S2 Ep1059: Finding Intimacy and Community As a Celibate Gay Christian: Art Pereira

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Art is the Director of Community Care for Revoice--an organization whose mission is to support and encourage gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other same-sex attracted Christians—as well as those who love them—so that all in the Church might be empowered to live in gospel unity while observing the historic Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality. Art realized he was gay at around age 12 and became a Christian in his late teens. He's served as a youth pastor and currently works for Revoice. Our converation reflects upon his journey, which includes seeking to find intimacy and community as a gay man and committed Christ follower pursuing celibacy.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rahm. I guess today is
0:03.6	Art Pereira, who is the director of community care at Revoice and has a very,
0:09.6	man, interesting story, which I'm not going to spoil it for you. I'll have to listen, but man,
0:14.4	I was just really impacted by the story you're about to hear. Art just has an amazing
0:20.4	perspective on life and I just can't wait for you to listen to the journey that God has brought
0:25.6	him on. So please welcome him to the show for the first time, Art Pereira.
0:38.7	Art, thanks so much for being on the podcast, man. I'm chatting offline briefly and I'm really
0:44.3	looking forward to getting to know you more. Yeah, it's my pleasure. So who is Art Pereira? Take
0:49.7	us back as far as you want to go that would be relevant and exciting for our audience to
0:55.5	listen into. And yeah, we'll love to hear your journey. Yeah. I am 31. I'm a Brazilian immigrant.
1:04.8	Like you said, I work for Revoice. Prior to that, I was a youth pastor for about 10 years.
1:11.6	So I've always really had a heart for discipleship, community building,
1:16.3	walking alongside people as they grow in their faith. My family moved here when I was four
1:20.4	years old from Brazil. We live in Jersey. We've lived in Jersey ever since. And we started going
1:26.2	to church when I was 11, which was kind of out of the blue because we weren't really religious
1:31.3	growing up. My brother says there's always the people who go on Easter and Christmas and he calls
1:36.8	them the creasters. And we weren't even creasters. Like we wouldn't even go on Christmas or Easter,
1:42.5	like besides like randomly. And so when I was 11, my mom had this pretty significant faith encounter.
1:50.4	And just gave her life to Jesus. And so suddenly my family was going to church every week. And
1:56.8	I didn't really have a say. Latino parents can absolutely just make you do whatever they want. So
2:02.9	suddenly I was going to youth group every Friday and church every Sunday. That was it. I didn't
2:07.6	really have a there was no choice on my end. I didn't really believe in God. And I wasn't super
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