In reply to Matt.

Matt,

Thank you for your faithful confession. I can only imagine the burden of your particular cross. You have done well, in faith, to take up your cross and follow Jesus. You are, indeed, forgiven in Him by grace through faith and as you confessed, you will inherit the Kingdom of God.

As to your criticism about heterosexuality, I agree that more needs to be said about the fallenness of man and his perversion of all sexual desire. But their needs to be a distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality. In the natural order of creation heterosexual desire between a husband and wife is ordained by God to be "very good." That is to say that heterosexual desire is a gift from God and therefore not sinful. After the Fall, however, that desire is utterly perverted, turned inward. The desire is still good, the possessor of that desire is not and so we all pervert its use. Yet as perverted as it might be, heterosexual lust is still within the confines of the order of creation - i.e. the parts fit and procreation is still naturally possible. Not so for homosexual lust. Homosexual lust has extended beyond the scope of the created order. Heterosexual desire in and of itself is sinful. It has never been declared good by God.

You and all who bear crosses of a particular severity remain in my prayers.

In Christ,
Pastor Anderson