If you are a member of the church and you think that some of our churches haven’t had to deal with some of these you are wrong. From time to time you will even find some who desire to practice perversions pushing for acceptance in the church of Christ.

   The question of accepting a transsexual has even presented itself at times. Should someone have completed the so called transition process then they would have to repent (cf. I Cor. 6:11, Rev. 16:9). If not completed then repentance requires that one reverse the process as far as is possible.

    Some of these perversions contain the desire to act and dress “effeminate”. Read I Cor. 6:9 above to identify such as not acceptable to local church fellowship. The Gospel gives a local church the right to disfellowship or not accept anyone who continues in sin (I Cor. 5:1-13). When I read definitions of the word for some reason I think of Liberache and the ways he used to dress and present himself. To me, though young then, there was always something degenerate there. Today transvestites are often trying to win beauty contests. Do they somehow think they are going to be as popular as Liberache? The parading they do in public is disgusting and they aren’t the beauties they think they are!

    Being effeminate is nothing new, it is just that they have available today science that can assist and take it to a further extent than in the past centuries. Such things have had their issues in days gone by (cf. De. 22:5). This kind of thing was viewed as effeminacy in man and impudence in woman. Women today who try to look and dress like men are most often lesbians (cf. Rom. 1:24-27).

 

  In talking to other Christians about such degeneracy some points of wisdom worth sharing have been gleaned:

 

1. If married imagine what one puts their mate through unless their mate is just as degenerate as they are.

2. Consider the conjugal obligation in I Cor. 7:1-3 for the married. One does not have the right to take away their ability to perform!

3. A little sarcasm might help: This is not what Jesus meant when he said there are some who make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom’s sake.

4. It’s been said this is not like losing one’s next page