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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the Gospel.

Today you'll hear a message from Sam Albury, originally delivered at TGC's

2018 Arizona Regional Conference.

I'm sure for every single one of us, when we think about issues of sexuality,

we're not primarily thinking about what's going on in the world at large,

we're not primarily thinking about culture. I'm sure for the vast majority,

if not all of us, we're thinking about people that we know,

as we think about issues of same-sex attraction, or LGBTI, or whatever it might be,

I'm sure virtually every one of us is someone in our close orbits who would self-identify in that kind of way.

And so what we're thinking about this evening is not abstract.

It's personal. It's people that we love very, very dearly.

And maybe for some of us, it's even more personal than that. We're not just talking about people

who are very close to us. For some of us, this is part of our own lived experience.

That's certainly been the case for me. The only romantic or sexual feelings I've ever had

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