Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before in your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 57 of the podcast. My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope

this episode helps you lead like never before. I am super excited about

today's guest. His name is Aaron Harris and I'm going to introduce you to him in a few minutes.

So we're going to talk about one of the most controversial subjects in the church today and that is simply the whole issue of same sex relationships, same sex attraction, and

Aaron's going to tell his story of what it is like to grow up as a gay man in the

church. This is the very first interview that has gone, I think about an hour and three quarters.

Yeah, we were pushing the two hour marks, so yeah, your phone is not inaccurate.

But again, I'm just hoping this is a really powerful

conversation that's going to help people, all leaders who maybe even have

different views on the issues. So really glad you're tuning in. Before we go there, I just want to say thank you so much. We are one week out from my book launch. My latest book called Lasting Impact, Seven Powerful Conversations that will help

your church grow. And you guys like completely blew me and the team away. Oh my goodness all the pre-orders, all of the orders in the first week.

Amazon kept emailing us on a regular basis going, we need another 500 books, we need another 1,000 books and man you guys wow I just I

can't believe the response I just wanted to say thank you so much thank you for your

generosity thank you for ordering the book It is so encouraging already just a few

days out from the launch of the book as it gets into your hand or as you download the Kindle.

So many of you are sending such positive feedback. Thank you so much. And to all of you who

subscribed early and got the pre-order bonuses or the first week bonuses, it was fun to ship those out as well.

So the pre-ordered bonuses should almost all be out and in your inbox

and I hope you're enjoying the free audio book and so on.

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