First of all, that church does not walk in the love of Christ. So leave. Christ walked among sinners all the time and LOVED them!!
2ndly, the condition of being gay is a demonically induced condition. Most likely through no fault of your own!. God did NOT create you that way. But how wonderful He is to have made a way for you to get free!!
You need to find a church that understands deliverance and practices it. If you want to message me privately and let me know what city you live in, I will do some searching to find a church that can help you.
Homosexuality is a condition that the devil instigates in order to keep a person out of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Let's talk.
Maggie
Good gracious talk about scaring someone to death, ease down Ida Mae Hammond....Lets go from a pastor stating the obvious:
To you: let me git that thar demon outta yer soul boyee....
That Pastor had the love of Christ in him, he explained as most churches do not the reason he could not allow him to be a
member or be in
any leadership role.
He did not kick him out of the church, he just stated he could not be a member, which in today's denominations, usually gives someone voting rights on church matters and that's it.
I had this same talk routinely with people as a pastor.
We had one lady who wanted to be on the platform and sing on the praise team, yet she took a singing gig at a local strip club. She did not take her clothes off and only sang, but did have to wear lingerie while performing.
We Had another man who was "led" to be a children's pastor and wanted to help in the childrens ministry but had a former conviction of indecent exposure to a child.
Then there was a couple that wanted to be the young married couples pastors, but had trouble in their own marriage and were legally separated.
The list goes on and on, telling someone in love they cannot be a member or in leadership is not hate mongering, it is wisdom. What is not wisdom, is showing the person the door, which it does not sound like this Pastor did.
What really is not wisdom is making a discernment over the internet w/o even meeting someone and then having the fix already to go and claiming a condition exists based on the latest deliverance book of the club month read.