Evangelism Moment

My friend Scot Pankey at Cathedral of Hope just started a new section in the weekly bulletin at Cathedral of Hope called Evangelism Moment, and he asked me to write something this week. It's a way for Cathedral of Hope members to share what attracted us to the church in the first place and what keeps us coming back. The only problem is, I could only write around a hundred words, and as you know I can be a bit verbose at times. This was printed in yesterday's Weekly.

Angela and I attended quite a few accepting churches in Austin with mediocre results, but after we moved to Dallas and began attending Cathedral of Hope, we knew it was the payoff we had been waiting for. No other environment had ever produced such a feeling of wholeness.

As we absorbed the atmosphere that first Sunday in 2002, the homophobia that seems to plague Christianity began to seem more and more absurd. We were just a group of Christians worshipping God with energy and conviction.

Still, many fundamentalist Christians would condemn us on the spot because we're predominantly gay. I find it odd that while our focus as GLBT Christians is God, their focus remains on our homosexuality. I largely prefer the fixation on God.

The atmosphere inside Cathedral of Hope is always one of hope, joy, and togetherness. Nothing that happens outside our walls does anything to detract from the magnitude of it and it does nothing to minimize God's ability to work in our midst. There is a great deal of comfort in that. The physical building where this happens isn't really what matters. The point is to find a spot where we're comfortable and then focus on that concentration of God.