I have only just replied to the thread
That's it... EVERYBODY STOP!!
This subject is confrontational, and the question I feel is not worth the answer. We are, are we not believers in Christ? Do we not believe He died for our sins and rose again so we can have a relationship with the Father as it always should have been, and that His grace and righteousness keeps us safe and approves our place in the Kingdom to come?
We know that these other subjects are not at the table we all meet at to partake of the Love feast our Lord commanded us to keep.
If we come across them (subjects like homosexuality) and Jesus is mentioned as if he were condoning these acts then we know Jesus isn't there, the Holy Spirit does not rule in that environment and that calls for the big guns to come out, prayer. Prayer of the Spirit, fervent prayer, the sort that demolishes strongholds, that combined with love is how we meet these crisis not confrontation. The only thing Jesus was confrontational about was within the remit of "Zeal for my fathers house consumes me", It is His house, His church, He will deal with these people and doesn't need our help confronting them He wants our help to love them, show a better way and be a guide to what the Holy Spirit can do, be a guide for them to receive the Holy Spirit in the state they are, even as a homosexual, because if the Holy Spirit has ever worked in you , then you know the Holy Spirit will not leave them as they are, love the person, forget the sin that is what Jesus will sort out it is his church.
As for people outside the church, they are all dying in sin and what they do is of no consequence because they all need Jesus, they need to hear the gospel, the good news that God has made a way for us to be intimate with Him on an individual and personal level. They don,t kneed to know what they have to give up to get there, how can a dead person jump a hurdle? the hurdles come with life and even them it is not our right to put them there, we are told to love, love them to death. Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners did He not? He took a massive gamble on us accepting his sacrifice for a covering for our sins. The Holy Spirit gets to work within us and completes the process of unification with the Father if we let Him, That is His job, not ours. Lets let him do it and we do as we are told, love your neighbour.