Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor Being Friends in Grace and Truth

by Stanton, Glenn T.; Daly, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780802412140
• ISBN10: 0802412149
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-10-01
• Publisher: Moody Publishers

Summary

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.

Author Biography

GLENN T. STANTON is the director for Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs and is directing a major research project on international family formation trends at the Institute of Marriage and Family in Ottawa. He debates and lectures extensively on the issues of gender, sexuality, marriage and parenting at universities and churches around the country. He served the George W. Bush administration for many years as a consultant on increasing fatherhood involvement in the Head Start program. Glenn is an author and contributor to many books and is quoted as a leading spokesperson on marriage and family issues. Glenn and his wife have five children and live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Table of Contents

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