Resources for Further Growth
Understanding the Issues
- Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (Carl Trueman)
- What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Kevin DeYoung)
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Abigail Shrier)
- What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves (Sam Allberry)
Understanding People
- Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been (Jackie Hill Perry)
- People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue (Preston Sprinkle)
- Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say (Preston Sprinkle)
- Why Are Young Adults Increasingly Identifying as Bisexual? (Joe Carter)
Loving People
- How to Evangelize Friends Identifying as LGBTQ (Rosaria Butterfield)
- Welcome Everyone, Affirm No One (Trevin Wax)
- Talking About Transgenderism (Beth Claes)
- Should Christians Ever Wear an LGBT+ Pride Patch? (Patrick Miller)
Parenting
- Talking with Our Children About Homosexuality (Lucy Olson)
- Helping Kids Navigate Transgender Ideology (Maria Baer)
- Transformation of a Transgender Teen (Sarah Zysltra)
Questions for Group/Family Discussion
Sexual Orientation
- What’s the most difficult part about discussing sexual orientation?
- What’s the difference between homosexual temptation and sin?
- How can it be sin if someone is born with LGB desires?
- What ways can the church help someone follow Jesus while continuing to struggle with LGB attraction?
- How would you go about sharing the gospel with a same-sex couple?
Transgender
- When it comes to the transgender movement, most Christians tend to be either pugnacious culture-warriors or unthinking empathizers. Which side do you lean toward?
- What are some ways your ideas of manhood and womanhood have been shaped more by culture than by Scripture (for example, colors associated with different genders)?
- How has social media shaped your view of manhood and womanhood?
- Why do you think God would make masculinity and femininity such a vital part of the image of God he implanted in each of us (Gen 1:27)?
- How do biblical gender roles portray the gospel (Eph 5:22-26)?
- How does Paul’s explanation of the corruption of creation in Romans 8:20-22 help us have compassion for our transgender friends?
- Why is it difficult to love trans folks without affirming their lifestyle? What are some ways to make sure we express truth with love and grace?