tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169132622138407670.post8102106233318435307..comments2023-03-15T10:12:31.229+00:00Comments on mediatree: jennifer knapp: coming out and letting goPete @mediatreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12356745751036978927noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169132622138407670.post-71364728621484531332010-05-11T09:25:14.347+01:002010-05-11T09:25:14.347+01:00I agree with Mark Driscoll and your summary that C...I agree with Mark Driscoll and your summary that Christ accepted everyone who came to Him. However, he always responded with the command to go and sin no more.Zachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169132622138407670.post-43105606742533656192010-05-07T16:34:25.987+01:002010-05-07T16:34:25.987+01:00Thanks for your post on Jennifer. I've writte...Thanks for your post on Jennifer. I've written a great deal on her coming out, here:<br />http://www.queerasfolkart.blogspot.com/A Queer Folk Art Activisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687465954720329629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169132622138407670.post-9817893002663057842010-04-14T00:22:26.617+01:002010-04-14T00:22:26.617+01:00Very very brave of Jennifer to come out like that....Very very brave of Jennifer to come out like that. I've come to realise in the last few years that much of the Church simply doesn't have the faintest clue about how to deal with members who are "sinning" (whether theoretical or actual).<br /><br />To point the finger and say how dreadful it is that Jimmy is sleeping with Janie, and Annie is sleeping with Milly ignores why people are doing that in the first place, everything from identity to history, and even worse, sets sexual behaviour on a pedastal as being apparently the most important thing to "get right".<br /><br />It leads to people leaving church because they only find condemnation in the form of "stop it or you don't belong" and others see the behaviour of the church, and hide their sin so as to "fit in".<br /><br />The Church should be a place where people can be honest about their struggles, or as necessary, honest about not struggling in the slightest, they're perfectly happy as they are.<br /><br />Sometimes I think it's sufficient for all parties to know the truth without being reminded of it, and to let God do his thing from there with people who are welcomed as they are into the Church, not with preconditions.<br /><br />As for all the people who will line up to say how dreadful it is that Jennifer has come out as gay - what about your own dreadful sins? Can you honestly say that you're any better just because you're either married or unmarried and still a virgin? Can you honestly say that you have not sinned deliberately since you became a Christian?Andy Boalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14181293853802413958noreply@blogger.com