Reflection from the Saturday sermon

When we come out, something big happens, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but not anything that God doesn’t know of. When Jesus fulfilled his role on the cross, he reconciled man to God and man to man. When we come out, we may be the key who will bring people together, we may help people reconcile with God and with one another. It’s better to be out than to be hiding. Hiding doesn’t help anyone, anything. 

When I was forced to come out, outed by some tagged photos of me on facebook at a camp for lesbians, some of my ex- church people got to know about it. But it was then my walk with God started to grow exponentially, I was forced out of my comfort zone. Overnight, I had to come out to a few people, in a few days, I had to think very deeply about what it meant to be gay and explain the reconciliation of being gay and Christian, in the next few weeks, I had to go for counseling. But coming out helped me rely on the grace and love of God because I could no longer hide my secret. Once hidden because I was hiding myself, I had to lean on God for support. God made use of my situation and forced me out of my comfort zone. God led me to walk with people in the same situation as I was, to draw them back to Him just as how I came back to God after accepting myself as a gay christian, to deepen their spiritual walk with God, just as how my relationship with God grew deeper once I did not let my guilt of being lesbian be the obstacle in worshipping God.

Rev. Cindi Love said this: Jesus has no time for us to walk in our own anxieties and hide behind the walls behind. Don’t be angry with people who are mean to you. You have an opportunity to grow stronger and help you grow stronger with God. Give thanks at all times. Don’t be ashamed of being gay. What a wonderful reminder it was.

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