Faithful are the wounds of a friend…
Christians can sometimes be labeled as ‘intolerant’ or ‘homophobic’ in regards to their stance on homosexuality…but as this recent BreakPoint commentary points out…it is not that way at all.
In his book Ask Me Anything, Dr. J. Budziszewski provides a rejoinder. While gays equate “love” with “acceptance,” Budziszewski offers another view: “Love is a commitment of the will to the true good of the other person. . . . [A] perfect Lover [that is, God] would want the perfect good of the beloved. . . . He would loathe and detest whatever destroyed the beloved’s good — no matter how much the beloved desired it.” And what destroys us — all of us — is sin. If we refuse to let go of it, writes Budziszewski, we say to the perfect Lover, “I bind myself to my destruction! Accept me — and my destruction with me!”
Sometimes what we need to hear is not as pleasant as what we want to hear. But we can’t deny that we’d rather have somebody be truthful with us (no matter how much pain results from it) than to have somebody not be truthful with us and let us go down a path that leads to much more painful and lasting consequences. A friend is someone that sees a danger down the road and warns us - so that we can change direction while there is still time.
Read the full commentary here:
