Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
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Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
Messiness is what happens when you try to live out God’s perfect grace as a flawed person in a flawed world.
Lord, you’re the one who called me into ministry and to this place. You’re the one who allowed me to have the experiences I did. You’ve been forming me and shaping me, and now I am so nervous to proclaim what I know I need to. Give me the confidence and power to do what I must.
Some Christians need to understand that we can be right in our beliefs but wrong in how we communicate them.
being unloving to gay people in your life is a sin. Also, it’s a crying shame because it puts a barrier between people and the gospel. It’s the opposite of being Christlike. I don’t see Jesus acting like that anywhere in the Gospels.
I want to invite you to live in the tension of grace and truth. I’m not asking you to do something that you’re not already doing. Christianity is filled with tension.