Netflix’s Queer Eye Season 1 Episode 5, MIND BLOWN.

First of all shout out to the people who have made this show & the multi colored lens of diversity they have decided to shoot it through. 

You can honestly tell episode by episode that the core values of this show are diversity, respect, & hearing out others even when their views differ from yours. 

I might as well get to the good part I’m building up to. In episode 5 of season one of the show Queer Eye (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) the fab 5 (an all gay men makeover crew) have an interaction with their client who happens to be a Christian. & after a couple of days of their interactions together, the Christian dude beautifully spills out his heart to the men who have just blessed him GREATLY & changed his life DRASTICALLY. 

Near the end of the episode he begins by sharing the vision of how his wife & him had been praying over these few days of all the guys hanging out together & how the couple really intentionally above all else wanted the guys to feel loved & accepted in their home, DESPITE how the church may have made them feel unacceptable in the past. They were finally being welcomed by members of the Christian church in this moment. 

Watching this for myself I had to pause what I was seeing because my mind was so blown in the moment. First of all, wow! A Christian in a secular show being seen from THEIR perspective as a loving father, husband, & a friend to the fab 5 despite their lifestyle differences. & wow! The Christian client’s response was love, not bashing, not arguing, but love! Just as he knew Jesus had loved Him even before he ever knew Him. 

Second of all, the way the Fab 5 were receiving it all. There were tears of finally receiving what the church should have always been giving them all along, the love of Christ. Even 1 Corinthians 13 speaks of the importance of love & how without it we’re just a resounding gong, a clanging cymbal, a useless noise basically. If we do all the right things the wrong way, did we do anything right at all?

I finally got to see it, not only a good representation of us Christians from their perspective but a milestone standard. The standard example of the way the church should be treating ALL minority groups (including the LGBTQ community) whether they understand them or not. Where there is no love, there is fear & that’s the way the church has been known to react to this community for so long now. Out of fear, the church grabs their torches & pitchforks & kicks people out of the church when they were never so perfect themselves.

When did we get the license to judge when we ourselves have lived lives so guilty? What made us even think this would be the alright thing to do? Fear did. But perfect love casts out all of it. & what I’ve seen in this episode is the beginning of what has been long delayed: a church loving ALL people just as their Father has loved ALL of them. 

We as the church haven’t made it yet, but we’re on our way, & we’re getting closer everyday. Apologies for how the church may have treated you in the past but believing for the best for the future. 

Peace. 

3/26/18