God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships Audiobook (Free)

“God and the Homosexual Christian is a game changer. Winsome, accessible, and carefully explored, every page is normally brought to existence with the author’s very clear love for Scripture and deep, persistent trust. With this publication, Matthew Vines emerges as you of my generation’s most important Christian leaders, not only on matters of sexuality but also on what this means to follow Jesus with knowledge, humility, and elegance. Prepare to become challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired. Read with an open up about God as well as the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships heart and brain, and you are destined to be changed.”

– Rachel Held Evans, author of A 12 months of Biblical Womanhood and Trust Unraveled

As a Christian guy, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic expectations of most teenagers: to someday share his life with someone, to create a family of his own, to provide and receive like. But when he realized he was homosexual, those hopes had been called into query. The Bible, he’d been trained, condemned gay romantic relationships.

Feeling the tension between his understanding of the Bible and the reality of his same-sex orientation, Vines devoted many years of intensive research into what the Bible says about homosexuality. With care and accuracy, Vines asked queries such as for example:

• Perform biblical teachings over the marriage covenant preclude same-sex relationship or not?

• How should we apply the teachings of Jesus to the gay debate?

• What will the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah really say about individual relationships?

• Can celibacy be considered a calling when it’s mandated, not particular?

• What did Paul are thinking about when he warned against same-sex relationships?

Unique in it is affirmation of both an orthodox trust and sexual diversity, God and the Homosexual Christian will probably spark heated argument, sincere soul search­ing, even widespread cultural change. Not only is it a compelling interpretation of key biblical texts about same-sex relations, additionally it is the story of a young man navigating romantic relationships with his family members, his hometown chapel, and the Religious church most importantly as he expresses what this means to be always a faithful gay Christian.