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Evangelizing LGBTQ
When talking to strangers on a college campus in today’s environment, questions about homosexuality and transgenderism are bound to come up. Here is how I handled it, and please give helpful suggestions as to how to be more effective.
1. I assured the person bringing up these topics that I am not interested in “forcing” anything on others, nor do I want to be forced. I want to have conversations. I asked if that is fair. She agreed.
2. She also was concerned about people being hurt by language. When I told her I am not interested in hurting people or them verbally hurting me, that satisfied her as fair. I also added that disagreeing shouldn’t be construed as hurting which is self-evident when someone disagrees with me disagreeing with them! Again, she agreed.
3. Furthermore, I assured her that I would listen to the person and hoped they would return the courtesy. Listening to one another is the only way to understand the opposite “opinion” (which I further defined that some opinions are more factual than others). Thankfully she concurred.
4. As I was listening, I would probe as to why they are acting contrary to what their bodies clearly state. It is important to understand why people started a certain journey. Her position was everyone is born what they are.
5. Then I went more on the offensive. On both homosexuality and transgenderism, I asked her when the mind is arguing against the body, when the mind says you are one sex/gender but the body says the opposite, how do we know the mind is right and the body is wrong. I used anorexia as an example. She didn’t have an answer.
6. Then I went to the animal kingdom and humankind and suggested we put aside the Bible for a moment. Doesn’t biology teach that male bodies and female bodies were made to fit together to produce offspring? This biological truth is contrary to homosexuality. Why should we assume acting the opposite of our bodies is the correct answer? Her only answer was that there are plenty of people already.
Our conversation lasted about 20-25 minutes (as we both got rained on a little and we’re cold). Kindness was mentioned several times by her. Therefore all the above was stated in a kind way. We ended with the following truth. Jesus met a woman accused of adultery. He showed kindness but concluded the conversation by saying “Go and sin no more”. Jesus came to change us, not for us to stay the same way we are. Sin is defined by God who sent His Son to die on the cross because we violated His ways.
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