It all depends on how we view the church. Is it a showcase of perfect Christians, or is it a hospital for spiritually sick sinners?
When I first joined the AOG in 1966, they had a Sunday morning fellowship service and a Sunday night evangelistic meeting. I notice that in later years. the Sunday night meeting has disappeared (in many parts of New Zealand). So it seems now to be all centred on the Sunday morning service which may or may not include an evangelistic component.
I also noticed that in order to get unconverted folk to walk forward to receive Christ the message was, "It is all of God's grace, and you will be forgiven and cleansed just by believing in Jesus and what He did on the Cross for you." But when that same new believer joined the church things changed and "if you want to continue fellowshiping with us, you need to follow our rules." It is no wonder that many new converts fell away because of the demands of others in the church, and so they stopped going to church because "I don't want these people telling me how to live my life."
This is because many churches try to change people into what it thinks they should be, instead of leaving it to the Holy Spirit to work in the new converts to change them into the person's God wants them to be. Instead of being intercessors for these new converts, they end up being interferers in their personal lives, as they impose: "Our way or the highway!"
Yes, Paul is quite clear about who is qualified to be a leader in the church. He also says that novices in the faith shouldn't be given leadership responsibility either. This means that making someone who has been in the faith just over five minutes the youth leader, is an error which in many cases has had disastrous consequences.
So the church should be a welcoming place for all sorts of people, LGBT people included. I wouldn't have any problem having a trans person sitting beside me in church, nor would I have any difficulty being in a service where people identifying themselves as lesbian or gay. But I would not sit under the ministry of a homosexual or trans minister. This is because Paul says that a church leader has to be "beyond reproach" and 'respectable" in their conduct. I believe that an LGBT person who is genuinely converted to Christ, will, over time be changed into the person whom God wants to be and qualified for leadership in the church. It takes faith to believe that in terms of LGBT Christians that "all things are possible with God" and that as they progress in the faith and grow in grace, the LGBT component will fall away. But it needs to happen in an environment of love, tolerance and acceptance of where a person is at during this transition period in their Christian lives.
I don't agree with LGBT people in church being constantly harassed and Bible bashed concerning what it says about homosexuality. People are not changed through Bible bashing. In fact, when an LGBT person receives Christ, they become new creatures; old things have passed away and all things have become new." This means that God no longer sees them as LGBT, but as born again believers in Christ. There is no condemnation for them because they are in Christ. But it takes time for the external conduct and the forsaking of the flesh to take effect as the Holy Spirit continues to work within them to bring them in line with where they actually stand with Christ.
The trouble is that many churches do not have the faith, love and patience to allow the Holy Spirit to work within LGBT converts to achieve the appropriate level of holiness in His time. They want it to happen in their time, and they continue to reject and Bible bash these converts until they either conform or leave. They usually leave, and they are ruined for any further attempts to encourage them to carry on for Christ.
Now, having said that, I have no respect for an LGBT "pastor" preaching theology. He wants us to accept that being gay is acceptable, and that because Jesus never said anything concerning LGBT, that this "pastor" can presume that he is qualified to run a church and teaching theology to the members. If I had my way, that "pastor" would be encouraged to leave the church at the end of my boot, and not be welcomed back until he repented of his homosexuality and submitted to the Holy Spirit so he can be changed into the person whom God wants him to be.
Being a member of a Union (Methodist/Presbyterian) church, I could see in the foreseeable future that we could have a homosexual minister. Our Methodist district superintendent is Lesbian. If she came to take a service in our church, I would stay away. But if we did have a homosexual minister, I would still continue to be the treasurer and property convenor, but I would stay away from services when he conducted and preached in them. It's bad enough having to sit through the "nothing burgers" that some liberal visiting preachers serve up to us. I appreciate the Lord making a way for me to conduct services around once a month where I can give the Word of God to the people and have their respect for my faithfulness to the Lord.
However, these are my comments for what they are worth.