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Jackie Hill Perry: I Loved My Girlfriend—but God Loved Me More
God knew he wouldn’t get my attention in a church. Churches didn’t care too well for people like me. Me, being a gay girl. A gay girl who knew better than to let my feet hold me where I didn’t experience welcomed. So God came to my house. I was having a very “unspiritual” kind of night. The TV was on. The morning was hours away. My thoughts were boring and typical until they turned on me. As suddenly and randomly as Paul was struck blind on the Damascus Road, I had the unsettling thought that my sin would be “the death of me.”
Prior to that moment, the sin I wore on my sleeve was that of a lesbian: a label I had the courage to give myself at age This label described an affection I noticed before I knew how to spell my name. When it happened on the playground, I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t quite perceive why girls made me perceive different. I hadn’t seen any Disney movies that gave me the idea to desire sameness nor had I been challenged by some outside
Jackie Hill Perry: You Are Not Your Temptations
For born-again Christians who are still same-sex attracted, the world we find ourselves in has made sexuality central to our identity. Gayness is not just a way to perform but a way to be. It is, as they tell, “just who you are.” LGBT culture encourages us to discover greater joy in identifying with sin rather than with the Creator.
By contrast, same-sex-attracted believers—like all believers—are called to find our identity in Christ. He begins in us a sanctification process, a beautiful miracle in which God enters in and starts turning the heart into the cathedral it was intended to be. We don’t just settle back and expect great fruitfulness to come from minimal zeal; we work alongside God to “act the miracle” (see Phil. –13) of sanctification into its grandest potential.
As someone who formerly lived in the lesbian lifestyle, I’ve experienced this transformation of the heart. But even now, when I begin to neglect that I am loved, forgiven, and new, then I block operating out of faith. I ha
Homosexuality Was Not the Only Problem
Leslie Basham: After coming to faith in Christ and leaving her homosexual lifestyle, Jackie Hill Perry met another believer who began to disciple her in gospel truth.
Jackie Hill Perry: She let me comprehend, “Jackie, homosexuality is not your only problem. Pride is a noun, fear is a problem, lust is a problem, stewardship is a problem. You need to learn how to make God Lord in everything, not just in your sexuality.”
Leslie: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author of Lies Women Believe, for Tuesday, April 3,
If you have younger children with you, know that today’s program has some mature themes. Jackie Hill Perry’s early life includes a lot of gloomy chapters. She grew up without the influence of a strong father. She was molested as a child, and as a teenager began a lesbian lifestyle. But her story shows the beauty of a transformed life! To hear part one of Nancy’s interview with Jackie Hill Perry, visit Let’s pick up with day two.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: So here you are, Jackie, at age nineteen now, and the “Hou
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
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Jackie Hill Perry: I did not fit the mold of what they said a miss was. And so because I did not fit the mold of what a girl was, naturally, I&#;m going to assume that I must be something other than that. And so there&#;s this confusion that I have that was brought about by people teaching me womanhood that did not come from the creator of women, but from culture.
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John Fuller: Jackie Hill Perry is our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, returning with a prerecorded message that, as you might own guessed, is not going to be appropriate for younger listeners. So, please take that under advisement. Thanks for joining us today. I&#;m John Fuller.
Jim Daly: That&#;s right, John. Our interview with Jackie was one of our most popular shows of So I know our listeners will enjoy this presentation as well. And today is April 8th, a day that activist groups have labeled a time of silence for students who identify with the LGBT community. They say their goal is to protect against the harassment and discrimin