Am i gay for god
I was reeling! It was totally alien to my mind and yet… something about it had the touch of the Holy Spirit. The thought hit me like a spiritual tsunami. That was still a step too far.īut then, one day, I had a wonderful/ horrifying experience.
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By degrees I was becoming, in many areas, more liberal in my outlook but this certainly didn’t extend to believing that you could be gay and a Christian in good standing with God and the church. Fundamentally, I began to understand that the Bible needs wise interpretation if we are to avoid misconstruing what it actually says and thereby oppressing people. I do think that God was preparing me because over the years, one by one, I began to see that many legalistic beliefs that I had held most of my life were wrong. Understanding the truth about how God views variations in people’s sexual orientation wasn’t the only subject that I was beginning to have questions about theologically. Little did I know that the entire direction of my ministry and life was about to change completely. Consequently, I could dismiss it as something that people in “the world” got into because of their sinful natures. It was all tied up in a neat theological bundle which was easy not to unpack because we didn’t know any LGBT people (or so we thought). I believed that Romans Chapter 1 taught that homosexuality was a sin that God had given corrupt, God-rejecting men over to because of their determination to reject all knowledge of him, making them wallow in their own degradation. So, sex was for a man and a woman who were married as far as I was concerned and anything else was evil. In our Christian bubble we saw everything in black and white according to what we believed was the clear teaching of Scripture. We were good Christians weren’t we? It didn’t happen to people like us, did it? To be honest, it wasn’t a subject that registered particularly on my radar. We brought our five children up to strictly follow the Scriptures as we understood them and it never even occurred to me for a moment that we could ever have a gay child. As time went on, our lives were touched by the charismatic renewal and I was involved in ministry in different house churches and latterly pastoring Pentecostal churches, the last two being Assemblies of God.
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I loved working for the church and life seemed good to us. We were happily married, had five wonderful and lively children. My background for most of my adult life had been a heavy involvement in Bible believing evangelical Christian churches and after graduating from Bible College I was ordained and married my wife, Janet. Never in my wildest nightmares would I have imagined myself just a few short years later, at Bristol Pride wearing a t-shirt bearing the words “God loves gays!”
#AM I GAY FOR GOD TV#
Some years ago, I watched a gay Pride celebration on TV and was disgusted with the spectacle of scantily clad men and women cavorting in rainbow hues down the streets of London, and the blatant display of homosexual sexuality.