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Can Your Kids Have Gay Friends?


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Then how do you give them the Gospel then? I mean, Jesus was attacked by the Pharisees for hanging out with " sinners"!! Jesus was involved with them to give them the Good News, but yet the Pharisees could show now compassion for the lost, the very same people He would hang on a cross for!!


You don't have to be a friend to present the Gospel to anyone. It is our job to present. We don't do the saving, Jesus does.
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Exactly. Being a friend is not a requirement to take the Gospel to the lost. When one goes door knocking, he is more often than not a stranger knocking on the door, not a friend to whom lives in that home.


And door knocking is not the only requirement for evangelism, sometimes it requires you to get involved, personally in someone's life at the cost of your time and energy, because that's loving the lost, it's easier just to knock on someone's door, irritate them because your are invading their personall time, interrupt what they are doing, just to hand them a pamphlet and tell them how wicked they are.
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You don't have to be a friend to present the Gospel to anyone. It is our job to present. We don't do the saving, Jesus does.


Considering for a second you don't know the gospel, you will listen to a stranger rather than somebody you know or trust?
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I agree with Jeffrey on all accounts.  I got saved by having a Christian friend who introduced me to the fact that I was a sinner and needed salvation and then I started going to church.  My spouse got saved through Christian friends at work.  There has to be some level of trust, friendship, closeness, caring.  Jesus didn't go door to door.  I'm not knocking that type of evangelism, but don't think it's that effective, especially in discipleship.  I never open the door to strangers.  I never would have been saved with that method.   

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1 Cor 9

 19  For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

 20  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

 21  To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

 22  To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

 23  And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

This passage is about Paul changing his presentation of the Gospel (not the Gospel but his presentation method) according to whom he was speaking.

It actually has nothing to do with going into brothels or pubs as some suggest.

It has far more to do with HOW not where we present the Gospel.

That means that for some people a friendship needs to be established before their heart is prepared for the Gospel.
Another may be saved by a single encounter at their own doorstep.

Look at Paul presenting the Gospel to those at Mars Hill - he begins by explaining who God is.....

But to Agrippa there is no need of that, for he is familiar with the God of the Hebrews.

Paul's point is that people are different and therefore the sharing of the Gospel needs to suit the person - not the facts, but the method.

I know you all know this from your own experience too - you all know a man who was saved when he walked down the aisle at an invitation, and you know people who were saved as an individual person showed them from God's Word, and some may even know of one who was saved alone by reading a salvation tract.

But the Bible is plain that our 'friends' should be saved people.
we need to be friendly to the lost however, and that may include befriending them.

I think we need two different words for friend maybe?????
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There's no way a saved man can be friends with a homo. Just go ahead and deceived yourself into thinking that. You can be "nice" and kind and be friendly to them or help them out in a time of need but that's the extent. You start "hanging" with them or trying to bond with them or understand their position you are going to hurt yourself and your kids who are watching you. Why would you anyway? And please don't give me that, "I'm trying to get the gospel to them" when you know that's not true. Hang out with those of a like mindedness. 

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I agree with Jeffrey on all accounts.  I got saved by having a Christian friend who introduced me to the fact that I was a sinner and needed salvation and then I started going to church.  My spouse got saved through Christian friends at work.  There has to be some level of trust, friendship, closeness, caring.  Jesus didn't go door to door.  I'm not knocking that type of evangelism, but don't think it's that effective, especially in discipleship.  I never open the door to strangers.  I never would have been saved with that method.   

And I got saved by someone who held a sign up at a baseball game. 

 

You don't need to be a friend to present the gospel.

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The point is most people get saved by people they know.  I have a lot of gay people in my family.  They're still my family.  I still love them.  They are welcome in my home and this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

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There's no way a saved man can be friends with a homo. Just go ahead and deceived yourself into thinking that. You can be "nice" and kind and be friendly to them or help them out in a time of need but that's the extent. You start "hanging" with them or trying to bond with them or understand their position you are going to hurt yourself and your kids who are watching you. Why would you anyway? And please don't give me that, "I'm trying to get the gospel to them" when you know that's not true. Hang out with those of a like mindedness. 

Homo is a derogatory name.  Please see my post on Forum Etiquette.  Maybe I should change the name to "Christian Etiquette.  If someone went up to my nephew and called him that, I would feel compelled to punch him in the nose.

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