A Third Option

In Counter Culture this past week, we spoke about the issue of homosexuality. We discussed how to think abou it with a countercultural worldview. One worldly option is to hate, dehumanize and disrespect the sinner trapped in sin. This option was expressed this past week by someone claiming to follow Jesus. The other option is to totally accept and welcome the sinner and sin as is--to accept a lifestyle as one of many possibilities that are all equally good.

The Christian holds a powerfully different, third option. Christians do not hate the sinner, but rather love the sinner, realizing that we sin too. But Christians also do not just tolerate the homosexual as is. We do not believe that all paths and lifestyles are equally good. Somewhere between hate and tolerance is the Christian call to show love and tell the truth at the same time. This is countercultural!