If you are a nonaffirming Christian—who believes that practicing gay and lesbian people are living in sin and that homosexual relations are among the most sinful things a person could engage in—then, if you truly desire to follow Jesus, you should have more LGBT friends and not less. You should be frequenting the gay district in town, inviting gays and lesbians over to your house, and asking to stay with gay and lesbian friends in their houses. If Jesus could dine with a person like Zacchaeus, then certainly you could bring yourself to enter into a humanity-affirming relationship with gay and
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I know this is in a personal, informal portion of the chapter, but this is not a responsible charge. This essentially says, "if you believe the scriptural witness (which should be the majority of christias who belong to true churches) then you need to go to the mission field that i care deeply about.
