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Partner with Transforming Congregations to strengthen safe, authentic, and lasting culture of healing from sexual and relational brokenness in your UMC or GMC congregation.
Sex & Identity: A Summit on God's Design
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Strengthen your understanding of God's vision for sexuality & identity as laid out in Scripture to be better equipped for personal growth and ministering to people in need. These are hosted through our sister ministry, Love & Truth Network.
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Book Recommendations for Pastors:
Look around your church on a Sunday morning and every face you see will likely have struggled or be struggling with some kind of sexual brokenness. While recent cultural upheaval has focused the sexuality conversation squarely on the issue of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, sexual brokenness presents in many other ways—infidelity, sexual abuse, incest, emotional adultery, and sexual addiction, just to name a few.
Shame keeps these struggles locked away, resulting in a lonely, dark battle without the love and support necessary to overcome it. It’s counter-intuitive, as most things in God’s Kingdom are, but true healing for our deepest issues comes not when we withdraw into darkness, but when our sorrows and scars come out into the light.
Into The Light: Healing Sexuality in Today’s Church is written to begin a biblically grounded and theologically informed discussion of this beautiful gift of sexuality. Whether the context is a Sunday school class, Bible study, women’s group, or men’s breakfast, don’t be surprised if deep brokenness begins to surface—that’s the whole idea. Embrace one another with open arms, just as the Father would. The journey to healing begins when we feel safe to take the first step.
The church is divided over homosexuality, yet there can only be one truth.
Smoke and Mirrors highlights the deception many Christians are operating under and considers how Satan is attacking Christianity in the areas of gender and sexual identity. Sarah likens his methodology to that of magicians who use smoke and mirrors to create elaborate illusions.
Many Christians have been completely fooled by the illusions and are now endorsing, and even celebrating sin. This book points the reader to God’s holiness and our calling to mirror his holiness as we live as those set apart from the world.
Smoke and Mirrors highlights the deception many Christians are operating under and considers how Satan is attacking Christianity in the areas of gender and sexual identity. Sarah likens his methodology to that of magicians who use smoke and mirrors to create elaborate illusions.
Many Christians have been completely fooled by the illusions and are now endorsing, and even celebrating sin. This book points the reader to God’s holiness and our calling to mirror his holiness as we live as those set apart from the world.
Sarah draws on her own experience as someone who was in the LGBTQ+ community for 30 years to help the reader see how damaging the false teaching is. She incorporates testimony at the end of each chapter from others who have left LGBTQ+, which gives the reader a perspective not often offered in our culture. This book is perfect for pastors and church leaders wanting clarity on how best to minister to people in their congregations who are struggling with these issues.
A great read for every Christian who has questions about sexuality and faith.