Unfortunately, kids today live in a world that's completely steeped in pro-LGBT propaganda.
Schools, TV, and the internet - it's all filled with messages to kids about sexuality and encouraging kids to question their own identities, and even their own gender.
So what are Christian parents supposed to do to combat this? Especially if their child has wrestled into the spirit of the age.
Here, Christian author and former lesbian Rosaria Butterfield gives solid advice:
First, Butterfield starts out with the foundation of her argument.
You cannot claim a queer identity and be a Christian, because that is an attack against the creation ordinance. Your job, my job, is to live as close to the creation ordinance as I can. And to suggest that God can't change your desires makes no sense to me.
Remember, Butterfield is asserting this as an ex-lesbian who DID have her desires changed by God! She's kind of got good credentials on this stuff.
Butterfield then explains how she dealt with her own battle with homosexuality, and how none of the advice from well-meaning Christians helped her.
It was sort of like dealing with a robber in the house... locking the doors doesn't keep the robber out if he's hiding behind me in the closet. And so that was some of the things I needed to learn.. And you do have to teach. And there's a good bit of Biblical counseling that we all need to learn in that way.
So how should parents talk to their kids about this stuff?
Butterfield explains:
You can be no help to your child if you believe the indoctrination. And that comes from a Christian world that has overvalued empathy and undervalued sympathy... If someone is standing in sin and walking in the road to hell, you don't want to stand in their shoes. You want to stand on firm ground and throw them a rope...
Let's rememeber that John 8:31 is where you need to be as a mom, as a dad. You need to abide in the truth because they truth will set you free and the truth will set your child free. But that doesn't mean it's easy. It's gonna be a long haul.
The temptation is always to sell out to a "progressive" and "accepting" version of "Christianity." There are lots of churches like this, and many parents as well.
But it's most important to remember that it is the truth of God's word that sets us free.
Parents, if you're child is lost or tangled in sin, don't let them wallow there. As Butterfield says, stand on the solid rock, throw them a rope, and stay grounded in the truth. And trust God.
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