Misterg to Gay Teenagers is a youth lear rource filled wh wisdom and practil advice on how to rpond when a stunt out. An important part of youth mistry learship velopment, this book n equip youth group lears and parents wh solid answers to the qutns fai ask.
Contents:
- MISTERG TO GAY TEENAGERS
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- GAY PCA YOUTH PASTOR WHO IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO FRIEND MOV WH HIM TO START A “FAY”
- YOUTH MISTER AT ANTI-GAY CHURCH ILLOIS CHARGED WH SEXUALLY EXPLOG TEEN BOY
- WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
MISTERG TO GAY TEENAGERS
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'I don't see myself as straight, gay, ex-gay or halfway between. Can I Embrace Gay Stereotyp? Dan shar some reflectns on an important qutn: If my inty is J, to what extent n I embrace gay stereotyp?
When to misterg to gays and lbians, far too many church have chosen silence over service, or a reactive stance over proactive volvement.
Wh tths drawn om his own personal experienc, youth pastor Shawn Harrison seeks to equip youth workers, parents, and church misterg to gay teenagers, their fai, and the gay muny at-large wh his youth mistry book Misterg to Gay Teenagers. How gay stunts first enunter God—personally and munally—and how Christians react to them n terme subsequent steps their fah journey. Youth lear rource Misterg to Gay Teenagers is filled wh wisdom and practil advice on how to rpond when a stunt out and how to help the teenager's fay through that journey, too.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet. * gay youth pastor *
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“But they shoved a handful of vers down my throat that pletely sexualize me as a gay person and put a p on what I n do. That’s g many younger evangelils — gay and straight — to qutn the tegry of their church’s theology and the nsistency of s biblil terpretatn. “Most people know and love someone who’s openly gay, ” said Julie Rodgers, a Christian wrer, activist and lbian whose story is featured the new documentary on Netflix, “Pray Away.
In ntrast wh most male Prottant nomatns where LGBTQ members are routely ordaed and their marriag solemnized church (the Uned Methodist Church beg the exceptn), whe evangelil nomatns such as the Southern Baptist Conventn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, the Anglin Church North Ameri and dozens of others have risted offerg gay people equaly. That leads them to highlight a handful of passag that nmn gay sex. A straight man, he lived for a while New York Cy where he met lots of mted gay Christians.
GAY PCA YOUTH PASTOR WHO IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO FRIEND MOV WH HIM TO START A “FAY”
For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay. * gay youth pastor *
Jonathan Merrt, a senr lumnist at Relign News Service and a ntributg wrer for The Atlantic, who recently me out as gay, said he fore a gradual evolutn evangelil circl.
The qutn is whether that will happen quickly enough for the people who are fed up wh the homophobia still tolerated evangelil circl. Ellt Rossomme, a 26-year-old gay man who had been attendg a nonnomatnal evangelil church while studyg for a graduate gree chemistry at the Universy of California, Berkeley, ma the break two years ago.
(Some evangelil church have accepted the realy of same-sex attractn but require gays to be celibate if they are to serve learship posns.
YOUTH MISTER AT ANTI-GAY CHURCH ILLOIS CHARGED WH SEXUALLY EXPLOG TEEN BOY
RELATED: Julie Rodgers shar story of survivg ‘ex-gay’ mistri new book and Netflix documentary. Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St.
He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time. When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy.
WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
“I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St. ”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn. “I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said.
Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA. Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement. ”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson.
”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr. “My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson?