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What God is interested in is 
fruit of the Spirit. 

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For some it's going to be the 
fruit of the Spirit in a female 

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body, For others it's going to 
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others it's going to be in an 
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But it's going to be the fruit 
of the Spirit no matter what 

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your body is. 
1.8 million LGBTQ youth 

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seriously consider suicide each 
year, and one attempts suicide 

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every 45 seconds. 
Even worse for trans youth, they

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are 2 1/2 times more likely to 
attempt suicide than their queer

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classmates. 
But here's the really good news.

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Acceptance from just one adult 
decreases the risk of LGBTQ 

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youth attempting suicide by 40%.
One adult, one safe, loving, 

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caring, listening adult cut 
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We are in episode 2 of a four 
part series originally delivered

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as a single sermon by Pastor 
Zach W Lambert at Restore 

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Austin. 
Here is Part 2 which I have 

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called Trans Cisgender or 
intersex. 

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Now, I'm a big believer in 
common language helping to 

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facilitate discussion. 
So we're going to start by 

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defining some terms. 
These are from Merriam Webster 

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heterosexual, a person who is 
sexually or romantically 

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attracted to people of the 
opposite sex, and then 

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cisgender, a person whose gender
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sex that person had or was 
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So heterosexual and cisgender 
people, sometimes called CIS het

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for short, make up most of the 
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I am CIS het, and CIS het people
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majority in the world now. 
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to describe people who are not 
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plus. 
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controversy inside of the 
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include IA, so I'm going to just
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of the message. 
Queer or sexual and gender 

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minority. 
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describe people who are not 
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Now, most of us know what it 
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lesbian or bisexual, but there's
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about what being transgender or 
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And we see this, like, a lot 
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It's playing itself out in 
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politics, where trans people are
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political gain. 
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the prevalence of this 
conversation, I'm actually going

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to spend a few minutes right now
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So the first thing that you need
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is not a binary. 
Biological sex is not a binary. 

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Now that is not a political 
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That is a scientific 1. 
You see, biologically there are 

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three major categories of sex 
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Intersex is an umbrella term 
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variations that affect genitals,
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reproductive organs. 
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characteristics are visible at 
birth, sometimes they appear at 

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puberty, and sometimes they are 
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Now biological males and females
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but intersex folks do account 
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the population. 
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over the place on this, some 
saying intersex people make up 

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as little as .02% of the 
population, others as many as 4%

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of the population. 
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Human Biology estimates that 
1.7% of the population would fit

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under the umbrella term 
intersex, which is roughly the 

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same number of people who have 
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From both a biological and 
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gender are not the same thing. 
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things I listed above Genitals, 
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reproductive organs, secondary 
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develop during puberty. 
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by Physiology and brain 
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expressed according to social 
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Meaning what characteristics 
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We all intuitively understand 
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We see it all the time, right? 
Masculinity in Paris might look 

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like wearing high heels, but in 
the Deep South it might look 

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like wearing cowboy boots. 
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communities means fixing the 
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Austin it might be meal prepping
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My favorite modern example of 
this is pastors preaching about 

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the decline of biblical 
masculinity while wearing tight 

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leather pants and earrings that 
they would not have been caught 

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dead in a year ago or decade ago
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been considered feminine. 
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so they're comfortable wearing 
it, still preaching the same 

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message. 
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Now, the degree to which gender 
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someone's sex at birth is 
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gender should be influenced by 
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debated. 
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call for all Christians, 
regardless of sex or gender, is 

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Christ likeness defined by the 
fruit of the Spirit. 

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It is Christ likeness defined by
the fruit of the Spirit. 

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Dallas Theological Seminary 
professor and gender studies 

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expert Doctor Sandra Glenn said 
it like this on our summer 

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mixtape back in 2020. 
What God is interested in is 

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fruit of the Spirit. 
For some it's going to be the 

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fruit of the spirit in a female 
body. 

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For others it's going to be in a
male body and for others it's 

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going to be in an intersex body,
but it's going to be the fruit 

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of the Spirit no matter what 
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This is very important. 
The call to Christ likeness is 

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never gendered in Scripture, 
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So there are no verses that say 
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Christ like male, here's what it
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female. 
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there's nothing in the Bible 
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transgender or gender non 
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So then how do transgender folks
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Well, first a definition. 
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feels a sense of disconnection 
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gender identity. 
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Diagnostic and Statistical 
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5, calls this sense of 
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Now, gender dysphoria is a 
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or impairment related to a 
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gender, which may include the 
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secondary sex characteristics. 
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consensus in the medical field 
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It's not up for debate. 
It is like settled science and 

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psychology. 
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who identify as transgender, 
whether they have begun 

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transitioning or not, have 
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usually begin experiencing it as
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According to a recent study 
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Medical Association Journal, 73%
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transgender men first experience
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age 7. 
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the questions being asked are 
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Things like is medical 
transition and ethical treatment

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for gender dysphoria? 
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appropriate and who decides if 
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Is it legislatures? 
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athletes be allowed to compete 
in sports with their identifying

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gender and if So, what 
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before that is OK? 
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isn't easy and like anyone else,
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by my faith. 
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decision maker in any of those 
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What we must remember above all 
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more than issues. 
Transgender people are people 

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first and foremost. 
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God and loved by Jesus. 
See, I often come across 2 

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unhelpful and polarized 
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transgender questions. 
People who think it's gross and 

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people who think it's glamorous.
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a number of transgender folks 
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I can tell you it is neither of 
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Gender dysphoria is real. 
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sinful, and dealing with it, 
whether through transitioning or

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not, is not glamorous. 
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Like really hard. 
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listen to them, learn from them,
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with people struggling to 
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Don't condemn people just 
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because they voice some 
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Here are a few pieces of advice 
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and parents of trans youth that 
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to fellow cisgender people. 
Regardless of how we feel about 

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any of the complex questions 
we've been talking about #1 

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don't post hot takes about trans
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don't go up to trans people and 
tell them how awesome it is that

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they're trans. 
It's not helpful. 

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Don't rush to judge families of 
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You have no idea what they are 
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Have compassion on parents who 
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for their kids while working 
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experiencing tremendous external
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#4. 
Don't tokenize or stereotype 

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trans people for the purpose of 
virtue signalling #5 Don't share

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or tolerate disrespectful jokes 
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If someone is being a jerk, 
someone is saying something 

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mean, call it out, confront it. 
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LGBTQ plus people with higher 
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pedophilia by calling them 
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anything like that, because it's
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leads to violence. 
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In fact, transgender adults are 
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And Texas leads the nation in 
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And lastly, do not purposefully 
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You are not going to get it 
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And that is so OK. 
If you don't know, ask. 

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If you make a mistake, 
apologize. 

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Do your best, though, to use 
people's preferred pronouns just

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like you'd use someone's 
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Think about it like this. 
If you had a friend named Dave 

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and one day Dave came up to you 
and he said, hey, I've decided 

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to start going by the name Tim. 
So could you please start 

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calling me Tim? 
You wouldn't say heck no, Dave, 

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get out of here and listen. 
I'm never going to do that. 

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And if I see you trying to write
Tim on a name tag, I'm going to 

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come up. 
I'm going to RIP it off of you. 

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I'm going to write Dave in all 
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your chest because you are Dave.
I don't care what anyone says 

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who would never do that, right? 
Using someone's preferred name 

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and pronouns is not political. 
It's not theological. 

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It's basic human dignity and it 
saves lives, especially for 

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young people. 
I want you to really listen to 

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this. 1.8 million LGBTQ youth 
seriously consider suicide each 

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year, and one attempts suicide 
every 45 seconds. 

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An LGBTQ youth attempts suicide 
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Even worse for trans youth, they
are 2 1/2 times more likely to 

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attempt suicide than their queer
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But here's the really good news.
Acceptance from just one adult 

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decreases the risk of LGBTQ 
youth attempting suicide by 40%.

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One adult, one safe, loving, 
caring, listening adult cut 

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suicide rates in almost half. 
There's nothing remotely Christ 

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like about treating trans people
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community as anything less than 
a sibling made in the image of 

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God. 
And as we'll see in just a 

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minute, that's exactly how Jesus
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sexual and gender minorities. 
But before we look at scripture,

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we need to define our central 
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homophobia and transphobia. 
It's a fear of aversion to and 

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or discrimination against sexual
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Now this is really important 
because phobias are not the same

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as believing something is not 
God's best. 

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Like, for instance, I can 
believe Christians should 

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abstain from alcohol without 
discriminating against people 

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who drink. 
At their core, homophobia and 

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transphobia are discrimination 
against sexual and gender 

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minorities in ways that restrict
them from participating in 

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society with the same freedoms 
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people have now in Christian 
spaces, this discrimination 

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plays itself out in a myriad of 
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or organization. 
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completely barring LGBTQ plus 
people from attending at all. 

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Sometimes it's a denial of 
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Other times it's being barred 
from serving or leading or 

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sacraments like communion, 
baptism, or marriage. 

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But regardless of where that 
line is, there is a restriction 

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from full participation because 
of someone's sexual orientation 

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or gender identity, and that is 
discrimination. 

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Someone can claim that it's God 
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is discrimination nonetheless. 
And here at Restore, we believe 

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that homophobia and transphobia 
are wrong, which is to say that 

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we believe any kind of 
discrimination based on sexual 

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orientation or gender identity 
is wrong. 

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We don't believe that because 
it's cool or popular. 

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As I've already said, it's a 
position so unpopular that it's 

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gotten us kicked out of a bunch 
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But we think LGBTQ plus people 
should be fully embraced and 

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included in the church because 
we see it in Scripture. 

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Actually, we believe the words 
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the First Church amount to a 
complete rejection of homophobia

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and transphobia, as well as a 
complete acceptance of sexual 

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and gender minority. 
Let me repeat that we believe 

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the words and actions of both 
Jesus and the 1st century church

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amount to a complete acceptance 
of sexual and gender minorities 

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and a complete rejection of 
homophobia and transphobia. 

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Wow. 
Next episode, episode 3 of this 

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four part series, Pastor Lambert
goes through two of the most 

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affirming, most pro sexual 
minority, most pro LGBTQIA plus 

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passages in scripture. 
But before we close, I want to 

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replay a short clip from Pastor 
Lambert that we heard today. 

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Acceptance from just one adult 
decreases the risk of LGBTQ 

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youth attempting suicide by 40%.
One adult, one safe, loving, 

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caring, listening adult cut 
suicide rates in almost half. 

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One adult, one safe, loving, 
caring, listening adult cut 

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suicide rates almost in half. 
So here is my challenge to you. 

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Do all of the LGBTQ young people
in your life know that you 

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accept and love them exactly as 
they are? 

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Whether you're attending an 
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affirming church or maybe no 
church at all, do the LGBTQ 

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young people in your life know 
that you accept them, that 

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you're listening to them and 
love them exactly as they are? 

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In the next part, Part 3 of this
four part series from Pastor 

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Lambert, Jesus affirming words. 
Until then, remember that God 

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created you exactly as you are 
because he wants the world to be

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blessed by you. 
I'm Elton Sherwin, stay safe, be

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brave, and God bless.