Here's Rosaria Betterfield. A biblical, sexual, moral ethic is actually at the center of the gospel, not its margins.

Many people are just waking up to that. And, you know, when you change, this is just a kind of old philosophical truth that I knew back when, before I knew the Lord, if you change the language, you change the logic. So if you decide

that no, we are not all male and female image bears of a holy God with a soul that will last

forever, but instead some of us are gay and some of us are straight and some of us are trans and

some of us. If you do that, that seems on the one hand very

charitable. What it actually does is it supplants God's truth for our life for our feelings.

And our feelings are more often than not rooted in how original sin has distorted us.

Every day we have to deal with that. How original sin has distorted us, actual sin distracts us, and indwelling sin manipulates us.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, July 15th, 2016.

Well, this past February, you heard an interview I did with Rosaria Butterfield here on Revive Our Hearts.

She told an amazing story of God's amazing grace.

And we heard how this former gay rights activist came to faith in Jesus. And then how she left a lesbian lifestyle

and began to live a life for God's glory. A transgendered friend really put the question in a pointed

way. So what she said was this. I went back into the kitchen to, I think, probably grab another

bottle of wine and get

some more bowls of pasta filled. And she sat down and she said, Rosaria, before you go back in that

dining room and serve again and talk, I just need to talk to you because I'm worried for you.

This Bible reading is changing you. I'm really concerned.

If you haven't heard that story, I hope you'll visit

the archives at revive our hearts.com. Be sure to listen to this series, the secret thoughts

of an unlikely convert. I needed to go to church and meet God and not worry about the fact that my

butch haircut and my jeans, you know, probably was just

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