Single, gay, Christian

In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with
gay Christians, Greg Coles tells his own story.
Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each
other.
I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you
about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized
his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys.
I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered
to myself the words I've whispered a thousand times since:
I'm gay.""
I'll show you the world through my eyes. I'll tell you what
it's like to belong nowhere. To know that much of my Christian family will
forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as
involuntary as my eye color. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community that
shares my experience as a sexual minority will disagree with the way I've
chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I've bought into a tragic,
archaic ritual of self-hatred.
But I promise my story won't all be sadness and loneliness and
struggle. I'll tell you good things too, hopeful things, funny things, like
the time I accidentally came out to my best friend during his bachelor party.
I'll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me in the
eyes and said, You are not a mistake." I'll tell you that joy " and sorrow are not opposites, that my life has never been more beautiful than
when it was most brokenhearted.
If you'll listen, I promise I'll tell you everything, and you
can decide for yourself what you want to believe about me.
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