A common mistake LGBTQ Christians make (+ what to do instead)

When LGBTQ people come out, it should be a time for celebration. But sometimes, the "after" coming out isn't as FABULOUS as we'd hoped.
If you're an LGBTQ Christian who is out and proud (or proud-ish) but something isn't quick clicking between your faith and sexuality or gender, like maybe...
❣️ You want to experience more connections between queerness and spirituality
❣️ Your faith life has felt stale or scary lately
❣️ You want to stop feeling split in two
❣️ You could use some more queer joy in your life
❣️ You want to connect with other LGBTQ Christians and spiritual seekers (without pressure to be queer, Christian, or spiritual in a certain way)
... and you've been wondering when "It gets better" is gonna happen to you.
Check out this video for a common mistake you might be making -- and what to do instead.
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[@WhileAKyle85]

I'm finding spirituality again. A recent break up has me realizing that I've been trying to find approval and love in the wrong places. So now I'm praying again and back into bible study. But showing up means I show up as myself. Rather that's high or drunk or naked. I've found freedom in that. I've found space for my current self. Or I'm looking. Parcing out what a faith in a Jesus who loves and accepts LGBTQIA people looks like. Finding my old spirituality as the person I am not the person I was.
Praying high is harder lmao but it's more honest for me to show up in this way than hiding all of that. I also don't sugar coat my doubts. I'm honest about those too. I don't watch my language. What's more sacred than showing up as my whole self? Maybe that's what it means to give god our all? It isn't this ethereal idea of giving him your best all the time. But just giving him all of ourselves. Not just the good behavior. Not just the facades we wear trying to fit into someone else's idea of what spirituality should look like. But all. The ugly. The cussing. The angry passion. The angry. Just being honest. what if that's what giving god our all means? I can honestly say I was never able to give all of me back then. I had been conditioned to show up sanitized. To show up frocked. Made up. I couldn't express these doubts or those.
But what I'm finding is that there is space for honest me. Trans me. 1 year on hrt me. Me who cusses as much as breathes. Me who does question every last aspect of structural and cultural Christianity. I'm not hiding anymore. I'm praying actually naked. Young me would've been horrified. But what's more honest than that?
I'm revisiting old altars I made twenty years ago as my honest self and seeing if god also shows up.
Idk if it's the old ccm I've been listening to (Chris rice, Nichole nordeman, old Jennifer Knapp, old Avalon) but I do honestly feel like he is speaking to me. And showing up for me. Me now. 32 year old been through a lot me. A little bitter me. A little emotionally cold me. Inquisitive and free thinking me. I can say I have needed this. I feel peace I haven't felt in a while.

[@BABBIAN]

Thank you so much for this❤

[@qtheology]

you're welcome!

[@georgiapeach3109]

Very interesting page. I'm glad I found it. Tough for me. I grew up Church Of Christ, a Protestant Fundamentalist Christian Denomination that is a bit right of Southern Baptist. I was taught that I am to conform my ways to God's ways, not vice versa. I definitely believe, though like many, too many times I let the "moral majority" sour my faith. Anyway, nice page, and Peace Be With You. ✝️❤️

[@janaeg4661]

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