E207 LGBTQ+ & How The Church Changed Us... | The Debrief Podcast
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
5 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Matt Brown has a conversation with two friends who share their journey of identity and how their church family changed them at a deep level.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matt Brown. |
| 0:10.1 | The podcast where pastor and author Matt Brown |
| 0:12.7 | debriefs your questions about Christianity and current issues shaping our culture. |
| 0:17.3 | Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey guys. Welcome to another episode of the debrief. I am super excited today because we have been talking about this for a long time. |
| 0:29.6 | So we have two special guests in the audience today and I just want to prep parents. |
| 0:34.6 | We're going to be talking about sexual issues today. |
| 0:36.6 | So if you have little ones in the car, I need you to make a decision right now, but we're going to be talking about sexual issues today. So if you have little ones in the |
| 0:37.7 | car, I need you to make a decision right now. But we're going to be talking about all things sexual, |
| 0:43.0 | specifically LGBTQ plus. And I have two of my good friends at Sandals Church. And I'm going to use |
| 0:48.8 | the word gay. And then we're going to use the word same sex attracted. I think that's what |
| 0:52.2 | Cindy and I talked about a couple weeks ago in church. But language changes so much. It's, you know, one of my daughters |
| 1:00.7 | told me the other day that the word lesbian is offensive. And I was like, okay, I didn't know. So I'm |
| 1:05.3 | just trying to, I'm an old man now. So I'm 51 years old. And so I don't know what's offensive or not, but we're going to use the term gay first. And so I'm going to start out with how I met you, Anisa. So I don't know if you |
| 1:18.6 | were there at the live episode. Yeah, okay. So we had this live episode for the debrief. I don't even |
| 1:23.5 | know what episode it was, but they just let anybody come up and ask a question. |
| 1:29.1 | And here comes Anisa with her question. |
| 1:32.1 | And I'm going to summarize because I don't remember exactly because I froze. |
| 1:36.1 | Absolutely froze. |
| 1:37.9 | But you were basically like, I'm gay. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm following Jesus. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm married to a woman. |
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