Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity
- 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tells his own story. Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered a thousand times since: "I'm gay." I'll show you the world through my eyes. I'll tell you what it's like to belong nowhere. To know that much of my Christian family will forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as involuntary as my eye color. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community that shares my experience as a sexual minority will disagree with the way I've chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I've bought into a tragic, archaic ritual of self-hatred. But I promise my story won't all be sadness and loneliness and struggle. I'll tell you good things too, hopeful things, funny things, like the time I accidentally came out to my best friend during his bachelor party. I'll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me in the eyes and said, "You are not a mistake." I'll tell you that joy and sorrow are not opposites, that my life has never been more beautiful than when it was most brokenhearted. If you'll listen, I promise I'll tell you everything, and you can decide for yourself what you want to believe about me.
Country USA
Brand IVP
Manufacturer IVP
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 186877
ReleaseDate 2017-08-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780830845125

Country	USA
Brand	IVP
Manufacturer	IVP
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	186877
ReleaseDate	2017-08-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780830845125

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

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