“God and the Homosexual Christian is a game changer. Winsome, accessible, and carefully investigated, every page is brought to lifestyle from the author’s very clear love for Scripture and deep, consistent faith. With this publication, Matthew Vines emerges as one of my generation’s most significant Christian leaders, not merely on matters of sexuality but also on what it means to check out Jesus with intelligence, humility, and elegance. Prepare to become challenged and enlightened, provoked and influenced. Browse with an open up about God as well as the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case to get Same-Sex Relationships heart and brain, and you are destined to be changed.”

– Rachel Held Evans, author of A Season of Biblical Womanhood and Trust Unraveled

As a Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic expectations of most teenagers: to someday talk about his life with someone, to build a category of his own, to give and receive love. However when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into query. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay interactions.

Feeling the strain between his knowledge of the Bible and the reality of his same-sex orientation, Vines devoted years of intensive study into what the Bible says about homosexuality. Carefully and accuracy, Vines asked queries such as for example:

• Perform biblical teachings over the relationship covenant preclude same-sex relationship or not?

• How should we apply the teachings of Jesus towards the gay debate?

• What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah actually say about human relationships?

• Can celibacy be considered a calling when it is mandated, not chosen?

• What do Paul are thinking about when he warned against same-sex relationships?

Unique in its affirmation of both an orthodox beliefs and sexual variety, God and the Homosexual Christian is likely to spark heated issue, sincere soul search­ing, even wide-spread cultural change. It’s not only a compelling interpretation of essential biblical text messages about same-sex relationships, additionally it is the storyplot of a young man navigating human relationships with his family members, his hometown church, and the Religious church at large as he expresses what this means to be a faithful gay Religious.