Question: Jan writes in response to the article “The Christian Response to the Gay Today Forum”: God bless this kind of ministry. I am encouraged by your passion in reaching out to them. I have some concern related to this. Every first Saturday of December, there’s a LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) parade in Malate area, what should Christian churches do with this? Should a church just keep silent and watch them?
Answer: With regard to the question raised about whether our church should respond to the gay parade, I personally believe that meeting these people there head-on and trying to stop their parade may just produce negative results. Some kind of confrontation may just make them more adamant and defiant about exercising their “rights” to engage in this sinful bondage/lifestyle.
The approach we have been taking is to focus on God’s love and the presentation of the gospel, in line with CCF’s overall thrust. What we can do is to send some people to these parades and try to invite select individuals into our programs and evangelistic seminars. We invite people, like Jan, to get involved. If anyone out there has a burden for these “deceived” souls to make time and become active and to join us in our activities to be able to influence a greater number of people. At the moment, we are understaffed and need to have more people join us in our ministry. Thanks very much! (Alberto Rodriguez)
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