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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.

On today's episode, you'll hear a panel discussion on sexual identity and loving our neighbor.

This panel was held at TGC's 2021 Women's Conference.

Thank you for joining us for this. My name is Sam Ulbury and I'm joined by Rebecca McLaughlin

and Jackie Hill Perry and we're very glad to have you with us. We're thinking about the issue of

sexuality, identity, and loving our neighbor. So I'm going to ask initially just

each of you has written on sexuality. Each of you has written something about your own sexuality.

What led you to do that? Jackie will start with you.

So when I became a Christian in 2008, my testimony was something that I shared often.

Just out of, you know, the Lord has done this for me and I want everybody that I ever meet,

ever to know about it. But as that happened, I started to get the same questions about sexuality

and how to apply it to, you know, my daughter's gay. My son is my husband is struggling. How can

I help? And so it felt like, man, I wanted to create a resource that I could just hand to people

that they could be able to, you know, take what I've said, which I'm trying to point to scripture

and just have it for themselves. And so that's kind of how I started.

And your book is called Gay Girl, Good God. Yes. It's amazing. I remember when that came out,

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