Title: “The Jesus Way”
Series: Summer Seven
RESOURCES:
Blog: How Should Christians Respond to Gay Friends or Family Members?
A Letter To A Gay/Trans Friend:
A Christian’s Response to “Don’t Say Gay”
What to Say When Your Son/Daughter Tells You He/She’s Gay
5 Myths People Spread About Jesus, Sex and Gay Marriage
MESSAGE NOTES:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. —2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. —2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NTL)
Early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
“No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more. —John 8:2-11 (NLT)
Before Jesus ever
…Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
“No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” —John 8:9-11 (NLT)
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14 (NIV)
BIG IDEA:
We can
Three Ways We Align:
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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. —1 John 4:8 (NIV)
2) The
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” —Genesis 2:18 (NIV)
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. —Genesis 2:21-25 (NIV)
God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. —Romans 1:26-27 (NIV)
Also see: Matthew 19:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, Leviticus 18:22
3)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life… —John 14:6 (NIV)
Our Response To Gay Friends or Family Members:
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith… —Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV)
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. —John 3:16-17 (NIV)
What’s your messy issue you don’t want to talk about?
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful… —James 5:16 (NIV)