Troy
My name is Troy and.. I’m a gay follower of Jesus. I remember having feelings for a boy when I was in seventh grade.
I didn’t understand why I was having these feelings, but because my grandpa always told me that homosexuality was wrong, I suppressed it.
During my high school years, I began to experience these feelings again towards a boy. I was 15 and scared. I asked myself “why would God make me gay?”
Pronouns: he/him
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After all, my grandpa, the person who I looked up to the most in my faith, told me that Gays will not inherit the kingdom of God. And worst of all, it was backed up by scripture (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)
You can imagine how this affected me as I was sent into a deep depression, even causing me to stop following Jesus for quite sometime. But Jesus doesn’t let His sheep wander astray.
When I came out at the age of 16, I wasn’t living a life for Christ. I was convinced that He hated me because of who I was.
However, after much prayer for Him to change my sexual orientation, He opened my eyes to see that He loves me for who I am because He created me the way I am in His image (Genesis 1:27). And I discovered that the Bible doesn’t actually address homosexuality at all. These revelations restored my relationship with Jesus and my love for Him.
I want all LGBTQ+ individuals to know that God is madly in love with them too.
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