3-D Homosexuality

I am more convinced that people (Christians included) really like black and white approaches. It takes away the whole aspect of trust. I am listening to popular preachers and hear how good they are and what they are preaching and teaching and I know that it is what is needed but I want to be taught complexity and how to handle difficult situations that require more of me and a heck of a lot more complexity. I know that certain people can preach from the Text in a way that nourishes the soul, but does it cause the soul to mature so that it can hunger more mature foods. I had a professor at Moody who taught, not to satisfy, but to make you hungry for more - like a salt lick. The issue of homosexuality is a complex issue, and those who don’t see it that way are innocent in a way of thier ignorance because they haven’t seen the other side yet. Many people won’t leave the black and white world because they don’t know another exists. I was just thinking about that and it dawned on me that in the past I could sense that there was something more (when I was also existing in black and white-still need it sometimes) but I couldn’t see it, much like those puzzles that were really popular that you would look at in a certain way and then a 3-D picture would eventually pop out. What broke me through to see what was there and not just accept simple answers to escape complexity was the hunger to love more deeply. I knew that if I broke through, my love for those I was around would grow and yet I didn’t know how to get there, but I knew that they weren’t being loved as they could be by me and this is what kept thrusting me into the question until finally I encountered Jesus as a grace-giver. My eyes were opened like never before and I was able to see how to love those whom I had ministered to but had never sensed I could love them past a certain point. I think that the hunger for true love is what draws people into the reality of the complexities that surround these issues with homosexuality, but one cannot give what one has not first received - I will pray for others to trully receive love from God - full love - true love. If as pastoral leaders we love the Bride of Christ well, will she in turn love well. Will she finally embrace the hurting, dying and rejected. We need qualified leaders who can trully love - and the first training they require is to be loved and accept it fully - not easy. What do you think?