“We can argue all day about verses (and trust me, I have). I know how this game works. I defend a gay person’s right to get married, and you post a handful of verses “proving” homosexuality is a sin. But a handful of verses makes an awful story. It’s like pulling one sentence from War and Peace and pretending it somehow has meaning apart from the larger narrative. When I read the story of Jesus, I discover a Father deeply in love with his children. In Jesus, I see compassion, forgiveness, joy, and love. I see freedom from oppression and discrimination. I can’t post one verse that explicitly states gay marriage is valued by God. Maybe it isn’t. As I have said hundreds of times, I honestly have no idea. But I have a narrative that exalts God’s love above everything else. When I read that narrative, something happens to my heart. I see the world differently. I want to behave differently. I fail, of course, because I’m only human, but my failures don’t change the narrative.”
Steve Fuller (via azspot)
(via azspot)
