Often on social media, I see videos and news stories of Christian men and women declaring that their belief in God means that they can discriminate against people. They represents businesses and environments where they fully stand on the belief that Jesus calls them to not service and relationship with the LGBTQ community. All I think is we have learned nothing from history.

“When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Will you give me a drink?’ (His disciples had gone into town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him ‘You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?’ (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.’
‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?’
Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’
The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.’
He told her, ‘Go, call your husband and come back.’
‘I have no husband,’ she replied.
Jesus said to her, ‘You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.’
The woman said, ‘I know that the Messiah’ (called Christ) ‘is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’
Then Jesus declared, ‘I, the one speaking to you- I am he.'”
John 4:7-18; 25-26 NIV

This is the story of the woman at the well. She is a Samaritan, an enemy of the Jews. The Jewish people considered them impure. Since, they were part Israelite and part Assyrian. She had been married five times and was living with a man that was not her husband. Her life would have gotten her stoned to death under Jewish law. Yet, she is the very first person that Jesus offers salvation to and shares that he is the Messiah. We are still reading her story thousands of years later.

“‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’
Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Laws and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'”
Matthew 22:36-40 NIV

Jesus says the sum of the Ten Commandments is to love God and love your neighbor. Your neighbor is your enemy; it is people of other races and demographics; it is the LGBTQ community. It is everyone that you encounter in life.

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV

We have been given the wonderfully important responsibility of being the face of God to the lost, sick, and harmed. YOUR belief in God should be changing your life daily. BUT the same place he met you at. The place of disbelief; the place where you were lost in sin; the place where you came to faith and God began to fill your life with his grace, mercy, and favor. That place still exists for your neighbor.
God gave us the responsibility of being the light for darkness; the place of love and compassion. The literal face of Jesus. This is for everybody. It’s for people that may not look, dress, and live like you. Everyone.

“This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.”
1 Timothy 2:3-6 NIV

God.
Wants.
All.
People.
Saved.

It is our responsibility to be the face of Jesus for everyone.