How does AIDS affect your church?
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of AIDS and HIV.
Events like this are a little tricky to discuss in the evangelical Christian world. While I can’t imagine that anyone would object to being made more aware of the extent of the AIDS pandemic, many Christians struggle to separate the general subject of AIDS from the social and moral issues that live in its shadow.
I’m curious: how does AIDS affect—or not affect—your church community?
Does your church talk about AIDS? If so, does it focus its discussion on the pandemic itself, or on the sexual behaviors associated with it? Does anyone in your church have HIV/AIDS, and if so, how has that affected your church’s approach to the issue?
