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Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation With the Gay Community |  | Author: Andrew Marin
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 204
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0830836268
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.835766
EAN: 9780830836260
ASIN: 0830836268
Publication Date: March 25, 2009
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Product Description
Andrew Marin's life changed forever when his three best friends came out to him in three consecutive months. Suddenly he was confronted with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community (GLBT) firsthand. And he was compelled to understand how he could reconcile his friends to his faith. In an attempt to answer that question, he and his wife relocated to Boystown, a predominantly GLBT community in Chicago. And from his experience and wrestling has come his book, Love Is an Orientation, a work which elevates the conversation between Christianity and the GLBT community, moving the focus from genetics to gospel, where it really belongs. Why are so many people who are gay wary of people who are Christians? Do GLBT people need to change who they are? Do Christians need to change what they believe? Love Is an Orientation is changing the conversation about sexuality and spirituality, and building bridges from the GLBT community to the Christian community and, more importantly, to the good news of Jesus Christ.
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 Love is an Orientation:Elevating the Conversation With the Gay Community April 29, 2010
Donald R. Machen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was definitely an eye opener and showed what God can do. It also brought love into the mix and trusting in God without our judgment.
 Love Must Come First April 23, 2010
HealthyMama (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"It's not my job to convict. That's the job of the Holy Spirit. It's not my job to judge. That's God's job. It is my job to love." Billy Graham. "Compassion" means "to suffer with". We are called to be a people of compassion but instead the three top adjectives used to describe Christians today are "judgemental, hypocritical and homophobic." We've missed the point somewhere along the way. This book has given me permission to grieve the damage done both to the GLBT people I love and to the reputation of the Lord who loves them even more than I do. I choose to "suffer with" and in so doing, to become more like my Lord.
Hallelujah.....Andrew gets us February 22, 2010
Anthony Venn Brown (Sydney Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Love is an Orientation" could have been written by many of us. My last 18 years as out gay man, being involved in of the many diversities of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community and 22 years living totally within a Christian context certainly have given me the insights to pen this work. What makes this book so remarkable is that it is written by a straight, evangelical young man.
Author Andrew Marin's begins his journey when three of his close Christian friends secretly confide in him that they are gay. He realises his only knowledge of homosexuality is based on what others have said; believing that it was a choice and his friends just needed to pray the gay away.
Surprisingly, Andrew feels a call of Gods Spirit to 'immerse' himself into the LGBT community. And here is the key. For over 12 months Andrew lives and socialises in Boystown (LGBT neighbourhood of Chicago) and goes to gay bars, cafes, venues, support groups, political events and social clubs. And so begins his education through real life relationships and God's Spirit challenging him to face his own prejudices.
Within the LGBT community Andrew is an enigma. A straight Christian who doesn't preach but listens; often to heart wrenching stories of rejection and pain. experienced by LGBT people within and outside the church. His heart is touched for ever as he falls in love with the people his previously preconceived concepts would have judged and condemned.
There are valuable lessons and insights in these pages for straight Christians who are sick of the debates and embarrassed by the condemning, insensitive comments of church leaders and right wing extreme groups. There is a growing number of Christian people who believe there is a more Christ-like way to engage and be like the Jesus we read about in the Gospels.; a man who shunned religious exclusivity and reached out to real human beings no matter what their background. Andrew shows them the way.
Andrew's book is both refreshing and touching. I was moved to tears several times as a gay man who spent many years struggling to resolve the perceived conflict between his faith and sexuality. For the LGBT reader, let me reassure you that Andrew gets us and shows there is not only a better way, it's a new day.
UnChristian February 20, 2010
Steven Hook
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Andrew Marin portrays, in this book, true Christianity; making me less ashamed to call myself a Christian. I want to send one to all the pastors in my conference. But I know that many of them would be too prejudiced to even start reading it. I still believe everyone in pursuit of true Christianity will benefit from reading it.
Andrew's unashamed love for everyone he writes about in this book is indeed a huge lesson for us all. I am confident in time more souls than we can imagine will be lead to Christ through love here demonstrated in Love is an Orientation.
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