Sermon-07.31.2011-In Dealing with Homosexuality-Part 1

Part 1: Rev. Carol E. Myers preaches a sermon titled "In Dealing With Homosexuality" at First United Methodist Church in Iowa Falls, IA. To watch the remainder of this sermon, please continue watching Part 2 of " In Dealing With Homosexuality."

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[gounipanthers1]

smurfboywv--Thanks for the comment. As a lesbian, I would have a difficult time being involved with this church and posting these sermon videos if she agreed with the church's beliefs. This is actually the first sermon I'd ever heard not condemning me and other like me from the pulpit. I'm really glad you didn't close the video...

[paednoch]

To the above poster. I urge you to consider that I am not condemning you. God condemns your actions that are sinful. I would hope you wouldn't condemn me for gluttonous behavior. I would hope that you pointed out of love for me that my gluttonous behavior is the problem. I simply cannot sit back and say. I was born a glutton there for gluttonous behavior is not a sin. We are all the way we are because of the fall. and becuase of that we are not hitting the mark.

[paednoch]

I know I can be accused of equating homosexuality with disease but we have to agree simply on nature and the understanding of the supreme act of conjugal love that homosexuality is a product of the fall. All of us have our issues. Homosexuals are not different than the rest of us when it comes to having a cross.

[paednoch]

Are Christians supposed to persecute Gays? Of course not but we need to consider the damage we are doing when we accept and enable our sisters in brothers by "condoning and even encouraging" acting on their sexual desires. Such desires that may have their origins as they were knitted in their mothers womb but we must consider that all have their crosses. More simply we would never consider encouraging a sugar addicted diabetic to act on their desires.

[paednoch]

Furthermore you well know that the litany of condemnations in Leviticus are addressed later one way or other...you know with the "new" covenant. Not all of them are addressed in the positive light. Romans comes to mind on the subject to homosexuality.

[paednoch]

One wouldn't need those 7 passages you plucked from scripture to arrive at the conclusion that conjugal love insists on the possibility of human life. Slamming the door on the potentials of conjugal love is forcing God out of the "moment". Does God want exclude him from this supreme act? Is it still a supreme act of love and sacrifice if we ask God to "please leave the room so we can have some privacy here".

[paednoch]

With this in mind we could easily agree that conjugal love is the supreme act of human kind. It is the closest encounter we have with the creative powers of God. Think for a second what we are doing when we close the door to the possibility of this supreme act of creation.

[paednoch]

He invites us to take part in his creative act by the possibility of new human life as its outcome. SO God invites us through the conjugal act to be co-workers in his glorious creation. Co-workers that bring about new images and likenesses of our God. How wonderful.

[paednoch]

7 passages? Really. C'mon Carol. I suggest you pick up a copy of John Paul II theology of the body. I think you need to reconsider the entirety of scripture and its message of life and procreation. Keep in mind that in all of God's created world there is only one aspect of "creation" that includes his image and likeness. That "aspect" is us. In addition to the beauty of human uniqueness in the entirety of creation God does something else that is equally beautiful.

[smurfboywv]

I was about to close this video until I heard her say she didn't agree with the churches beliefs.