If Your Child is Living an LGBT Lifestyle
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Some Christian parents sadly are dealing with the reality that their child identifies with an LGBT lifestyle. Jim Daly and Dr. Gary Chapman address how a parent can respond in a Christ-like manner in that situation. Then, Danny will provide some encouragement, even if your son or daughter is currently in a same-sex relationship.
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| 0:28.4 | slash impossible. Sadly, some parents have a very difficult circumstance. They've got to manage a relationship with an adult |
| 0:39.9 | child who wants to live something that mom and dad cannot grab onto. They can't endorse. I'm talking |
| 0:47.3 | specifically about having a child who says, I'm going to live an active homosexual lifestyle. How do you |
| 0:54.1 | stay strong? How do you respond? How do you love well? We're going to live an active homosexual lifestyle. How do you stay strong? |
| 0:54.8 | How do you respond? |
| 0:55.6 | How do you love well? |
| 0:56.8 | We're going to tackle some of those things today. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team. |
| 1:04.2 | And Dr. Gary Chapman is a wealth of wisdom. |
| 1:07.6 | He has written dozens and dozens of books. |
| 1:10.7 | He's best known for his series about the five |
| 1:13.8 | love languages, and he and Jim Daly talked about this really difficult issue. Let me push a little |
| 1:20.7 | deeper because I'm just mindful of the parents that are living in this space, because some of |
| 1:25.1 | this, to me, this is the gift of the prophet, |
| 1:28.0 | the gift of the evangelist. |
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