“Jason’s cell group is awesome! We keep talking about gay stuff tho… Yeah and those people keep coming and give us pedicures each week while we’re praying – what’s that all about?” Hahaha, how to break the news…

😆 thats cute 😉 This is sounding soooooooo good, its awesome Jason, very excited for you 😀 Your sister sounds great 😉

Hey mate!!!

Great to see you on the F2B forums… 😀

I will send you a better message when I have time…kinda busy at the moment.

Speak soon!!

Ben 🙂

we have Sandy Turnbull coming from the US to sydney this mardi gras…..apparently she has contacts with a group in Brisbane that have bible studies.

Anthony I’m so slack in checking these things – I wish I’d seen this post (or read the email that told me there was a post here at least!) as I would have been very keen. EEK. I hope you forgive me! 🙁

On another note, I wanted to share quickly and encourage. Last week the universe aligned momentarily and I found time to speak with my senior pastor about the homosexualist thing, with a view to starting something supportive in our church. Long story short we had a great meeting and he was super encouraging. “So, it’s ok with you and God that I’m into guys?” I asked, to which he laughed and said “Yes, of course it is.” I kinda left his office wondering why I hadn’t spoken to him 5 or 6 years earlier about it. I told him of the difficulties we face as gay Christians and while he talked them down a bit compared to the various other issues he’s called to deal with each day as the pastor of a large church, we agreed there was a definite need for a ministry that would support others and shine some light on the topic, especially for Christians who may be questioning but are afraid or ashamed because they think its wrong. He offered me his support and help in any way that I needed, and I guess there’s not really much more that I could have asked of him. He had concerns about the “gay” label and me identifying with this as a defining characteristic rather than as a

Christian and a man seeking to glorify God who happens to be same-sex oriented, and I took this on board cause he is a after all a pretty wise guy. (He has grey hair, it’s biblical.)

I hope that’s encouraging for others. I spoke to a couple of friends and they were pretty excited about it and I expect they’ll talk it up a bit so that word will spread amongst our crew. Now for next steps… 🙂

Baptist. But rather contemporary/evangelical. You think they’ve all been to the same conference in the last month? 🙂