Happy New Year, everyone. To kick off 2025, I want to share with you two clips from two interviews

that I had recently with the priests who hosts the YouTube channel Coptic Orthodox Answers.

Father Anthony and Father Gabriel are great men of God, and we talked about things that we share

as apostolic Christians. So in this first clip, we talk about the issue of transgender identity

and in particular pronouns

and how we can address that by presenting the truth but doing so in love.

Are we mandated as Christians to voice our opinion?

So not so much the idea or should we, are we mandated to?

I mean, I find a lot of views sometimes you know

within our communities that know their faith understand their faith they live their faith

but they have this idea that you know everybody should live freely which is absolutely true

however that pushes them from you know speaking up and being the light of the world, and they rather

choose to stay in their own corner. Can we be Christians and look at this darkness in front of us

and just remain silent? I think one can be a Christian, but they would be one that the Lord would disapprove.

The Lord would say that you are taking your light and hiding it under the bushel basket.

And that's not what we are, that's not what we're called to do as Christians.

Now, that doesn't mean we have to say something at every single opportunity.

We have to use prudence to discern.

Is this a good opportunity to raise the topic?

Or is it not an opportune time right at this moment?

But there can be sins of omission if to a grave scale,

you're simply refusing to speak up for the truth

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