Gay Love And The Unconditional God

By Mary Sanchez

A concise and thought provoking challenge to the mindset of Christianity and homosexuality. See a different side to God, revealing the author's story and the words God spoke in the midst of it all. Find out the truth about the Bible that most Christians overlook, and a letter from God desiring for his children in the gay community to know him.

The stereotypical Christian today judges the gay community for their relationships and their marriages. Do we consider the way our judgments cause the LGBTQ community to push away from Jesus? Christians easily persecute the gay community for their choices, not realizing that we have become the very roadblock to their journey of faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9781312379855

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Gay Love And The Unconditional God

By Mary Sanchez

Copyright © 2023 Mary Sanchez

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-312-37985-5

Contents

Title Page

INTRODUCTION

1 THE QUESTION THAT LED TO PURPOSE

2 DO NOT CALL ANYTHING IMPURE THAT GOD HAS MADE CLEAN

3 A NEW KIND OF LOVE

4 SODOMY IS BLASPHEMY!

5 IS IT HATE OR LOVE

6 WHAT WOULD GOD SAY IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW THEY WERE GAY?

7 THE WAY WE LIMIT GOD

8 A FAITH LIKE ABRAHAM

9 BELIEF

10 EVERY TRIBE, EVERY NATION, EVERY TONGUE

11 HOMOSEXUALITY VS PEDOPHILIA

12 GOD’S GREAT LOVE

13 SOULMATES FOR GAYS

14 THE TRUE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL

15 THE SIN OF TITLES

16 THEY SAY GAYS ARE CHOOSING TO SIN

17 HUMANS ARE MADE IN GOD’S LIKENESS

18 FORWARD THINKING

INTRODUCTION

Gay men and women have long gone through religious persecution since Christianity existed. To this day, religious Christianity holds tight to its viewpoint of homosexuality and sin; those who believe differently get the wrath of verbal persecution themselves. But did we ever consider how our religious reinforcement pushes people further from God?

When God brought me a wealth of passages to study, I thought it would be easier to absorb. It was just before I got married to my wife that he brought them to my attention. As God expanded my understanding of him that season, some religious Christians tried to lock him back into the same box they had put him in for centuries. But every time I watched a sermon or took the time to listen to his voice, he said,Write the book.

Whenever I went on social media, I started experiencing the true weight of hate and religious discrimination. What Christians called love felt more painful than anything I had ever felt. They kept saying, You’re going to hell! You’ve already condemned yourself! Your days are numbered!Suddenly I started to understand why God calls us inherently evil. Religious Christians believe hate is love; their rejection caused me to question whether it was worth it to hold on to my belief in Jesus. Keeping my faith meant eternal verbal persecution by the same people who believed in him. Keeping my faith meant I had to fight to prove my relationship with Jesus. Why should I fight to keep my relationship with Jesus when Christians are already condemning me to hell? Suddenly I realized that the true enemy of religiosity was Satan himself. If Satan can get the gay community to give up on believing in Jesus by using the followers of Jesus to do it, he will surely win the battle.

Undoubtedly, our limited humanity tends to push one side of Jesus on people. The Bible says that God is both eternal wrath and everlasting love; he is both the lion and the lamb who was slain. But the typical Christian easily and proudly preaches a fear-based message about God, saying, If you truly love God, you will turn from homosexuality, or you’ll go to hell. But as I met with God in the stillness, he didn’t turn me away like the religious Christians so quickly did. He didn’t express condemnation for me, and he never put fear in my heart. Instead, he wiped away my tears, embraced me, and surrounded me with his peace. As I turned on worship music to drown out the noise of social media, he said, There is no shadow I won’t light up or mountain I won’t climb up, to come after you. There is no wall I won’t break down or lie I won’t tear down to come after you—a song by Cory Asbury. He did just that. And then he reminded me there is so much about him that people still don’t know. I have to tell my story; otherwise, those who don’t know him will miss this side of him— the God who doesn’t wish for any of his children to perish (Matthew 18:14).

Touré Roberts, Senior Pastor and founder of The Potter's House Church at One Church in Los Angeles, once said, You can doubt everyone and everything else going against you, but do not doubt God. He goes on to say that what God has put in your spirit, do not doubt it, and do not let anyone or any circumstances tell you anything different about God. Instead, we ought to question the person or thing going against the words God put in our hearts.

This text is the breakdown of what God has poured into my spirit about the word of God. Many Christians assume they know everything they need to know about what God thinks of homosexuality. I only hope I can do the opposite and instead reveal God’s love for the gay community that is missing in the church. God says that he will put his word in our mind and write or inscribe it onto our hearts (Hebrew 8:10). I pray that God brings a deeper and open understanding of the Bible to shed light on a different side of God.

Pastor Stephanie Ike, Executive Pastor of The Potter’s House Church at One Church in Los Angeles, once said, There are sides to God that we have not even known yet. There are people whom God has said, ‘I have given you a word!’ And if you act on this word, you are going to reveal a new dimension of God in this world. She encourages the world to be good stewards of our encounters with God and our testimony of God so that our story would result in many people having their encounters with God. And our testimony would result in many having a testimony that they, too, have met God. I