The Power of Love

Though this isn't a post on Praise and/or Music, it is still an important part of how we worship Christ.

Today in Chapel our speaker was an ex-gay guy giving his testimony.  It was powerful.  He spoke of how we, as Christians, do the gay community a disservice by trying to treat homosexuality like a simple issue, when it is, in actuality, the symptom of a much larger, more complex issue.  He didn't specify what the issue was, and that was the power of his message: you have to know someone, love them, and know their story before you can begin to minister to someone.


It was amazing to hear of how God put different men into his life to teach him not only how to be a man and what masculinity is, but also to teach him his value, that he is cherished and loved just for existing--a lesson his emotionally distant father never conveyed.  It was beautiful to hear the witness of the men that helped him along his journey to Christ and with Christ.

I found myself thinking about current events, my society, my generation.  I grew up singing songs and hearing messages of how we were to be the Lord's Generation, History Makers, and Game Changers.  I found myself pondering the gay rights movement, how homosexuality grows ever more prevalent in my time and my culture and how many Christians don't know how to handle it.  I found myself thinking about civil rights movements in the past: Women's rights and African-American rights.  I wondered at how those movements were the climax of a generation's cries to be treated as equals, as human beings.  Isn't the gay rights movement the same?  Aren't they just asking to be treated like human beings instead of being ostracized and feared?  Shouldn't we, as Christians, love them just as we would love any other human being?

Who among us is without blame?  Who among us is without sin?  When you witness to a friend, do you force them to change their lifestyle or do you introduce them to the Person who changed your life?  For whatever reason, we can love drug dealers, prostitutes, child abusers, liars, thieves, killers, etc. and yet when it comes to the gay community we don't know how to witness to them.  I would challenge any who read this to think about the power of Love, how it's transformed your life and the lives of others.  Think of the power of the Cross, and Christ's sacrifice and the commitment of twelve men to so order their lives after the example of Christ that they changed the world, and how you can be a history maker in someone else's world.