Some days I read Facebook and I feel like a dying breed. It's awful.

Christ says His true church will persevere, though. So I have to believe that when my newsfeed is filled with rainbow flags and bathroom signs.

Days like this I read Gospel Coalition or Desiring God or Matt Moore and I remember that conservative, Gospel-centered thought still thrives, and in young minds, too. But in the middle of my friends, I feel alone.

I am sure, though, that my conservative friends (I know I have them) are just the less vocal, because it's Facebook and who wants to announce their conservative views in the current cultural climate? I know that's me.

But it's hard when I see friends I thought were still on the straight and narrow stepping outside the edges. It's hard when they post preachy things aimed at people like me, as if because I believe God had a certain design for men and women, that that automatically means I hate people who deviate from that design.

I don't hate them. I think they are broken and in need of a Savior and redemption on their lives.

But these people don't want my sympathy, either. They don't want any part of the Gospel if it means leaving behind their idea of healthy sexuality. Unfortunately, Jesus calls us to die to our sinful selves, and that includes, among other things, anything outside the bounds of heterosexual, married, monogamous relations.

Anyway. Days like this I'm glad my diary here isn't public and doesn't have a newsfeed like Facebook. I couldn't take anymore emotional beatings today, personal or otherwise.

-Stephanie

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