Someone I Love is Gay

Mar 10–11, 2008 - comments: 2

Today on the broadcast our special guest is Mr. Bob Davies, the former North American Director of Exodus International-a worldwide coalition of Christian ministries to men and women overcoming homosexuality. Bob has first hand experience in this area as one who has struggled with homosexuality. Bob has been with us before on the broadcast sharing his wealth of experience ministering to homosexuals. He joins us again today to discuss the book, which he has co-authored with Anita Worthen, titled Someone I Love Is Gay.

As Christians who hear and observe the strident, militant homosexual force steadily pushing its agenda forward, it might be easy to view them as “the enemy.” The sin is so blatant, the methods so aggressive, it can be hard to think of each homosexual as a person with a name and a face and a story to tell-someone’s son, someone’s daughter, and someone for whom Christ died. The church has reacted to homosexuality with a mixture of fear, repulsion and rejection. But that suddenly changes when the homosexual has a name we know, a face we love, and is someone for whom we care deeply. Bob Davies has co-written, with Anita Worthen, a practical and compassionate book titled Someone I Love Is Gay, which brings us a fresh perspective and approach to our response to homosexuality, especially when it touches our lives and families.

For a Christian parent or a spouse, nothing can shatter the world quite as quickly as hearing someone you love say the words, “I’m gay.” In Someone I Love Is Gay Bob Davies and Anita Worthen have brought the love of Jesus to a delicate and painful problem.

topic(s): Faith, Family, Parenting, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality

2 comments (post your own) feed

1 On Mar 11th, 2008, at 1:45am, andrew j grassman wrote:

i got to listen to the show it brought tears to my eyes because my wife told me 1 mouth ago that she was bi and she had fallin in love with a guy that is a women inside.god spoke to me through this show,now i know i have to try to heip her when i was about to give up and get a devorce.thnks guys and god bless.

2 On Mar 12th, 2008, at 4:36pm, Timothy wrote:

“For a Christian parent or a spouse, nothing can shatter the world quite as quickly as hearing someone you love say the words, ‘I’m gay.’”

I’m still frightened of what will happen when I tell my parents I’m gay. It’ll hurt them, I know. And yet I must do it, in order to be true to myself.

There’s no reason it should hurt them, but it will, because their minds have been poisoned by religion. They don’t think that a moral act is one that helps people and an immoral act is one that hurts people. Instead, they define morality in terms of what pleases or displeases their invisible friend.

I dislike religion.

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