Okay so bear with me.
This bloke, who is gay, became a Christian probably a little later then I did. He's been thru a lot...basically if you read my testimony and multiply that by about 1000 you get where he came from. Anyway I can't imagine what it's like to be gay, and be told that's a sin.
But before he left Brisbane I had noticed people weren't treating him very nicely because of that. I always thought he was a little "odd" but I found out later the reason for that. In any case I basically spoke to him because there were rumours flying everywhere about him and I just wanted to get to the truth of it and help him out. He told me a bit about himself, I freaked out cause he had been thru a LOT. I went to my other 2 youth leaders and basically said look "he needs help"
So I spoke also to my minister and also another guy at church who works with youth, and my minister said he was already speaking to him and the other guy said he would speak to the bloke.
Anyway after that we put in more support, but basically for whatever reason that guy hates me. He literally would not talk to, ignored me, whatever. He would log on msn and leave random messages. He's been gone for a while but he has a lot of hate for people, and today he's like "haha, so u say u serve Jesus, but do you know who he is."
Now yes I think homosexuality is a sin. But I don't see how that's different from me sinning. It's just hard though when you see someone with so much hate that you can actually feel angst from it.
How can I witness to him and try to resolve the issue? I'm basically in a no win situation because he won't listen to what I have to say, and I haven't said anything about homosexuality once to him. Should I just be a man and take the abuse? But then I feel like I'm just ignoring him and that's not good.
This bloke, who is gay, became a Christian probably a little later then I did. He's been thru a lot...basically if you read my testimony and multiply that by about 1000 you get where he came from. Anyway I can't imagine what it's like to be gay, and be told that's a sin.
But before he left Brisbane I had noticed people weren't treating him very nicely because of that. I always thought he was a little "odd" but I found out later the reason for that. In any case I basically spoke to him because there were rumours flying everywhere about him and I just wanted to get to the truth of it and help him out. He told me a bit about himself, I freaked out cause he had been thru a LOT. I went to my other 2 youth leaders and basically said look "he needs help"
So I spoke also to my minister and also another guy at church who works with youth, and my minister said he was already speaking to him and the other guy said he would speak to the bloke.
Anyway after that we put in more support, but basically for whatever reason that guy hates me. He literally would not talk to, ignored me, whatever. He would log on msn and leave random messages. He's been gone for a while but he has a lot of hate for people, and today he's like "haha, so u say u serve Jesus, but do you know who he is."
Now yes I think homosexuality is a sin. But I don't see how that's different from me sinning. It's just hard though when you see someone with so much hate that you can actually feel angst from it.
How can I witness to him and try to resolve the issue? I'm basically in a no win situation because he won't listen to what I have to say, and I haven't said anything about homosexuality once to him. Should I just be a man and take the abuse? But then I feel like I'm just ignoring him and that's not good.