Please read this outstanding article by our friend Linda Harvey in its entirety, and then forward it to every Christian elder/pastor, preacher, youth minister, Bible class teacher, and parent you know!
From A Seven-Point Plan to Protect Christian Youth Against Homosexuality, by Linda Harvey of Mission America, published Sept 26, 2006, by LifeSite News (and posted in full here with permission):
Linda Harvey is the Founder and President of Mission America, which focuses on homosexuality and its destructive impact on youth. Linda told LifeSiteNews.com she is a convert to Christianity and left her former life as a ‘liberal’ during which she was even a volunteer for Planned Parenthood. This message is primarily directed to Christian familiies and youth and is given from the perspective of a believer in traditional, authentic Christian moral and spiritual principles.
It may already be too late. As students return to school this fall, we are sadly reminded that the campaign to normalize homosexuality in their minds continues incessantly. But Christian kids will be okay, because they know it’s wrong. Or so we think.
It’s not necessarily so. What is your church doing to equip kids about this specific issue? Is there any time we are “suppressing the truth” through silence? How are we teaching them to deal with the onslaught of misinformation available to them everywhere, from what they believe are trustworthy sources?
There’s a lot at stake. Everyday, the following scenes are being played out in the lives of ordinary American kids:
- An emotionally vulnerable boy or girl is seduced into participating in homosexual acts by a peer or an older homosexual
- A confused young person dwells on and begins to believe privately he/she was “born” homosexual, after hearing it implied endlessly in our culture.
- An adolescent turns way from authentic Christian faith, becoming convinced the Bible’s message on homosexuality is hateful, primitive or an incorrect translation.
- A boy or girl wrongly advises a friend that it’s okay to be ‘gay’ and a Christian at the same time.
- A troubled teen believes a sex change would solve his or her problems, and begins to dress and act as the opposite sex.
- A curious, poorly supervised teen discovers, and becomes sexually aroused by, homosexual pornography on the Internet. He/she incorrectly concludes that such arousal reveals an inborn homosexual nature.
These aren’t the unchurched kids. We’re talking about the private interior lives of pre-teens and teens who are sitting in youth groups in Christian churches all over this country. They’re hearing one distorted message from the culture. The truth that could rescue them from the darkest and the most destructive of beliefs, concerns, and stresses over this issue, is a rare jewel, seldom revealed to them.
Homosexuality is secretly destroying the Christian faith of millions of teens, whether they are involved in the behavior or not, and adult Christians seem to be oblivious. Our silence spells the final spiritual death sentence for many of them.
If we are to save this generation, we must act now.
Here’s our Seven Point Plan for equipping Christian youth on the issue of homosexuality:
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