What to say if a young person ‘comes out’ in conversation with you

”Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail.” These words have become something of a cliché, but they’re often true. There are some things in life that if we’ve not prepared ourselves for, we’re likely to handle badly. One of those is when a young person comes out to us as LGBTQ+.

 Any Christian who is a parent or who engages with young people should make sure they’re prepared for the possibility that a young person might come out to them. There are at least two reasons why this is true.