An experience within the context of a relationship forced the early church to hold two truths together that seemed to be in conflict. Gentile people (seen as sinners and unclean) were professing allegiance to Jesus as Lord, and as a result were showing the fruit of God’s Spirit in their lives. This is the tension that many people have when loved ones in their lives identify as LGBTQ and are also card-carrying, Spirit-filled, fruit-producing followers of Jesus. The tension forces them to consider that maybe they have misused the Bible to condemn an entire people-group, denying them access to
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