Accepting My True Identity in Christ (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield shares her dramatic testimony of coming to faith in Jesus Christ after living as a lesbian who was vehemently opposed to Christianity and the Bible. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 1:00.0 | One of the things that I did learn is that sexuality in the in the safe and the God covered protection of biblical marriage is something I had never experienced before. |
| 1:16.0 | See, and that's when we need to get away from these terms heterosexual and homosexual because homosexuality is not a behavior to be modified. |
| 1:27.0 | It's a sin to be mortified. |
| 1:31.0 | And then what happens after that is up to you. |
| 1:36.0 | Quite a provocative thought from Dr. Rosaria Butterfield. |
| 1:40.0 | She was our guest last time on focus on the family. She's got a remarkable story about how God completely transformed her life. |
| 1:48.0 | And we're looking forward to hearing more from her today. |
| 1:51.0 | Your host is focus president and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:55.0 | Rosaria is truly one of my heroes in the faith because she is a truth seeker even when she was far from God and had no interest in Christianity or the Bible. |
| 2:06.0 | She had a passion for discovering the truth and it changed her life. |
| 2:11.0 | As we heard last time Rosaria was a tenured professor at Syracuse University teaching women's studies and queer theory at the time back in the mid to late 1990s. |
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