Should Christians evangelize gays?

". . . Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

". . . Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones."

". . . they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."

"No one likes to hear bad news," he notes.

Trussler and the CBRC have been conducting the Sex Now surveys gauging sexual health and trends among gay and bisexual men since 2002. This year's findings indicate a sharp increase in risky sexual behaviour by Vancouver's gay under-30 set.

"Sex Now 2007 showed that young gay men under 30 were significantly more likely to have engaged in sexual activities with HIV exposure risks than older aged men," the report states. "This is a reversal of previous years in which younger men were either relatively less at risk (2002) or about the same risk (2004) as older aged men."

-Trussler acknowledges that surveys can sometimes be off — way off — and that this might simply be a wild card. "That's why you have several companies polling people for election results, for example," he says.

-But these findings are consistent with the findings of other gay communities in larger centres like Sydney, Australia and London, England, he points out. "We've been hearing from them about large increases in risk-taking over the last couple of years."

-But Trussler and others point to one of the major revelations in the 2007 Sex Now results: the internet is having a major impact on the ways in which gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) meet up to have sex.

-"The internet is galloping ahead very rapidly," says Trussler. "Many gay men who are 20 now, their first sexual encounter will have happened through connections made through their computer."

-"In the past outreach was, in a sense, more easy when we knew that gay men had traditional cruising grounds: the parks, baths and bars," Kwag explains.

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.

Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.

They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Should Christians evangelize gays?

I see no reason gays should be any different from the rest of us and escape the in-your-face arrogance of Christian certitude.

lets start by calling a spade a spade, first of all where does this name "gay" originate? If you speak to someone that knows that he/she is in error why let them off the hook by calling them "gay"? An Alcoholic is a "what"? he/she is a "drunk" but if you change the name as if your were applying an ointment how in the world will they see themselves guilty before a holy God, they won't.
So again I ask, what is "gay" in the original version King James will do. And yes by all means share Christ with everyone, it is the great commission.

Thanks,
hogndog

Mm, calling gay people "homosexuals" is a wonderful way to dehumanise them and help us all forget that they have nasty complicated things like feelings, that get in the way of us lumping them all together as sinful, evil perverts.

Should Christians evangelize gays?