Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Overview
“I used to be a lesbian.”
In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?
At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel.
Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.
- Explores the author's life and how she personally experienced the transforming power of the Gospel
- Seeks to point to God as it walks readers through the testimony of a girl who used to be gay but was whose life was restored by His loving grace
- Seeks to show God's love to the world and the author's love for the LGBT community so they can come to know God as He is
Part I: Who I Was
- 1988
- 1989-2007
- 2006
- 2007
- 2007
- 2008
Who I Became
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008-2014
- 2009-2014
- 2013-2014
- Ch. 14
Same-Sex Attraction AND...
- Same-Sex Attraction and Identity
- Same-Sex Attraction and Endurance
- Same-Sex Attraction and the Heterosexual
Top Highlights
“Who gave mercy my address? Or told it how to get to my room? Didn’t it” (Page 75)
“Desires exist because God gave them to us. But homosexual desires exist because sin does” (Page 20)
“The error is this: they have come to God believing that only a fraction of themselves needs saving. They have therefore neglected to acknowledge the rest of them also needs to be made right. It is like coming to God offering only a portion of their heart for Him to have, as if He does not have the right to take hold of it all or as if what has been withheld from Him can be satisfied without Him.” (Pages 73–74)
“The same Bible that condemned me held in it the promises that could save me. I just had to believe it.” (Page 75)
“I was able to want God because the Holy Spirit was after my affections just as much” (Page 84)
- Title: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
- Author: Jackie Hill Perry
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: African American women › Biography; Body, mind & spirit › Healing--Prayer & spiritual; Christian life; Ex-gays › Biography; Family & relationships › Dysfunctional families; Gender identity › Religious aspects--Christianity; Homosexuality › Religious aspects--Christianity; Religion › Christian life--Relationships; Religion › Christian life--Social issues; Religion › Christian life--Women's issues; Religion › Sexuality & gender studies; Sex role
- ISBNs: 9781087796901, 9781462751235, 9781462751228, 9781545906408, 9781545906415, 1462751237, 1462751229, 1545906408, 1545906416, 1087796903
- Resource ID: LLS:9781462751235
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-16T00:28:13Z