tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33772845.post2472001271264092576..comments2023-10-21T10:14:30.897-04:00Comments on From Glory into Glory: Act Like You're Already Dead!The Rev Michael W Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10109964754305290671noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33772845.post-26714253475295098452007-10-16T00:12:00.000-04:002007-10-16T00:12:00.000-04:00Michael,This sermon is probably the best descripti...Michael,<BR/>This sermon is probably the best description of what it can be like to "be in Christ" that I've ever read. <BR/><BR/>There is a different kind of pain, a different kind of emptiness that we seek to fill with sex, that I wish you'd address too. It's the one that I and most of the men I know would identify with. That is, using sex as a compensation for rejection by others. "He didn't want me, but all these other men do!" "My mother said no one would love me, but all these guys can't wait to be near me." "My father said all men would be revolted by me, but look how many think I'm beautiful!" Sometimes we wash ourselves in promiscuity to try to rinse off the coating of human invalidation we've been sprayed with most our lives. We know God loves us. But we are hated, reviled, and persecuted by people. We try to validate each other with sex because it makes us feel close to other people. When we feel so cut off, rejected, left out, left behind by heterosexuals an orgy goes a long way to make us feel connected to each other. Surely there is an answer in Christianity for us somewhere.Jim Costichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791917017485731005noreply@blogger.com