Creating Space for Costly Obedience: LGBTQ+ Identity and the Traditional Church - w/ Nate Collins

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How can LGBTQ+ Christians faithfully navigate their identity while holding to a traditional Christian sexual ethic? Mike Erre sits down with Nate Collins, author of "All But Invisible" and founder of the Revoice Conference, for a raw, personal, and deeply theological conversation on gender, sexuality, and costly obedience. This is the first in an ongoing Revoice Series, spotlighting voices that are challenging the polarized narratives in the church by creating space for sexual and gender minorities within the framework of historic Christian faith.

Key Takeaways:
•  Defining Revoice’s Mission – Supporting and empowering LGBTQ+/SSA (same-sex attracted) Christians committed to traditional views on marriage and sexuality.
•  Rethinking Identity and Orientation – Exploring the concepts of secondary gender identity and how orientation can be more than just sexual attraction.
•  Critiquing the Nashville Statement – Why denial of marginalized voices and language policing have left deep wounds in the LGBTQ+ Christian community.
•  Life as a Gay Man in Conservative Evangelical Spaces – Nate shares his journey through seminary, marriage, and living openly while remaining committed to the traditional sexual ethic.
•  Joy in Celibacy and Community – How the first Revoice Conference offered a glimpse of joyful resilience, belonging, and spiritual family.

Guest Highlights:
Nate Collins – Founder of Revoice and author of "All But Invisible," Nate holds a PhD in New Testament from Southern Seminary and shares his story of being a non-straight Christian living in alignment with historic Christian teachings. His experience brings incredible depth, compassion, and clarity to one of the most pressing conversations in modern Christianity.

Resources Mentioned:
•  Revoice Conference – revoice.us
•  All But Invisible by Nate Collins – allbutinvisible.com
•  Spiritual Friendship Blog – spiritualfriendship.org
•  People to Be Loved by Preston Sprinkle – [Link]
•  Washed and Waiting by Wesley Hill – [Link]
•  God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines – [Link]

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Mike here.
0:18.5	Welcome to the Vox podcast.
0:19.9	So glad that you are tuning in today.
0:22.3	We have a very special guest guy by the name of Nate Collins, who has quickly become a friend and somebody who's doing some very, very interesting things in culture and in the kingdom. And so, Nate, hello. Welcome. We're glad you're here.
0:41.4	Hey, Mike. Good to be here. Nate, I first heard, it was several months ago. It was towards the
0:48.8	beginning, late spring, beginning of summer, about a conference that you were putting together called
0:55.4	Revoice.
0:56.6	And it started blowing up on my social media feeds a little bit.
1:00.9	Can you tell us, and this is where I kind of discovered your work and what you were doing
1:05.3	and how great a conversation partner you would be.
1:08.5	Tell us a little bit about what that conference was,
1:11.2	who it was for, and what it was like. Yeah. So the conference was a three and a half day event,
1:18.6	actually no, two and a half day event. It was here in St. Louis, Memorial Presbyterian Church,
1:23.8	a PCA church local here in St. Louis hosted it. About 475 people attended, including about 50 volunteers.
1:32.0	And this was the first one, right?
1:33.5	The very first one. We sold out five weeks before the conference started.
1:37.9	Had a waiting list, a hundred people long. It was a lot of fun.
1:41.8	And the goal of the conference was to support, encourage, and empower Christian gender
1:46.1	and sexual minorities so they can flourish while adhering to historic Christian teaching
1:50.8	about marriage and sexuality.
1:52.6	Okay, hold on, hold on.
1:53.5	There's a lot in there, right?
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