Gay Girl, Good God
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"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new. - Publisher.
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Jackie Hill Perry has a way with words. I first heard her story on a podcast (“The Happy Hour” with Jamie Ivey) and was drawn to her voice (figuratively and literally) as well as what she was using her voice to confidently proclaim. While I am a half-white, half-Asian heterosexual and married female, I was convicted and encouraged by reading Jackie's story. She is honest but still seeks to convey she is sharing her story to provide an example of how good God is and as our Creator, He wants all of our hearts and minds - not just the bits and pieces we are okay with being exposed.
While I enjoyed reading her story and being reminded of the importance of acknowledging our sin leading to confession and repentance, it was the last few chapters that made quite an impact. She addresses same sex attraction for Christians on a practical level, punctuating how our society (and Christians included) are so quick to emphasize singleness as a curse and marriage as the ultimate means, rather than God Himself.
“Christ has simply come to make us right with God. And in making us right with God, He is satisfying us in God. Our sexuality is not our soul, marriage is not heaven, and singleness is not hell. So may we all preach the news that is good for a reason. For it proclaims to the world that Jesus has come so that all sinners, same-sex-attracted and opposite-sex-attracted, can be forgiven of their sins to love God and enjoy him forever.” (p. 190)
