Intolerance for Those Who God Loves

Personal thoughts - Continued from Blogspot

I read in today’s Dallas Morning News (Saturday, October 2, 2010) about a 13-year-old boy who committed suicide because of his religion and assumed sexual orientation. In the same paper was the story of a Rutgers graduate who committed suicide due to his sexual orientation. Finally, again in the same newspaper, an article on free speech concerning the Westboro Baptist Church.

I’m watching “To Save A Life” now and I am realizing just how much hate and intolerance for those who God loves.

Yes, while one of the common denominators of all three articles concern homosexuality, the other denominator is that they also speak of the intolerance for those who God loves (no, not that He loves the sin of homosexuality, but those who are either struggling against it and its temptation AND those who have been suckered into believing that that sin is “tolerable” to both God and society).

My heart is SO hurt by all the hurt that I see around me. I can only pray that He will be seen through all the hate.

I attended public school for two years and private school for the remainder of my education. After graduation, I attended Bible college in Dallas, Texas, for four and one-half years consecutively. Unfortunately, I failed a class and was unable to graduate with my class but God enabled me to re-take the course and I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Bible and minors in Youth Ministry and Biblical Languages in 1994. After failing the aforementioned course, I had continued attending a church but began to falter in my faith. It was during my second year after my Bible college years that I was introduced to the International Churches of Christ (ICOC), where I became a member and was involved for twelve years. It was not until my twelfth year that, after much prayer from my parents and closest friends, Greg Faure and Wayne Stiles, I became convinced that the ICOC was a religious sect. In June, 2000, I left the ICOC and became a covenant member of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX, in April, 2004.

DISCLAIMER: My posts do not necessarily reflect the thoughts, expressions and attitudes of the church of which I am a member, Her leaders, staff or fellow members.

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