Worship
leader and Christian commentator Vicky Beeching has opened up on her sexuality
to a national newspaper.
The
35 year-old, who became known by performing at Christian festivals both in the
UK and the US, says she's struggled with the issue her whole life but is now
ready to go public.
Speaking
to The Independent she explained how she first noticed her attraction to other
girls at the age of 12.
She
said: "Realising that I was attracted to them was a horrible feeling. I
was so embarrassed and ashamed. It became more and more of a struggle because I
couldn't tell anyone."
In
the in-depth interview she talks about how she sought help to get rid of her
same sex feelings firstly by going to confession with a Catholic priest then by
asking for prayer at a large Christian event.
At
the conference she said a group prayed over her that the demon of homosexuality
would free her but she found the experience "degrading" and
"humiliating".
Her
career has seen her release several worship albums and tour the world but she
exited the spotlight after being diagnosed with an auto-immune disease called
linear scleroderma morphea.
Her
condition required chemotherapy.
She
was told by a doctor that it was stress induced and she believes her trigger
was her battle with her sexuality.
It
was a result of this part of her life that she vowed to tell friends and
family.
Now
a regular commentator on Christian issues on both TV and radio she says she's
ready to let the world know and wants the Church to reconsider the way it views
homosexuality.
Read
more here:
Question:
Should
Churches and Christians listen to and sing to Vicky Beeching’s songs since her
public announcement that she is lesbian ? My answer is no
Read
the article in the Independent here:
Comment:
Although
like many of you, I have sing along to Vicky Beeching songs in various Church
Settings, I’m saddened to hear that she
is claiming to be Gay(Lesbian) , the
Bible clearly states that homosexuality and a homosexual lifestyle is both a
sin and sinful, and there are no scriptures that support, encourage and confirm
that the homosexual lifestyle is a
choice for the Christian, I’m sorry the Bible clearly states that you can’t be
a Christian and Gay, the choice is yours,
but you can’t be both. Homosexuality is Sinful, anyone who lives this lifestyle or supports this lifestyle... the Bible is clear you need to repent of your sin.
1
Timothy 1:9-11The Voice (VOICE)
9
we also know the law was not designed for law-abiding people but for
lawbreakers and criminals, the ungodly and sin-filled, the unholy and worldly,
the father killers and mother killers, the murderers, 10 the sexually immoral
and homosexuals, slave dealers,
liars, perjurers, and anyone else who acts
against the sound doctrine 11 laid out in the glorious, holy, and pure good
news of the blessed God that has been entrusted to me.
1
Corinthians 6:8-10New American Standard Bible (NASB)
8
On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your
brethren.
9
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves,
nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the
kingdom of God.
Romans
5:16 -21 The Voice
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His free gift is nothing like the scourge of the first man’s sin. The judgment
that fell because of one false step brought condemnation, but the free gift
following countless offenses results in a favorable verdict—not guilty. 17 If
one man’s sin brought a reign of death—that’s Adam’s legacy—how much more will
those who receive grace in abundance and the free gift of redeeming justice
reign in life by means of one other man—Jesus the Anointed.
18
So here is the result: as one man’s sin brought about condemnation and
punishment for all people, so one man’s act of faithfulness makes all of us right
with God and brings us to new life. 19 Just as through one man’s defiant
disobedience every one of us were made sinners, so through the willing
obedience of the one man many of us will be made right.
20
When the law came into the picture, sin grew and grew; but wherever sin grew
and spread, God’s grace was there in fuller, greater measure. No matter how
much sin crept in, there was always more grace. 21 In the same way that sin
reigned in the sphere of death, now grace reigns through God’s restorative
justice, eclipsing death and leading to eternal life through the Anointed One,
Jesus our Lord, the Liberating King.
Romans
6:1-12 The Voice
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How should we respond to all of this? Is it good to persist in a life of sin so
that grace may multiply even more? 2 Absolutely not! How can we die to a life
where sin ruled over us and then invite sin back into our lives? 3 Did someone
forget to tell you that when we were initiated into Jesus the Anointed through
baptism’s ceremonial washing,[a] we entered into His death? 4 Therefore, we
were buried with Him through this baptism into death so that just as God the
Father, in all His glory, resurrected the Anointed One, we, too, might walk
confidently out of the grave into a new life. 5 To put it another way: if we
have been united with Him to share in a death like His, don’t you understand
that we will also share in His resurrection? 6 We know this: whatever we used
to be with our old sinful ways has been nailed to His cross. So our entire
record of sin has been canceled, and we no longer have to bow down to sin’s
power. 7 A dead man, you see, cannot be bound by sin. 8 But if we have died
with the Anointed One, we believe that we shall also live together with Him. 9
So we stand firm in the conviction that death holds no power over God’s
Anointed, because He was resurrected from the dead never to face death again.
10 When He died, He died to whatever power sin had, once and for all, and now
He lives completely to God. 11 So here is how to picture yourself now that you
have been initiated into Jesus the Anointed: you are dead to sin’s power and
influence, but you are alive to God’s rule.
12
Don’t invite that insufferable tyrant of sin back into your mortal body so you
won’t become obedient to its destructive desires
