LGBT in Heaven?

Will there be LGBT people in Heaven?  

Will there be people in Heaven who taught that LGBT is an acceptable lifestyle in the eyes of God?

Who told you that your answers are correct?

The church has but one mission in this world: to lead people destined to spend eternity in hell to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and an eternity in heaven.

Well - I'd think that opening would get some interest!  One way or another, people seem to be on all sides of this issue - and apparently even those on the same side have a hard time getting along with each other!  In fact, this post is a result of someone else's post that I recently read.  As a result of that, when I was reading Alone With God the quote below practically jumped off the page and screamed to be written about.

I wrote this November 13, 2014. 
As I'm moving it over here to this site and doing the reformatting, I've also made a few updates.
The updates are in text like this.

So - before we go any further - let me shake up some of you with a quote from Alone with God, by John MacArthur Jr. -

Did you catch all of that?  Let me tell you, it surprised me.  This is John MacArthur - not some liberal "Christian " preacher who says everyone gets saved.  No - this is the person who wrote in the same book -

We frequently come to crossroads in our lives where we have to choose between doing God's will or our own.

I've been challenged a lot lately by the Holy Spirit to examine what I believe about some things.  It's a painful process - to realize that things you thought would be true - are maybe 100% against what the Bible appears to say -- or, more properly, maybe what we'd like to think it appears to say.  We read enough about many issues - like the LGBT one - to believe that we're right.  We hear ministers say things - we hear "conservatives" say things - we hear "liberals" say something very different - we think we know what the Bible says - and we pick sides.  Yeah - maybe there's a little voice in our heads that's asking - is that really right?  But it's such a small voice - and the rest of the world is so loud.  And there's really only two sides to an issue - right?  Who told us that one?  Must be Satan.

Let's look at what MacArthur said in more detail -

The church has but one mission in this world: to lead people destined to spend eternity in hell to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and an eternity in heaven.

 This should be non-controversial, I would have thought - but I'm pretty sure there's quite a few people who disagree.  More on that in a different post some day.  The difficulty comes in the two sentences just before that one:

When that attitude merges with the perspective that Christians ought to impact the culture by legislating morality, the church is severely diverted from its main purpose. Although changing our society by calling it back to a safer morality is a noble goal, that has never been Christ’s goal for His church.