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

    Written by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

    Narrated by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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    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 part 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 followup 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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateJul 1, 2015
    ISBN9781633893917
    Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ

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    • 5/5
      With her careful, clear, and vivid style Rosaria Champagne Butterfield leads us through the thicket of Christian life, in but not of the world, with grace and truth. Hearing her voice adds to the impact of the book. Wonderful.

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    • 5/5
      Honestly, beyond the issue of homosexuality, Rosaria’s insight into how a believer should see the self and the world is exactly what we need in a world void of any stabilizing truth. For a believer, no matter what we think, or what we feel, when the Word of God declares truth we should be transformed by it and not the other way around. The amazing grace and incomprehensible peace is only ours when we receive God on His terms.

      This book was so clarifying for me. And revealed so many areas of unnecessary confusion in my thinking. As a woman who has wrestled with homosexual desire, it was so powerful to understand why it cuts my efforts off at the knees to identify with sin and call it “self”.

      Thank you for your book, Mrs. Butterfield.
    • 5/5
      Challenging, enlightening, Christ exalting. I highly recommend this book for all!
    • 5/5
      Butterfield’s unfiltered thoughts and reflections on God’s truths are both deeply enriching and convicting. The desire she has to see the LORD’s people reach a broken world through love, grace, hospitality and more, makes this book a must read.
    • 5/5
      Incredibly thoughtful and love-filled book. Would recommend and will read/listen to again.
    • 3/5
      Not read with much pleasure yet there is surely much truth here? She so often resorts to a tirade on original sin, "the blood", and inerrancy, that it almost detracts from her argument. Which is I think that practice has become identity, and there are no easy answers, but Christian community should be a countervailing strength.