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Body and Soul – Serving Transgenders In Your Church (Part Five)

By Mmcgee4

Grace Thoughts

Body and Soul – Serving Transgenders In Your Church (Part Five)

Body and Soul – Serving Transgenders In Your Church (Part Five)

The term ‘transgenderism’ is fairly recent (1971), but men dressing like women, and women dressing like men is nothing new. Moses wrote about it thousands of years ago because the Israelites were going to live among people who did those things – thus the warning:

A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 22:5

Other terms from the 20th century you may have heard include ‘transvestite,’ ‘transsexual,’ and ‘polygender.’ Homosexuality used to be illegal in England, punishable by imprisonment. The term ‘androgyne’ goes back to the 16th century in England. We now have dozens of different terms to describe a wide variety of ‘genders.’ Some people say they are “gender fluid,” which means that the gender a person identifies as being often changes.

Your View

What’s your view? What do you believe about gender varieties? What do you believe about non-binary and gender fluid? I ask because your personal view will determine how you “serve” transgenders and other members of the LGBTQ+ community who visit and possibly join your church. Your church or denomination may have a position on the subject, but that’s not my question. What’s your view? I hope it agrees with God’s view, which He has established forever in His Word.

You may find yourself at odds with your church, denomination, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and even members of your own family. That’s why I want to share some reference materials that may help support you in what you believe.

References

The first and most important reference is your Bible – a solid translation, not a paraphrase. Paraphrases are people’s opinions about what God said. I’d rather hear directly from God Himself. Get a good translation (e.g. NKJV, KJV, ESV, NASB) and use it every step of your journey.

Here are other references that you can use. I don’t necessarily agree with everything you may read or hear in these resources, just as I’m sure the authors won’t all agree with me, but the materials are basically solid biblically and should help you as you serve the needs of transgenders in your church. The primary thing is to understand the Bible and compare anything else with it. God is always right.

Articles

5 Things Every Christian Must Know About the Transgender Debate

7 Facts About Christianity and the Transgender Debate

A Christian Case for Transgenderism?

Biblical Christianity Has the Most Loving Response to Transgenderism

Biblical View on Transgender Identity: A Primer for Parents and Strugglers

“Born that way” and transgenderism: How should Christians respond?

Christian Ethics and Transgenderism

Gender and Sexuality

Helping Kids Stand Firm While Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of Transgenderism

How Do Christians Respond to the Transgender Movement?

How Should Christians Respond to the Transgender Phenomenon?

How Should Christians Think About The Transgender Movement?

How to Talk to My Child About Transgenderism

Humanity as Male and Female

New Resource for Parents: “Responding to the Transgender Issue”

Talking to Your Children About Transgender Issues

The Christian Response to Gender Dysphoria

‘Trading My Sorrows’ – A Story of Healing From Transgenderism

Transgender Identity—Wishing Away God’s Design

Transgenderism: A Christian Perspective

Transgenderism: Blurring the Lines

What the Bible Says about the Idea of Transgenderism

Books

A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

God and the Transgender Debate

Podcasts

How Trans Ideology Twists Language to Distort Reality

‘Something Demonic’: Why Transgenderism Is a Medical and Social Scandal

The Death of Reality: Why the Transgender Contagion Is Fueling Irreversible Cultural Chaos

The History and Trajectory of Gender Ideology: How We Got Here

Troubling History: How Trans Ideology Captured Our Institutions

What Does Scripture Say? Transgender Ideology, Sexuality, and the Biblical Worldview

Videos

5 Reasons Why THIS Caused me to Homeschool my Children

A Change in Identity: Lost in LGBTQ… Found in Christ

Advice to those who struggle with same-sex attraction

Alistair Begg talks to the CI on LGBT issues and ‘conversion therapy’

Help! I Don’t Know How To Answer My Child’s LGBT Questions

Homosexuality and Transgender – Pastor Voddie Baucham

How Christians Should Respond to Transgenders

Is it Harmful to Not Affirm Someone’s Chosen Identity?

Navigating the Transgender Discussion

Shocking Lies Believed by Many Christians

“Staying the Course when Others Don’t” – Teaching the Truth when Times Change

The Bible is clear about homosexual behavior

The Church and Transgender Persons

What Christianity Offers to Transgender Persons

What is a Christian response to transgenderism?

Language Helps

Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Coded with Strong’s Concordance Numbers

The New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words


Free eBook

Here is a free eBook of this series. Please read, download, and share as God leads.


Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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