A New Point of Entrance- Day 222 (August 11th, 2021)

As is true of most cases, I only listen to someone's wisdom on a topic if they have firsthand experience with it. I carry this same principle over especially when it comes to what has been my lifelong struggle. People can so flippantly disregard an issue when it doesn't affect them. I hope to help cultivate a Christian outlook that seeks to listen first and talk later, an outlook where people first pray before speaking, an outlook where The Holy Spirit's leading is valued over our basic understanding.

Not enough people care to see someone for what lies below the surface, what has colored in the details of life, and what has ultimately led to the road they now walk on. Instead all of life is viewed through this strict and small perspective by those within the faith. Though God is unknowable, and incomprehensible, and vast beyond description, people so often speak for Him in such small and contained ways.

Who are we, as mere creation, to say what disqualifies entrance to the fullness of God? Who are we to say when a child has lost their Father? (This next statement is not made as broad spectrum or in a universal manner. This is in the context of receiving Christ as Savior.) When You're His, He won't let you go.

So this brings me to step one to reaching those in my community: Dialogue. For those who love Christ already, creating a community where spiritual nakedness is welcome, a community where we are who we are and speak from that place of honesty, a community where we ask Him to still use our lives for His glory and to lead us where we are meant to go. For those who aren't saved and have never felt good enough for the church, showing them that Jesus isn't defined by the church. Simply giving everyone a real point of entrance, because, for far too many, that hasn't even been offered. It is spiritually criminal to write people off as the church has done when it comes to the LGBTQ+.

A new point of entrance is needed. And I think it can only come from within this sadly maligned and completely misunderstood community. 

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