I'm not really one to post a super heavy thought, nor am I one to be able to communicate something efficiently over text, but this matter of concern has been something that i've been pretty shaken up about (and much, much more) over the past week. This issue is that Christians (or 'christians') are baaaaasically applauding souls down to Hell. Thats not a good thing. Yes, love is a fundamental part of our journey, but sometimes, the line between love and compromise is thin and sometimes not even considered.
We are now living in a society where basically everything but following Jesus is normal. Everything is being accepted and sin is no longer a rag, but a designer jacket. Things like homosexuality and abortion are becoming deemed as acceptable, even encouraged and a lot of people are just taking it. Christians are no different. Encouraging someone that being homosexual is 'who they are'? Like I said, sin is a designer jacket. It may be on us but it's never who we are. I'm wearing a t-shirt that has the name of my university but that doesn't make me one of the bricks in the library building, or a pillar that supports the balcony. In Matthew 18:6, it says that 'If anyone causes these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and to be drowned at the bottom of the sea'. YOU'RE LITERALLY KILLING THEM WITH YOUR 'KINDNESS'. I believe this also applies to those who are deceived as well. If you were assigned to direct a blind person where to walk, you would not tell them to keep walking straight if you knew that they were heading toward the edge of a cliff, just because it's easiest to keep clapping them on and say "yep,you're doing well. Just keep walking". No way. How much more valuable is an eternal soul than an earthly, short-lived life? If Christians understood that the purpose of our lives is not to pursue happiness but holiness, yes we would be hated even more but maybe we'd be seeing a few more souls in heaven and not hell???
One thing that I feel to make clear though is that correction is not condemnation, nor is it judgement or hate. If anything, it surpasses any form of 'love' and 'acceptance' because if you truly love someone, you would want to steer them from something that will kill them. I have a few homosexual friends that I love so much, but I don't endorse the sin and i'd take any given opportunity to share Jesus with them. I think it's doable. To love with wisdom and without compromise.
This is just something that I hope a genuine, righteous-pursuing Jesus follower would be able to relate to. I really believe we are entering in to a time (if not, already at a time) where God is truly separating the falsies from His people. I don't mean to say that in any way, shape or form of superiority but look, the time of pretending and cruising in the easy lane is over.