John MacArthur #fundie youtube.com

We received a very interesting letter in question yesterday, this is it. "My adult child just came out," in other words declared to be a homosexual, "what would I do?"

You know the answer depends; if that adult child professes Christ, claims to be a Christian, then that becomes an issue for confrontation of the sternest and strongest kind. Because that fall into Matthew 18, that's a sin for which you go to that person, if that person doesn't repent and turn you take two or three witnesses and confront again. If there's still no repentance, you tell the church, and the church pursues, and if there's still no repentance there's a public putting out of the church, of that person who professes to be a Christian. That's how you deal with it.

On the other hand, if this adult child doesn't profess to be a Christian, then he or she's just acting like an un-Christian. That's a whole different issue. In the first case, if they profess to be a Christian you have to alienate them, you have to separate them. You can't condone that. It's inconsistent with the profession of Christ. So you isolate them, you don't have a meal with them, you separate yourself from them, you turn them over to Satan as it were, scripture says. But if that's a non-believer, you have to treat them like a non-believer, and non-believers do what non-believers do. Then, the issue is to bring the Gospel compassionately, directly, confrontationally to expose that sin and all other sins and call that person to salvation and repentance. And in that case, you might want to spend more time confronting and showing compassion and calling for salvation.

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