Jackie hill perry on homosexuality
Homosexuality Was Not the Only Problem
Leslie Basham: After coming to faith in Christ and leaving her lesbian lifestyle, Jackie Hill Perry met another believer who began to disciple her in gospel truth.
Jackie Hill Perry: She let me understand, “Jackie, homosexuality is not your only problem. Pride is a challenge, fear is a problem, lust is a problem, stewardship is a problem. You need to learn how to make God Lord in everything, not just in your sexuality.”
Leslie: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author of Lies Women Believe, for Tuesday, April 3,
If you have younger children with you, know that today’s program has some mature themes. Jackie Hill Perry’s early animation includes a lot of obscure chapters. She grew up without the influence of a strong father. She was molested as a child, and as a teenager began a lesbian lifestyle. But her story shows the beauty of a transformed life! To hear part one of Nancy’s interview with Jackie Hill Perry, visit Let’s pick up with day two.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: So here you are, Jackie, at age nineteen now, and the “Hou
Jackie Hill Perry: I Loved My Girlfriend—but God Loved Me More
God knew he wouldn’t get my attention in a church. Churches didn’t care too successfully for people love me. Me, entity a gay miss. A gay lady who knew beat than to allow my feet obtain me where I didn’t feel welcomed. So God came to my home. I was having a very “unspiritual” kind of overnight. The TV was on. The morning was hours away. My thoughts were boring and characteristic until they turned on me. As suddenly and randomly as Paul was struck blind on the Damascus Highway, I had the unsettling thought that my sin would be “the death of me.”
Prior to that moment, the sin I wore on my sleeve was that of a lesbian: a label I had the courage to give myself at age This label described an care I noticed before I knew how to spell my name. When it happened on the playground, I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t quite understand why girls made me feel different. I hadn’t seen any Disney movies that gave me the idea to want sameness nor had I been challenged by some outside
Your Sexuality Does Not Explain You
Amidst the raft of books tackling the topic of the gospel and homosexuality, Gay Girl, Great God by Jackie Hill Perry is one of the best. Autobiographical, but drenched in Scripture, Hill Perry teaches through her story as she addresses thorny and hard issues head-on. She holds out biblical truth, unflinchingly applying it to her possess life, and by implication the life of the reader.
Beautiful and Precise
As a spoken-word poet, Hill Perry is a master wordsmith. I love the way she beautifully yet precisely articulates the complexities of being a same-sex attracted woman who is then confronted by Jesus and almost immediately sees that she can no longer live a lesbian lifestyle. She invites readers to accompany her on her journey of conversion, and on into the war between the Spirit and her sinful flesh.
While the book follows her story of repentance and faith, tracking with the battle against her queer desires, Hill Perry makes it very clear that her sinfulness is not limited to her sexuality. When Jesus claims her as His own, He
Jackie Hill Perry: Stop Telling Gay People They'll Change into Straight If They Change into Christian
Rapper, writer, preacher and poet Jackie Hill Perry, who once identified as a lesbian, says churches should stop telling gays that they will turn into heterosexual if they get Christian.
In her newly released book, Gay Girl, Fine God, a part of which was published on , Perry speaks about what she described as "the heterosexual gospel."
"The heterosexual gospel is one that encourages SSA men and women to come to Jesus so that they can be straight, or it says that coming to Jesus ensures that they will be sexually attracted to the opposite sex," explains Perry.
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"It usually sounds like, 'I realize you're struggling with organism gay. I can assure you, if you donate your life to Jesus, he will completely transport you from those desires because he loves you.' Or, 'I know a guy that used to be gay and now he