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100 1  Johnson, Greg,|d1972-|eauthor. 
245 10 Still Time to Care :|bWhat We Can Learn from the Church's 
       Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality /|cGreg Johnson. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bZondervan,
       |c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    1 online resource (304 pages) 
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520    "At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, 
       evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay 
       people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham,
       Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most 
       respected leaders within theologically orthodox 
       Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral 
       approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed 
       homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some 
       Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth 
       and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from 
       care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 
       people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the
       United States alone. Many of these patients were treated 
       by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries 
       centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of 
       intentions, the movement ended with very troubling 
       results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had 
       the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a 
       practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet 
       even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization
       Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues 
       to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people 
       like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay 
       anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox 
       Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we 
       were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our 
       Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-
       straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of 
       costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well 
       as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the 
       path forward for our churches and ministries in providing 
       care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who 
       hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-
       giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be 
       Richard Lovelace's 1978 call for a "double repentance" in 
       which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and 
       the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display 
       for all the power of the gospel."--|cProvided by Freading.
588 0  Publisher metadata. 
650  0 Christian gay people. 
650  0 Christian gay people|xReligious life. 
650  0 Homosexuality|xReligious aspects|xChristianity. 
650  0 Church work with gay people. 
650  7 RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
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