Chapter 7

Can someone be gay or transgender and still be a Christian?

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Study Questions

• Do you think the church has engaged well on the topic of homosexuality and transgenderism? What could be done better? 

• Which of the four church camps mentioned in the chapter do you find yourself in? 

• What is it about the issue of sexuality that makes it so difficult to talk about? 

• How can we look to Jesus as the example to guide our conversations on this topic? 

Related Scripture

• Genesis 2:18–24 

• Leviticus 18 

• Matthew 19:4–6 

• Romans 1:24–32 

Resources

• Video: Does God hate people who practice homosexuality?

• Video: A Crisis of Identity

• Article: Sexual Brokenness and the Church

• Podcast: Texts and Hermeneutics

• Article: Healing for the Transgender Community

• Article: Loving Your LGBT Neighbors

• Article: Responding to ‘God and the Gay Christian’

Related Reading

• Out of a Far Country, Christopher and Angela Yuan 

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan 

• Messy Grace, Caleb Kaltenbach 

• Loving my LGBT Neighbor, Glenn Stanton 

• Love Thy Body, Nancy Pearcey 

• God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker 

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