I agree with this. :thumb:
Just a little touchy about people claiming (or even seeming to) that homosexuality is an indicator that someone isn't saved. I'm sure you can understand why, but additionally because I know a lot of Christians who struggle with it who don't need to hear their brothers and sisters put their salvation in doubt for them. Or, worse, cause them to doubt God.
:think: I'm going to consider sharing a little story here. Depends if this thread's going to turn into a debate on whether or not Christians can sin.
So, yeah. Let's do that.
There was a girl (a lesbian), Tasha C., who came to Christ in large part due to the example some friends and I presented to her. We witnessed to her, challenged her and God used us to call to her. And she was saved.
But she was kinda shy and didn't hang around with us much. And when she did, she didn't engage much. Something of a wallflower. We'd talk now and again but that's all. Then one day she's talking to me and gets upset. I realize she's under a pretty crushing amount of doubt and feeling abandoned by God. Someone, it turns out, hadn't been very particular what they'd said around her and had given her the impression that one can't be a homosexual
and a Christian. Someone who's opinion she valued way,
way too much. Some idiot who'd apparently come right out and said, earnestly and with conviction, that Christians are not homosexuals. That a homosexual cannot be a Christian. They'd made that point pretty clearly, by all accounts.
Naturally, I was outraged. Furious. Who said this incredibly stupid thing and cause this poor girl so much doubt? Who, I demanded! So I could go and correct them. Maybe put a boot to their neck in the process, to be sure they understood.
Yeah, well guess who.
So I shared the Summer Glau thing I mentioned earlier, that Elo dishonored by disregarding. She was astonished. And we straightened a few things out. And I apologized.
I'm trying to get in the habit of being a bit more particular about what I say on certain subjects. Especially if I'm going to act like my opinion is worth a hill of beans. Because you never know who might be listening, you know?