Can You Be Gay and Christian?: Responding With Love and Truth to Questions About Homosexuality
Overview
The question of how the church deals with homosexuality has become the great moral and spiritual issue of this generation.
How do we respond to gay people who tell us how much they love the Lord and experience God’s power? How do we answer them when they say that the greatest law is the law of love, and that love requires us to embrace them as they are? What do we do with the argument that the Old Testament laws (such as the prohibition against homosexuality and the dietary laws) no longer apply?
Gay and Christian? will provide solid biblical answers, clearly written and based on sound scholarship, in a compassionate way that causes the reader to wrestle with the issues and discover the biblical truth. The book also provides practical guidelines for ministry and shows readers how they can resist the gay agenda while reaching out to their gay friends and family.
- Seeks to reach readers who are interested in what the Scriptures teach about homosexuality
- Explores its topics in a popular style while still grounding itself in serious academic scholarship
- Intends to answer the question of whether a person can truly follow Jesus and practice homosexuality
- Love Does No Harm to Its Neighbor
- To Judge or Not to Judge?
- Are We Using the Bible to Santion Antihomosexual Prejudice?
- The Bible Is a Heterosexual Book
- Levitical Laws and the Meaning of To'evah (Abomination)
- What Di Jesus Say About Homosexuality?
- The Healing of the Cennturion's Servant
- Paul and Homosexuality
- Everything Reproduces After Its Own Kind
- Balancing Grace and Truth
Top Highlights
“Everyone’s story is different, but the bottom line is that God doesn’t call us to heterosexuality as much He calls us to holiness.33 More than that, He calls us to Himself—to the complete surrender of all that we are and all that we have and all that we desire to Him. And that is how we now define ourselves: as children of God, as sons and daughters of the Most High, as servants of the Lord.” (Page 28)
“This, in fact, has become one of the most forceful arguments in the ‘gay Christian’ debate: the law of love requires us to embrace same-sex couples.” (Page 3)
“Well, we’ve already seen that the reason the Bible doesn’t speak a lot about homosexuality is because the Bible is a heterosexual book from beginning to end, and only heterosexual relationships are sanctioned by God and only heterosexual marriage is ordained by God.” (Page 129)
“And note this carefully: in both Matthew 15:19 and Mark 7:21 the Greek word for ‘sexual immorality,’ porneia, occurs in the plural—it is literally ‘sexual immoralities,’ found in this plural form only in these two verses in the entire New Testament. This refers comprehensively to all sexual acts outside of marriage, which, as we know, consisted only of the union of a man and a woman in Jewish biblical law in Jesus’s day.” (Page 132)
“Can you be gay and Christian? If by that you mean, can you be committed to Jesus and serve Him faithfully while still having homosexual attractions—recognizing those attractions as contrary to God’s design and resisting them as sinful—then the answer is yes, of course!” (Page 213)
- Title: Can You Be Gay and Christian? Responding With Love and Truth to Questions About Homosexuality
- Author: Michael L. Brown
- Publisher: Frontline
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 286
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Homosexuality › Biblical teaching; Homosexuality › Religious aspects
- ISBNs: 9781621365945, 9781621365938, 1621365948, 162136593X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781621365945
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:45:13Z