Do You Love Everyone?

What would you think if I told you God loved Porn Stars? Well, that was the message we got today in Church and if that isn't strange enough, listen to this. We had a visit from one of the founders of www.xxxchurch.com at church today. XXXChurch.com is devoted to helping people with an addiction to pornography. They have handed out Bibles at a Porn Convention. Think that's a little strange? What other group of people need Christ more? If I really think about it, it's not much different than going to the "Boogie" and serving water, supplying tracks and serving the biker community.

I think God is speaking to me again. I keep getting hit with the message that We, as CHRISTIANS, are not fulfilling the correct mission. Going out into all the world literally means going OUT into ALL the world. Somehow that message has been modified. We spend more time serving our fellow Christians, in our comfortable church pew, than we do serving the lost. We need to be OUT with the Porn addicted, the gays, the lesbians, the atheist, and the rest of the ANTI-Christian people. We need to be out serving and loving.

There is a LARGE group of people who will NEVER step foot into a Church. The only hope we have of planting the seed is if we GO TO THEM. They make us angry, uncomfortable, and we would just as soon "Stone" them than sit in the same room with them. But, that's not what we are called to do. Christ went to the dispicable, the outcast, the whores, and the insane. He hit the literal UNDERBELLY of society and shared his love with them. We should do the same.

I say all this and you should realize I am a LONG WAY from doing that. Sure, I've served at secular Biker rallies. I might even be doing more than most, but it's not enough. I need to serve more and so do you. Do you REALLY love everyone? How do you show it? Can you show love to someone you avoid? How do you love the sinner and still hate the sin? Can you accept a sinner without endorsing their sin? 

I wish I had answers to these questions.

John 8

New International Version (NIV)

² At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴ and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶ They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷ When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
⁹ At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰ Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
¹¹ “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”