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The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts
2020 is only 40 days old and here I am again recollecting all the new year spirit that had crushed to pieces in order to make life on course again. Not easy, I must say, especially when Copenhagen’s wind blowing in its full speed this week. I might have lost some pieces in the famous Copenhagen’s Four Lakes on my way biking home.
Stay safe
The Lord bless you and keep you.
I broke all my life codes just to write those two words, resulting a horrible nightmare, waking up to a feeling of crying. That’s fine. Because I want you to be extra careful and stay safe, even though that caused me to tear.
RE: I refuse to refuse anyone
I was reading I refuse to refuse anyone, a blogpost by J.S. Park when I remembered my conversation with my at-that-time new friend in Berlin. She shot me point blank by saying ‘you are christian, of course, you do not accept the idea of LGBT community’. And I spent a whole 45 minutes trying to explain to her what my view is. That was my first open conversation about LGBT community outside Indonesian community or christian community, in a language that is not my mother tongue.
The short reading made me re-question my view about LGBT community and I am confident to say the same Truth that I still hold tight until now, that:
- God did not create LGBT community. If He did, The Bible would have recorded it.
- Jesus died for everyone who is in LGBT community. The Bible says He died for us all.
What’s the different of me and you with everyone else in the LGBT community? Nothing. He did not create us for what we are as well. But Jesus died for us anyway. If someone then asked me, can a gay person be a pastor? Then I would ask back, can a thief be a pastor? Or can an adulterer be a pastor? Or can a sinful person be a pastor?
But I am still struggling to answer another question, which is, can a gay couple get married in a church?
I know church is for sinful people. Like a hospital is for the sick and not the healthy, hence church is for sinful people and not holy people. I know all is welcome.
But…
Church is also a community that (try to) observe the Holy Bible. And marriage sacrament is arranged carefully by the Bible how it should be and for who it should be. I dont think that church should marry any guy couple. And I think it’s not against human’s right.
I am a very sinful person. But if I asked a church to marry me with a man, who is my husband-to-be, I am pretty sure they wouldnt mind. What makes me any different with a gay person? I might be even more sinful than any gay person in this world. And just because… I am allowed and he is not. I do not understand, yet.
My question goes back to the gay couple who is asking to be married in a church. Why would you want to be blessed from people who dont want to do it for you in the first place? Is it also just because you need the legal status of marriage, even though the term marriage hold by the church is different with the one you hold?
Everything is still vague. But until it is clear for me, I refuse to refuse anyone. And to judge others.
The Good Unwanted Gift of Singleness
“But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.”
The most hillarious Sunday, ever!
If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know…
I have to admit, I just had the most hillarious Sunday ever. The story goes like this…
A cry
Hear my prayer, LORD, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping.
Believing God is Good No Matter What
Your eyes is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light,
but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
There is a season for everything
For everything there is a season,
These trees taught me more about faith today.
Vallaura
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