Ministering

I was reading through an interview with a Christian Music artist that has been on hiatus for the past 7 years and it got me thinking. In the interview, this musician comes out of the closet, saying how she has been involved in a serious same sex relationship for the past 8 years. When i first read that, i was completely disgusted and wanted to just stop reading and never think about her again.

Well, God really played on my heart, and i kept reading. So much of what she said just disgusted me, as she still proclaims to be a christian, yet lives the life she does. She was asked whether she has had to choose between her lifestyle and her faith, and she says yes she has at times, but almost sounds like she thinks they are not conflicting as much as I would consider them to be.

With this in mind, I was reading a friends blog post talking about this same interview, and his point in his note was that as christians we tend to only minister to those unbelievers that are easy to talk with, when their sin doesnt seem so bad to us, something that we dont completely frown upon. But when we come to someone whose life is full of sin that we completely detest, we just turn tail and run. Or we pull the card of they know what they are doing to their life, they dont care about their demise. Yet John Smith can have sex repeatedly outside of marriage and we are more than happy to minister and evangelize to him.

Im not saying that ministering to the adulterer is bad, i am trying to say that running away from the people that need the most help is definitely not the best way to mirror Christ. Jesus always hung out with the sinners of his time, the tax collectors, the prostitutes. The people that, in His time, everyone else stayed away from. What groups of sinners do you avoid completely? What groups does your church or fellowship avoid ministering to? Those are the people that you should start ministering to.

Now dont go alone into these groups, but go with a couple guys / girls. The more people you have that this group is willing to invite into their little clubhouse the better. The more people that can set an example of how a Christian should live.