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  title info:
    title: Risking grace
    sub title: loving our gay family and friends like Jesus : a father's story
  name:
    name part: Jackson, Dave
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lustrea, Anita
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: As someone who helped write a book advocating reparative therapy for gay people back in 1987, it was with gut-wrenching love that my wife and I did not let our daughter go when she came out 16 years ago. We first prayed that God would change her, then that he would work out his purpose in her life, and finally, "Lord, what are you trying to teach us?" God answered with insights that led me to write RISKING GRACE, Loving Our Gay Family and Friends Like Jesus. It's a father's story about my agonizing personal journey of coming to realize that we evangelicals have lost our way when it comes to gay people by substituting a works/righteousness requirement for the clear Gospel message that salvation comes by grace through faith alone. I explore alternative interpretations to the "prohibitive texts," but the main foundation for my change of heart is the life and ministry of Jesus, how he embraced marginalized people, and the way he and the early church dealt with difficult issues. I share our story with you, our church family, because many of us have family members or friends who are gay, and we all need help learning how to love like Jesus. I've written with as much transparent vulnerability as I can, wrestling with the questions and presuppositions of the average straight dad (or mom) . . . who loves his daughter and his church but discovers that we have been driving gay people away from Jesus.
  note: Dave Jackson ; foreword by Anita Lustrea.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jackson, Dave
      name part: 1944-
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Parents of gay people
  subject:
    topic: Sexual orientation
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Gay youth
    topic: Family relationships
  subject:
    topic: Personnes homosexuelles
    topic: Relations familiales
  subject:
    topic: Homosexualité
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Christianisme
  subject:
    topic: Orientation sexuelle
  subject:
    topic: Parents de personnes homosexuelles
  subject:
    topic: Jeunes homosexuels
    topic: Relations familiales
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    topic: Family relationships
  subject:
    topic: Parents of gays
  subject:
    topic: Sexual orientation
  classification: HQ759.9145 .J33 2016
  classification: 306.76 JAC
  identifier: 9781939445018
  identifier: 1939445019
  identifier: 9781939445025
  record info:
    record content source: FAR
    record creation date: 160620
    record change date: 20240415190539.7
    record identifier: in00004786918
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng