Cheated by the Affirming Church - Christianity Today Magazine

Along the same vein as my immediately previous post, here is an article from a male former homosexual who basically tells the church what homosexuals--or, for that matter, anyone else trapped in any form of sin--do not need. They do not need someone to make excuses for them to stay in sin, but rather they need someone to help them get out of it.

But don't infer from this link that homosexuality is the only sin into which one might fall, only to have his church do little or nothing to get him out of it. Adultery, fornication, and pornography are three obvious examples. To them I would add simple anger, overweening pride of place, a grasping for material possessions (which can make you a captive either of the possessions themselves or of the credit-card debt you run up to acquire them), and a host of others that I could name.

"Homosexuality is bad for me," says the unnamed author. Actually, he could leave the subject blank, and we could fill it with any of a number of sins that are basically losers' propositions. That's all the more reason to find a church that offers what you really need, not one that tells you what you think you want to hear.