How do you deal with a gay friend?

[scotty]

Originally Posted by Jack Shephard

Sorry, Scotty, I should have been clearer with my response. When I said the being around your family thing I was taking for granted that we would both understand I was talking about under your roof. Forgive me - that was my bad & a communication error.

You mentioned clouded discussions. I have a question or sorts. The things you mentioned about baptism & such, I have always understood that from a typical OP point of view that those individuals that don't do it 'the way the OP churches teach' then they are in sin. I have understood it to be a belief by many OP's that these people are just as wrong as two boys kissing...do you feel these way? Not attempting to argue at all - looking for information for my knowledge. I am the first to tell anyone I don't have all the answers or all the right info.

Not sure why this is relevant to this discussion but ok. No, I do not judge people in their salvational beliefs. I believe in salvation through repentance, baptism in Jesus name, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost w/evidence of other tongues. I am oneness. I will not judge a one steppers salvation. Do I believe they are lost? I hope not. I hope they are right and I am simply over doing it. Either way, "let each work out their own salvation with fear and trembling".

I wasn't sure that you would monitor their every move. It seemed that you might based on your comment previously, but glad you clarified this for me. I know for me, personally, I invited my roommates to move in with me. I have no problem with them, their lifestyle or whatever. They are perhaps the most conservative openly gay male couple in the world. One voted for Romney in the election. I knew what I was getting myself into with this living situation. It couldn't be a better living arrangement than it is with them.

I am not a believer in "evil spirits" getting all over me because of their actions and me being damned anymore than anyone else's faith being able to save me.
(that was just a statement not a response to anything you said exactly)

Yeah, I'm not much on evil spirits brushing off on me either. But just the same as churches have a problem with marrying gay couples in their sactuary, I have a problem with it, or any other sin, in my home.