With Christian forebearance, perhaps?
You should treat a gay neighbor like any other neighbor - with kindness and dignity. Everybody is a sinner. We are called to be salt and light. That doesn’t mean you have to support their lifestyle in any way or even pretend you do. And if they pretend to be Christians then you really can’t socialize with them.
Why would I know if they are gay?
With respect but with a degree of guardedness. Do NOT share any personal information with them.
The same as any other neighbor.
Bump for later.
Same as any other sinner ... love the sinner, hate the sin.
Have to come up with a sign with a red circle, and a diagonal red line through it with a caricature that means “No Rump Jumpers”. Can’t figure a caricature that would not be offensive, kind of like gays.
humm. the guy is right but so muddled.
a pastor put it succintly: as God loves, “love the sinner, hate the sin.”
in this situation, whatever the sin in question, myself included, i hope to ask myself:
am i serving the sin or am i serving the sinner?
the answer, as always, is found in Jesus.
If they’re quiet, no loud parties, barking dogs , etc. they are okay in my book.
My son’s best friend is gay (my son is straight). I have known him since he was 8 and he has been in our lives for almost 20 years. He is like part of our family. My husband’s brother (who is deceased) was also gay and very much loved by everyone. Both know/knew our personal beliefs on the matter and our politics, as well. Those things will not change just because we happen to have people who are gay in our lives. If my son’s friend ever decided to marry another man, we could not attend or support that. This is true of many other things that our faith doesn’t support. Our hope is that we can show them through how we treat them that God loves all of us in spite of our sins and shortcomings. And that God’s love is not an endorsement of any behavior, it is rather transformative in nature.
If I had a gay neighbor dying of thirst I would probably give the sob a drink of water but i would still think of him as an SoB.
Jesus said love thy enemy, not in words but in action, help them out of the ditch even if you have to puke afterwards.
I would treat them like the queers they are.
I have casual friendly relationships with neighbors. Live in the northeast, so during the winter there isn’t much contact. In the nice months I would be friendly when out and about...chat about gardening, dogs, the weather....It’s not my job to condemn anyone. Now if their lifestyle infringed on my life, well then we might have a problem. If they brought it up I would state my views, I wouldn’t be shy about it, but neither would I be obnoxious. This all would depend on if they keep their private life private, ie behind closed doors as all adult sex lives should be.
They shouldn't. That is the job of the medical community.
With left-over aerial fireworks aimed in their general direction.
Bmk
——”When I’m in the presence of someone living that lifestyle, God and I both know how we feel about that,” Doug offered. “I don’t feel like I’m letting him down [by not confronting their behavior]. You don’t see Jesus lowering the boom that way except on the religious people.”-——
I think we forget as Christians the Holy Spirit is one who leads them to Christ...
To be able to hear the Holy Spirit one must have an open heart, berating homosexuals for their lifestyle will close their hearts up.
I’m sure most already feel condemned even if they will never admit it...