The Sexual Revolution of Our Culture & What to Tell Our Children

I’ve been quiet here for a while about hot topics (mostly because my hot topic is running my household/home business and keeping all these people fed and happy).

But because I think this is such a crucial issue and I know many Christian parents are grasping at straws about how to navigate through these murky waters with their children, I felt compelled to address one of the most controversial issues on the planet.

We are living in a time where anything goes, humans are their own gods, and if you disagree with pretty much anything a person wants to do (except maybe murder and child abuse) you are ousted as the bad guy, the hater, the ignorant and unenlightened.

We have kid drag queens being applauded for lewd performances and the LGBTQ agenda being pushed very hard in the public school system to normalize almost every kind of sexual perversion that exists. (Yes, pedophilia is right behind.) Transgender athletes robbing victories in sports and feminists scratching their heads over what to do because they said “we’re equal.”

What seems extreme to us in these kinds of examples is quickly becoming norm. Should it? And how should Christians respond? We already have the reputation of being “hateful” toward these alternate lifestyles, so how do we rightly share our faith, help our children see truth, and communicate to a broken world that there is hope and joy and freedom?

There is a movie called “Audacity” that I encourage you all to begin with. It’s a simple yet compelling explanation of how Christians must think about these issues. In a nutshell, and what I’ve always said, our faith is marked by one word: LOVE. And while it seems contrary to the world to say that our loving God is also a just God who WILL, in the end, bring judgement and death to those who have rejected salvation, we must understand how hateful it is to tell a perishing world that they’re OK, just so we can be popular and not suffer the wrath of those who insist in being their own gods.

Why Even Some Churches Have Compromised the Truth

Many churches are even affirming the lifestyle of homosexuality/transgenderism based on a couple of presuppositions.

First, they believe that if a person is born a certain way (and we do believe most homosexuals are born with a tendency to same-sex attraction) then they simply can’t be expected to change that disposition and God would not expect them to.

The problem with that theory is that we are all born predisposed to certain sins. Some fight adultery, fornication and most all of us fight idolatry, anger, lying and gossip. To be predisposed to sin is not a license to act upon it. We (believers) are all in the business of being called to die to ourselves daily, whatever our temptations to sin may be. When our temptations are starved rather than fed, we find ourselves gravitating to what is right.

Secondly, there is a strong effort to dig into the original Greek meanings of the references that modern translations make to “homosexuality” and argue that the Bible doesn’t actually condemn it. Also, that just because the Old Testament refers to homosexuality as an abomination, so does it refer to eating bacon as the same. How hypocritical to call one a sin and not the other?

A clear understanding of Scripture reveals that the Old Testament contained natural, moral laws which are eternal (Jesus even ramped them up in the New Testament) and disciplinary, civil/dietary laws which were done away with under the New Covenant. It’s that simple and not a point of contention for the one who understands Scripture.

Thirdly, they maintain that since the great commandment is “loving your neighbor as yourself” it would follow that we are to accept their lifestyle because that’s how we would want to be treated. Ironically, it’s the opposite of love. It’s hate. Because the Bible promises that one day, we will all stand before the judgement seat of God to give an answer for how we have lived–not that any of us have lived perfectly, but whether we put our trust in a Savior, longing to die more and more to sin and become more like Him. And since the Bible does clearly condemn sin, those who have not repented, turned away from their lifestyle of sin, and trusted in Christ as their Savior, will tragically be condemned to eternal punishment.

As much as some people hate that idea, the reality is that those same people were created by the same God that made the promise. Regardless of what someone wants to believe, this is a reality impossible to escape. And given that fact, the only loving thing we can do is continue to proclaim His truth and love and forgiveness until He returns.

So How to Teach Our Children?

We must start with a good understanding, ourselves, of the arguments that will be thrown at us, a few of which I addressed briefly above. We must be able to give an answer for our hope–intelligently, and lovingly upholding the truth of God’s Word. We must teach our children compassion. A person struggling with homosexuality could be deeply hurting, not wanting to stand out or be inclined to a lifestyle that will bring him or her shame or embarrassment. But our response as Christians is not to “remove the stigma,” it’s to bring hope of forgiveness and yes, the very real option of change through the transforming power of Jesus Christ.

And like the link I just place in the sentence above, I have not found, hands down, a better resource for encouragement and hope than the testimony of Rosaria Butterfield, and her conversion from a lesbian, feminist activist, to a converted believer in Jesus. I have watched so many of her videos. You want a powerful understanding of the nature of the homosexual community and how to reach the lost? Look her videos up. Namely, this one, a trailer for her new book about hospitality–what God used, through a wise, loving pastor, to change her life.

We can’t sit this one out. And it’s not about us. It’s about our responsibility to bring hope and life to a dying and lost world. I pray you’ll look into the resources above–no matter what your thoughts at this point. And let’s teach our children to truly love their neighbor. Enough even, to speak the truth.