Is it possible to hold a biblical sexual ethic and love those who don’t hold to it? Our guest, Dr. Preston Sprinkle, works to answer this question in his work as the president of The Center For Faith, Sexuality, & Gender. Preston is the host of the Theology In The Raw podcast and is a New York Times Best-Selling author of books like People To Be Loved, Embodied, and Living In A Gray World. Preston joins us today to talk through the tension we experience between the Bible’s teaching on sexuality and our efforts to love those in the LGBTQ community.
Excellent podcast! Great definition of freedom! I appreciated both the ideas of it being okay to be solid in our beliefs if we’re still willing to listen, be compassionate and truly try to understand and in other things being willing to be wrong and to learn. Either way the focus being on all relationships flavored with the love of Christ, even with theological disagreement. Just being able to be listened to and heard, without having to change or be changed is huge… and could open doors for good change. That was also a great insight into gender identity. I never thought about it not really being a sexual issue, but truly an identity issue. Thanks for taking the fear and misinformation out of this.
– Brian
I love Preston’s reminder that God loves humanity. God loves us not because we obey the “rules “, but because we are human.
Excellent podcast! Great definition of freedom! I appreciated both the ideas of it being okay to be solid in our beliefs if we’re still willing to listen, be compassionate and truly try to understand and in other things being willing to be wrong and to learn. Either way the focus being on all relationships flavored with the love of Christ, even with theological disagreement. Just being able to be listened to and heard, without having to change or be changed is huge… and could open doors for good change. That was also a great insight into gender identity. I never thought about it not really being a sexual issue, but truly an identity issue. Thanks for taking the fear and misinformation out of this.
– Brian