Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology.

My guest today is my friend Ashley Anderson, who is the mission's pastor at Church

of the City in New York City, where she's part of the teaching team and leads ministries

that partner in the spiritual, social, and cultural renewal of New York City.

And as part of that work, Ashley leads a group called The Table, which is a group of LGBTQ

or same-sex attracted Christians

at the church who have consecrated their sexuality to God in alignment with an Orthodox Christian

sexual ethic with the belief that a consecrated life is not only possible, but also deeply

satisfying. I wanted Ashley to come on the show to talk about this group because I get to ask all the

time by church leaders, you know, how can we do a better job, disciplining, reaching out to the

LGBTQ community or discipling people who are same-sex attracted within their churches.

And I always say, go check out church in the city.

They're doing awesome stuff.

They even have this group where they're walking with people who have lived experience

in this topic.

And that's why I wanted actually to come on the show, say, hey, give us some insight into this

group.

How did you go about it?

What are some challenges?

And how should other churches

do something similar? So with that said, please welcome to the show for the first time.

The one or only Ashley Anderson.

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