Can’t make a curved stick straight with another straight stick… or something like that…

yep, i just finished up another human sexuality class and it got me thinking (go figure, school will do that to you). we watched a video about homosexuality by Sy Rogers and one thing that he said was that you can’t fix a same-sex issue with the opposite sex (talking about his struggle with homosexuality) and it got me thinking about how often we do that. we see sin and instead of looking at the greater issue, we focus on the surface and try to fix it that way. like with homosexuality. there are frequently issues with the same-sex that need to be resolved before a person can move on to relating to the opposite sex and thus telling them to just “date a girl” is not the solution because it’s not targeting the issue. how often that we do that. we are so focused on the sin and “saving” someone from that sin that we forget that there is a human attached to that sin, there is pain attached to that sin and we are completing ignoring it (probably because we can’t handle feeling uncomfortable). Sy made a greater point that reminds me how much greater god is than us. while we focus on the sin so often, god looks beyond the sin and looks at why it is happening. oh for his grace and understanding! yes, the sin is an issue, but to god, we are the bigger issue and he understands that healing needs to happen on a deeper level. what a great idea to evangelism. perhaps we can draw people in by not telling them what they are doing wrong, but looking at what to do next…