Openness Unhindered

Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ

De: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Narrado por: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Before you can resolve the issues of our day, you must be able to clarify them.

Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are parts of daily discourse, yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian relationship and now a confessional Christian, but always the thoughtful and compassionate professor, has written a follow-up to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. This book answers many of the questions people pose when she speaks at universities and churches, questions not only about her unlikely conversion to Christ but about personal struggles that the ques­tioners only dare to ask someone else who has traveled a long and painful journey.

Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today's key controversies; she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today - even going back to God's original design for marriage and sexuality as found in the Bible. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that God intended it to be and for each person to find the true freedom that is found in Christ.

Chapters include:

• Conversion: The Spark of a New Identity
• Identity: The Flame of Our Union in Christ
• Repentance: The Threshold to God and the Answer to Shame, Temptation, and Sin
• Sexual Orientation: Freud's 19th-Century Category Mistake
• Self-Representation: What Does It Mean to Be "Gay"?
• Conflict: When Sisters Disagree
• Community: Representing Christ to the World

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Raw

The honestly displayed in this book is unlike any other I have ever listened to. The content is something everyone in not only the Christian church but the world should delight and learn from. Thank you for this experience sharing.

Good Biblical and Personal Testimonial

I enjoyed the Biblical analysis because I just finished a class at BBI in Cleveland OH on Biblical hermeneutics. My takeaway from that class and this book is that the sixty six books of the Bible were written by men moved by the Holy Spirit and are God’s words without error in the original writing and that we have reliable translations today.

I enjoyed her testimony about how the Holy Spirit drew her to belief in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior through reading the Bible.

I also liked her discussion of the responsibility and privilege of true Christian believers to be reconsilers to show God’s love to lost and hurting people so that they to may have faith in Jesus Christ.

What I’ve needed

I’ve needed to hear these words.

Thank you Mrs. Butterfeild. Your testimony is guidance and shepherding.

Thought Provoking

Deeply thought provoking and personal, this book is a masterful and clear presentation of how the culture's way of defining personhood according to sexual desire falls far short of the richness to be gained by finding one's identity first in Christ. With a sensitive and caring tone, Rosaria's reading of her own is compelling and convincing of the riches to be found in Christ no matter what kind of past we bring to that relationship. It is a good book for those who struggke with unwanted homisexual desire and also deeply insightful fir anyone with a family member ir friend with that syruggke.

Enlightening

Excellent and compassionate breakdown of the state of man after the fall, how we naturally relate sin, and how we should relate to it. challenging for me, both around the idea of confessing rather than simply admitting sin, and also around the idea of hospitality.

Inspiring and open

Rosaria’s habit of reading her own manuscripts is so important. I wish more authors would do this. This book is similar to her first book and third book; maybe a combo of them. I was a little lost in her theology of gay and lesbian issues. Her third book focuses almost solely on
hospitality, which I loved.

Walking the Christian Walk

Very rich picture of true Christian life. Inspiring and uplifting. I read her first Christian book, and am glad I read this as well.

Excellent, Thoughtful & Instructive

Fantastic narration, quite personalized as the author's emphasis is properly placed. Great Read! Excellent Resource!

Amazing testimony of personal faith and authentic life

I highly recommend this book! The writing is superb and holds your attention effortlessly. The topics covered are of vital importance to all believers living in the current cultural climate. Even if you (or anyone in your circle of family or friends) have not lived with same sex attraction, this book hits the mark when it comes to dealing with ANY pattern of sin or temptation. I was encouraged, convicted, challenged and inspired to deepen my relationship with Jesus and brighten my example to a hurt and love-starved world.

It speaks to my heart.

The author did a great job reading, you could tell she has real passion. Also I enjoyed listening to her sing the Psalms! Finally someone who understands me and my hurt, and willing to advocate for the community that I desire to have from my own church family. Because I can't even share my past sins without being treated like a leper.