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11 year old only christian in her family. I need help on how to help her regarding homosexuality.
I will try to make this as simple as possible. I am a young christian married woman with two kids and a wonderful husband. On my side of the family the only other Christians are my parents, at least until recently. Last year my then 10 year old cousin gave her life to Christ at the Harvest Crusade in SoCal. Her parents are very much not Christians. I know that my aunt believes the typical God exists and all morally good people go to heaven bid. My uncle Im not sure even believe he exists at all but if he does its the same bid. So my cousin has been opening her bible and doing her devotions of her own accord at her home. Praise God! What ten year old has that kind of discipline? I know I didn't. Recently she came to me with a question regarding homosexuality as her mother tried telling her she cant love her uncle and grandma (on her dads side) who are gay. I immediately reassured her she didn't have to stop loving them at all! And I tried explaining to the best of my ability to an 11 year old that she still needed to stand her ground however that God does in fact say it is a sin however. I explained she (not that she was trying to) and everyone else cant pick and choose parts of the bible they agree or dont agree with. Ok so to get to my questions, up until this point her parents have been kinda "whatever" about her pursuing Christianity. But now that these things are heating up I can feel the tension in the air regarding these particular issues. I am afraid they wont allow her to see me or go to church anymore. Lately on facebook both her parents have been posting various memes, pictures, articles regarding in anything from the typical "I support Gay Marriage" which I just ignore to using bible verses out of context which I feel I need to address and stand up for. Her dad who is such a quiet easy going guy usually just posted this on his feed addressed, "To all the fake Christians!!!"
Pastor Just Said Something That Blew His Entire Congregation Away... Wow.
I feel like I need to respond to this. Am I crazy? Even if I dont respond what if he asks me in person since I am teaching his daughter what my response is to his or similar questions? I am not good with words. I know the bible states that its a sin, I know that this article is invalid but these kinds of questions like the one about stonning for divorce are asked all the time and used against us...how do I defend that? What if they go to her with verses talking about stoning people over things like this? How do I explain that to an 11 year old? She is coming over tomorrow and I want to talk with her more in person about these things and how they can be strewed out of context but I dont know what to say
PLEASE HELP
I will try to make this as simple as possible. I am a young christian married woman with two kids and a wonderful husband. On my side of the family the only other Christians are my parents, at least until recently. Last year my then 10 year old cousin gave her life to Christ at the Harvest Crusade in SoCal. Her parents are very much not Christians. I know that my aunt believes the typical God exists and all morally good people go to heaven bid. My uncle Im not sure even believe he exists at all but if he does its the same bid. So my cousin has been opening her bible and doing her devotions of her own accord at her home. Praise God! What ten year old has that kind of discipline? I know I didn't. Recently she came to me with a question regarding homosexuality as her mother tried telling her she cant love her uncle and grandma (on her dads side) who are gay. I immediately reassured her she didn't have to stop loving them at all! And I tried explaining to the best of my ability to an 11 year old that she still needed to stand her ground however that God does in fact say it is a sin however. I explained she (not that she was trying to) and everyone else cant pick and choose parts of the bible they agree or dont agree with. Ok so to get to my questions, up until this point her parents have been kinda "whatever" about her pursuing Christianity. But now that these things are heating up I can feel the tension in the air regarding these particular issues. I am afraid they wont allow her to see me or go to church anymore. Lately on facebook both her parents have been posting various memes, pictures, articles regarding in anything from the typical "I support Gay Marriage" which I just ignore to using bible verses out of context which I feel I need to address and stand up for. Her dad who is such a quiet easy going guy usually just posted this on his feed addressed, "To all the fake Christians!!!"
Pastor Just Said Something That Blew His Entire Congregation Away... Wow.
I feel like I need to respond to this. Am I crazy? Even if I dont respond what if he asks me in person since I am teaching his daughter what my response is to his or similar questions? I am not good with words. I know the bible states that its a sin, I know that this article is invalid but these kinds of questions like the one about stonning for divorce are asked all the time and used against us...how do I defend that? What if they go to her with verses talking about stoning people over things like this? How do I explain that to an 11 year old? She is coming over tomorrow and I want to talk with her more in person about these things and how they can be strewed out of context but I dont know what to say
PLEASE HELP