I had an interview yesterday with http://www.fellowshipchurch.com and it was awesome. Not only did we talk for 2 hours, but I learned a great deal in those 2 hours – about Fellowship Church and about myself.
In my interview yesterday I was given homework which is due next Wednesday. We were given 4 topics to plan a night around and I have 4 really great ideas – but I can’t share them with you here. They are my babies and I have to protect and nurture them. However, I was wondering what your thoughts are concerning Alternative LIfestyles which happens to be one of the topics of discussion. It’s a hot-button issue in our culture today that is gradually becoming warmer and warmer and eventually it may not be an issue at all – or will it?
I’d like to know if you are for or agains homosexuality and why? Do you believe people were born with a same sex attraction? Was it nature vs. nurture? What about transgendered individuals, bisexuals?
I’ve really appreciated some of the great feedback I’ve gotten on here. Keep it coming please!
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Jenny B · June 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm
The church I am a member of believes that homosexuality is a proclivity to sin like any other addiction (alcohol, drugs, hetero sexual addiction), and should not be singled out as weirder or more terrible than someone who struggles with pride, anger, alcohol, etc. I also know some people who have gone through Celebrate Recovery and are in recovery for it, just as you would for any other addiction. They don’t claim they don’t have those feelings, but they choose to rely on God not to act upon them.
I agree with the not-singling-out-as-any-different thing. But I am not 100% on homosexuality always being a sin…I think that is difficult for me to say since I don’t have those tendencies myself and don’t know what it entails in the heart. I understand heterosexual sexual addiction, I am not in bondage to that addiction anymore, because of work I’ve done on my own heart and my relationship with God through Christ. But I also know that I am now married, I can have sex and that I didn’t need to stop having sex forever to “fix” that addiction. I also know some very Godly gay people who are in committed long-term relationships and seem to have a personal relationship with the Lord. I do not understand how they could have that relationship if they are constantly in sin, as the viewpoint of all-homosexuality-as-sin suggests. That is where I start to have a problem with the all-homosexuality-as-sin viewpoint.
I also do not believe I am automatically “less married” or my marriage threatened in any way if homosexual marriage is legal. That makes absolutely no sense to me.
It would be interesting to know what Fellowship believes on the subject.
Also, I would like to say that if this does turn into some kind of huge long blog comment discussion, I am not checking this after I post it, so I am not getting involved in any long arguments. I just told you my opinion because I enjoy your thought process, Eddo, and you asked.
Not because I feel like arguing with everyone else. I believe everyone has their own right to come to their own decision in the context of their own relationship with God or conscience in this area.