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What do you think about having a homosexual be part of a church leadership team?

Question from a reader:

What do you think about having a homosexual be part of a church leadership team?

Thu, May 10, 2012
Eternal Perspective Ministries
gay marriage, homosexuality, president obama, resources

President Affirms Same-Sex Marriage: Resources to Help You Respond

Given President Obama’s recent comments in support of gay marriage, we wanted to provide some resources for you to read and consider as you have conversations with others about this topic.

Is The Homosexual Lifestyle Worthy Of Minority Status?

To give special status or rights to those choosing the personally and socially destructive homosexual lifestyle is to approve and endorse that behavior, and inevitably to spread it.

Mon, Mar 29, 2010
Dave Bryant
Sexual Purity
homosexuality, internet porn, sexual temptations

Is there hope for a teenage guy who struggles with lust and masturbation to be able to stop sinning and be free of the guilt and temptations?

One thing I know about the struggle with lust is that the more you feed it, the more it will desire to be fed and the more it will consume you.

I have a burden to witness to my homosexual friends. How do I go about this?

I have a burden to witness to my homosexual friends. How do I go about this?

I know, first hand, of your desire to witness to homosexuals. My brother, Dave, died of AIDS several years ago after living for many years in the “gay” community.

Here are my thoughts about witnessing:

We should steer away from thinking of a group of people and instead see people as individuals. Although there are common threads in homosexuality, everyone is a unique person with unique motivations and thoughts.

The idea that “I am born this way so how could I change” is not ...

I am a Christian homosexual who has always been in a monogamous relationship. Why can’t this be as acceptable as a heterosexual married couple committed to only one person?

Now, even when and where society legalizes homosexual marriage, this does not mean God recognizes it as a marriage. If society legalized marriage between an adult male and a six year old girl, God is not bound to recognize it as marriage and withdraw his judgment that this is perverse. If society legalized marriage between a man and his sister, this would not thereby change God's revealed will on the sin of incest.

Fri, Mar 19, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Christian Life, Culture and Worldview, Salvation, Sexual Purity
homosexuality, salvation

How do you know whether or not someone who is homosexual and claims to know Jesus is truly a Christian?

Question from a reader:

How do you know whether or not someone who is homosexual and claims to know Jesus is truly a Christian? You say at the end of your article about the End of the Spear controversy, “How I would love to one day embrace actor Chad Allen as my brother.” How do you know he is not your brother already? Because he is gay? I am a Christian and am gay myself. The fact that he happens to be gay is so incredibly insignificant.

P. S. I’m also always perplexed by the term “gay activist” since ...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Culture and Worldview, Doctrine and Theology, Sexual Purity
gay, homosexual marriage, homosexuality, sexual purity, wedding

How can we lovingly decline attending my sister’s lesbian wedding?

Question from a reader:

My sister, who is a lesbian, invited me to her wedding. I have been the “black sheep” of the family because I am a Christian. We want to show grace and love but we also stand firm in not attending. We don’t know how to decline in a way they won’t hate us and exclude us from the family. How do we decline lovingly?

Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Culture and Worldview, Recommended Reading and Resources, Sexual Purity
church resources books, homosexuality

Can you give me some resources for understanding homosexuality and how the Church should respond?

I’d recommend a book called Informed Answers to Gay Rights Questions, by Roger Magnuson. I’ve read it and its helpful. Also, a book by R. F. Lovelace, called Homosexuality and the Church.