Gays, Christians, and all that other Junk.

        Father help me.....
A while back.....I watched a very disturbing episode of Glee, a singing and dancing show in which Christians as usual, are being portrayed as bible thumping, gay hating, judgemental people with no room for any kindness towards gay people.
       There has been a lot of media coverage lately about gay marriage and such, especially with Obama admitting his support for gay marriage. You can't go online, or turn on the T.V without being bombarded by the do or don't battle to legalize it. With that both sides... Christian and non-christian alike have loudly declared their support or non-support of these views. Liberalists, conservative, etc... everyone has their opinion and honestly I am a little tired of it. 
       I consider myself a very conservative Christian, I am careful about what I watch on TV (for the most part.) I only listen to Christian music, (except for when listening to country music strikes my fancy.) I am against gay marriage, abortion, murder, pornography, all the things that conservatives are supposed to be against and everthing I believe that my bible teaches to be against the heart of God.With all that said, I am about to tick off a lot of you. (And maybe in a way different than what you are thinking...dont give up on me yet!)
      When I call myself a Christian, it almost makes me nauseous. If I were to proclaim that to a non-believer I would be very careful, and very scared about what they would think of me. Why? Because Im afraid of being a follower of Christ? No.... Because I am ashamed of what people who call themselves Christians have done to that meaning. Is being a Christian about being judgemental and laying out the law? Is it about telling people what to do, and what not to do? Is it about standing up for our rights and making ourselves known. With all due respect fellow Christians, they already know who we are.
       With all due respect fellow Christians, we dont need to tell gay people that the bible says being gay is wrong... the bible says alot of things are wrong... things that many of you do on a daily basis. Things that I do on a daily basis. Just like we dont need to tell a woman who has had an abortion that she murdered an innocent life... I'm sure she has already heard that, and will continue to hear that. 
        Being a Christian means being Christ-like. No where in the New Testament did Jesus throw scripture in peoples face condemning them at every turn for their every sin, except when it came to pharisees. He called them hypocrites... and over and over in the new Testament Jesus refers to the pharisees as hypocrites. They were religious, judgemental, knew scripture, and more than anything, they knew their laws... sounds like most Christians I know.
     He was actually harder on so called religious people, than he was on actual sinners... remember what he says about the VERY PEOPLE WHO KILLED HIM!!!????  He said "FORGIVE them father, they know not what they do!" OH Father in heaven... FORGIVE US FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE DO!!!!
     Wake up! Dont call yourself a Christian unless you know who Christ was... and Christ was LOVE!!! HE WAS THE MEANING... the DEFINITION... the ACTION... the very idea of what LOVE is. What do you think loving people does? A person who is genuinely loved, cant help but respond to that. LOVE , true, pure, unfiltered, LOVE ... truly can change a person. So stop judging.. stop standing up for "your rights" and start Loving the way Christ did. Then do what else Jesus did... PRAY.... build relationship with your father in heaven(, pray for those who need Christ, instead of telling them how wrong they are... and then lastly but not least... build relationship, with God and with people. ALL people! Why? Because thats what Jesus did!. These 3 things are repeated over and over in the new testament.
       Yes, the very foundations of our country are being shaken, yes .... life as we know it is being altered... and with that is going to come more hurting people than ever, and if you cannot love them the way Jesus does, it will get worse. Everyone knows that things are going to get worse, and it has... we are supposed to be the light when there is nothing but darkness. We have Christ, and they dont.                                                         We need to show that.

Matthew 5:13
[ Salt and Light ] “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.


Matthew 7:1 - 5
   “Judge not, that you be not judged. ² For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. ³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.