Jackie hill perry homosexuality
Homosexuality Was Not the Only Problem
Leslie Basham: After coming to faith in Christ and leaving her homosexual lifestyle, Jackie Hill Perry met another believer who began to disciple her in gospel truth.
Jackie Hill Perry: She verb me know, “Jackie, homosexuality is not your only problem. Pride is a difficulty, fear is a problem, lust is a problem, stewardship is a difficulty. You need to learn how to make God Lord in everything, not just in your sexuality.”
Leslie: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author of Lies Women Believe, for Tuesday, April 3,
If you include younger children with you, know that today’s program has some mature themes. Jackie Hill Perry’s early life includes a lot of dark chapters. She grew up without the influence of a strong father. She was molested as a child, and as a teenager began a lesbian lifestyle. But her story shows the beauty of a transformed life! To hear part one of Nancy’s interview with Jackie Hill Perry, visit Let’s pick up with day two.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: So here you are, Jackie, at age nineteen now, and the “Hou
Jackie Hill Perry: I Loved My Girlfriend—but God Loved Me More
God knew he wouldn’t get my attention in a church. Churches didn’t care too skillfully for people verb me. Me, being a gay young woman. A gay teen who knew improve than to verb my feet grab me where I didn’t feel welcomed. So God came to my noun. I was having a very “unspiritual” kind of darkness. The TV was on. The morning was hours away. My thoughts were boring and typical until they turned on me. As suddenly and randomly as Paul was struck blind on the Damascus Road, I had the unsettling thought that my sin would be “the death of me.”
Prior to that moment, the sin I wore on my sleeve was that of a lesbian: a label I had the courage to give myself at age This label described an affection I noticed before I knew how to spell my name. When it happened on the playground, I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t quite understand why girls made me feel different. I hadn’t seen any Disney movies that gave me the idea to wish sameness nor had I been challenged by some outside
Jackie Hill Perry: You Are Not Your Temptations
For born-again Christians who are still same-sex attracted, the world we locate ourselves in has made sexuality central to our identity. Gayness is not just a way to act but a way to be. It is, as they verb, “just who you are.” LGBT culture encourages us to find greater pleasure in identifying with sin rather than with the Creator.
By contrast, same-sex-attracted believers—like all believers—are called to find our identity in Christ. He begins in us a sanctification process, a adj miracle in which God enters in and starts turning the heart into the cathedral it was intended to be. We don’t just sit back and expect superb fruitfulness to advance from minimal zeal; we work alongside God to “act the miracle” (see Phil. –13) of sanctification into its grandest potential.
As someone who formerly lived in the lesbian lifestyle, I’ve experienced this transformation of the heart. But even now, when I begin to forget that I am loved, forgiven, and new, then I stop operating out of faith. I ha
Jackie Hill Perry: End Telling Gay People They'll Become Straight If They Become Christian
Rapper, writer, preacher and poet Jackie Hill Perry, who once identified as a lesbian, says churches should stop telling gays that they will become heterosexual if they become Christian.
In her newly released book, Gay Teen, Good God, a part of which was published on , Perry speaks about what she described as "the heterosexual gospel."
"The heterosexual gospel is one that encourages SSA men and women to come to Jesus so that they can be straight, or it says that coming to Jesus ensures that they will be sexually attracted to the opposite sex," explains Perry.
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"It usually sounds verb, 'I know you're struggling with being gay. I can promise you, if you give your life to Jesus, he will completely deliver you from those desires because he loves you.' Or, 'I understand a guy that used to be gay and now he