So I am in no way shy about my beliefs and my relationship with Christ. At work I am privileged to work with others that I can talk to about and share my experiences. Well yesterday at work one of my workers who is Catholic and a lesbian, she asked me what I thought about LAGC, I had no idea what it meant, she asked what my thoughts were on the Lesbian and Gay Community. Something took over and I started quoting the bible the only way I know how, very poorly lol.
I explained to her that my wife has a gay friend and she is a big part of our family. Talking to her it reminded me of one of my favorite passages, it comes from Matthew 7 : 3-5.
Matthew 7:3-5 NIV84
2 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
3 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
So I told her that scripture in my own words and explained, it is not my job to judge others, God is the ultimate judge. Peoples life choices are theirs, and it is not my responsibility to lecture or tell them their choices are wrong. My responsibility is to my wife and children, but ultimately I am responsibility is for me and my actions. I also brought up the part of the scripture where Jesus was teaching and there was a woman who came up to learn who was a known adulteress, the crowd told Jesus to give them permission to stone her, that her sins were worth her death, but Jesus said, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" (John 8:7) and slowly all of the crowd and pharasies left.
People are sinful. Today in service my Pastor spoke about how Christianity is more than the Bible being a book of rules and guidelines, the real true purpose of Christianity is to give all to God, to accept him as your savior. How I look at it is God is our Father, He sent his only Son, Jesus Christ to be one of us, to walk among us, so we can see His glory. Jesus Christ died for our sins, it was His purpose, why He was created, He knew from day one.
It is hard for us to understand that we are sinful and any sin we do, as long as we confess and are truly sorry for it, we are forgiven. About what was talked about earlier, my beliefs that it is not our job to judge others, and it is difficult, I catch myself all the time watching people, "Why are they wearing that?" We are very critical of others. What I am trying to get out there is, worry about yourself, where are you with Christ, what is your relationship with Him, are you doing what is right in His eyes? So work on taking the plank out of your eye.
I explained to her that my wife has a gay friend and she is a big part of our family. Talking to her it reminded me of one of my favorite passages, it comes from Matthew 7 : 3-5.
Matthew 7:3-5 NIV84
2 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
3 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
So I told her that scripture in my own words and explained, it is not my job to judge others, God is the ultimate judge. Peoples life choices are theirs, and it is not my responsibility to lecture or tell them their choices are wrong. My responsibility is to my wife and children, but ultimately I am responsibility is for me and my actions. I also brought up the part of the scripture where Jesus was teaching and there was a woman who came up to learn who was a known adulteress, the crowd told Jesus to give them permission to stone her, that her sins were worth her death, but Jesus said, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" (John 8:7) and slowly all of the crowd and pharasies left.
People are sinful. Today in service my Pastor spoke about how Christianity is more than the Bible being a book of rules and guidelines, the real true purpose of Christianity is to give all to God, to accept him as your savior. How I look at it is God is our Father, He sent his only Son, Jesus Christ to be one of us, to walk among us, so we can see His glory. Jesus Christ died for our sins, it was His purpose, why He was created, He knew from day one.
It is hard for us to understand that we are sinful and any sin we do, as long as we confess and are truly sorry for it, we are forgiven. About what was talked about earlier, my beliefs that it is not our job to judge others, and it is difficult, I catch myself all the time watching people, "Why are they wearing that?" We are very critical of others. What I am trying to get out there is, worry about yourself, where are you with Christ, what is your relationship with Him, are you doing what is right in His eyes? So work on taking the plank out of your eye.
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