Gay Christian Books

Contents:

• WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY PAPERBACK – AUGT 22, 2017
• GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: THE BIBLIL CASE SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? RPONDG WH LOVE & TTH TO QUTNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• IS GOD ANTI-GAY?: AND OTHER QUTNS ABOUT J, THE BIBLE, AND SAME-SEX SEXUALY
• GAY & CHRISTIAN?
• LOVE IS AN ORIENTATN: ELEVATG THE CONVERSATN WH THE GAY COMMUNY
• BEG GAY, BEG CHRISTIAN: YOU N BE BOTH PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2015

WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

In March 2012, Matthew V posted a vio on YouTube suggtg that "beg gay is not a s, " and that the Bible "do not nmn, lovg, mted same-sex relatnships. So V sought to arm himself wh biblil scholarship on the affirmatn of same-sex relatnships and strove to nvce his fay and church that they were wrong—that homosexualy is not a s.

V's new book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, expounds further on the arguments ma his vio. His aim is not to prent new rmatn, but to synthize gay-affirmg arguments and make them accsible for a broar and younger dience.

" V stat that universal nmnatn of same-sex relatnships has been damagg and stctive for those who intify as gay Christians, producg bad u (prsn and suici, for stance). Cg 1 Timothy 4:3, V even argu that those who forbid gay marriage are false teachers who promote hostily toward God's creatn.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY PAPERBACK – AUGT 22, 2017

Unlike others who advote rpectful dialogue on this divisive issue, V charg that those who do not affirm same-sex relatnships are sng by distortg the image of God and are sentially rponsible for the suicis of many gay Christians.

One of the ma weakns of God and the Gay Christian is that V's methodology of biblil terpretatn clash wh the high view of the Bible he claims to hold. Michael Carn, a ge gay Catholic who dabbl astrology, has wrten on the "homo-erotics of atonement" and ntributed to the Queer Bible Commentary, which draws upon "femist, queer, nstctnist, utopian theori, the social scienc and historil-cril disurs. " Dale Mart, an openly gay man, believ neher that J' rurrectn is a historil fact, nor that the historil J believed he was dive.

GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: THE BIBLIL CASE SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

V exhorts gay-affirmg Christians to help her a morn reformatn by "speakg the tth, " which for him starts wh personal life stori. I pletely agree wh V that many gays, lbians, and other same-sex attracted people have stggled to rencile their fah and sexualy whout much help om the church.

Other church only talk about the immoraly of , while neglectg to discs how the transformative msage of the gospel is also for gays and lbians. V lims the power of God by actually believg that there is no possibily for gays and lbians to marry someone of the oppose sex.

Christopher Yuan () is -thor, wh his mother, of Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, A Broken Mother's Search for Hope (WaterBrook Prs).

GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS

Foreword INDIES Award Falist IVP Rears' Choice AwardIn an age where neher society nor the church knows what to do wh gay Christians, Greg Col tells his own 's make a al, you and me. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered a thoand tim sce:"I'm gay. He mak two claims orr to make a third claim: 1) the Bible do not nmn homosexual orientatn, or the exprsn of sexual love mted, monogamo homosexual relatnships, and 2) homosexual relatnships n and do reflect the ial of Christian marriage as appears Scripture.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

V als mostly wh gays and lbians, touchg only briefly on published rpons, see the followg:- Review by a Christian scholar who is gay, Christiany Today. 2 is about how new rmatn requir a reterpretatn of Scripture26: passag about the larger biblil visn (marriage metaphors)27: Gagnon referenced184n9: Piper/Gm referenced28: sexual orientatn not a choice (this is a new viewpot)41: the church's requirement that gay Christians be celibate is a new requirement, bee olr generatns thought that you uld change [Do "the church" say that if is te that orientatn nnot be changed, a Christian wh homosexual sir mt rema celibate?

118: malakoi and arsenokoai122 (and 127): 1587 Geneva Bible122: malakoi refers to those who lack self-ntrol123: [ntra V, y, unrstand do e om unr and stand]125: arsenokoas is exploatn129: the Bible don't addrs orientatn bee 's a morn ncept129-30: summary of the chapters so far131: transn om "the Bible don't nmn homosexualy" to "homosexualy fulfills the biblil unrstandg of marriage"Ch. 10: Seeds of a Morn Reformatn165: this book is a third way (one n be a mted Christian and exprs homosexual love167: briefly touch on transgenrism167-70: Dr.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? RPONDG WH LOVE & TTH TO QUTNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Jam Brownson173-76: V's proposed gameplan for Christian homosexuals gog forward: share your views publicly; talk wh your pastor and church lears; lead a Bible study about gay Christians; start a support groups for LGBT Christians; if you are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, e out; take some risksnon-fictn relign sexualyAuthor 3 books137 followersFebary 20, 2016Much has already been wrten about the V book.

I have a hard time imagg that anyone of the oppose opn is gog to be swayed by anythg that anyone says no matter how well thought out might summary, if you are a rock-hard believer that homosexualy is a s then don't bother. Apparently this book has ma enough wav nservative Christian circl to e a book to be wrten rebuttal tled “God and the Gay Christian? Fortunately, over the past few years, I have grown so much, bee so much more fortable my sk as a gay Christian man, and have bee nvced of God's unndnal love for me.

460 reviews10 followersMay 20, 2016I read this book bee I had never tly unrstood how some uld jtify livg an openly homosexual liftyle while matag a Christian liftyle. Several tim felt like the thor was makg the se that the Bible passag agast homosexual practic were not relevant to today's society. Matthew V, as a gay Conservative Christian man, refully and urageoly v The Rear to a darg journey: seeg Scripture a new light.

IS GOD ANTI-GAY?: AND OTHER QUTNS ABOUT J, THE BIBLE, AND SAME-SEX SEXUALY

Obvly this is a great book for their fai, too, but if there's anythg that gay kids those church need to hear, 's this: "Don't listen to the people who say otherwise. He is so credibly patient the face of all the homophobia that he faced om his fay and church and tails the nversatns that he had wh people as he tri to expla how the Bible do not nmn the LGBTQ muny. ) He wr this book to expla to a wir dience that beg a Christian and follower of the Bible do not mean that someone needs to nmn gay relatnships ( fact, they shouldn’t and they should be supportive of LGBTQ people!

GAY & CHRISTIAN?

9 reviews3 followersMarch 17, 2021God and the gay christian gave a remarkable and thorough analysis of what the bible has to say about LGBTQ+ relatnships. V this ncept to shed light on the troublg implitns uched several ias, cludg: - The fact that "ex-gay" mistri have very ltle succs, and a high (for lack of a better term) recidivism rate.

While celibacy is a noble llg (emphasis on the ll), to suggt that is the only optn for gay Christians do, fact, pose some troublg reali.

The fact of the matter is this: my own experience, I've wnsed a special disda shown for gay people, pecially the church, as if to suggt that they are culpable mtg the worst s possible. I am still somewhere on the spectm of "changg my md" about Scripture and homosexualy, although I am fely leang towards an terpretatn that affirms same-sex relatnships (and I pletely affirm the civil right to same sex marriage - sorry people, one particularly relig view of marriage don't necsarily get to tmp all other views our pluralistic society).

LOVE IS AN ORIENTATN: ELEVATG THE CONVERSATN WH THE GAY COMMUNY

As V illtrat his book ( needs more exampl), a large number of evangelils ground their notns of sexualy, and their prohibns agast homosexualy, genr plementarianism.

223 reviews34 followersJuly 2, 2015As ntroversy has swirled the wake of the Supreme Court's cisn upholdg gay marriage I wonred if anyone had managed to wre a rigoro, Biblilly-ground fense of gay marriage. The answer is: y, this book is , and boy is a thor Matthew V, the issue is personal: he was raised a lovg, Christian, Bible-believg home, but realized when he was 19 that he was gay. After g out to his dad, the two of them began an -pth reexamatn of scripture that would ultimately change both their mds on the you've studied what the Bible has to say on the topic of homosexualy at all you probably know two thgs: one, 'homosexualy' is not a word eher ancient Hebrew or Greek and ed not somethg they had a cultural ncept for (relevant Biblil passag tend to relate to specific acts); and two, there are six 'clobber passag' strewn across the Old and New Ttament which have generally been ed to show that the Bible prehensively nmns gay sexualy.

What follows is one of the most fascatg parts of the book, an examatn of the amework wh which ancient peopl actually unrstood homosexual practic.

BEG GAY, BEG CHRISTIAN: YOU N BE BOTH PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2015

He div ep to the text, wrtlg wh words whose meangs are often que obscure (remember, the ancient Greeks and Hebrews didn't have a ncept of 'homosexualy' let alone words for , so if you see those crop up your translatn of the Bible, that is lazy translatn).

Hontly, most of the 'clobber passag' are que easily dismissed (the s of Sodom and Gomorrah was not homosexualy but beg generally horrible people, somethg that is easily proved om other scripture and backed up by ntemporary sourc). However, after we have a amework md for how people of Pl's time would have viewed 'gay behavr', pecially the mon gentile sexual and cultural ctoms of the day, Romans 1 appears que a different light, one that is certaly not a blanket nmnatn of homosexualy. " It's a pretty gutsy move, but I thk he is right to re-ame the bate on the people who have suffered the most at s hands: gay believers.