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A review by rhenny
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry
5.0
Jackie’s goal for this book is to point us back to Jesus. Not to point fingers or to give sinners a weapon against other sinners. Her main goal is worship; to share how Jesus has transformed her inside and out. She reminds me/readers that Jesus’ aim is to free us from ALL sin. She talks about her core sin from which all else stemmed from: unbelief. I have lots to ponder on after reading this book!!! The best ones always do that.
“The gospel didn’t just save you, it also keeps you.”
“Unbelief doesn’t see God as the ultimate good. So it can’t see sin as the ultimate evil. It instead sees sin as a good thing and thus God’s commands as a stumbling block to joy. In believing the devil, I didn’t need a pentagram pendant to wear, neither did I need to memorize a hex or two. All I had to do was trust myself more than God’s word. I had to believe that my thoughts, my affections, my rights, my wishes, were worthy of absolute obedience and that in laying prostrate before the flimsy throne I’d made for myself, that I’d be doing a good thing.”
“God isn’t calling gay people to be straight.
You’d think He was by listening to the ways Christians try to encourage same sex attracted people within, or outside, their local churches. They dangle the possibility of heterosexual marriage above their heads, point to it like it’s heaven on a string, something to grab and get whole with. And though it’s usually well-meaning, it’s very dangerous. Why? Because it puts more emphasis on marriage as the goal of Christian life than knowing Jesus.” Pg.177
“Joy has never been the problem. It was our hearts that bent us away from finding our ultimate enjoyment in Who’d made us, which crippled how, what, and who we got joy from.”
“… I decided that if I could teach my daughter anything about herself, it would be that because a good God made the woman, then being a woman was a good thing.”
“Unbelief, just like Satan, will always take the easy way out. It will tell us to eat the fruit in exchange for knowledge, instead of fearing God to gain real wisdom. Unbelief will unravel our perceptions of both suffering and the blessedness of life and beckon us to skip self-denial at all costs with the faux promises of comfort that can’t extend beyond the grave.” Pg. 171
“We endure because we know joy will be on the other side of obedience” pg. 175
“The gospel didn’t just save you, it also keeps you.”
“Unbelief doesn’t see God as the ultimate good. So it can’t see sin as the ultimate evil. It instead sees sin as a good thing and thus God’s commands as a stumbling block to joy. In believing the devil, I didn’t need a pentagram pendant to wear, neither did I need to memorize a hex or two. All I had to do was trust myself more than God’s word. I had to believe that my thoughts, my affections, my rights, my wishes, were worthy of absolute obedience and that in laying prostrate before the flimsy throne I’d made for myself, that I’d be doing a good thing.”
“God isn’t calling gay people to be straight.
You’d think He was by listening to the ways Christians try to encourage same sex attracted people within, or outside, their local churches. They dangle the possibility of heterosexual marriage above their heads, point to it like it’s heaven on a string, something to grab and get whole with. And though it’s usually well-meaning, it’s very dangerous. Why? Because it puts more emphasis on marriage as the goal of Christian life than knowing Jesus.” Pg.177
“Joy has never been the problem. It was our hearts that bent us away from finding our ultimate enjoyment in Who’d made us, which crippled how, what, and who we got joy from.”
“… I decided that if I could teach my daughter anything about herself, it would be that because a good God made the woman, then being a woman was a good thing.”
“Unbelief, just like Satan, will always take the easy way out. It will tell us to eat the fruit in exchange for knowledge, instead of fearing God to gain real wisdom. Unbelief will unravel our perceptions of both suffering and the blessedness of life and beckon us to skip self-denial at all costs with the faux promises of comfort that can’t extend beyond the grave.” Pg. 171
“We endure because we know joy will be on the other side of obedience” pg. 175