Posted on 08/02/2011 1:27:35 AM PDT by Cronos
Janice Robinson is a dental hygienist and for a time worked at a dental office in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Hyde Park.
For reasons she could never quite fathom, she seemed to have a following of gay patients who would ask for her specifically when they made their appointments. Some of them would bring her cookies and other treats, and though she brought them home to her family, she wouldn’t eat them herself because, she said, they had “gay cooties.” “I was ‘Miss Pompous’,” she says now. “I believed that anyone outside my tunnel-vision is not a good person, and I associate my anti-gay feelings with my religious upbringing. I just grew up that way.”
Robinson was raised Catholic, she said, and was “born again” in her 20s. Since then, she’s attended Nazarene, Methodist and Vineyard churches, but none of them helped her broaden her world view, she said.
So eight years ago, when her son Carl Schottmiller came out as a gay man during his senior year of high school, that world view was set askew, and it’s taken her a long time to come around.
“I cried for three months,” she said. “When I told my sister, she scoffed. ‘We knew since he was 5 years old,’ she said.
“So it was OK with my family. With my Christian friends, not so much. I only heard my son would burn in hell for his homosexuality.”
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was “born again” in her 20s. Since then, she’s attended Nazarene, Methodist and Vineyard churches, but none of them helped her broaden her world view, she said
It’s not a church’s job to do that, that’s your own personal struggle. Just because I had to know some prejudiced individuals happened to be members of my own church, didn’t mean it wasn’t worth doing. We’re sick sinners, and Jesus is the doctor. In fact, te fact that people need to be counseled a little bit is a sign that church is where it needs to be.
The Word tells us not to eat/live with them.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Funny. Jesus ate and lived with sinners.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the prohibition aganst eating is with someone who claims to be a “brother” but is still living an unrepentantly immoral life.
Matthew 18:15-17 says how to deal with a brother who refuses to repent from sin.
Spot on Tainan, except these days society seems to equate forgiveness of sin with acceptance of sin. Homosexuals need our love, but more importantly they need the love and Truth of Jesus Christ. At some point the rubber has to meet the road, and the sin of homosexual behavior must be discussed. Speak the truth in love and let the chips fall where they may. Kharis13
Sinner that sought repentance - He wasn't so keen on Scribes and Pharises - vipers and hypocrites He called them who were so blinded by their own pride.
Ministery outreach to sinners (drug addicts, homosexuals, etc.) is different - we are to show them the Love of Christ and lead them to a place of desiring repentance - or shake the dust off our sandals and move on to the next ones....
Amen brother!
God stated very clearly that choosing a homosexual lifestyle is a sin and an abomination.
Yet the “cafeteria” Christians who pick and choose what words to follow like choosing from restaurant menu continue to deny His word and attempt to tell us their homoexual lifestyle is normal and Christian.
Sadly, I have been attacked on C4P by stating God’s word on this subject.
Did she read her Bible before she left for the gay friendly Church? Does she read it now? When I don’t like what I hear from the hired help, I ask for the owner. The Lord has expressed his opinion on most things, but most of us are too lazy to seek it out.
Born again? Sounds to me like she was never truly a new creation-just dissatisfied with whatever she was looking for in a church. One cannot compromise what is written in Scripture from Genesis 1: to the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Sexual Orientation remains just that an orientation changing the words we use cannot change the sin nor the abomination.
That being said as a father whose only son is caught in that web of homosexual deception and destruction I love him -but I cannot condone nor embrace nor take pleasure in the lifestyle he has chosen. He will either repent and seek God and be reconciled —or he will die in his sin.I cannot compromise what is written.
IMO Jesus makes manifest the truth He was in the world but not of the world.And I doubt any can show me where Jesus that Rabbi form Nazareth was EVER unequally yoked to unbelievers.
Problem is neither you -nor I nor any other creation is Jesus. How often are we tempted of the world— and surrender. How often do we -in the name of LOVE embrace the sinner and because we are afraid we might offend —Knowing of the consuming fire NEVER tell our neighbors the TRUTH. Instead we are brought down by the cares of the world. Jesus did eat with sinners- I am not confident any could live in HIS presence and remain a sinner.
Something is wrong there ... lol
And He never said anything as insensitive as "go and sin no more." < /sarc>
Oh hogwash.
He did so to call them to repentance, not to affirm their sinful life.
Stupid question. Are you also going to ask if Jesus dealt with pedophilia? Or sex with animals? 1 Thess 4:1-8 includes all sexual sins, including those of the lavender persuasion. Jesus told the woman at the well to go and sin no more.
That question seems to have punched a few of your buttons. Not its intention.
I was asking a sincere question - Does the Bible, KJV New Testament of course, directly mention any scenes where Jesus has an encounter with homosexuals?
I don't recall any. I know full well of other passages that condemn the sin; just asking that specific question.
By the way, the lady at the well, Mary Magdalene I think was her name, was labelled as a "woman of easy virtue" not a carpet muncher.
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