A pastoral response to transgenderism on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems people face. One significant difficulty that we face in our contemporary culture is a problem

that actually would have boggled the minds of most people throughout church history, and it's the

problem of transgenderism.

We live in a day and in an age where individuals can decide that their gender is something

other than what is indicated in their biological sex and where they can then receive actual

surgery to alter their own physical appearance. This creates a massive number of ethical

and pastoral questions that the church needs to be faithful to respond to. To help us to respond to

some of these questions is Dr. Jim Hamilton, who is the professor of biblical theology at the

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

He is the author of God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment,

and he is also a pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.

I wanted Dr. Hamilton to join us on this edition of the podcast because he's a faithful biblical scholar

and also because he is a local church pastor. Dr. Hamilton, I want to begin by asking what we say

to the close relatives of these people who have decided to have gender reassignment surgery

or who have decided to go through a gender transition.

And everyone in our culture is emphasizing acceptance. We have to accept these decisions that people make.

But that leaves family members in the wake of confusion wondering what to do. Wives, kids, parents,

who have always known this person to be their son or their daughter or their

husband or their wife or their parent. And now they're being asked to accept a massive change

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