I've long thought that homosexuals - both male and female - have endured a father or mother wound. Donald Miller acknowledges that homosexual men know what they need; a healing nurturing relationship with a man.
I was telling my friend yesterday that The Great Invitation to enter the Father's Family is extended - To All. All the ones considered outcasts by other outcasts, are beating down the door into the Father's House because Jesus has found them. Jesus left the secure 99 and searched high and low for those who had lost their way and didn't even realize it. "Won't you come? Please come."
But if the invitation is accepted, the old life is in jeopardy. All those in the Father's House begin to think and act differently - more like their Father and brother Jesus.
Scripture puts it this way: "Do not lie to each other since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, slave or free, circumcised or uncircumcised, but Christ is all and is in all." Here there is no gay or straight, Christ is All.
The ones Jesus loves - all who know they are loved - are all safely home with their Father. Loved by their father. At last...
Someone once said, "I wish I could have a whole new life." The Glorious News is - you can.
All our denegrating labels are gone: We're just family.
