Homosexuals in the Gym
” For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” 1 Timothy 4:8
Earlier today while on the circular treadmill at Bally’s the TVs above were on as always and the music blaring out some R& R sound that make your feet want to move to the beat. I began to read the script of the sitcom on the Tele. Actually enjoying myself and the moment, I caught myself even laughing along at the sitcom. Now as I think back on what was only a few hours ago, for the life of me, I cannot remember which sitcom was on or what it was about, only that I enjoyed the moment.
But what I do clearly remember is the conversation that took place right next to me while I was jogging along in place. the man on the circular tread next to me was chatting with a buddy of his who was standing next to him. The conversation went something like this…
Treader – “I don’t believe gays and homosexuals go to purgatory simply because they have a different sexual preference.”
Buddy – “The Catholic Church says all gays and homosexuals will have to go to purgatory”
After hearing their bantor for a few minutes I politely asked, “Why couldn’t homosexuals go straight to heaven?” Treader & Buddy responded in stereo, “Because they’re homosexuals.” This began our discussion of what God requires for each in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. These men knew that homosexuality is wrong and a sin according to the Bible, but they did not know that homosexuals could go straight to heaven if they would only repent and trust in the blood of the Holy Lamb of God, Jesus.
A great conversation ensued over the next 15 minutes in which I was able to ask these men whether or not they thought they would themselves go to heaven. Praise God I was able to share the Grace that God offers each of us through repentance and faith. At the end of our conversation they both thanked me and asked when I usually came in to work out insisting that we must continue this conversation on another day.
I will not take credit for this opportunity to share the Gospel of Christ, but thanks to some other young man named Chris, whom Treader and Buddy reported was Greek, had only moments before our encounter shared how evolution was not biblical. This apparently erupted into a debate between Treader and Buddy as to who and how someone would go to heaven. Had Chris not opened the floor with creation according to the Bible I would have had an otherwise awkward approach in speaking to these men.
We must always be ready to give a defense of the Gospel and if creation versus evolution or abortion versus right to life will afford us an opportunity to, then play the part of an evangelist and by all means entertain the conversation and share the Good News, Jesus Lives!
For your theory to be true, homosexuals would have to never have sex after they repent (impossible for them. They pride themselves on their hedonism, and they have to sexualize EVERY aspect of their life, for some reason), and I don’t think the old repent-on-your-deathbed thing works, either.
Hello Mr. Pink,
The Holy Bible, Matthew 3:7-9
“But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.”
This indicates that if a heart has truly been given new, this new heart will then have new Godly desires, desires to turn, eschew evil, and Glorify God.
Only by the Power of God can the ‘old man’ our flesh, be destroyed, and the ‘new man’ made in the likeness of God being Spiritually minded be born.
Only between a man and a woman brought together in the unity of marriage by the Lord can the bed be undefiled.