Award winning gospel artist, Erica Campbell, is making news this morning for comments made about transsexuals and gays in the church.
While making her promo rounds abroad recently, Campbell was asked to share her thoughts on the LGBT community and the church?
Although religious leaders such as Kirk Franklin has spoken in favor of being more understanding and accommodating to members of the LGBT community, Campbell insist “sin is sin.”
“I believe sin is sin and it exists and God forgives it just like everything else. I think our responsibility is to keep singing about Jesus. Keep telling the world he loves, saves, transforms and heals.”
But don’t get the “I Luh God” singer misunderstood. She adds that Christians should keep teaching, learning and encouraging conversation around the topic.
I know there’s a lot of different conversations about the origins and the why’s and the how’s and I wish I had the answers to it, but I do not. But what I do know is that the Bible says that God so loved the world — it didn’t say the heterosexual or the homosexual; it didn’t say the Christian, the saved or the unsaved. It said for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever should believe in him, should not parish but have everlasting life. So that’s the only thing I can stay confident in. I rest on the word of God. I stand on the word of God. And we will all stand before him. And God won’t ask me my opinion. He won’t ask the people their opinion. We’ll have a one-on-one with the father.
Keep sharing, keep loving, keep opening the doors of our churches, keep embracing and let God do the changing. I think a lot of times we try to be God. We try to make the change. Everybody has an issue. Sometimes peoples [issue] is a little more flamboyant than others. Maybe yours is lying and we can’t see your issue. We all have something to work on…My job is to love, not to judge.
For more on what Campbell had to say, head over to TeamCurtains.com.
