Rachel Gilson reviews Gregory Col's 'Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty' (IVP Books, 2017).
Contents:
- I RONATE—AND DISAGREE—WH THIS GAY CHRISTIAN
- A REVIEW OF SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN BY GREGORY COL
- BOOK REVIEW OF “SGLE GAY CHRISTIAN”
- SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN - REVIEW
- REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN
- SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY - EBOOK
- SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY
I RONATE—AND DISAGREE—WH THIS GAY CHRISTIAN
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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. Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty.
He, however, balks at the term “same-sex attracted” due to s nnectn wh the ex-gay movement. 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.
A REVIEW OF SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN BY GREGORY COL
"Let's make a al, you and me," wr Gregory Col, thor of the book Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual In ... * single gay christian review *
Why Can’t the Church Jt ‘Agree to Disagree’ on Homosexualy? A Two-Mute Clip on Homosexualy Every Christian Should Watch (Sam Allberry). “Let’s make a al, you and me, ” wr Gregory Col, thor of the book Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty.
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.
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men [or women] who practiced homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. It was important to help her unrstand that one of the ss that will keep a person om the kgdom of God is homosexualy. The young woman rpond wh a mon rebuttal: J didn’t say anythg about homosexualy.
BOOK REVIEW OF “SGLE GAY CHRISTIAN”
Jake Raabe reviews Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty. * single gay christian review *
Therefore, when we read Romans 1, 1 Corthians 6, or 1 Timothy 1 that homosexualy is s, though the words were wrten by the Apostle Pl, they are also the words of Christ. The Bible strictly nmns homoerotic behavr.
Wh the love of Christ for this woman, who had been attendg our church and was listeng to me preach, I was not about to let her leave our livg room believg that she uld practice a gay liftyle and still her the kgdom of God when the Bible says the oppose. ” Some of the men Pl wrote to were formerly guilty of homosexual s. After readg Sgle, Gay, Christian, I wonred if Gregory Col had ever heard the thgs I told that young woman.
SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN - REVIEW
Gregory Col says the church should offer “breathg room” for gay Christians, like himself, who want to pursue sexual hols. * single gay christian review *
Prr to pickg up the book, I had been told that Sgle, Gay, Christian was about a young man who stggled wh same-sex attractn, but he had ma a mment to Christ to rema celibate — hardly mon today’s hyper-sexualized, genr-nfed, stant-gratifitn culture. Gregory lls himself a gay Christian. Much k has been spilled (or keys have been clacked, I gus) about whether or not a person n be gay and a Christian.
To ll onelf a “gay Christian” is to tack a s adjective to the ont of the pursu of hols.
There’s no such thg as beg gay. There is no evince that there are people who have a permanent orientatn for homosexualy.
REVIEW: SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN
Is possible to be gay and still follow J? And if so, what happens next? If you believe the Bible lls you to celibacy, is possible to embrace that llg whout feelg like a dive typo?Sgle, Gay, Christian is the pellg first-person narrative of Gregory Col’ journey through the qutns and many more. It is about his experience wh beg gay, lovg J, and choosg sglens a world that fears all three. Throughout his story he hontly addrs ncerns om both the Christian muny and the LGBTQ muny, challengg one’s thoughts and prupposns when to this very relevant topic today. Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty - eBook (9780830890934) by Gregory Col * single gay christian review *
Homosexualy is, by biblil fn, wrongdog. So why was Greg choosg to ll himself gay?
Is he aware of what he’s llg himself when he proudly adms that he is gay? Unfortunately, Sgle, Gay, Christian is a book that fails to fe s terms.
In fact, I’m not even nvced Greg unrstands what homosexualy is. I me away om the book knowg more about Greg, but I’d not been any more rmed about “Sgle Gay Christians.
SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY - EBOOK
Is possible to be gay and still follow J? And if so, what happens next? If you believe the Bible lls you to celibacy, is possible to embrace that llg whout feelg like a dive typo?Sgle, Gay, Christian is the pellg first-person narrative of Gregory Col’ journey through the qutns and many more. It is about his experience wh beg gay, lovg J, and choosg sglens a world that fears all three. Throughout his story he hontly addrs ncerns om both the Christian muny and the LGBTQ muny, challengg one’s thoughts and prupposns when to this very relevant topic today. Sgle, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Fah and Sexual Inty (9780830845125) by Gregory Col * single gay christian review *
I nnot let you leave believg that a person n be gay and a Christian when the Bible says the oppose. He don’t make an appeal to any other self-ascribed gay men to leave a life of sfulns and be celibate. “What do you ll yourself when you’re gay and celibate the church?
” So believg that he had no where else to turn, Greg beme ntent llg himself gay. “When you say ‘gay’ the church ntext, many Christians assume you mean the active pursu of gay sex, ” he says.
SGLE, GAY, CHRISTIAN: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF FAH AND SEXUAL INTY
“But when I hear most people outsi the walls of the church e the word gay, they’re talkg about an orientatn, the nature of a person’s attractns, not about a specific sexual act. ” Greg wants to believe that the world has the bt tentns when appli the word “gay. “Beg gay don’t mean you’re actively havg sex, the same way that beg straight don’t mean you n’t be sgle and mted to sexual abstence.
” The world don’t have a problem unrstandg what a person means when they say “gay, ” Greg says. All this tells me is that the strategy to normalize terms like gay, lbian, bi-sexual, and transgenr as an inty has worked, and Greg has naively bought to . In 1988, a group of proment homosexuals gathered Warrentown, VA to map out a plan that would make homosexualy accepted by the general public.