Expert: Paul Walker - 2/18/2004

Question
I'm doing a research paper on gay ministers and I need to find solutions to gay ministers, and whether they should be allowed to lead gay lifes if they'll openly gay.

Answer
Dear Shavonya,

Judging from the question itself, I would have to say that your whole understanding of the ministry is in error. There are no gay ministers of God, though there be many that call themselves such. Do not confuse God's Church with what calls itself Christian. The saints are to live righteously, holly and godly lives, homosexuality is none of these.

To be a Bishop of a Church one has to be married, the husband of one wife, in the first place, and as God has said that is one woman and one man.

I would have to ask you first, are you saved and if so, how so? And if you answer anything other than I have trusted in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, that he came in the flesh, was God's Son; that he died on the cross, was buried and rose again the third day, you missed the mark.

If you are saved, then, have you not read God's word?

I hope you will meditate on these things.

Your Servant In Christ Jesus,

Paul Walker
ysicj@aficj.org