What to NOT SAY (and say) When Someone "Comes Out" as Gay? - ft/Caleb Boggan
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- It’s becoming more and more common for someone you know to come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning. But what should a Christian’s response be? What’s the right language to meet someone with compassion yet hold a standard of truth?
Heavy on truth? Heavy on grace?
While unpacking what this conversation ideally looks like, we discovered some well-meaning Christian responses that may seem like the right thing to say, but ultimately cause more hurt and damage to an individual's healing journey.
Caleb Boggan, Director of Pastoral Care at CHANGED Movement, has gathered these top ten responses as “Failed First Responses” to guide Christians in what to avoid saying, and what to say instead.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Self Discovery Booklet: How Our Childhood Shaped Our Sexual Identity
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CHANGED Movement : Testimonies of individuals leaving LGBTQ Lifestyle
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Navigating LGBTQ:
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I love Caleb so much! He is full of the Spirit of God! His heart of worship and genuine love for Jesus is evident and the fruit is his desire to love others well! During a worship meeting at YWAM Chico I encountered Jesus as Caleb led worship, his voice and tender heart are amazing!! God is using him mightily in this generation!! 🥰
30 years ago, a religious minor celebrity named Anita Bryant started a program called Homo Nomo. 😊 I believe it failed to gain traction and vanished somewhere along the line. Live and Let Live. 😇
Great! thanks, Abram and Caleb
Amazing!
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so beautiful🥰😇😇
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What kinds of ways can we teach kids, so that we minimize their chances of going down the LGBT identity road? Or does the LGBT identity just happen no matter what we say or don't say during their childhood, like it's baked in to them and just takes time til it manifests? I don't think so, hence the question in my first sentence.
So, what kind of things can we say to them or teach them throughout their young life? What can we say to them or teach them before they are seriously considering LGBT identity but after they start hearing about this on the school playground? It's an honest question and I just don't know.
@SwordofLaban That's a great and very full question. No, we don't believe people are destined to an LGBTQ Identity. We do find some common themes of those who struggle with same-sex-attraction or an LGBTQ identity. Many of those come out of childhood, which you can read more about in the Self-Discovery resource linked in the caption (too much to say here). As far as what things we do or say involves creating an environment in our home of having open connection and conversations around sexuality. Some of this involves teaching them God's design for sex, some of this involves connecting with them and their thoughts beliefs about themselves, sexuality, men and women, and more. We have to remember that our goal is not to create straight or not-gay children, but to build whole, emotionally whole, connected humans. We've got a resource called Parent Well - letsparentwell.com that helps us create that environment and navigate raising kids in a hyper-sexualized culture.
@@MoralRevolutionInc Thanks for the resources! Would love an episode on this.
To help u it honestly depends some people are born gay or know they are at a young age while others don’t until they hit puberty. And others think they are but find out they aren’t which is fine. Kids honestly don’t talk about sex or about being gay. People can be gay and straight and that is fine if your kid goes through their entire life without having a thought about liking someone of the same sex even if they learn about lgbtq people than that is them knowing they are straight but if they question their sexual identity even if u thought them strictly than that ain’t your fault nor theirs because one can’t help who they like.
Inform children that there is a real enemy to your soul that seeks to distance them from God. Their weapons are lies and temptations to sin ( violations against design). The enemy must be resisted or cast out in the name of Jesus.
The latter method is required especially when a Christian claims to be "born that way"