Will god still love me if i am gay
“You want to shove those words back in and put the lid on. But you can’t. Your child is gay. This goes against everything you’ve been taught. It was not what you had in mind, and you instantly wonder where you went wrong.”
When you develop a parent, you recognize to expect the unexpected. But for many Christian parents, nothing can make ready them to hear that their beloved child is gay. This is the child you have cradled, spoon fed mashed bananas, and dreamed a stunning future for. How could this be? What will the church say? What will your friends say? What does the future hold? You can’t even get your head around this.
If you are a Christian parent, family member or friend to whom your loved one has come out as lgbtq+ or lesbian, then this is for you.
I ask you to sit down, relax, maybe get a cup of tea, and soak in what I’m about to tell you. My hope is to guide you as we walk for a bit through this maze of confusion, to help you find your way to wholeness. In many Christian circles, this is not good news, and you may begin to spiral into reflection and self-searching. We’ll get to that. But at the bottom of it all, this is not about you. Most parents’ first mistake is to mak
Does God Still Cherish Me, Even Though I’m Gay?
FEBRUARY 15, 2014
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During a Q&A session at the church where my partner, Pastor Harvey Turner, and I serve, we were asked an crucial question: “Does God still love me, even though I’m gay?” This allowed […]
During a Q&A session at the church where my buddy, Pastor Harvey Turner, and I serve, we were asked an crucial question: “Does God still love me, even though I’m gay?” This allowed us to discuss God’s love in the area of sexual preferences.
Alex Early
Jesus befriended and redeemed Alex when he was 15 years senior in Georgia where he grew up and later planted his first church
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Caleb Kaltenbach (M.A. ’07) is an alumnus of Biola’s Talbot School of Theology, lead pastor of a large church in Simi Valley, Calif., and a married father of two. He’s also an emerging voice in the discussion of how Christians should engage the LGBT community. That’s because Kaltenbach has an insider perspective, having been raised by a dad and mom who divorced and independently came out of the closet as a homosexual man and a womxn loving womxn. Raised in the midst of LGBT parties and pride parades, Kaltenbach became a Christian and a pastor as a new adult. Today, he manages the tension of holding to the traditional biblical teaching on sexuality while loving his gay parents.
Kaltenbach’s unique story is detailed in his new guide Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction and landed him on the front page of the New York Times in June. Biola Magazine reached out to him to talk about his manual and his perspective on how Christians can surpass navigate the complexities of this issue with reality and grace.
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