I’ve been behind on reading through my Google Reader lately. This morning I tried to catch up and came across this post from Andrew Sullivan. He links to a video where a “Christian” singer declares – with a catchy background tune – that “God hates fags.”

There has to be a sickness within some Christian “faiths” that causes people to act like this. That is why we always have to keep our eyes on the ball — on the cross — if we are to understand what God “hates” and what (or who) God loves. God “hates” one thing: sin. But God loves us sinners. The singer in the video kind of forgets this.

God loves all of us, His Creation, more than anything we can imagine and did everything (read: sending His only begotten Son to die for our sins on the cross) to rescue and save us from sin’s destructive power that tears us away from our Creator.

Our God reached down to us at the incarnation and showed the world His power and His love for all people. For God did not just send His Son to die for those “righteous” people, but for all sinners.

My friends, there is something we can never lose sight of: We are still sinners … all of us. And we daily are need of reflecting on our sin and asking God for forgiveness. To those evangelicals who kind of miss the point and think that sexual sins are the only sins God “hates,” well, I say they need someone to clarify what Holy Scripture actually says. It is sinful to take God’s Word and use it for hate.That is why church is supposed to be a haven for sinners. It is where we come to receive our Lord in His Word and His Sacrament and most especially receive the forgiveness our Lord Jesus earned for us at the cross. The church is not a specialty house that rejects sinners. It is the place where sinners come to receive forgiveness.

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