In the case of both father and son, then, life experience—increased contact with gay and lesbian believers and those accepting them into communion, as well as increased concern with the effects of condemning such believers—proved persuasive in pushing them to repent of their earlier disposition. It is appropriate to applaud both authors for learning from their experience of God’s work among others, and for having the courage to admit the deficiency in their previous understanding. That the Christian approach to complex issues of sexuality should be marked by an openness to the leading of the Holy Spirit is a position with which every reader should agree.
True to their Evangelical roots, however, the authors are not content with the conversion of just their own minds.
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