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Contents:

• IS GOD ANTI-GAY?
• [IS GOD ANTI-GAY? (QUTNS CHRISTIANS ASK)] [BY: SAM ALLBERRY] [JULY, 2013] PAPERBACK
• IS CHRISTIANITY ANTI-GAY?
• IS GOD ANTI-GAY?: A REVIEW
• BOOK REVIEW- IS GOD ANTI-GAY?
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• IS GOD ANTI-GAY? SAM ALLBERRY & ROB HUDSON
• WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?

IS GOD ANTI-GAY?

In this brief but important book, Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Qutns about Homosexualy, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attractn, Sam Allberry b pastoral wisdom, thentic tobgraphy, and sound exegis to provi Christians wh a helpful troductn to the topic of homosexualy.

The troductn, ncln, and var other tobgraphil anecdot wh the book provi a glimpse to the soul of a godly gospel mister for whom homosexualy is a eply personal issue. Before addrsg homosexualy specifilly, he spends an entire chapter scribg a biblil unrstandg of marriage and sex.

Then he provis a brief overview of the var texts throughout Scripture that directly addrs homosexual behavr.

[IS GOD ANTI-GAY? (QUTNS CHRISTIANS ASK)] [BY: SAM ALLBERRY] [JULY, 2013] PAPERBACK

In the chapter on homosexualy and the Bible, Allberry surpris the rear at the outset wh a clear warng: “What the Bible says about homosexualy do not reprent everythg God wants to say to homosexual people” (23). However, Allberry’s warng remds that, particularly when talkg to gay people, ’s often bt to assume they already know what we believe about their sexualy.

Likewise, sound doctral foundatns wh a sound, biblil sexual ethic are fundamental to an accurate unrstandg of the challenge of homosexualy.

Allberry’s examatn of homosexualy n be scribed as gospel-centered bee the gospel is always a third-party dialogue partner his discsn. And Other Qutns about Homosexualy, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attractn. ” The temptatn to provi a creaturely answer to this qutn the form of a culturally rived genr inty (such as “gay” or “lbian”) n be strong.

IS CHRISTIANITY ANTI-GAY?

Allberry vers topics like what to do when a gay uple viss your church, as well as specific and practil suggtns that pastors and church lears would do well to implement as they seek to be proactive supportg sats their ngregatns wh SSA. At the same time, we should probably also regnize we live a society where the church is routely acced of beg hateful toward gays. In a recent book by David Knaman and Gabe Lyons tled unChristian, they claim that as many as 80 percent of young people (ag 16 to 29) wh the church e “anti-homosexual” to scribe Christiany.

If this is te, then the qutn “Is God anti-gay? Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy.

Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God.

IS GOD ANTI-GAY?: A REVIEW

Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.

Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy. Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex.

BOOK REVIEW- IS GOD ANTI-GAY?

Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. IS GOD ANTI-GAYAnd other qutns about homosexualy, the Bible and same-sex attractn.

If you, like me, hope that one day before we die, we might wake up to fd the Church talkg about somethg other than homosexualy; say, arguments over the two natur of Christ, the y of Christ or the bodily rurrectn of J, we might want to stand up and sg the Hallelujah Chos. Homosexualy is tearg both Wtern culture and Wtern church apart. Homosexualy has succsfully unrmed male church Ameri to the pot that church like The Epispal Church, The Uned Methodist Church, Prbyterian Church USA, the Moravian Church, to name but a few, have spl.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

Homosexualy remas, whether we like or not, the hot topic of the moment, if not of the last two s. The two Levic Scriptur (18 and 20) talk of homosexualy as an abomatn.

Pl's ncerns over homosexualy, the ncerns are scribed as "unnatural". The nature that Pl says homosexual behavr ntradicts is God's purpose for , revealed creatn and reerated throughout Scripture.

Allberry als at length wh all of Pl's statements and nclus that homosexual s is not pable; "But you were washed, you were sanctified... Then we e to J, a favore of liberals who say J never mentned homosexualy. None of J' hearers would have doubted that his reference to porneia clud homosexual behavr.

IS GOD ANTI-GAY? SAM ALLBERRY & ROB HUDSON

His chapter on "Homosexualy and the church" is worth the book. We should wele gay upl as we should wele unmarried heterosexual upl to the church, "I would make a mental note that this will be an issue to thk through wh them due urse. In Romans 14 Pl speaks about 'disputable matters' but homosexualy is not one of them.

Allberry regniz that some people have been driven to spair and suici, attributg their distrs to real or perceived prsure om Christian disapproval of homosexualy. Allberry nclus his book wh a chapter on "Homosexualy and the world". Our gay iends need to know that we are for them and not agast them.

WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?

We need to love them more than they love their homosexualy. This book is a mt read for any Christian volved lol church mistry to homosexuals or personal iendships. 1) homosexualy is not a stand-alone issue, but is part and parcel of the Sexual Revolutn.