July 29, 2013

• GOODBYE XANGA

   

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  "It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure."

  ~Ernie Harwell
  

   

   

  I've given $48, toward the Xanga Campaign.   Still I know we could be enjoying our last few days together.  Many have already jumped ship, so even if Xanga survives past 7/31/13, we may only be giving her a short remission.  If Xanga makes it: GREAT.   If Xanga doesn't make it: GOODBYE.

   

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  TO MY FELLOW CHRISTIANS/CHRIST FOLLOWERS:
  

  
  In case you've been wondering why I've been writing posts about "...Choking 'Em"  and  "THERE ARE PEOPLE I WANT TO KILL".   I'm really talking about what I, need.  I am going through an incredibly tough time in my life, but it is God holding me in the refining fire.  I certainly don't like it, but I will love the results.  God gives "beauty for ashes."  The Church is a sick and broken thing today, because we have too many self-willed, self-serving, self-aggrandizing, self-esteem seeking, and plain old selfish people.  God intends that we live the kind of life Christ lived, and the only way to have that is to shove us into some very harsh situations.  I had a very good friend call me, and offer me alternatives to my situation.  I don't need any alternatives to my situation.  I need to endure to the end, and God will, indeed, give "beauty for ashes."  I've seen God do this time after time, he never fails.  I don't understand everything God does while deep frying my butt, but he gets the results he desires. 

  I've said, on many occasions, my first sites on Xanga had a definite agenda.  First I wanted to show Christians that fellow Christians struggling with SSA (Same-Sex Attraction), working by themselves or with other strugglers rarely succeed.   I also wanted to show that no matter the approach people suffering with SSA can't break the cycle of thinking, being, and doing gay.  I started out being nice and supportive of those with SSA.  Being supportive, actually brings comfort to people, and they don't need comfort.  I increasingly became more confrontational, harsh and strident in my counsel of those who struggle.  Harshness only brings defensiveness.   All sexually broken people are both victim and perpetrator.   Few choose to feel attracted to thinking and practices which are incredibly unhealthy and damaging for them and others.  People who are sexually broken are first and foremost relationally broken.  The most important people in their lives during their formative years have locked them in a cage and stuffed them down a deep dark emotional hole.  Leaving any kind of deep sexual brokenness is incredibly difficult, and nearly impossible for most.  I had years of study, observation, and interactions with LGBT people, and I saw how terrible the life of a sexually broken person truly is.  I also had friends who were dropping like flies to AIDS.  The motivating factors to escape my gay liestyle were varied and titanic in power to push me along.  What broke the sexually broken: the breakdown of relationship, is what breaks the power of sexual immorality, and leads to freedom from it.  

  The Church has the greatest relationship, (or so they claim) with the only true living God, through God in flesh, Jesus Christ.  If the Church (notice capital "C", so I'm talking about the universal Church) really had the eternal life giving and world overcoming relationship with God, then why can't the Church give that relationship to the most needy:  The sexually broken???   The Church condemns, accepts sin, or, increasingly, simply ignores life destroying sin.  A Church which cannot offer the eternal life giving and life changing relationship with God is, in truth, suffering the same plight the sexually broken suffer:  The Church is becoming more and more estranged in her relationship with the Eternal God.  
  

  What can I tell you??  Church, Christians, Christ followers, whatever, you need the relationally and sexually broken more than they need you.  When you obey the teachings of Christ and "Go!"  you'll find that Jesus Christ was standing there, among the relationally/sexually broken the whole time.  God has just been waiting for us to begin living out of the new Christlike nature he has put into us, when he made us born again.  Reaching to, walking with, supporting, challenging, loving and relating in a godly way with the most broken isn't something we should run from, it our birthright as God's children to obey the teachings of Jesus and reach to a lost, hurting, and dying world.  The more we condemn, accept, or ignore sin the more estranged we will become from God.  Jesus told his disciples 7 times in the Gospel of John, "...If you love me do what I teach..."  Love and obedience are the same thing to God.   So either love God, and "Go!", or love self and condemn, accept sin, or ignore sins, and lose our own souls.   

  TO EVERYONE ELSE:
  

  
  It's been a fascinating experience getting to know some of you.  I hope I have the chance to meet you again, and continue our interactions. 
  

   

  Blessings!
  

  
  Lonnie

  
  

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  I've decided not to archive anything from this site.  What is here will be here if Xanga survives, or will go away with Xanga.  If you want something, then you'd better get it.  If you use what you take, I hope you'll give proper credit to the author.  "Freely give, for freely you have been given!"
  

   

   

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