Currently Reading Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight By J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom see related

Even though very few (well, one person-thanks Jeff!) commented on my last blog, I will enter yet another that implicates the emerging church movement.  I read an article not too long ago about homosexuality found in the New York Times (if I were really savvy, there would be a little link that says article, but I am not).  You can expect little good to come from such a liberal newspaper, and this article was no exception.  Allow me to give you my understanding of the article: evangelical and homosexual, can someone be both?  Can someone be an evangelical [a born-again believer: one who knows Christ as Savior] and be a homosexual?  I would answer yes.  Change the question: is it acceptable to God to be a homosexual (whether evangelical or not)?  NO!  It seems that too many Christians would answer both questions with an emphatic NO.  I think there is a big difference. 

I struggle with pride.  I easily fall into the falsehood that I am a pretty talented person and subsequently God's gift to the world, if you will.  This is pride.  Can I be an evangelical and be proud at the same time?  I hope so, because that's me.  Is it acceptable to God to be proud?  NO!  It is a sin.  Now, the big question is whether I fight against pride.  Am I fighting or do I sit back and say, "this is just who I am.  I was born this way."  There is a tendency in some to become alcoholics.  It is in their blood.  Should they skirt responsibilty and take the victim mentality by binge drinking?  Same with homosexuality.  I believe there are some who are born with a bent toward this particular sin.  Is there a homosexual gene?  Maybe, but it is a direct result of the fall, and like any other vice, must be fought. 

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God."  -1 Corinthians 6:11