In American culture, there’s a radical movement towards wicked and evil structures that destroy human dignity and God glorifying gender and sexuality.

To those called by Christ: stop relating to culture like it’s a Christian culture. It is not any more. Yes, our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values and men with degrees from seminary. That structure is diminishing and being replaced with a wicked structure. You are a Christian living within the context of a very deprave culture. Live in such a way as to be Jesus’ hands and feet to those around you. Americans have so much, but internally, they are homeless strangers, widows, and orphans. They need Jesus. They will not find him in your railing and contempt against a sinful culture, so stop!

To those who identify as LGBTQ+: I want to warn you, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death” (Proverbs 14:12). 

I want to ask you, where are you? Where have you come from and where are you going? I want to know.

I don’t know your story. My guess is that you need someone who is willing to draw you out and know you. My guess is that as you’ve embraced “who you are” because it has felt right. And, finding a community of other LGBTQ peers has felt good. It feels good to be accepted into a community that offers something you’ve not found elsewhere. I don’t know the circumstances or the story of what has brought you to the conclusions that you’ve made of your story. Yet, here you are. Events and relationships in your story have shaped you and helped make you who you are now. My guess is that you’ve suffered harm and pain in your family and social spheres to get where you are now. My compassion yearns for you to experience the love and grace of God through Jesus Christ. 

Choosing the path you’ve chosen, there are reasons and there are broken relationships as part of that story. The warning is still the same: you cannot create your own version of good and evil, right and wrong. Those are already defined by God. You may live for a time in a false Eden of your creating, but it will be shattered. If you’re tired of going down a path that feels right, but it has lead to more pain, suffering, and death, then make the correlation that something isn’t right.

What are your objections to the gospel of Jesus Christ? 

Has anyone explained it to you?

I desire that you know and experience the love of God. It satisfies more deeply than any satisfaction you’ve found as an LGBTQ+. God’s love does not come with the painful costs of ruptured relationships as an LGBTQ+.

This is the gospel in a nutshell: sin and choosing our own way has separated you and I from relationship and life with God. But God loved you and I so much, that he sent Jesus to repair that separation through his sacrifice, so that if you put your trust in him, you will be saved from hell and separation from God, and be given a new hope of heaven, resurrection, and life.

Sin means that someone has “missed the mark” of God’s righteousness and holiness. Adam and Eve rebelled against God because they desired to be like him, knowing good and evil. Just as Adam and Eve sinned against God, so you and I have sinned. The penalty for that sin is death and separation from good, life-giving relationship with God. In God’s righteousness, he is justified to condemn, punish, and pour out his wrath upon us. But God is also loving, compassionate, merciful, and abounding in steadfast love. So God made a way to redeem humanity from the inevitability of death. He sent Jesus to pay the death penalty we deserved for our sin because he loved you and I that much. So now, if you put your trust in Jesus and commit your life to him, he will forgive your sins and begin molding you into a new creation. You become adopted into a family that wants you. You receive a guaranty of a future hope and home with no more pain and suffering after this life. You will not be condemned to hell after this life. You will be chosen and destined for resurrection after this life. This is free of charge. It is a gift. But it comes with a high cost of forsaking, confessing, and repenting from the ways that lead to death. Choose life. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. God loves your body and he wants to redeem your soul. You will not find life outside of God no matter what you try or become.