When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians.
Contents:
- CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY
- AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY OM AGNOSTIC GAY MAN PRISON TO EVANGELIL BIBLE PROFSOR
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- CURE ME, I'M GAY!
- ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
- HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
- OPN I’M A GAY, CHRISTIAN PEDIATRICIAN AND HAVE NO DOUBT: J WOULD REJECT ANTI-TRANS LAWS
- THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY
Christopher Yuan me out as gay to his Che parents. They gave him an ultimatum: choose or them. He end up fdg fah prison. * is dr christian gay *
Unrver Doctor: Cure Me, I’m Gay will follow Dr Jsen on his extraordary and sometim shockg journey as he looks at past and prent therapi both the UK and USA that offer to ‘cure’ gay people who are sperate to be straight. Wh his medil background and as an openly gay man, he’ll be boldly unrtakg some of the ‘cur’ himself and will explore whether really is possible to be ‘cured’ of homosexualy.
AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY OM AGNOSTIC GAY MAN PRISON TO EVANGELIL BIBLE PROFSOR
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This bold and challengg documentary will ask what the extraordary practic tell about 21st century attus towards homosexualy, medice, psychology and sexual inty. " (Courty of Christopher Yuan)Christopher Yuan teach "Theology of Sexualy" at Moody Bible Instute -- but his journey of fah started a prison Yuan me out as gay to his Che parents at 23, they gave him an ultimatum: choose or them.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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MILLENNIALS CREATE BIBLE FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATIONToday, Yuan, a profsor-at-large ntu to teach biblil studi at Moody Bible Instute, where he has tght for over 11 years and speaks at church, lleg, and nferenc around the world on fah and said he don't intify as gay, ex-gay, or even HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"My te inty, " he adds, "is J Christ alone. Some morn Bible translatns say that “homosexuals” will not her the kgdom of God, but neher the ncept nor the word for people wh exclive same-sex attractn existed before the late 19th century.
Requirg that all gay people rema celibate is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy, which are ground Scripture’s re affirmatn that God’s physil creatn is good. Matthew V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and is the founr of The Reformatn Project, a Bible-based non-prof anizatn that seeks to reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty. It was followg this shockg vis that Dr Christian, who is openly gay himself, disvered that ntroversial gay-to-straight nversn therapi are still offered both the US and the UK.
So, as part of a new documentary, Dr Christian went unrver to vtigate some of the so-lled gay cur, cludg gay rehab and exorcism, and even tted out some himself.
CURE ME, I'M GAY!
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Confsn and fivens is available to those who stggle to rist s, but the tentn to ntue the practice of homosexualy would ed impe membership the Orthodox Church.
ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
A repentant, stgglg homosexual who reas om homosexual acts n be received to the church after the ual urse of stctn, but he or she would do bt to keep this matter the nfsnal, jt as is mon wh every other s.
HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
It’s not jt homosexualy; the Orthodox Church oppos today’s cultural permissivens the area of sexualy generally, pecially wh regard to habatn, promiscuy, and var forms of eroticism. 1 He garnered natnal attentn aga 2013 when he started his mistry The Reformatn Project and hosted a nference to teach people how to “reform” the church on the issue of homosexualy.
As we broke down his arguments ncerng the creatn orr, we realized that God and the Gay Christian was not the typil progrsive attack on the thory of Scripture.
OPN I’M A GAY, CHRISTIAN PEDIATRICIAN AND HAVE NO DOUBT: J WOULD REJECT ANTI-TRANS LAWS
However, I want to turn to exame two of the key assertns on which V reli God and the Gay Christian: the ia that “sexual orientatn” nnot be changed, and the relevance of celibacy to his pot. ” Ined, there are many profsg Christians who have adopted termology such as “gay Christian” as a scriptor for those Christians who stggle wh same-sex attractn (SSA).
THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
Owen Strachan, assistant profsor of Christian theology and church history at SBTS, wr about the problem wh g the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who al wh same-sex attractn. Some Christians argue that while inty Christ is of first importance for a believer to grasp, we should also enurage them to mata this other inty as a “gay Christian, ” as a way of classifyg their experience. Many people alg wh SSA will be tempted to say what Matthew V has—that beg homosexual is simply part of who they are—and to treat that as a sendary inty to or as a replacement for their inty as a new creatn Christ.