My friend is United Methodist. She cannot live openly and honestly about who she is as a child of God because our church says the way she was created by God is incompatible with Christian teaching. Go figure.
She has to live as half a person, someone with a secret that she can't share with her church. Does this sound like Good News to you?
If the church is called to be witnesses to God's grace and love; called to share the Good News; proclaim the liberation available to the whole world through Jesus Christ, then we have failed my friend. Right now The United Methodist Church is not proclaiming freedom or liberation, but secrecy and silence. Right now The United Methodist Church is not proclaiming grace and love, but condemnation and hate. Right now The United Methodist Church is sharing some Bad News - you cannot wholly be who God created you to be if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered - sorry.
Joy has been replaced by fear. That, my friends, is a sin! Fear is never the Good News of Jesus Christ. Repent, United Methodist Church! Fling wide the doors of welcoming! Cast out fear and proclaim the GOOD News for ALL!
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