The video that nearly got me

Yesterday someone sent me a promotional video on "Christian gays" that was so powerful I was reeling by the end of it.

In my spiritual vertigo I contacted my two ex-homosexual friends. (Someone near and dear to me says there is no such thing an "ex" or "former" homosexual, but only a gay person in denial. The Bible says different: "Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality . . . will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you" [1 Corinthians 6:9-11]. So then, it is possible to talk of homosexuals in the past tense.)

My friend Andrea-who was a practicing lesbian for decades, and who got saved and has been now married for eight years to Rich, who also was a homosexual for decades-watched the video and wrote me back a 2½-page single-spaced letter that roused me from the White Witch's green dust. That's what true Christian fellowship is all about; I had almost been taken in:

"For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect" (Mark 13:22).

I am feeling a bit ashamed of it now, I mean, how easily unsettled I was.

"If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the unrighteous and the sinner?" (1 Peter 4:18)

Andrea's 2½ pages have more weight with me than 2½ pages written by someone who is not a former homosexual saved out of it by grace. That's just the way it is. That's the power of testimony-and it's why it is good for us all to have testimonies of what God has done for us.

"Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you" (Mark 5:19).

But actually, the testimony of the Scriptures should have been enough for me, even without Andrea.

"If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater" (1 John 5:9).

Even if a thousand doe-eyed teenagers had testified on that video that "gay" is "who I am," and even if I am greatly perplexed by this whole gay business, I still need to say, whenever there is a discrepancy between the Word of God and the word of man-in any area of life, whether creedal or empirical or experiential:

"Let God be true, though every one were a liar" (Romans 3:4).

That is what the Christian life is all about and what it all comes down to all the time: Our walk is faith-based, not sight-based.

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