No need to get envious
Submitted by F.O.D. on April 01 2000 17:12:18
In reply to Where are you trying to go here? submitted by Forgiven on March 31 2000 15:55:44
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Not for another five months, anyway ;) Man, that's really sad, actually, that your pastor has gone off his rocker like that. I'm mean, you'd hope a pastor would be above that sort of thing. I mean, they're only human, true, and can get upset and frustrated and confused like the rest of us, but it's still disappointing. Was it over the issue of homosexuality? I'm glad it hasn't driven you out of the church, at least. Your advice is probably good - if we can't respect each other's point of view on these basic points then we should probably just drop the issue altogether. Maybe I should do the honest and open thing and just ask him what he thinks we should do if we're at stalemate like this. Maybe there are other aspects of sexuality we could successfully discuss, but my fear is that I just couldn't respect other things he has to say because he doesn't have the good foundation already in place. But maybe that's the wrong attitude, maybe I can still listen over the other questions. But you're right, this is only one issue, and I can otherwise comfortably worship with the church. It is hypothetical insofar as I don't have a boyfriend (my YF doesn't really count :( He sent me a pic today of a girl he's friends with... ;) ) But the question is not hypothetical in the sense that I would like to have a boyfriend, and would appreciate the freedom to have one. That'd be really cool. So in answer to your question of where I am trying to go, I am trying to seek valid confirmation (in this case from the church leadership) of the church's teaching that I must not have a gay relationship, or, in the process of trying to do that, to discover that in fact the opposite is true. So in that sense my agenda is not personal, it's one of trying to discern truth from custom. Your last point about submitting to church leadership was interesting. I've wondered a little about that. I take it as axiomatic that we should question and test everything. But then, I even have to question my questioning, and ask, what if it is really better to just blindly accept what you're taught and not think about it. Maybe life would be simpler then? But anyway, Paul himself did tell the Thessalonian Christians to "test everything, hold onto what is good, avoid every kind of evil". Love, Fod |
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