EmptyTimCup
06-12-2012, 09:59 AM
‘Jesus in Drag’: This Is Why a Straight Christian Lived as a ‘Gay’ Man for One Year (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jesus-in-drag-this-is-why-a-straight-christian-lived-as-a-gay-man-for-one-year/)
Tim Kurek grew up in a household that had an overwhelming negative view of homosexuality. In fact, he claims that he saw the gay community as the “worst of what sin had to offer.” But years later, Kurek, moved by a gay friend’s story, decided to engage in a fascinating social experiment. He very literally gave himself the “gay” label for a year, telling all those close to him that he had same-sex attraction. Kurek is now documenting the experience in a book entitled, “Jesus in Drag.”
Tim Kurek Lived as a Gay Man, Shares the Experiment in Jesus in Drag
The book, which will be released in October, documents all of the issues Kurek faced when he decided to take on a label and title he had personally derided and dismissed as evil for most of his life. The heterosexual‘s literary project isn’t about being a homosexual, he says. And rather than serving as an effort to bash Christians or an exposé, it simply explores how being labeled “gay” impacted his life, The Christian Post reports.
the comments are more interesting than the article ..........
Swordfisch
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:38am
they want to get married so they can go on to each others insurance.
Rom 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
cessna152
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:50pm
Inside the Church you are actually “told” to judge blatant sin that would divide the Church:
1 Cor. 5:6-13 (NLT)
How terrible that you should boast about your spirituality, and yet you let this sort of thing go on. Don’t you realize that if even one person is allowed to go on sinning, soon all will be affected? [7] Remove this wicked person from among you so that you can stay pure. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. [8] So let us celebrate the festival, not by eating the old bread of wickedness and evil, but by eating the new bread of purity and truth.
[9] When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. [10] But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. [11] What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don’t even eat with such people.
[12] It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your job to judge those inside the church who are sinning in these ways. [13] God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”
See, Paul explains it clearly that IN the Church blatant sin, lying, etc can NOT be tolerated. Outside
Favored93
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:04pm
I agree with you and the word you posted…
This young man without reading his book and only based on what can be learned in this story is close to the truth but I fear has gotten lost along the way. He is right about this…The “Church” has abused PEOPLE who sin for far to long. Make no mistake out there being gay is a sinful lifestyle! Having sinful desires is not sin…doing it,acting upon it is.
But what does that really matter? Is your sin or mine any worse? If I tell a dirty joke or drink a bottle of whiskey twice a day and beat my wife but go to church am I any better or worse then the gay man next door?
What is adultery? is it not sexual sin? What did Jesus do with the woman who was caught in the act? Did he have her kicked out of church or was she the first to see Him rise from the dead forgiven?!?!
We HAVE to start BEING the body of Christ! We HAVE to start loving the sinner and hating the sin and all that means! What that means is we act like out Lord and lift them up BUT telling them while you have their hand lifting them out of the dirt to sin no more!
The LGBT “movement” is evil and wicked we have to stand for the truth and fight their agenda. It is wicked. They truly are going after our youth and we have to fight it. Just remember that they are loved by the same God that loves you! Don’t destroy the very people God want to rescue while fighting the agenda God certainly wants you to fight. :)
Wildape
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:32pm
I was a church going Christian for 35 years and I left, not because I no longer worshipped God, or refused his grace, or turned his back on Christ’s teaching. I left because of self righteous “saints” like you who use the Bible and the love of God to beat people down. With you in heaven, there is no heaven. You suck the air out of the breathing church. Sword–an implement of war. Fisch, an ancient symbol for Christians when they were persecuted. Put them together you are more of a bloodthirsty Westboro Babtist than the Christians of John 13:35 who will know that they are Christians by the love they show each other. The only difference between you and the loving death cult members of Islam is a breath mint.
Kurek is a young man who did something foolish. I hope he becomes wiser and does not stress his loved ones like that again. There are many ways that he could have shown friendship that would not have led him to this. I wish I could sit Kurek down and share a cup of coffee with him.
Churches nowaday are stocked full of “perfect” Christians like you Swordfuss or with compromising homosexuals who rewrite the Bible. I haven’t missed church in seven years and everytime some “love of god” cannon like you roars I find that the word of Christ is harder and harder to hear. I think you go to church to make others feel small and you enjoy the platform to beat people down.
puck2113
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:33pm
This is really interesting that you post this. I was doing a study recently with Romans 1 and was for lack of a better term, totally freaked out, because I always thought it was about the individual in that passage. But… There are multiple kinds of judgements catastrophe(The Flood), Eschatalogical(Revelation 6), but one I think we forget about could be called His abandonment judgement(Samson). Now In 2 Chronicles 7:14 God states “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” That is for us today, the Church, if we do 4 things He’ll do three. I think though, this window is coming to a close. If you go through Genesis you find God’s jealousy in His role not as Redeemer, but as Creator. And in Romans 1 if you read it carefully and with that view in mind you realize it is not just about the individual, that’s what I always thought, but it is a judgement He is pouring out on a nation that denies Him as Creator. In verse 24-25 it says the exchanged the truth of God for THE lie. What could that be? Evolution possibly? The greatest denial of God as creator. So individually its a personal issue, but as a collective it is a judgment from God. And what was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, it wasn’t the Homosexuality, It was the public condoning of it. And I suspect, SUSPECT, we are seeing His hand begin to lift.
Tim Kurek grew up in a household that had an overwhelming negative view of homosexuality. In fact, he claims that he saw the gay community as the “worst of what sin had to offer.” But years later, Kurek, moved by a gay friend’s story, decided to engage in a fascinating social experiment. He very literally gave himself the “gay” label for a year, telling all those close to him that he had same-sex attraction. Kurek is now documenting the experience in a book entitled, “Jesus in Drag.”
Tim Kurek Lived as a Gay Man, Shares the Experiment in Jesus in Drag
The book, which will be released in October, documents all of the issues Kurek faced when he decided to take on a label and title he had personally derided and dismissed as evil for most of his life. The heterosexual‘s literary project isn’t about being a homosexual, he says. And rather than serving as an effort to bash Christians or an exposé, it simply explores how being labeled “gay” impacted his life, The Christian Post reports.
the comments are more interesting than the article ..........
Swordfisch
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:38am
they want to get married so they can go on to each others insurance.
Rom 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
cessna152
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:50pm
Inside the Church you are actually “told” to judge blatant sin that would divide the Church:
1 Cor. 5:6-13 (NLT)
How terrible that you should boast about your spirituality, and yet you let this sort of thing go on. Don’t you realize that if even one person is allowed to go on sinning, soon all will be affected? [7] Remove this wicked person from among you so that you can stay pure. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. [8] So let us celebrate the festival, not by eating the old bread of wickedness and evil, but by eating the new bread of purity and truth.
[9] When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. [10] But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. [11] What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don’t even eat with such people.
[12] It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your job to judge those inside the church who are sinning in these ways. [13] God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”
See, Paul explains it clearly that IN the Church blatant sin, lying, etc can NOT be tolerated. Outside
Favored93
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:04pm
I agree with you and the word you posted…
This young man without reading his book and only based on what can be learned in this story is close to the truth but I fear has gotten lost along the way. He is right about this…The “Church” has abused PEOPLE who sin for far to long. Make no mistake out there being gay is a sinful lifestyle! Having sinful desires is not sin…doing it,acting upon it is.
But what does that really matter? Is your sin or mine any worse? If I tell a dirty joke or drink a bottle of whiskey twice a day and beat my wife but go to church am I any better or worse then the gay man next door?
What is adultery? is it not sexual sin? What did Jesus do with the woman who was caught in the act? Did he have her kicked out of church or was she the first to see Him rise from the dead forgiven?!?!
We HAVE to start BEING the body of Christ! We HAVE to start loving the sinner and hating the sin and all that means! What that means is we act like out Lord and lift them up BUT telling them while you have their hand lifting them out of the dirt to sin no more!
The LGBT “movement” is evil and wicked we have to stand for the truth and fight their agenda. It is wicked. They truly are going after our youth and we have to fight it. Just remember that they are loved by the same God that loves you! Don’t destroy the very people God want to rescue while fighting the agenda God certainly wants you to fight. :)
Wildape
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:32pm
I was a church going Christian for 35 years and I left, not because I no longer worshipped God, or refused his grace, or turned his back on Christ’s teaching. I left because of self righteous “saints” like you who use the Bible and the love of God to beat people down. With you in heaven, there is no heaven. You suck the air out of the breathing church. Sword–an implement of war. Fisch, an ancient symbol for Christians when they were persecuted. Put them together you are more of a bloodthirsty Westboro Babtist than the Christians of John 13:35 who will know that they are Christians by the love they show each other. The only difference between you and the loving death cult members of Islam is a breath mint.
Kurek is a young man who did something foolish. I hope he becomes wiser and does not stress his loved ones like that again. There are many ways that he could have shown friendship that would not have led him to this. I wish I could sit Kurek down and share a cup of coffee with him.
Churches nowaday are stocked full of “perfect” Christians like you Swordfuss or with compromising homosexuals who rewrite the Bible. I haven’t missed church in seven years and everytime some “love of god” cannon like you roars I find that the word of Christ is harder and harder to hear. I think you go to church to make others feel small and you enjoy the platform to beat people down.
puck2113
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:33pm
This is really interesting that you post this. I was doing a study recently with Romans 1 and was for lack of a better term, totally freaked out, because I always thought it was about the individual in that passage. But… There are multiple kinds of judgements catastrophe(The Flood), Eschatalogical(Revelation 6), but one I think we forget about could be called His abandonment judgement(Samson). Now In 2 Chronicles 7:14 God states “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” That is for us today, the Church, if we do 4 things He’ll do three. I think though, this window is coming to a close. If you go through Genesis you find God’s jealousy in His role not as Redeemer, but as Creator. And in Romans 1 if you read it carefully and with that view in mind you realize it is not just about the individual, that’s what I always thought, but it is a judgement He is pouring out on a nation that denies Him as Creator. In verse 24-25 it says the exchanged the truth of God for THE lie. What could that be? Evolution possibly? The greatest denial of God as creator. So individually its a personal issue, but as a collective it is a judgment from God. And what was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, it wasn’t the Homosexuality, It was the public condoning of it. And I suspect, SUSPECT, we are seeing His hand begin to lift.