An Act of Reclamation
In interpreting the way of Jesus, Paul saw that all barriers of distiction count for nothing. Through faith we are one in Christ.
When conservative Christians create distinctions
based on sexuality they distort the Gospel and deny justification through
faith. Such views are as much in error as those that perpetuate similar
distinctions based on race, social class or gender.
Christ
is the corner stone in an inclusive church. It is in Christ's image,
the image of love, that God re-imaged God's self and love without barriers.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart form
me you can do nothing.
Jesus of Nazareth (John 15:5)
It is not sexuality which haunts society, but society which haunts the body's sexuality. The social body preceded the sexual body.
David Halperin.
As part of the new society of Jesus, the Body of Christ, Christians are held united by God's self through faith. We form a new community that re-images human identity as Children of God so that our differences are transcended by our being in Christ.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is
no longer slave or free, there is no longer maleor female;
for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Paul The Apostle (Gal. 3:28).
As our identity in Christ precedes our sexual body, to divide Christians on the basis of their sexuality goes against the spirit and the letter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Such is the grace of God in Christ that it does
not deny our sexual body, for we are anincarnational community. It
is in our selves that we bear the image of God. Our spirituality
and our sexuality are integral to our life and being.
