806: What Does the Term ‘Gay Christian’ Actually Mean? Dr. Greg Coles
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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GregColes is back! Actually, he never left. We just split our conversation into two parts. In our first conversation, Greg shared about his coming out story and what advice he'd give to parents with gay kids, and to gay Christians who are thinking of coming out. Speaking of "gay Christians," that phrase is super debated, misunderstood, and has become the subject of much turmoil in the evangelical community. Greg helps us understand what people mean and don't mean by the phrase. We also talk about other words and phrases like "homosexual," "the gay lifestyle," "practicing homosexual," "same-sex attraction," and "the gay agenda." And we discuss whether same-sex attraction, or "being gay," is itself a morally culpable sin from the perspective of a traditional Christian sexual ethic.
Here's the blog series Greg and I referenced in the video:
https://www.centerforfaith.com/blog/gay-vs-same-sex-attraction-a-dialogue
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I want to welcome back to the show, my very good friend, Greg Kohl's, in this episode, |
| 0:04.6 | we are going to talk about the meaning of the phrase gay Christian. We're going to clear up some confusion. We're going to talk about why phrases like |
| 0:11.4 | homosexual, the gay agenda, practicing homosexual are not the most |
| 0:16.3 | helpful phrases in the conversation about Christianity and sexuality. |
| 0:21.3 | If you haven't read his book yet I would highly recommend Greg's book |
| 0:24.2 | Single Gay Christian put out by IVP. Interiversity Press. If you would like to |
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