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Mortification of Spin

Sexuality and Identity

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Aimee travel to a much nicer bunker this week, enjoying the comfort of Todd’s fully renovated quarters in VA. Joining them is Tim Geiger, president of Harvest USA, to chat about his sessions on Gender, Sexuality, and What it Means to be Human, the theme of this year’s Blue Ridge Bible Conference.Tim tells us how Harvest USA began, and how its focus has expanded as the needs of the church and the surrounding communities have broadened. As an attendee of the recent Revoice conference, Tim shares his perspective on the event, and its approach to the nature of identity and personhood.Is it right for one to consider himself a “gay Christian?” What does that say about one’s identity and calling? Tune in for this critical and timely conversation.Show Notes·Harvest USA·Hide or Seek by John Freeman·When Your Husband is Addicted to Pornography by Vicki TiedeThanks to our friends of New Growth Press, we can offer our listeners a few copies of Hide or Seek by John Freeman. Register for the opportunity to win one!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.

0:21.9

With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:30.8

Let's join this week's conversation. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.

0:45.8

This is Todd Pruitt.

0:46.6

As always, I am joined by my co-hosts, Amy Bird and Carl Truman.

0:52.3

And we are broadcasting from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley today, Harrisonburg, Virginia, my home, the place that I love at the church that I love, Covenant Presbyterian Church here.

1:06.6

And we are actually, it's the morning of the Friday where we are launching our Blue Ridge Bible conference on sexuality and gender and what it means to be human.

1:19.0

And one of the speakers that is with us this weekend for the conference is Tim Geiger.

1:25.4

Tim is the president of Harvest USA. He's a graduate

1:29.0

of Westminster Seminary. He is a teaching elder in the PCA. He and his family live in the Philadelphia

1:34.7

area. And Tim made the drive down here to be with us for this weekend event. And there's

1:40.8

some things that we want to talk with Tim about and gain some wisdom from.

1:44.7

Tim, thank you for joining us today.

1:46.4

It's great to be here.

1:47.6

Excellent.

1:48.1

Now, Tim, tell us many of our listeners will be familiar with the work of Harvest USA, but there will be some who aren't familiar with, and we would want them to be familiar with the work of Harvest USA.

1:59.8

So before we get into other points of discussion, let us know a little bit about what Harvest USA is and the work that you all do.

2:08.6

Well, thank you, Todd.

2:09.6

Harvest USA is a ministry that has been around since 1983.

2:13.6

We started as an outreach to unchurched gay men in Center City, Philadelphia.

2:20.0

But pretty soon after we were started by 10th Presbyterian Church in that city,

2:25.9

we began reaching out to all kinds of people dealing with all kinds of sin issues related to sex,

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