Comments on: Caught in the Act: Reputation and Relationship https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/ Staying true to the foundation of combining Jesus and justice, Red Letter Christians mobilizes individuals into a movement of believers who live out Jesus’ counter-cultural teachings. Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 By: TheodoreSeeber https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185341 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:16:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185341 I know several. Or rather, they thought they knew me, enough to hit on me in high school and college. They were wrong about me, and they’re wrong about their own homosexuality.

]]> By: bluecenterlight https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185340 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 03:01:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185340 How many homosexuals do you know?

]]> By: bluecenterlight https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185339 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:42:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185339 OK, you could be right I just saw that in passing somewhere and didn’t look into it. Anyways it’s a lot of people who need to experience God’s love.

]]> By: bluecenterlight https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185338 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:57:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185338 Fair, that was below the belt and I apologize. I am a former drunk and porn addict. For the majority of my 30 years as a Christian, including 15 years in ministry, it is something I struggled with. Deliverance didn’t happen overnight, it was a long arduous process of me dying to self. If someone would have told me that I needed to fix myself to be accepted by God, I would have walked away sad. The bottom line is I couldn’t fix myself, and I knew it (after many failed attempts). My deliverance came with the realization that when I accepted Christ he forgave me, not for yesterdays sins, but tomorrows. When I really grasped the freedom that abounds in grace, the chains fell off. He never asked me to be good enough, he just asked that I believe and follow him, to best of my ability ( which admittedly many times was half assed). I’ve asked people many times on here if you can be a Christian and be a homosexual, no one has ever given me a straight forward answer. I suppose it goes back to the thinking ( that you have expressed many times) that if you hold onto a sin, then you are not repentant, if that is true, I’ve never been a Christian, and I don’t really know any. We all hold on to something. We all carry dark secrets that if anyone knew we would curl up and die. None of us will ever be free if we don’t start with Christ, we will never find him if we don’t feel welcome, just as we are in all our brokenness. The church has been horrible to homosexuals, it has made them enemies, it’s wrong and we need to repent. What does that look like? It looks like church, we have not looked like the church. We have surrounded ourselves with people who look like us, sin like us, so that we can feel comfortable. If you have ever done any inner city ministry you see all kinds walk in the door. Drunks, prostitutes, addicts, all lost and lonely, in need of God. Some will break free and shine gloriously, some will never quite get there, but they are all loved by God. That is our job, to love them, to make it abundantly clear that no matter what, no matter how far they fall, no matter how wretched they may feel, they are loved. You cannot love people from a distance. We are not called to have the correct theological position and stand up for it on message boards, we are called to be Christ to a broken world. You don’t need to have this conversation with me, you need to have it with them. You need to find a homosexual and be Jesus to them. I’m not going to tell you what to say, you should say what the Lord leads you to say. Love is not fiery darts hurled from a distance, love is up close and personal. If you are not willing to do that, (and this goes to everyone else on your side) you do not have the integrity to comment on this subject. I hope you take my advice. I have not been loving to you Drew, and for that I am sorry. Some of the things you say I hear myself saying twenty years ago. I wish I could go back and shake that old self, but that is my baggage and not yours. It is possible to disagree and not be disagreeable, clearly not my specialty. I’m working on it. Again, I am sorry.

]]> By: TheodoreSeeber https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185337 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:35:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185337 That’s the homosexual agenda statistic, 10%. The CDC statistic is 2%.

I can easily see half of runaways being homosexual, usually following an older homosexual that they’ve “fallen in love with”.

But you’re absolutely right. LONG before anybody knew a homosexual who was out of the closet, the same phenomenon was common with teenage girls eloping to marry somebody their parents did not approve of.

I blame the separation of sex from marriage and procreation myself.

]]> By: bluecenterlight https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185336 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:09:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185336 Sorry, I’ve been out of this conversation for a while. I think my original point was that half of teen runaways are homosexual. They get rejected and kicked out of their home. I think the statistic for homosexuality is around 10 percent. Sorry for the confusion.

]]> By: TheodoreSeeber https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185335 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:24:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185335 That’s a much, much larger percentage than I’ve ever seen before for homosexuality. One out of every three teens is homosexual?!?!?!?

]]> By: TheodoreSeeber https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185334 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:33:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185334 And thus the perfect example of why gay marriage attitudes and rhetoric turn me off- because you’re for conformity, not diversity.

]]> By: John (not McCain) https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185333 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:17:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185333 Please stop trying. Normal people wouldn’t want to be friends with ignorant filth like you.

]]> By: TheodoreSeeber https://www.redletterchristians.org/caught-in-the-act-reputation-and-relationship/#comment-185332 Mon, 27 May 2013 15:35:00 +0000 https://www.redletterchristians.org/?p=10729#comment-185332 Yes- the New Evangelization, preached by the last 3 Popes.

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