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🗓️ 21 March 2023
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Love has become the greatest stumbling block to many Christians, because we have used “love our neighbors as ourselves” as an excuse not to share the Gospel. This applies particularly towards the LGBT community.
We all know and love someone in the LGBT community – someone with whom we don’t think we can be honest and share the Truth with. But we as Christians need to remember that we can stand in truth and love at the same time and that loving our neighbor doesn’t mean affirming their lifestyle.
On this episode of “The Elephant in the Room” series, I talk about how to love the LGBT community like Jesus does, with both grace and truth.
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0:00.0 | Love has become the greatest stumbling block to many Christians when it comes to the LGBT community. |
0:06.0 | Loving your neighbor doesn't mean affirming LGBT. |
0:10.0 | And that's what we're here to talk about on today's episode of Fearless. |
0:16.0 | Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. |
0:18.0 | Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith and a compromising culture. Today we're continuing with the elephant in the room series and as I was writing my notes preparing for today, I just sometimes ask myself, |
0:45.9 | why did I choose to do a series on these tough topics? |
0:49.4 | Because they are tough, but the Lord has laid them on my heart to talk about and today is just no different it's a tough subject |
0:57.9 | and we all know and love someone that's a part of the LGBT community. |
1:05.0 | Whether it's a family member, whether it's a close friend, a coworker, |
1:09.0 | we've all been affected by this community somehow. |
1:13.0 | And I can remember as a kid in the early 90s, |
1:17.0 | these vivid memories. |
1:19.0 | I remember one time we were in Minneapolis |
1:21.0 | for years and years, that's where my grandfather's office was, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and I was up there to hear him speak. |
1:27.0 | And at the time in the 90s, Minneapolis was a hub for the homosexual community. |
1:34.0 | And we happened to be there, Darren, like a pride parade. |
1:37.4 | And I remember walking out my hotel room. |
1:40.3 | This is the only memory I have of this whole trip which shows you the power of just images the power of like sin can have at a young age |
1:48.1 | I can just remember walking out with two men dressed up as firemen with like real short shorts and they were kissing on the back of a fire truck. |
1:56.0 | And I just never seen anything. I came from a small mountain town in Boone, North Carolina. |
2:00.0 | And you know, my mom just, they didn't like shield me from it and they use that as talking points but you look how much has changed since the 90s. I can remember the first time seeing it like on the news there was like a gay parade and they were highlighting something on the news I can just remember those images. |
2:20.0 | But the sexual sin of the LGBT community has become just broadly accepted today. |
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