Description:
Too often, fear and suspicion have characterized churches' response to LGTBQ+ people. As we remain committed to the historic Christian teachings about marriage and sexuality, American evangelical churches have also harmed a community we have not understood. Our default has been to keep LGBTQ+ people at arm's length.
But there is another way, one that resists both culture wars and the pressure to revise scriptural teaching; one that embraces people and clings to historic witness.
In Love All Our Neighbors, Tony Scarcello shows how holding a traditional sexual ethic does not have to lead toward the exclusion of LGBTQ+ people from church. Drawing from biblical theology, cultural data, and the author's personal experience as a same-sex-attracted pastor, this book teaches traditional Christians and churches how to truly care for LGBTQ+ people.
In Love All Our Neighbors, you'll learn
how Jesus loves LGBTQ+ people and desires to know them, how churches have built unbiblical barriers between LGBTQ+ people and Jesus, andhow to dismantle these barriers and minister with care, without compromising orthodox theology.Brief description: Tony Scarcello has served in pastoral ministry since 2011 and is currently the pastor of discipleship at Red Hills Church, just outside Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Regenerate: Following Jesus After Deconstruction and has written articles for The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender and Theology in the Raw. Tony speaks all over the country helping leaders, churches, and believers navigate the complex intersection of historic Christian theology, pastoral care, and their LGBTQ+ neighbors. He holds an MA in biblical leadership from Western Seminary in Portland, and lives in the pacific Northwest with the girl of his dreams, his wife Kelsey.