Email to my church on Good Friday:
Middle school through high school were very hard for me. My hair didnt grow like most girls. It just stayed short. I looked masculine and my peers would torture me for it. They asked if I was a boy or a girl just to get at laugh at me. It hurt so bad I would lay in bed for hours after school just crying. There was nothing I could do about it though, I couldnt MAKE my hair grow. The words HURT so so bad. Worse then any physical pain I've ever felt.
Maybe homosexuality is a sin. A sin where the person suffering the most is the sinner themselves. But since I was a child I knew of the story in John 8. The people surround the woman sinner and they go to throw stones at her and Jesus stops them. "Let he amongst you without sin cast the first stone." Maybe these days we dont cast actual stones at people, but we sure do cast verbal stones at them. And from personal experience I know the verbal stones hurt much worse.
These people, on their own, are already suffering tremendously just trying to understand themselves, and this thing they feel they have no control over. Why should we put so much effort into telling them how wrong and sinful they are, and make them feel even worse then I'm sure they already do? We should be there for them with kind words, not verbal stones.
Matthew 7
3Why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?4Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, and behold, the log is in your own eye?5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers eye.
I am a very imperfect human being and I feel I need to work on my own sins before I concern myself with the sins of others.
I will not be attending Life House anymore, but I want to thank you for the warm welcome you gave me.
Middle school through high school were very hard for me. My hair didnt grow like most girls. It just stayed short. I looked masculine and my peers would torture me for it. They asked if I was a boy or a girl just to get at laugh at me. It hurt so bad I would lay in bed for hours after school just crying. There was nothing I could do about it though, I couldnt MAKE my hair grow. The words HURT so so bad. Worse then any physical pain I've ever felt.
Maybe homosexuality is a sin. A sin where the person suffering the most is the sinner themselves. But since I was a child I knew of the story in John 8. The people surround the woman sinner and they go to throw stones at her and Jesus stops them. "Let he amongst you without sin cast the first stone." Maybe these days we dont cast actual stones at people, but we sure do cast verbal stones at them. And from personal experience I know the verbal stones hurt much worse.
These people, on their own, are already suffering tremendously just trying to understand themselves, and this thing they feel they have no control over. Why should we put so much effort into telling them how wrong and sinful they are, and make them feel even worse then I'm sure they already do? We should be there for them with kind words, not verbal stones.
Matthew 7
3Why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?4Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, and behold, the log is in your own eye?5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers eye.
I am a very imperfect human being and I feel I need to work on my own sins before I concern myself with the sins of others.
I will not be attending Life House anymore, but I want to thank you for the warm welcome you gave me.
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