Re: I'm thinking about coming out, pastoral advice -
03-20-2014, 09:03 AM
Friend, I know and understand the persecution you will experience. I too, went through the same thing when I came out. Ridicule. Bullying. Getting beaten up. Spat at. Refused service in restaurants. Fired from jobs.
But my burning need to free myself came before anything Else and I had to be true to myself and to Christ. I can now proudly say, with no shame or fear, 'I am a True Christian™'
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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