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Please help me... it's welling up inside of me.

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Unforgettable said:
I just don't know what to feel/think/do....
Please pray for me and my friends. Any advice for me? Anything from Scripture that points me in the direction that God wants me to take this??

Love him. Support him. Accept him. Listen to him. Don't try to change him, that's not your job. If he does things you aren't comfortable with stay away frrom those things. Tell him how you care about him but are uncomfortable with certain things...

Talk about your fears and doubts... not about him, about you.
 
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You have to live life as an example to your friend. Unfortunately your friend is going to encounter many struggles in that lifestyle, and he is going to have many questions. Without condemning him you can show him by example how your lifestyle is so much more rewarding.

Trying to change your friend yourself will be nothing but counter productive for you. Let God shine through you as an example.

God Bless
 
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1 John 5:13-20 NIV
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death. 18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Pray for your friend. Do not judge. Love the sinner, not the sin. Put it in God's hands. And do what Jesus told us to do ... Love.
 
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