This is my weekend for catching guest speakers at different churches.
Tonight, Vernal and I went to her old church, Sheffield Family Life Center to see Sy Rogers. He told his life story of being sexually abused as a child to embracing the homosexual lifestyle to his almost sex-change operation to his new life in Christ and the healing that has brought.
He was a great speaker with a witty sense of humor (think jack on will and grace.) He still has all the gay mannerisms which are funny. But oh man, he said a lot of interesting things to keep in mind in dealing with not only homosexuals but all people who need God's love and redemption.
Higly recommended, if you ever get a chance to see him.
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8 comments:
His site is interesting.
I have to ask. Did you go there to see him or just as a visit.
Sheffield is our biggest supporter!
We went to see him.
Vernal's sister (who goes to sheffield) informed us that he was speaking and we had heard the taped message from the last time he spoke.
Very interesting. Yet again, I'd like to hear that one. Society is telling us that it is just normal and people can't help it. I've heard that people who leave that lifestyle have a different perspective. What a hard place the homosexual world would be to live in, especially if you started out in a Christian home.
in a sense, he too said the they can't help it. Not because of being born that way, but being ramrodded in that direction through constant torment and name calling by other kids their whole life to believing that maybe they are right to finding a community of acceptance by like minded individuals.
So he said in rebuttal to the christian response of choosing homosexuality - that it's not a choice. he didn't choose to be molested by a man and raised by women and teased by classmates. He said it doesn't let him off the hook, it's still sin, but maybe thinking about a person back story might give you more compassion.
He related this to the 3 bad girls in the new testament (mary mag, woman caught in adultery, and woman at the well) and the way that jesus dealt with them.
gotta go
It would have been interesting to listen to him. What a sad background he had.
I too have heard that people in the homosexual lifestyle have often had life experiences that have strongly influenced them as you described. I'm glad to have that confirmed by someone who has been there.
I remember a guy in 6th grade that everyone teased relentlessly that he was gay - before that word was fashionable though so harsher words were used. I feel bad about that looking back even though I wasn't a key player. I wonder what happened to him.
I can think back to my school years of a boy that all the others would tease.
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