Ray Boltz????

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by HappyTown

I think with most Christian they tend to hide or cover up whats really going on inside themselves, for years (private sins), out of guilt or fear from other reactions right down to rejection!

I think this is what Ray meant, he had these feeling all his life, even as a child, it nothing new to him, he come to a crossroad with his homosexuality, sadly he taken the road that will lead to death. I believe he can find a yield in that path and get off, make it right. This does not mean he'll no longer have these feelings, it just means he'll need to denie them!

He has a big cross to carry, a decision to make, one that would not be easy, one that means spending life alone, as a single man.

It sounds easy, just stop these feelings!

Put yourself in their shoes, just think about it, spending the rest of your life without the love and intimacy or
companionship of a spouse.

Yeah I know this were we interject (God worth it!!)..Yes he is, still not easy thing to do. Think about how you feel for your spouse, now try not every letting yourself feel that way again! Never! Not easy thing to do, nor would I want to live my life denieing those feelings, the way I do towards my spouse!

I don't know if they are born like that or not, but one thing I do know, it's not easy one, most who walk away and marry the opposite sex due to pressures from others, tend to make that person life a nightmare. They can't give the love, they really don't feel it, so most these relationships end up in divorce, them going back into their sinful life worst then before. Leaving the rejected spouse even more confused and hurt, leaving them with many unresolved feelings.

So to be a Christian and homosexual, would mean making a choice, like any other sin,very much like the adulator, they need to decide, do I crossover and follow after my desire or do I denie myself, follow after Christ ????

Ray needs prayer! And understanding, but most of all he needs his brothers and sisters to be there to uphold him, be there in body to catch him if he make a detour on that path, heads back home!



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So you're denying God's ability to deliver a homosexual?

This thread has really done nothing but prove my first statement about the atmosphere in the Church regarding skeletons. Y'all wonder why things stay in the closet instead of being dealt with? Gee...let me see if I can figure it out.

I'm in no way abdicating Ray's personal responsibility for making this choice. I am, however, trying to point out that no one in their right mind would come out and admit to thoughts and feelings within the Church today. Not if they wanted to get out of that conversation without being skinned and thrashed.

Knowing you can't come out and say what's going on leaves a person vulnerable to letting things go beyond thoughts and desires to sin in a BIG WAY. And knowing that if ever admitting to the thoughts, or God forbid the actual action/sin, will blacklist you forever keeps people from reaching for the lifeline that the Church is supposed to be. Y'all wonder why people struggle for years and years and years and years, alone, and fall? I'm more in awe that he's struggled, alone, for years and years and years and years before he fell.