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Speaking Truth and Love to LGBTQ Friends: A Biblical Response
Speaking Truth and Love to LGBTQ Friends is one of the most important challenges Christians face in today’s culture. How should believers engage LGBTQ friends in a way that reflects both biblical truth and genuine compassion?
In this episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave Jenkins answers a listener question about how believers can faithfully engage conversations surrounding sexuality, identity, repentance, and the gospel without compromising biblical truth or abandoning genuine love. Speaking Truth and Love to LGBTQ Friends requires wisdom, humility, and confidence in the transforming power of the gospel.
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Episode Highlights
- Why truth and love must stay together
- Why arguments alone rarely change hearts
- How to keep conversations relational rather than combative
- Whether someone can be a “gay Christian”
- What the Bible means by continuing in sin
- How Christians demonstrate compassion without compromise
- Why the gospel is the true hope for every sinner
Key Scriptures
- Ephesians 4:15
- 1 Peter 3:15
- Colossians 4:6
- Luke 9:23
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–11
- Romans 3:23
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
You can connect with Dave on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, or subscribe to his newsletter.
When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.
Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
