Posted on 03/01/2011 3:44:04 AM PST by marktwain
Thanks for saving our lives, but please leave now, because we don’t like what you stand for.
That is the message Jeanne Assam says she received last year when she informed the powers-that-be at New Life Church that she is gay. It was Assam, you’ll remember, who was widely hailed as a hero for ending a murderous rampage at New Life Dec. 9, 2007.
On that morning, 24-year-old Matthew Murray shot and killed two New Life parishioners after having murdered two others the night before at a training center for Christian missionaries in Arvada. Heavily armed, Murray would have killed many more at New Life, had it not been for Assam, who was working as a volunteer security guard.
Assam was outgunned but undeterred. She fired repeatedly at Murray, wounding him and pinning him down. He then shot himself.
Assam, also a member at New Life, held up well during the ensuing media barrage. New Life Pastor Brady Boyd, the Colorado Springs Police Department and others honored her.
Ultimately things quieted down, but as Assam told a public gathering of the Colorado Springs gay community Saturday night, her longstanding personal identity struggle became more pronounced and she accepted her sexual orientation.
When she informed church officials, she said, they told her she was no longer welcome.
“Absolutely untrue,” said Boyd. “We welcome everyone at New Life. We would never tell someone to leave because of their sexual orientation. Jeanne will always be a hero at New Life.”
Whom to believe?
New Life was nationally humiliated in 2006, when Pastor Ted Haggard departed after acknowledging that he had a relationship with a male escort in Denver.
On Saturday, Assam gave a speech at the Pride Center’s annual masquerade ball, a fundraiser for the gay community. She spoke of the pressures society places on gay people. It’s not unusual that some gays take a long time to come to terms with their sexual orientation.
“I don’t own a dress,” she said at one point. And she encouraged those in the audience to make sure they’re never ashamed of who they are.
Her speech, and her decision to give it, revealed a different sort of courage than what she displayed on the day of the shooting.
Assam declined requests for a timely interview this week, saying she was working with another news medium. She has completed a self-published book, “God, the Gunman and Me,” and her Facebook page says she is working in law enforcement again.
New Life labors on, too, accepting many different kinds of sinners. It says it would never reject a gay person.
Based on recent history, you have to wonder.
The idea that if someone does something heroic you must accept every one of his faults, is both peurile and idiotic.
When she shot the killer, she was a new Christian. Last year she decided to embrace her sin and tell the church. You can’t be “born again” and celebrate homosexuality. SHE has a choice to make.
You are correct. Homosexuality and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
However, there is HOPE in the gospel:
“And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
Assam chose perversion over Christ. New Life doesn’t have to affirm that behavior.
New Life labors on, too, accepting many different kinds of sinners. It says it would never reject a gay person.
Based on recent history, you have to wonder.
The difference is repentance. She didn't repent, she embraced. How can you be " a new creation in Christ" by bringing old sin with you? You can't.
That’s right! There’s absolutely no room for sinners in a Christian church.
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The homosexuals will hammer this church claiming that they rejected a "hero". Yes. She did save lives. But she cannot embrace homosexuality and be a Believer. SHE has to choose which she will be, someone who rejects sin and repents or someone who embraces sin. The choice is hers. The church cannot embrace her sin and accept it.
There is a difference between repentant sinners and those who celebrate their sin.
Many beguiled by the homosexual lifestyle seem to believe that unless their sin is embraced by everyone then they are being told they are not welcome.I will NEVER agree with the LIE “It’s ok to be gay. It is not it is a lifestyle choice that leads to one conclusion -DEATH.Separation from God.IF the Bible is true —and I cannot consider myself Christian unless I embrace the Bible as truth -If the Scriptures are to be believed—then fornication, sinning before the Lord,ritual
prostitution, drug abuse,and worship of “other”gods -unnatural and unclean/impure behavior is sin to be repented of by any who desire life.What she did was heroic—what she chooses to identify her life as (i.e. Gay) is sin and not to be excused away as “everyone has their own flaws.”
Now THAT's real heroism!
/sarcasm off
I wonder if this controversy will result in more violence?
I'll never forget watching Ron Zappolo on Fox 31 announce that Matthew Murray might have been a bisexual, with the clear implication that that might have justified his actions.
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