is that before the church “Picks and Chooses” which sins are greater than another, they better go back to the only 2 verses in the New Testament (we are under GRACE not the LAW now) that even hint to homosexuality and see if their sin isn’t mentioned besides it? Jesus told those who condemned the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11…I still want to know what happened to the man?) they were not able to judge her now, only He could do that,” He then told the woman to “go and sin no more” Think about it, homosexuality is a subject that even Jesus never mentioned, yet He did mention many of the other sins and then some. Jesus/God always judged the HEART, (1 Sam 16:7) not the outward. And is why He was always upset with the PHARISEES. (Matt 23) Jesus came to bring RECONCILIATION through His death, burial and resurrection.(Col 1:20) He came to reconcile man to God, and man to each other. If that was Jesus’s goal , should that not be ours? While the legalist doesn’t understand compassion and empathy, the liberal doesn’t understand the concept of “TOUGH LOVE” The legalist doesn’t understand that “Tough Love” should always be administered with the goal of restoration in mind, doing so in Agape love. And the liberal doesn’t understand the need for tough love, so they do not continue to enable. There needs to be a “Balance.”

EXAMPLE: As a Christian mother who loves both her son’s and loves God and His ways, I would hope that if one of my boys or God forbid both came to me one day and told me they were gay, I would “Do The Right Thing”. I do believe doing the right thing, isn’t going to be popular in either extreme views. but it is the way for restoration. If one of them is not a believer, then I cannot expect them to act godly, if they don’t even have God IN them. How can I expect them to have the POWER TO OVERCOME SIN in their lives, when I have the power in me and I still struggle with sin?

If they are a professing believer and they desire to go God’s way, and they are sincerely seeking and doing their best, then I just need to be there for them and guide them the best that I have allowed God to work in me. I need to help them up that scale to holiness that I talk about, regarding God’s will for their life and how to be truly happy, not gay.

Satan’s will 0………100 God’s will.

The closer one gets in their walk with God, and the more they are FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, the closer their desires now become His desires; they will no longer feel the need to sin against Him. GAL 5:16...”THIS I SAY THEN, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YE SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH”…That is God’s work, not ours. Remember we are the “Clay/Tools” (Rom 9) that He uses to help others, not by judging, but by doing. Let God do the work, let Him be the judge. Now, here is the other side.

ENABLING, not good. For there to be healthy relationships, there must not be any enabling! Meaning, that if a professing Christian is living in habitual sin and still attends church regularly or is a member and acts like nothing is wrong (not one who just has thoughts) who still refuses to see their sin the way God does, in Matt 18 and 1 Cor 5, after being confronted, then “Church Discipline” is to be applied. But the “Church building” the meeting place has different standards that are to be expected, that are not found on the outside. It would be nice if society and the Government had the same standards that God does, but it doesn't (a whole other topic) When dealing with a non attending “gay Christian” and an unbeliever gay person, we cannot expect the same standards. I mean we can exile one from the family for living in sin/homosexuality, but what does that teach anyone and where does one draw the line on sin? Your drunken uncle, family members living together, a gossiping aunt? It would be nice if we lived in a moral society, but nowhere in the bible is the world called to a Godly standard, only believers are. 1 Cor 5:12, "For what do I have to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those WHO ARE WITHIN THE CHURCH? But those who are outside God judges."

For a believer to treat a homosexual family member, coworker, friend, acquaintance outside the church, by using church discipline and harshly chastising them and exiling them, isn’t being biblical. For even Jesus said, “Be in the world, but not of it, (John 17:15-16) Common sense dictates that it would be ridiculous, if not impossible to distant ourselves away from all those living in blatant sin against God, including ourselves. Remember, to God all sin is wrong and no one’s sin is worse or better than anyone else’s. So obviously God would want you and I to be a “LIGHT in a DARK world” (Matt 5:14) even if one of our children, family member, or even friends, comes “out of the closet” to us. If they cross your boundaries in anyway, then yes that would be a “no, no!”, and may result in a cause for a disconnect. But to judge them solely on their struggle and confusion and not their HEART, and how God see’s them, God forbid! If this family member is a professing Christian the same principles that are applied to help draw a struggling homosexual or any sinner in the church back to God, is the same method to be applied here. Pretty simple if you ask me. As far as protecting, nieces and nephews and other innocent ears and eyes, look around you, are they not subject to enough of people sinning in all kinds of ways in everything they VIEW?

What they are not going to see is, LOVING and MATURE CHRISTIANS doing the right thing and helping those who are “IN” sin, finding a way to get OUT!