The White Paper on Human Sexuality

[Kimberly]

I believe it is important for ACOP to have a white paper on human sexuality because it is a topic that is becoming increasingly hard to avoid today. Not only is it something that we see everyday in person, but it is extremely hard to find tv shows and movies that don’t portray characters engaging in same sex relationships. It is helpful to have these beliefs and affirmations on hand – so that we may be like minded in how we approach situations where we are speaking around this topic.

I think it is very important to remember the affirmation that we are called to love each other as ourselves. There is a way to disagree with an action while still loving a person. I think that many times non believers feel like Christians miss the point of loving when approaching these topics. If people don’t feel loved still, they likely won’t give Christ a chance. Ultimately we are all sinners, so we should be showing love no matter whether we can pin point what one person’s sin is over our own.

[Jaylen Hodges]

It was important for ACOP to develop this because our world is increasingly walking away from God’s intended picture for sexuality. Almost no secular person believes you should save yourself for marriage, and almost no secular person believes that being homosexual is wrong. This is why it’s urgent for ACOP to establish exactly what we believe and why we believe it.