Same-Sex Attraction - Dr. Rosaria Butterfield
Do you have questions about same-sex attraction? Is it wrong? Is it ok? Are you struggling with same-sex attraction personally? Is your child?
Chuck and I recently had the privilege of asking these questions and many more of Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, nationally known speaker and author of
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
Dr. Butterfield's down to earth, compassionate, common sense and biblical approach to same-sex attraction resulted in a conversation that we wish everyone could hear.
We live in a culture that challenges us to reexamine long held convictions and decide if what we believe is really scriptural or culturally based. None of us wants to be on the wrong side of the issue of same-sex attraction. People we love and respect are making choices that beg for acceptance and compassion. What must our response be? Chuck and I had the unique privilege of asking this and much more of Rosaria. We hope many will listen with an open heart and mind, hungry for truth, and conclude there are solid biblical answers.
An Interview with An Unlikely Convert
Dr. Rosaria Butterfield
Perhaps the best recommendation of all comes from this man:
If you have a friend or family member who is dealing with same-sex attraction, here is a great resource that was just issued by MARKINC MINISTRIES that may help you in understanding what they are going through and how to hopefully minister to them. Thank you to Chuck Betters and Sharon Betters for putting this resource together. I wish that I had been able to have something like this many years ago that could have helped me to navigate through the dark waters that I was drowning in. But God is faithful and perfect in His timing and provided me a life raft and brought me back onto dry land and into His Grace and Mercy.
For anyone struggling with the question of same-sex relationships, this interview with Dr. Butterfield will encourage, strengthen, challenge and enable you to offer the help and hope of the Gospel to others who are struggling. Dr. Butterfield is uniquely qualified to provide guidance and wisdom to those who are desperate for help and hope as they are challenged by life choices that are foreign and even scary. In this interview we ask the kinds of questions that many others have asked us. This is not only Roasaria's personal story, but it is filled with practical counsel and help that will cut through the fog of confusion surrounding this life crisis.Listeners will be encouraged and better equipped to walk this pathway as well as come alongside of others who are struggling with same-sex attraction.
In the studio with Dr. Rosaria Butterfield
Dr. Butterfield's story quickly grabbed our attention when we read her book,
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert.
From her book:
Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. There, her partner rehabilitated abandoned and abused dogs.
In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department’s curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down—the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was, an idea that flew in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. Rosaria describes what happens next as a “train wreck” at the hand of the supernatural. Her book is an account of her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could.
For more about Dr. Butterfield visit
http://rosariabutterfield.com/
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An Interview with an Unlikely Convert - Dr. Rosaria Butterfield
In His grip,
Sharon