So it's Pride festival weekend here in Columbus and while walking about downtown last night I couldn't help but to think to myself. "Wow! I didn't know there were this many same-sex couples in this town!"
Please don't misunderstand me. I'm all about hate the sin, not the sinner but it felt so strange when all of a sudden straight couples were seemingly the minority.
While reading Eziekiel 3 this morning, this passage jumped out at me:
20 “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 21 But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
This passage surely answers this question back in Genesis:
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
But where does this leave me regarding my faith and my interactions with my homosexual friend and family members?