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When Restore began, we were a 
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Now you can probably tell from 
the tents of those words that we

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are no longer. 
A denominational. 

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Church. 
And it's important to know that 

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this was not by our choice. 
We were actually kicked out. 

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Of a denomination. 
So I want to tell you the whole 

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story. 
Now, I also know that what we've

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been through is nothing compared
to what LGBTQ plus folks have 

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endured. 
The queer community has been 

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called abominations, disowned by
their families, condemned to 

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hell, and even tortured and 
abused through conversion 

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therapy, all at the hands of 
Christians. 

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Many thanks to Ginger who sent 
me this sermon from Pastor Zach 

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W Lambert called All Inclusive 
Homophobia and Transphobia. 

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It contains so much material 
that I have divided the sermon 

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into four parts and called Part 
1, kicked out and called an 

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abomination. 
Here is Pastor Lambert. 

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Hey, my name is Zach. 
I'm the lead pastor here at 

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Restore. 
Thanks so much for checking out 

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this week's message. 
I hope that it's encouraging to 

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you and inspiring to you. 
I hope that it causes you to 

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dive deeper into the scriptures,
and I hope that you're able to 

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do that with some people around 
you, with some community. 

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But. 
If you don't have that, we would

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love to invite you. 
Into the community here at 

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Restore. 
If you want to take a next step,

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get more connected, you can just
go to restoreaustin.org/connect,

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fill out a card on there, and I 
will personally reach out to you

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in the days after you do that. 
And if you want to grab coffee 

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with me or just get more 
information about the church, I 

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will make myself available to 
you you for that. 

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As you will hear, we are in this
thing called a year around the 

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table. 
And it really comes from this 

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vision that God's given us that 
restore will be a place where 

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anyone has a seat at the table 
and everyone experiences the 

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extravagant love of Jesus. 
So AI hope that you experience 

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the extravagant love of Jesus as
you check this message out. 

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And B if you don't have a table 
to sit at, we want to invite you

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to Jesus table here at Restore. 
Did y'all know that Restore our 

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Church started out in a 
denomination? 

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Oh, I'm going to take those 
blank stares as no, I'm not 

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going to say which denomination 
in this setting, although it's 

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certainly not a secret and I'd 
be happy to tell you if you'd 

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like to know. 
But when Restore began, we were.

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A denominational church. 
Now you can probably tell from 

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the tents of those words that we
are no longer. 

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A denominational. 
Church. 

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And it's important to know that 
this was not by our choice. 

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We were actually kicked out. 
Of a denomination so I want to 

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tell you the whole story so. 
When I was in seminary, I took a

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church planting class, kind of 
interested in starting a church 

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and what that might mean. 
And there was a denomination 

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that the district supervisor who
ran all of Texas and Oklahoma 

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would go to the church planting 
class and recruit potential 

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church planters because they 
really wanted to start new 

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churches all over Texas and 
Oklahoma. 

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So I met this guy and talked 
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told him about Restore, told him
what we felt like God had called

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us to do. 
We talked about a couple of kind

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of hot button topics, so to 
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going to have women in every 
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We were going to be fully 
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that type of stuff. 
And he was like, well, you'll be

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the only church in the district 
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But I guess there's nothing in 
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that, so it's fine. 
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And it was very much pitched as 
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You know, we got the kind of 
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right? 
Like we come around 2000 years 

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of Christian orthodoxy, like you
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It's great. 
So we decided to jump in with 

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them. 
We jumped in with a bunch of 

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other church networks and 
individual churches, sponsors 

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and all that kind of stuff. 
It's just like getting a non 

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profit or a business off the 
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You have people that seed into 
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And then we became financially 
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is kind of the goal. 
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something called Bapticue. 
I want you to raise your hand if

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you've ever been to Bapticue at 
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Yeah, Bapticue is the best. 
SO Bapticue is baptisms and BBQ 

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shoved together. 
And so out on the lawn we do 

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baptisms and we bring Rudy's 
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have this huge party. 
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And our very first Bapticue, we 
baptized 88 or 10 people, I 

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can't remember. 
And one of them, it's this 

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incredible story of this woman 
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And Shauna had come from just 
horrific background of growing 

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up in churches where, I mean, 
bad, bad news stuff in these 

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churches, like where like black 
people couldn't come, where they

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were escorted out, where you 
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remotely identify with LGBTQ 
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I mean, it was intense kind of 
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God. 
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still very anti when we met. 
I remember we went to coffee at 

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radio and she was like, I don't 
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You need to know that number 1. 
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cool, awesome. 
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friends. 
She's actually one of my very 

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best friends to this day. 
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conversations LED into her 
saying, I think I want to follow

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Jesus. 
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encounter with him. 
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once on on video. 
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So we baptized her with all the 
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at the baptique. 
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didn't mention about Shawna. 
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And I honestly didn't think that
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But there were some other 
churches in the denomination who

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got really upset. 
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actually took it to the guy that
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And he said, well, no, I, we 
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was going to be like this, you 
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whatever. 
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get what they wanted done with 
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And so they took it all the way 
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Internationally, it's based out 
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opened to this huge 
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years. 
We went through an investigation

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our our leadership team, me 
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testimony a number of times, all
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It basically came down to the 
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nothing in the bylaws of the 
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to rewrite their bylaws so that 
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bylaws. 
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And they said, well, then you're
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And so they kicked us out. 
This was summer of 20, or excuse

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me, March of 2019, when we were 
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But it wasn't just that. 
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stripped me of my ordination. 
I had to mail my ministry 

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license back. 
I wanted to shred it and mail it

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back. 
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My wife, she said I wasn't 
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And then I got an e-mail from 
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theology for the entire 
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which he said, quote, I am 
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the salvation of those to whom 
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Now, I wish I could tell you 
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something like this has happened
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inclusion for the LGBTQ plus 
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We've been called an apostate 
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We've been kicked out of not 
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number of different church 
networks, even an office space 

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here in Austin we were kicked 
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We lost a bunch of funding over 
the years, and I've been told 

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I'm going to hell more times 
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But honestly, none of that comes
close to the joy that we have 

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experienced from seeing LGBTQ 
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faith at Restore come back to 
faith at Restore and found a 

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church where they can fully 
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in their lives. 
The conversations and messages 

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and hugs and tears I've been 
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the queer community make all of 
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Now, I also know that what we've
been through is nothing compared

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to what LGBTQ plus folks have 
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The queer community has been 
called abominations, disowned by

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their families, condemned to 
hell, and even tortured and 

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abused through conversion 
therapy, all at the hands of 

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Christians. 
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These are stories. 
And these stories didn't just 

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happen to random people. 
That happened to people that I 

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love, people in this room, 
people I consider to be my 

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closest friends. 
One of these friends was locked 

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in a basement and repeatedly 
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conversion therapy. 
One of my friends was kicked out

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of a church during their 
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everyone in the congregation to,
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until he repents of his 
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Another one of my friends came 
out to her parents and the first

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words out of her dad's mouth 
were You've ruined our family 

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and brought the wrath of God 
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But do you know what I find most
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that somehow through it all, 
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The faith of LGBTQ plus 
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me. 
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who's been pastoring for over 25
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He grew up in fundamentalist 
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He was actually a student at Bob
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He was there at the time when 
Bob Jones's president marched in

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Washington, DC to oppose civil 
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people and said in his speech in
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I guarantee it would solve the 
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homosexuals were stoned. 
This gay pastor has experienced 

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more hate than I can imagine and
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everything he has, including 
dedicating his whole 

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professional life to the church.
And when I asked, how do you 

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keep going? 
How do you like faithfully 

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persevere through all of this 
junk? 

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He said I'm not going to let 
anybody take Jesus from me. 

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For far too long, Christians and
churches have tried to take 

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Jesus from LGBTQ plus people. 
They have been marginalized, 

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excluded and even attacked in 
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And that's why we were spending 
this morning talking about 

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homophobia and transphobia in 
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And we're in the middle of this 
teaching series called All 

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Inclusive, God's Big Beautiful 
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And we've been looking at these 
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and the early Church of how God 
radically included people in his

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family who had previously been 
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Now, I usually spend about a 
week writing a sermon. 

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I've been writing this one for 
two months. 

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I've been preparing for it for 
what feels like a decade. 

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I've spent more time on it than 
any other sermon I've ever 

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preached. 
It's not even close. 

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Because you see, I come from 
churches where queer people were

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called evil and abominations and
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I've ignorantly participated in 
marginalization and exclusion of

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LGBTQ plus folks. 
And for that I am deeply, deeply

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sorry. 
But about 10 years ago, things 

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started to shift. 
And they started to shift 

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because I met a few gay people 
who were faithfully following 

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Jesus and they didn't conform to
any of the stereotypes, the 

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things I've been told about what
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This caused me to start kind of 
digging deep into Scripture and 

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reading widely from a variety of
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And since then, I've read about 
20 books on the subject, as well

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as countless and of articles and
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And today I'm just going to 
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you as we look at Scripture to 
help us understand how God sees 

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sexual and gender minorities. 
We'll also talk about the 

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handful of verses commonly used 
to justify excluding or 

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marginalising LGBTQ plus folks 
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Now, my guess is that this 
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people a little uncomfortable, 
maybe even displeased, and I 

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understand that. 
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I'm going to pray in just a 
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As I do, I want you to ask God 
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an open mind as we walk through 
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OK, let's pray. 
God, we thank you for this 

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morning. 
Thank you for your church. 

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We thank you for your 
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I pray that as. 
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Your word that you would 
illuminate it for us. 

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You would open our hearts, open 
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have for us this morning. 
I pray that the words that come 

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from my mouth would be inspired 
by you. 

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God. 
You would lead us as a church 

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family to who you've called us 
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In Jesus name I pray. 
Amen. 

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Thrown out and condemned. 
This may be the story of Austin 

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Redeemer Church, but it is also 
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individuals who likewise have 
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who they are, who God created 
them to be, or who God has 

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called them to be. 
There was so much in Pastor 

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Lambert's words, but this 
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me. 
One of my friends came out to 

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her parents and the first words 
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You've ruined our family and 
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us. 
But do you know what I find most

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incredible about these folks is 
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they have not given up on Jesus.
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Christians astounds and inspires
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Thank you Pastor Lambert for 
your tenacity, your insights and

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your wisdom. 
The next in this four part 

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series from Pastor Lambert, Part
2. 

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Trans, cisgender or intersex, 
join us next time. 

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This is Elton Sherwin. 
Stay safe and God bless.