With a culture as willfully depraved as 21st-century America, it's hard to be surprised by much anymore ... but I still found myself doing a double take when I saw this headline in my inbox:
Is God calling you to queerness?
If you want a primer in the long-suffering graciousness of a merciful God, just consider that such things can be written by ostensibly "Christian" authors and yet God hasn't chosen to dispatch His legion of angels to incinerate the earth.
The article came as part of an email update from the Sojourners "ministry." Obviously, Sojourners departed orthodox Christian convictions a long time ago. The organization, formerly known as the Post-American before left-wing founder Jim Wallis rebranded his socialist publication in an effort to deceive ungrounded Christians with the language of "social justice," has become little more than a secular progressive bullhorn. They attempt from time to time to wrap their agenda in the language of faith, but for the most part make no real effort to hide their idolatry.
As proof of that fact, the author of this blasphemous piece was none other than left-wing cleric, Brandan Robertson, a self-professed minister, tortured by his own pitiful efforts to baptize contempt for God and His word in a sea of false piety. Brandan was a key figure in the coordinated effort by progressive Christians to attempt a rewrite of the Bible's teaching on sexuality. That struggle was, like all of man's previous attempts to obscure the truth of Scripture on any number of cultural issues throughout the ages, destined to fail. But like a flaming ember that rockets into the sky, cut off from its fiery source, Brandan and other so-called "gay ministers" shone brightly for a few brief, fleeting moments before falling to the earth, cold and dark. Brandan has all but given up the pretense that God's Word condones homosexual relationships, and now terms himself an "agnostic." That is, one who doubts the very existence of God.
In his article, Brandan asserts, "for me, to be an authentic Christian — one who seeks to follow the life and teachings of Jesus — is to be queer." He juxtaposes this statement with a paraphrase of American author Bell Hooks who wrote that being queer is, "being at odds with everything around it." Brandan adds that it is, "resisting the repression of our true selves and the forces that demand we conform to others' ideas of who we should be."
So which is it, Brandan? Are you submitting to the Lordship of Christ and seeking to follow His life and teachings, or are you boldly living a life free from the repression that He and others would place on you? Are you the master of your own destiny, or is He?
That's the question that God has called each of us to answer - not just gay people. Will we view His proscriptions and prescriptions as lovingly given as guideposts by a Creator who knows us better than we know ourselves and desires our flourishing, or will we view them as Satan portrayed them to Eve - instruments of oppression by a God who is jealous of our agency and doesn't want us to be as powerful as Him?
I can't answer that for Brandan or anyone else. I can only say that God is not calling you, me, Brandan, or anyone else to queerness. He's calling us to holiness. Resisting conformity to the former, and choosing a life that pursues the latter, is the safest, wisest, and most fulfilling decision a human being could ever make.
I'm praying one day Brandan experiences that for himself.
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