Homosexuals
I went for a conference for youths on saturday called iHope and the guest speaker is Sy Rogers. The amazing thing was that before he became a christian, he was a homosexual. And he was so deeply inside it that when Jesus spoke to him one day in his room, he was on the hospital waiting list to change his gender and has been living and working as a woman for 1 and a half years.
And slowly as he began to give his life to God, God began to help him deal with his sexual sin. And now he's happily married to a wife for 20+ years with a daughter of 21 years old waiting to be married. He has his own ministry, which is to go around the world, helping homosexuals and specialising in dealing with sexual sin. His past was quite traumatic. When he was young, he was sexually abused by someone and his mum died in a car crash due to drink driving. His dad sent him off to live with strangers so that his dad could recover and had some space for a year.
At that age, it felt as if even his father was rejecting him and it hurt him. He lived with ladies and soon he began to pick up their accent, and their mannerisms. So much so that when he went back to stay with his dad, his family was worried and forced him to join manly activities such as horse riding, soccer, mountain climbing, scouts etcetcetc...But even then, everywhere he went, people kept abusing him in school because of his mannerisms and behaviour. They would abuse him in the locker room, at the toilet, at the bus stop, in the bus, in the classrooms, along the corridor...almost everywhere.
Then he left for brazil for an exchange and saw how gays and homosexuals were so popular there. The people he stayed with happened to be actors and actresses. Soon, he had the thought that, since many people think that i'm a homosexual, then i must be a homosexual and thereafter started his gay lifestyle. When he returned to america to study in the university, he would have pple coming up to him, debating with him about gays, have death threats. He basically divided opinions everywhere he went.
Ok to cut the already long story short, after a few years and a stint in the navy, he decided to go for a sex change operation at John Hopkins Hospital and before the surgery, patients had to live for 2 years as a woman first and if they could cope with the emotional changes then the operation would proceed. So 1.5 years later, Sy was in his room, practising a kind of meditation from some religion when he felt the strong presence of God in his room and God speaking to him very clearly, though i forgot what did God say to him.
Anyway, after that experience he still wasn't 100% convinced even though he cried and gave his life to God and while putting on his makeup in the car 3 days later he heard something astonishing on radio. A spokesman from John Hopkins University actually made an announcement that the sex change clinic was closed down because according to their research, those who went through the sex change did not feel much happier, in fact they felt worst.
I left out many parts in between because i forgot some of them but that's the gist of it. He was so into the homosexual lifestyle that he was the best man for 2 of his gay friend's wedding. He would sleep around with strangers etc...
He said something that left an imprint on my heart. Homosexuals do not go to hell because they are homosexuals but because they do not know Christ. What they need is not people debating with them whether homosexuality is right or not, but rather what they need is God. Homosexuality is just another sin, although it's a sexual sin and sexual sins are often the hardest to overcome.
Another thing is that accepting Christ is not entering a state of Nirvana. I dunnoe where people ever get the idea. Accepting Christ does not mean that immediately we become perfect, we dun sin, we stop lying, stop cursing etcetc, but it just means that we are now called God's children. And in God's time, he will deal with the issues and the sins in our lives. Accepting Christ does not mean that all our problems disappear, but that now we have a God that is so real that really loves us so much that he is willing to help us to carry our burdens, and to give us a hope and a future when the world has no hope and no future.
In a way, our lives is just like a book. The ending has already been written. And we just have to walk and live with the end in mind. No matter what happens, as long as we follow and trust god, everyday on earth is already part of eternal life. I have never ever regretted my decision to become a christian, not that i needed a purpose in life. But because of the relationship between me and God, something that is just between me and God.
I also find it funny anyway how people always have this science vs christianity debate, but there's not science vs buddhism, or science vs hinduism, or science vs islam? Or even how pple from other relitions argue so strongly for evolution to disprove christianity that not once did they ponder how their faith and evolution can ever come together.
Disclaimer: This is just some musings and in no way an insult to other religions.
And slowly as he began to give his life to God, God began to help him deal with his sexual sin. And now he's happily married to a wife for 20+ years with a daughter of 21 years old waiting to be married. He has his own ministry, which is to go around the world, helping homosexuals and specialising in dealing with sexual sin. His past was quite traumatic. When he was young, he was sexually abused by someone and his mum died in a car crash due to drink driving. His dad sent him off to live with strangers so that his dad could recover and had some space for a year.
At that age, it felt as if even his father was rejecting him and it hurt him. He lived with ladies and soon he began to pick up their accent, and their mannerisms. So much so that when he went back to stay with his dad, his family was worried and forced him to join manly activities such as horse riding, soccer, mountain climbing, scouts etcetcetc...But even then, everywhere he went, people kept abusing him in school because of his mannerisms and behaviour. They would abuse him in the locker room, at the toilet, at the bus stop, in the bus, in the classrooms, along the corridor...almost everywhere.
Then he left for brazil for an exchange and saw how gays and homosexuals were so popular there. The people he stayed with happened to be actors and actresses. Soon, he had the thought that, since many people think that i'm a homosexual, then i must be a homosexual and thereafter started his gay lifestyle. When he returned to america to study in the university, he would have pple coming up to him, debating with him about gays, have death threats. He basically divided opinions everywhere he went.
Ok to cut the already long story short, after a few years and a stint in the navy, he decided to go for a sex change operation at John Hopkins Hospital and before the surgery, patients had to live for 2 years as a woman first and if they could cope with the emotional changes then the operation would proceed. So 1.5 years later, Sy was in his room, practising a kind of meditation from some religion when he felt the strong presence of God in his room and God speaking to him very clearly, though i forgot what did God say to him.
Anyway, after that experience he still wasn't 100% convinced even though he cried and gave his life to God and while putting on his makeup in the car 3 days later he heard something astonishing on radio. A spokesman from John Hopkins University actually made an announcement that the sex change clinic was closed down because according to their research, those who went through the sex change did not feel much happier, in fact they felt worst.
I left out many parts in between because i forgot some of them but that's the gist of it. He was so into the homosexual lifestyle that he was the best man for 2 of his gay friend's wedding. He would sleep around with strangers etc...
He said something that left an imprint on my heart. Homosexuals do not go to hell because they are homosexuals but because they do not know Christ. What they need is not people debating with them whether homosexuality is right or not, but rather what they need is God. Homosexuality is just another sin, although it's a sexual sin and sexual sins are often the hardest to overcome.
Another thing is that accepting Christ is not entering a state of Nirvana. I dunnoe where people ever get the idea. Accepting Christ does not mean that immediately we become perfect, we dun sin, we stop lying, stop cursing etcetc, but it just means that we are now called God's children. And in God's time, he will deal with the issues and the sins in our lives. Accepting Christ does not mean that all our problems disappear, but that now we have a God that is so real that really loves us so much that he is willing to help us to carry our burdens, and to give us a hope and a future when the world has no hope and no future.
In a way, our lives is just like a book. The ending has already been written. And we just have to walk and live with the end in mind. No matter what happens, as long as we follow and trust god, everyday on earth is already part of eternal life. I have never ever regretted my decision to become a christian, not that i needed a purpose in life. But because of the relationship between me and God, something that is just between me and God.
I also find it funny anyway how people always have this science vs christianity debate, but there's not science vs buddhism, or science vs hinduism, or science vs islam? Or even how pple from other relitions argue so strongly for evolution to disprove christianity that not once did they ponder how their faith and evolution can ever come together.
Disclaimer: This is just some musings and in no way an insult to other religions.
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