Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor: Being Friends in Grace and Truth
Ever feel like we’re just fumbling through the LGBT conversation, always asking but never really finding answers to questions like:
- What does it look like to be friends with my lesbian neighbors?
- How should I love my gay child and his partner?
- What if I’m invited to a same-sex wedding?
- What did Jesus say—and not say—about homosexuality?
- What is the role of the church in the same-sex debate?
We don’t have to fumble. While the questions are hard, answers can be had. Just ask Glenn Stanton.
Stanton, of Focus on the Family, travels widely meeting with and debating LGBT advocates across the country. In doing so he has had the privilege of becoming friends with a number of them.
He says, "We disagree on certain convictions, but we still admire and esteem one another . . . Since when was it decided that people who see the world in polar opposite ways can't be friends?" He shares his personal journey building bridges with the LGBT community and offers candid insights on hard questions.
In Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor, Glenn Stanton shows us how to speak the truth in love on this difficult but important issue.
From the Back Cover
Does it seem like we’re just fumbling through the LGBT conversation—trying our best, but failing?
It doesn’t have to be this way.
As director for Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, Glenn Stanton often debates with LGBT advocates across the country. "I get to hang out and become friends with those who live on the other side of the same-sex marriage issue from me," he says. "We disagree on certain convictions, but we still admire and esteem one another . . . . Since when was it decided that people who see the world in polar opposite ways can’t be friends?"
With this posture, Stanton offers insight on such questions as:
- What if you’re invited to a same-sex wedding?
- What did Jesus say—and not say—about homosexuality?
- Is anyone getting this right?
Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor is a wise, compassionate, practical, and thoroughly biblical guide for followers of Christ seeking to navigate some of the most challenging issues of our time in grace and truth.
Introduction Is This Really Working for Anyone?
Chapter 1 Understanding the Thing Itself
Chapter 2 Sex: What is It that God Says?
Chapter 3 The Problem of False Choices
Chapter 4 Folks Getting It Right
Chapter 5 Navigating the Dilemmas We Face
Conclusion: Our Calling
"What an incredibly timely topic. It is nice to see a book that helps Christians approach members of the LGBT community with sensitivity and caring without compromising their morals and beliefs."
Reviewed by Martha Dodge, Sept 28, 2014
"A timely book that helps the modern day Christian walk through the correct and biblical stance and approach to those in our lives and neighborhood from the LGBT community. A much needed book as many walk this minefield in a state of confusion. What does the bible say on this subject? So many questions that many have can be answered by this well written book."
Reviewed by Maxine, Oct 2, 2014
Product Details
- Title : Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor: Being Friends in Grace and Truth
- Authors:
- Stanton, Glenn T.
- Daly, Jim
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9780802491329