It is my experience that it is best that IF your "gay CHRISTIAN friend" doesn't think it is wrong for him to be gay, THEN don't be friends with him.
Cut him off.
I think we need to clarify the difference between acquaintances and friends.
This person is different from most other sinners that don't pretend to be a practicing and faithful Christian. I would hold such an acquaintance closer to me that fit into that category than a self-professing Christian that has embraced any sin as right.
They are deceived and are in danger of a judgement worse than the infidels who have never known God.
Seriously, you gotta be careful.
Ungodly compromises to befriend someone are just as sinful as any other sin.
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I would just say, I think you know how I personally feel about this subject however let's talk about things we agree on....unless the person wants to change why make them upset? Pray for them. I have a very close friend that is like a brother he is gay...I seldom see him anymore but when I do I talk about other things. We grew up together. (Next door neighbors) he was always at our house. All I can do is pray that someday he will see things in a different light. Yes, and he does go to a church that accepts him... I would never on purpose be unkind to anyone because of their lifestyle....
This needs to be quoted AGAIN.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
It is my experience that it is best that IF your "gay CHRISTIAN friend" doesn't think it is wrong for him to be gay, THEN don't be friends with him.
Cut him off.
I think we need to clarify the difference between acquaintances and friends.
This person is different from most other sinners that don't pretend to be a practicing and faithful Christian. I would hold such an acquaintance closer to me that fit into that category than a self-professing Christian that has embraced any sin as right.
They are deceived and are in danger of a judgement worse than the infidels who have never known God.
Seriously, you gotta be careful.
Ungodly compromises to befriend someone are just as sinful as any other sin.
I pray that your brother or your sister, or your cousin NEVER come 'out'. YOU, will NEVER win them to Christ.
God, help you and bless you with some compassion. Worse yet- what if your CHILD chooses this lifestyle? What will you do then??
It is my experience that it is best that IF your "gay CHRISTIAN friend" doesn't think it is wrong for him to be gay, THEN don't be friends with him.
Cut him off.
I think we need to clarify the difference between acquaintances and friends.
This person is different from most other sinners that don't pretend to be a practicing and faithful Christian. I would hold such an acquaintance closer to me that fit into that category than a self-professing Christian that has embraced any sin as right.
They are deceived and are in danger of a judgement worse than the infidels who have never known God.
Seriously, you gotta be careful.
Ungodly compromises to befriend someone are just as sinful as any other sin.
I never noticed the poster said gay CHRISTIAN friend. Jeremy is absolutly right. We are to have NO COMPANY with one who calls himself a BROTHER but is practicing fornication.
I never noticed the poster said gay CHRISTIAN friend. Jeremy is absolutly right. We are to have NO COMPANY with one who calls himself a BROTHER but is practicing fornication.
Yet, some sit under pastors practing fornication.
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Back to the original question of "How do you deal with a gay friend". If you are stumped and need to buy some time and the gay friend is male I suggest giving him a gift of either Marilyn Monroe or Judy Garland's greatest movies on DVD or a CD of the "Best of Broadway Musicals". He will love you forever.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Back to the original question of "How do you deal with a gay friend". If you are stumped and need to buy some time and the gay friend is male I suggest giving him a gift of either Marilyn Monroe or Judy Garland's greatest movies on DVD or a CD of the "Best of Broadway Musicals". He will love you forever.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
As a child, I had NO CLUE what a bonafide 'homosexual' was. I only knew that it was an adbomination to God to be a FAG, or a HOMO, or a QUEER. words that came across the pulpit many times in my young life. My family had no dealings with any homosexuals, nor did we have any in our family circle. (That we KNEW about). This lifestyle was talked about with disgust, venomous words were used to describe them, and the word 'hate' was used in the same sentence as 'homo' quite a bit.
Imagine my surprise when, in my 40's I had to rub elbows with a co-worker that was openly gay. Six months after I got that job, he got a better offer from a company and he asked me to go with him and be his assistant. I jumped at the opportunity. Best boss I ever had. We are 'friendly' to this day. He knew that I didn't agree with his lifestyle, but we decided to agree to disagree- in an effort to continue to be friends. I rarely see him anymore, but if I saw him tomorrow, I could hug his neck and eat lunch with him.
Since that time, I have had several folks in my family 'come out'...I hurt when I see the way they are treated by the old time Pentecostals in our family. You will never win someone that you have embittered. It will never happen. When you refuse to come to family get-togethers, and Christmas dinners, or weddings, or funerals- because 'they' are going to be there- YOU have the problem, not 'THEM'.
Is the fact that I treat them as the family they are, a sign of compromise and tolerance? NO. It's simple courtesy. A word that I fear is swiftly disappearing among some circles in the Apostolic movement.When I hug their neck and say, "I love you"- they know I mean it. Because I DO. In actions, and in words. I am NOT saying that I love the way they are living. I love THEM, the human being that they are. We ALL have sinned and come short- God help us ALL- none of us have yet MADE IT to glory.
Just my two cents worth.
I agree with you, such associations tend to give evidence of whether one is a beliver in Christ Jesus or not, I'm talking about us, not them.
One of my best friends son has "come out", we were all shocked and in unbelief, we have cried together and prayed together, been angry together. God is faithful, and the story in not complete.
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