For those people who are suffering with sins related to the homosexual lifestyle:

For those people who are suffering with sins related to the homosexual lifestyle:

I have often talked to people in the gay lifestyle and told them my understanding of the Christian’s Faith perspective about the subject of homosexuality. I have told them that God does not approve of the gay lifestyle.

A frequent response to my POV of the matter is that the gay person loves another person of the same sex.

Here is my reply:

“Of course you love another person of the same sex. You should. God wants you to love other people. He wants you to love your family, your neighbors, your enemies, and every one you meet, male or female. God wants you to love him. God loves you. God wants everyone to love you. I love you as well. Let me introduce you to God. He will show you what loves really means and the proper ways to love different people.”

It is this last sentence that is the key for those of us in the Church to communicate. We should love all but true love means loving people in the proper way. To love someone in an improper manner is doing that person either harm or injustice.

For examples:

We are called to love the Lord with all our hearts. This is the most important love.
We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves. This is the second most important love.

However, if we love another human being more than God, we do an injustice to God, to the person, and to our selves. That is not love.
If we love another more than ourselves, we do injustice to them and ourselves. This is not love.

Furthermore, there are many ways in which we express our love to various people in our lives. Family members, spouses, children, friends, co-workers, anyone we meet. Yet we do not express that same love in the same way to every person. How we express love to our spouses is different than how we express love to our family and friends. To do otherwise is not love.

Thus, while I appreciate and applaud the love gay people have for their significant others, I do believe you are not expressing your love in a loving manner. There is a more loving and more fulfilling way. I would be more than happy to introduce you to him. His name is Jesus.