Sgle, Gay, and Christian (Greg Col Interview Pt. 1) - Unfeigned Christiany

Contents:

• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN
• I RONATE—AND DISAGREE—WH THIS GAY CHRISTIAN
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY - EBOOK
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN - REVIEW
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN QUOT
• GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS
• REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN
• SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY
• SGLE, GAY, AND CHRISTIAN (GREG COL INTERVIEW PT. 1)
• SGLE GAY CHRISTIAN A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY
• "GAY CHRISTIANY" IS COMG INTO THE CHURCH
• REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN BY GREGORY COL

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN

It is the ndid, movg, tensely personal story of a gay young man who wants to live his life unr the thory of Kg J and who ref to accept the fortg answers proffered by different parts of the culture. "Debra Hirsch, thor of Reemg Sex"Greg Col has poured himself out betifully this transparent acunt of his life wh Christ as a young gay man.

"Eve Th, thor of Gay and Catholic"Col's book offers a service to Christian lears to engage meangful nversatn wh a brother Christ.

Koslowsky, Prbytern: Covenant Semary Review, 44/2 (Fall 2018)"Sgle, Gay, Christian is a great read for anybody, but pecially those terted qutns of marriage, sexualy, and relatnships general the ntext of the church.

I RONATE—AND DISAGREE—WH THIS GAY CHRISTIAN

I eagerly read Gregory Col’s Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty as soon as I received . Exercis like the are necsary bee the church has often failed people stgglg this way—by enuragg revulsn toward gay people and suggtg they mt bee straight to fulfill God’s mand.

He prefers “gay” bee  don’t gloss over what he experienc, even though he’s aware that the church n rry the nnotatn of one who acts on their sir.

He wr, “[I]f I’m hont, there are issu I nsir more theologilly straightforward than gay marriage that scere Christians have disagreed on for centuri” (108). Rather than hold out the possibily that the Bible might be okay wh homosexual relatnships—which I believe is likely to damage those the thick of same-sex sir—I’d rather affirm the strongt terms that God is clear, and plead that his Word be read. Tle: Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty - eBookBy: Gregory ColFormat: DRM Free ePubVendor: IVPPublitn Date: 2017ISBN-13: 9780830890934Stock No: WW95156EB.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY - EBOOK

Foreword INDIES Award Falist IVP Rears' Choice Award In an age where neher society nor the church knows what to do wh gay Christians, Greg Col tells his own story. 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.

" Sgle, Gay, Christian is a great read for anybody, but pecially those terted qutns of marriage, sexualy, and relatnships general the ntext of the church.

Upon first readg the story of someone who had grown up as a gay Christian and was mted to celibacy, she told me, “I’ve never heard an acunt like this before—om someone who voluntarily has the experienc but don’t pursue them. In prev s, mastream disurse on homosexualy had prented her wh a false dichotomy: A person wh same-sex attractns uld eher choose to totally embrace them and promiscuoly act them out or else flee them entirely—ially, wh the goal of experiencg them no longer.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN - REVIEW

As a Christian who, sce the onset of adolcence, has experienced persistent attractns to other men, he has land at the center of the bate about the rrect moral rponse to homosexualy. In Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty, Col wr whout an agenda but stead wh the hope of lightg a bean for other same-sex-oriented Christians who feel trapped a siarly dntg place.

” He knew his same-sex orientatn was not changg, but he lacked the nfince to move forward as a gay person nservative Christian circl. When Col brought up the possibily of fay iends or mistry partners refg to accept him upon learng that he was gay, his typilly guard father replied, “If someone has a problem wh that, then screw them.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN

We sometim act as though mted gay believers should have their approach to rencilg fah and sexualy entirely worked out, right this moment. Col gets at this ficiency wh what he lls the “bumper sticker hermentic”: the assumptn that merely recg the six Bible passag directly addrsg homosexualy—likely lifted out of ntext—will offer sufficient persuasn.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN QUOT

However, for this teachg to be a source of life and enuragement, we will have to do our utmost to help the same-sex-attracted brother or sister to, as Col stat, “thrive as a celibate gay person the church.

GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS

But the celibate gay Christian is not at a temporary rt statn and n experience tense lonels ponrg the future, jt as Adam did the Garn. When gay people are flatly told to “jt be celibate, ” this feels harsh and seems like a mand to settle for ls, if not an exprsn of outright prejudice.

REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN

One of his rervatns wrg the book was that his celibacy uld bee “a means by which other Christians feel jtified nmng non-celibate gay men and lbian women. Christian young people stgglg to e to terms wh a same-sex orientatn will fd Sgle, Gay, Christian to be a helpful rource, as will parents and church lears lookg to learn more about homosexualy—and about how to rpond to sons, dghters, and church members who are g out or askg qutns. Col has told an engagg, humble, ground story that ph to velop a workable theology of sglens while thkg rigoroly about better ways to love and rpect gay people—si and outsi the church.

6, 2017: eagerly read Gregory Col’s Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty as soon as I received . It’s effective— helps straight Christians unrstand how tractable orientatn n by ChristiansExercis like the are necsary bee the church has often failed people stgglg this way—by enuragg revulsn toward gay people and suggtg they mt bee straight to fulfill God’s mand.

He prefers “gay” bee don’t gloss over what he experienc, even though he’s aware that the church n rry the nnotatn of one who acts on their sir.

SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY

He wr, “[I]f I’m hont, there are issu I nsir more theologilly straightforward than gay marriage that scere Christians have disagreed on for centuri” (108) urse scere Christians disagree on baptism, but on that qutn there are arguments on both sis that make sense of the Bible as a whole whole. Rather than hold out the possibily that the Bible might be okay wh homosexual relatnships—which I believe is likely to damage those the thick of same-sex sir—I’d rather affirm the strongt terms that God is clear, and plead that his Word be we allow the new affirmg view as a valid optn for the Christian, even if ferr to the tradnal view, I believe, wh Don Carson, that we make a disastro pastoral and theologil move, bee we end up allowg some of those who claim Christ to persist see Col beg down this path a b when he par a same-sex married Christian to a straight, sexually impure Christian woman. My gay heart knows by stct what so many straight men mt fight to learn: that men were signed to know one another eply, to be timate, to love wh a love that isn’t aaid of lookg unmascule.

SGLE, GAY, AND CHRISTIAN (GREG COL INTERVIEW PT. 1)

Foreword INDIES Award FalistIVP 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.

SGLE GAY CHRISTIAN A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY

There’s no shortage of books wrten by profsg Christians about the issue of homosexualy, whether personal narrativ, theologil treatis or biblil mentari.

Gregory Col’ Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty easily is one of the bt books on the subject I’ve read, bee tak the qutns serly. Col tells how he me to realize he was gay, how he me to the nvictn that followg J would mean a life of celibacy, and his experienc sce.

Col’ tone is posive and helpful, and the book als as much wh the ncept of sglens the ntext of Christian disciplhip as do wh homosexualy. Sgle, Gay, Christian is a great read for anybody, but pecially those terted qutns of marriage, sexualy and relatnships general the ntext of the church.

"GAY CHRISTIANY" IS COMG INTO THE CHURCH

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.

"Sgle, Gay, Christian is a great read for anybody, but pecially those terted qutns of marriage, sexualy, and relatnships general the ntext of the church.

REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN BY GREGORY COL

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It is, first and foremost, a betiful and engrossg story of a young man who has known for much of his life that he is gay, tryg to figure out what to do wh his sexual inty the ntext of an evangelil Christian muny that has not historilly known what to do wh the lik of him, other than var eratns of rejectn and nmnatn. What Greg do wh ndor and grace and humor is share wh the journey that has led him to refe to accept the simplistic bary optns that public disurse would suggt are the only possibili for someone like him: reject the realy of his sexualy by pretendg or “prayg away the gay” OR reject tradnal Christian sexual ethics by embracg same-sex sexual exprsn as acceptable to God. Instead of choosg om between those two optns, Greg has joed a brave but growg mory of folks who pursue a life as celibate, gay Christians, and this book is the betiful story of Greg’s pursu of God and God’s embrace of book may not be as theologilly and socially groundbreakg as s lerary forebear, Wley Hill’s “Washed and Wag.