Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

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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.

Some Christians need to understand that we can be right in our beliefs but wrong in how we communicate them.

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.

Messiness is what happens when you try to live out God’s perfect grace as a flawed person in a flawed world.

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.