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In today's video I'll answer your question, how should Christians respond to Pride Month?

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Then afterward, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end. Over the past several decades,

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Pride Month has grown from obscurity into a major cultural event, especially in the United States.

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In America, June is designated for this celebration of non -traditional sexuality and gender expression.

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Pride Month also seeks to recognize contributions of LGBTQ -identifying persons.

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As with other cultural issues, Christians find themselves torn regarding the best response to Pride Month.

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It's important to stand for biblical ideals. We ought not celebrate what Scripture condemns.

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Yet, the gospel is not served if Christians contribute to false stereotypes about the faith. When sexuality and gender are filtered through unbiblical cultural views, the best tactic for most

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Christians is that like of the conscientious objector—polite, peaceful, firm refusal to actively participate in Pride Month events without demanding others to follow suit.

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As the name suggests, Pride events presume that behaviors and attitudes once considered immoral should be embraced, even cheered, rather than being criticized.

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This is not the sole purpose of Pride Month events. Activists also intend to remind people that history's important contributors include those identified with LGBTQ ideas.

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Events such as parades and rallies are common. Pride flags—a series of colored bars representing homosexuality and transgenderism—are flown in some communities.

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The concept of Pride Month has been heavily commercialized. Many companies incorporate Pride Month imagery in packaging, commercials, press releases, social media, and so forth.

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Even within the LGBTQ community, some object to these developments, seeing them as insincere pandering.

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Faced with commercials, flags, statements, and public events endorsing Pride, Bible -believing

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Christians often feel they need to do something or say something to counter the month -long wave of hype.

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Scripture denounces many actions and attitudes championed during Pride Month as serious sin

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See 1 Corinthians 6, verses 9 -11. The Word calls us to be clear about truth, yet the same

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Bible encourages tact, common sense, and discretion. It's all too easy to be baited into fruitless arguments and a feeling of frustration.

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That which we say and do should be guided by thoughtfulness, rather than by volatility. Ultimately, Christians are called to be witnesses of the way, the truth, and life.

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John 14, verse 6. Our obligation is to offer truth to those who are interested.

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We cannot conform nonbelievers to biblical expectations. Western culture has long embraced views of premarital sex, drug and alcohol use, morality, and other ideas that run counter to a biblical worldview.

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That a fallen world should continue to fall further is not surprising but expected. See Romans 1, verses 24 -31.

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Instead of scuffling to resist or stop things like Pride Month, Christians should remember what it means to be in a culture without being of that culture.

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In short, the best Christian response to Pride Month is polite nonparticipation.

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Followers of Jesus should decline to have anything to do with Pride events. We should speak truth in love when given an appropriate chance.

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It's good to articulate why we cannot endorse the ideas or assumptions behind the promotion of pride.

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We should avoid giving worldly culture exactly what it wants—ammunition with which to falsely accuse the gospel of hateful intolerance.

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Many will be offended by truth spoken in humility and love, but that means their conflict is with God, not with us.

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Believers cannot change cultural views on sexuality by trying to change culture itself in some broad sense.

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All we can do is reach individual people, letting the Holy Spirit work from there. When we are winsome and loving, those who respond with hate have none but themselves to blame.

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Whether surrounding culture chooses holiness or depravity, our mission is unchanged, calling sinners to repentance.

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We can't expect society to do that for us. The mindset behind Pride Month is deeply immoral.

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Sin is to be mourned over, not celebrated. The pride in Pride Month has nothing to do with a satisfied happiness compatible with godliness.

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Arrogant bragging about immorality is the kind of pride leading to God's judgment see

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Proverbs 8, verse 13. At the very least, Christians should never actively participate in anything that blatantly defies

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God, even though defiance of worldly expectations concerning Pride Month might mean suffering social and legal consequences.

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When so led by the Spirit, Christians can and should give a sound explanation for their views and why others would be wise to follow suit.

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What we should not do is respond in panic or with fear that we have lost somehow when culture turns away from God.

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First Peter 4, verses 14 -19 summarizes this perspective efficiently. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the

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Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler.

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Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

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For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

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And if the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? Therefore, let those who suffer according to God's will and trust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

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