I have decided to share my testimony in reconciling my sexuality and faith to as many churches as possible of New Zealand, trying to spread the truth from my perspective on what I believe the bible says on homosexuality, and I acknowledged they don't have to agree, rather take a moment to listen and consider the context of the bible and question it to find a deeper faith.

I am also going to write an email and send it to all MP's regarding the same sex marriage bill and share with them my view that Christianity should be transparent and accepting. I am going to provide a few good youtube videos as well, since most of the no votes for Louisa Wall's bill were based on religion. I myself struggled with reconciling my sexuality and faith, so maybe, just maybe, minds will change.

It is like that saying 'it is better to do something than nothing at all'. And while I am here on earth I want to at least make an impact and leave a footprint somewhere, and maybe doing this will achieve just that.

Amount of churches who have received the email: 50

Thanks Phill! Will do ^_^

Sounds great, yes will be interesting to see what replies you do get.

Hey everyone 🙂

The first reply back has not been too good, but it certainly will not get me down.

Hi Jordan

Thanks for the mail, I have past of my own and don't think your take on the whole thing is correct.

If you would like to chat further I would be happy to discuss it with you

Hope to hear from you

In Christ

Nick

Judging by the wording where he says 'the whole thing' and believing my take on it is wrong, I don't think he clicked on any of the links provided or read through my email fully, so I think discussing it further with him would have been a losing battle, so I politely declined the offer and said we would have to agree to disagree 🙁 but thanked him for his email and that I respected his opinions and beliefs.

But hey, you win some, you lose some.

I will try to send a total of 100 emails before I get to bed. I have been slacking today!

Edit: Could only get to 50 churches today, I will try to send another 50 tomorrow 😛

I wouldn't bother – the people who justified slavery from the bible, The people who burnt people for arguing the earth revolved around the sun ALL did extensive biblical research.

BUT the fruit of their beliefs was bad then – and is bad now

I really like the way Matthew Vimes puts it http://matthewvines.com/

In his epic sermon on the whole subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQjNJUSraY&feature=player_embedded

The fruit of the anti gay teachings is BAD. End of story.

BUT all of this information is out there – and anyone who REALLY is interested in the truth can find it….

They can only hold those beliefs by an active will to ignore facts.. and ignore other parts of the bible (like Do not judge others, By their fruit you shall know them, that Rachel and Tamer WERE Righteous EVEN though they both had sex outside marrige, that the SINS of sodom explicitly listed in SEVERAL places as being arrogant and not looking after the poor and needy etc etc ) IF they can ignore all those AND the medical profession – then I think the offer is enough….give them the links -AND something personal – something that shows how an anti gay stance damages lives – and i reckon (personally) thats the seed.

Offer to answer his questions but thats as far as I would go (HOWEVER Ive tried many times and often you need bang your head against the wall yourself – I did – many times 🙂 !)