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While six in 10 young Americans said the homosexual lifestyle is a problem facing America, just 1 percent said they pray for those who identify as homosexual. When asked for solutions, just one person in the survey of 1,007 suggested love.The Barna survey of 16- to 29-year-olds is reported in the new book unChristian, by Barna Group President David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons."It's appropriate to be anti-homosexuality," Kinnaman told Family News in Focus. "It's not appropriate, for us as Christian believers, to be anti-homosexual, to be anti-sinner, to be against these people. And that really is the perception, that Christians have lost the ability to love and to deal with and to have meaningful friendships with these individuals."This young generation, both inside and outside the church, is really struggling with that: How do we stay true to our biblical convictions while also modeling Christ's love to people regardless of their lifestyle?"Melissa Fryrear, director of the gender issues department at Focus on the Family, thinks she has the answer.On Saturday, she welcomed more than 1,000 people to the Love Won Out conference in Indianapolis. Through conferences, education, counseling and research, the Love Won Out team works to uphold God's design for sexuality in a way that transforms lives."We are proponents of loving men and women who are gay-identified," she said, "with the hope that we can witness Jesus Christ, and that those persons will come to know Christ personally, and then be open one day, ideally, to God radically transforming their lives and helping them to overcome homosexuality."Our message is twofold: It is standing for biblical truth, and also complementing that truth with much love, with much grace and compassion. "Fryrear said two things helped to change her life."It was because people loved me, and it was because people prayed for me that I, first of all, came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and then, secondly, could overcome lesbianism in my own life," she said. "The two most powerful things are love and prayer. I regret that more Christians don't see that, don't know that, don't believe that, and aren't walking that out."There is, literally, an amazing harvest available, if we would pray for men and women living homosexually, if today's believers would commit themselves to intercede on their behalf and to ask the heavenly Father to move on their behalf and to bring them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.”FOR MORE INFORMATION
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