The Club

At a recent spring fair I saw a booth for the local school gay and lesbian club. When I was in school the most controversial club we had was the Young Republicans. Gathered under the tent was a group of young girls and boys promoting their choice of lifestyle. I was there doing some one to one witnessing and felt a burden to speak to them. Positioned directly across from them was a booth promoting a local church group. They were doing the “bead” evangelism program. I decided because of the clubs close proximity to a Christian outreach booth that I would ask them what they thought of Christianity. I wanted them to have a chance to speak their mind before questioning them about their spiritual state. To my surprise they all thought they were already Christians. I had expected a vial reaction but instead they were all very nice and polite. In hind-sight this shouldn’t have surprised me at all. For decades the “church” has been hiding the truth of scriptures so as not to offend. The result has been an inclusive message that God loves you the way you are. The unbeliever hears this and naturally assumes they can have eternal life and their pet sins just by praying a prayer and a false convert is born.

I began to go through God’s law with them and explain how it reveals our true condition and problem between ourselves and God. We discussed lying, stealing, disobedience to our parents, hatred of the heart, and adultery of the heart. We discussed why hell is reasonable and the legal transaction that took place on the cross. What we never discussed was homosexuality. While this may have been the most obvious sin in their lives it is also the most precious. As the Holy Spirit convict these young hearts of the sins we discussed He will convict them of this one as well. I believe it is wise not to go for this sin immediately when speaking to those in this lifestyle. At the same time if it comes up we should not condone it by our silence but to urge the hearer to know God see all sin equally in that it is all transgression of the law. We tend to look at people in extreme sinful lifestyles, drugs, pornography, prostitution, homosexuality as worse than ourselves. Do you not understand that your own sins punished Christ?

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