Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Not knowing the situation of the argument it's entirely possible that the parents where wrong in this case (or at least over zealous), but disowning children because of their sins is not unbiblical. 13:7).So, love your gay child as your child—unconditionally. And then love him or her most of all by calling for repentance and faith, because true life will only be found in Christ, not in the satisfaction of any of this world’s desires.Jonathan Leeman is the Editorial Director of 9Marks, and an elder at Cheverly Baptist Church in Cheverly, Maryland. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Of course not. The parents must both love the child utterly No doubt, there will be many specific moral dilemmas that the parent of a gay individual will have to wrestle through. She should remain his wife, which includes sharing meals with him. Since leaving, my husband and I have become foster carers and in turn advocates for children who otherwise may not have had a safe, secure, loving home and family. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. And a person who chooses to pursue homosexual activity cannot remain in good standing in a local church, as with anyone living in any significant and unrepentant sin.But God established one set of institutions for all creation, and another set for his new covenant people. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Of course not. Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, A loving parent responds, “It’s particularly immature and manipulative, then, when so many progressive writers—both those who do and don’t represent themselves as Christians—accuse Christian parents of being responsible for depression and patterns of self-harm that develop in gay children. Honor widows who are truly widows. Furthermore, I can imagine instances in life when a parent might evict a child from the home (imagine an alcoholic twenty year old who gets violent toward younger siblings or a mother). “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Our sexuality, at least in its present form, will not last into eternity, where Jesus says there will be no giving or receiving in marriage. It’s a Hollywood cliché, and about as morally sophisticated as Hollywood.Does the parent of the pedophile or child abuser speak this way? The accusations exacerbate the conflict and affirm our culture’s preference for idolatrous, immature, and self-centered conceptions of love, like encouraging a child to keep throwing a temper tantrum if he doesn’t get his candy bar: “Your dad will give you that candy if he loves you.” If an adolescent is given to self-harm, I’m inclined to think that either something is wrong inside the youth irrespective of the parent, or that that parent has not done a good job of loving the child for years in a host of other ways. So, no, I will not teach my daughters to identify themselves most fundamentally by their sexual desires or marriage partners, whether they are making good decisions or bad.
True love does not delight in wrongdoing, it rejoices in the truth. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Should the wife stop eating with the husband, or being his wife generally? From time to time I hear about Christian parents disowning, cutting off, or permanently shunning a son or daughter who adopts a gay lifestyle. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Make them known to your children and your children's children—
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the