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(please note the stories below are fictional; yet they occur in real life for our Single brothers and sisters as reported to me by a Christian Psychiatric Dr. - I raise this after being challenged about the complexities of gender identity by the above mentioned Dr.)
Allow me to paint you a scene and I'd love to hear your thoughts:
*The curtain raises*
My name is Rajeesh. I'm a new Christian and have just joined a church that seems super lovely. I love coming to church and feel at home like no where I've ever been. People are welcoming, warm, they talk to me and invite me over for lunch afterwards. Since I was little kid I'd never had so many friends. The love of the people at church blew me away.
But then sunday I was in church hearing a sermon about the sanctity of marriage. It was a good sermon, preaching about the instances of awesome marriages in the bible, and of course God's model as the bible says.
I started to wonder where I fit in... you see, I was born a hermaphrodite. I have the ability to be with both a male and female equally... so I have to wonder, when I get married.. will I always being gay?? Or am I always being straight?
*lights fade and the curtain lowers*
Ok, so being born as both a male and female equally, is Rajeesh living in sin with a any prospective partner? Or is he ok in the church's eyes?
I wonder from this particular question because even the most staunchly opposed of us to same sex partners might be inclined to think that in this particular case, Razeesh can go "both ways" as it were. Whatever he decided in himself within the realms of a loving monogamy.
I raise that point and move on from there to wonder another story
*raise curtin*
My name is David. When I was born I was both truly a boy and a girl in physical form. The Dr offered my parents a choice. To remove one set of my reproductive organs. They had 3 girls already, and mum and dad believed in their hearts I was meant to be a boy, so they made the choice and I was made a boy. As I got older, youth group started being really weird. My friends were all dating, but all i could think was that I liked boys, not girls. Maybe my parents made a mistake? Is my brain more girl than boy?? What am I going to do?!?
*lights fade and the curtain lowers*
So my thought on this... If the physical body can be formed so differently from the normal template... why does Rajeesh get a pass to marry whoever he wants, while David is stuck with his parents decision?
What should be our positions be to these lovely single brothers and sisters in our Church?
Allow me to paint you a scene and I'd love to hear your thoughts:
*The curtain raises*
My name is Rajeesh. I'm a new Christian and have just joined a church that seems super lovely. I love coming to church and feel at home like no where I've ever been. People are welcoming, warm, they talk to me and invite me over for lunch afterwards. Since I was little kid I'd never had so many friends. The love of the people at church blew me away.
But then sunday I was in church hearing a sermon about the sanctity of marriage. It was a good sermon, preaching about the instances of awesome marriages in the bible, and of course God's model as the bible says.
I started to wonder where I fit in... you see, I was born a hermaphrodite. I have the ability to be with both a male and female equally... so I have to wonder, when I get married.. will I always being gay?? Or am I always being straight?
*lights fade and the curtain lowers*
Ok, so being born as both a male and female equally, is Rajeesh living in sin with a any prospective partner? Or is he ok in the church's eyes?
I wonder from this particular question because even the most staunchly opposed of us to same sex partners might be inclined to think that in this particular case, Razeesh can go "both ways" as it were. Whatever he decided in himself within the realms of a loving monogamy.
I raise that point and move on from there to wonder another story
*raise curtin*
My name is David. When I was born I was both truly a boy and a girl in physical form. The Dr offered my parents a choice. To remove one set of my reproductive organs. They had 3 girls already, and mum and dad believed in their hearts I was meant to be a boy, so they made the choice and I was made a boy. As I got older, youth group started being really weird. My friends were all dating, but all i could think was that I liked boys, not girls. Maybe my parents made a mistake? Is my brain more girl than boy?? What am I going to do?!?
*lights fade and the curtain lowers*
So my thought on this... If the physical body can be formed so differently from the normal template... why does Rajeesh get a pass to marry whoever he wants, while David is stuck with his parents decision?
What should be our positions be to these lovely single brothers and sisters in our Church?