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Contents:
- UNSTOPPABLE GRACE: THOUGHTS ON THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE
- 'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK BE Q CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK
- GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK - GCN JOBS & CAREERS - REMOTE WORK FROM HOME & FLEXIBLE
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
UNSTOPPABLE GRACE: THOUGHTS ON THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE
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Followg the disappotg news about the Hoton Equal Rights Ordance (HERO), we at The Gay Christian Network, along wh the mayor of Hoton and our partner venu, want to assure you that the GCN Conference remas a safe space for all the LGBT muny—and that you are wele Hoton. Founr and executive director of The Gay Christian Network.
Disver what mak the Gay Christian Network Conference the world’s largt, most celebrated, and most affordable annual LGBT Christian event. 'I don't see myself as straight, gay, ex-gay or halfway between. Can I Embrace Gay Stereotyp?
'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
Jt Lee grew up a Southern Baptist fay. At age 18, he me out to his fay and church, who had trouble acceptg him as a gay man. Lee later started the Gay Christian Network to enurage a dialogue between gay Christians, their fai and their church. His new book is Torn. * gay christians network *
Dan shar some reflectns on an important qutn: If my inty is J, to what extent n I embrace gay stereotyp? Now, the Gay Christian Network is a rnerstone anizatn the LGBT Christian muny.
In a nversatn for Sojourners, wrer and founr of FahfullyLGBT Eliel Cz talked wh Jt Lee about what’s ahead for Lee, the Gay Christian Network, and LGBTQ Christians Ameri. I want to keep speakg out wh my own voice, om my experience, as this evangelil kid who realized he was gay and stggled for so many years to figure out what that meant.
I went to the Gay Christian Network’s “Live It Out” nference Chigo a ltle unsure of what to expect, a ltle perplexed that someone like me would be ved, and a ltle eaked out about what to say as a straight woman to a group of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Christians—many of whom have been severely wound by the Church. I met gay Christians who felt pelled by Scripture and tradn to m their liv to celibacy (Si B) and gay Christians who felt fee Christ to pursue same-sex relatnships (Si A).
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From the brave mom who, chokg down tears, told that before this weekend she had been ashamed of her son, aaid to tell her Christian iends and fay that he was gay. From the nservative pastor who ed to be an apologist agast homosexualy, but whose iendship wh a lbian woman slowly, over many years, changed his md. I’m gay.
” From the parents who said they learned, too late, to love their gay son “jt bee he breath. Four years ago I didn’t thk was possible to be both Gay and Christian.
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To be gay was to have adopted a false inty rooted s and to be Christian was to fd one’s inty J Christ alone. You were eher gay and opposed to Christiany, or a Christian and opposed to homosexualy. The 100 LGBTQ evangelils were jt a small percentage of the nearly 1, 500 people that gathered at the Oregon Conventn Center Portland for the Gay Christian Network Conference, an annual gatherg of LGBTQ Christians and our alli hosted by The Gay Christian Network.
Of urse, any Gay Christian nference uld not be plete whout prottors, and this year the GCN Conference was vised by the famo Wtboro Baptist Church, who showed up on Saturday morng wh their signs and songs clarg God’s hatred towards LGBTQ people. 'Torn': Livg As An Openly Gay Christian.
THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
Rcug The Gospel From The Gays-Vs. TleTornSubtleRcug The Gospel From The Gays-Vs. "I didn't know I was gay at first, bee I was the kid who was preachg agast folks acceptg themselv as gay, " he tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Thgs Consired.
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Lee formed the Gay Christian Network 2001 to try and help other gay Christian kids and their fai talk to one another, as well as wh their rpective church. His new book is lled Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays Vs.
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Interview Highlights On g out "I absolutely believed was a sful choice to be gay. ' When I turned to the Christians I most rpected my life — my parents and my iends and my pastors — I found that they didn't have a lot of answers for me, other than jt don't be gay.
On beg 'too gay' or 'too Christian' "I talk to people still every day who are jt livg that nstant feelg of beg alone, and 's very prsg when you feel like nobody unrstands you. You feel like you've been ught up the midst of this culture war between the gay folks on one si and the Christians on the other si.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
And here you are, a gay Christian, and there's no place for you. Jt Lee is the founr and executive director of the Gay Christian Network. Many of spent years ex-gay or nversn therapy mistri, begged God for liverance, or mated endlsly on the Bible vers we thought nmned LGBTQ+ people.
Example: Tiffany’s son Lnel jt me out as gay. She tells him she accepts his inty, but urg celibacy as the only way to be acceptable to God as a gay Christian.
This view implicly or explicly supports efforts to alter someone’s sexual orientatn or genr inty through nversn therapy practic, and is sometim referred to as Si X or Ex-gay iology. Si X/Ex-gay iology is both dangero and medilly discreded.