16 Quotes by Rachel Gilson

...same-sex attracted Christians have unique and powerful ministries - that is, we serve the church and the world through our example of obedience. How so? Because we witness powerfully to the beauty of Jesus over romance. Because we embody the necessity of relying on him alone to choose holiness. And because we prophetically call the church to honor God and neighbor by neither taking away from nor adding to God's word on sexuality.

To choose celibacy, Jesus must really be precious to you... You only give up something awesome for something even better.

But the gospel is not just for Day 1 of our life with Jesus. It is for every day that follows. We won't survive if we replace our connection with Jesus with duty or morals.

If we know God and are known by him, we have access to gaining control of our bodies in holiness and honor. But it will never occur apart from him. ...apart from Jesus, we can do nothing. We are not able to stand against our flesh. But he is. We are like barnacles clinging to a whale - we get nowhere, and no sustenance, without him. Unless we cling to the mighty host, we die.

...the Western cultural chorus is shouting ever louder that authenticity is only found in following your flesh. To specifically deny what your body wants is a scandal in our culture. When pursuing your desire for same-gender sex and romance would publicly mark you as a hero - denying it makes you a villain.

The vision of human marriage as the reward for faithfulness to Christ is a deadly lie. Nowhere in Scripture is earthly marriage promised to any of us. Not only is not promised but it's not even presented as the preferred state of being. Instead, under the new covenant we see that the unmarried and the married have equal dignity and opportunity to image and serve the Lord. They are both beautiful, and both circumstances require the death to self which is at the heart of following Jesus.

The designed purpose of marriage is to illustrate metaphorically God's relationship to his people... A marriage is complex, and fails if it lacks a crucial part. A marriage cannot rightly depict God's relationship with his people if it lacks faithfulness, or pleasure, or fruitfulness - or sex difference. The metaphor demands it.

We are never promised relief from the presence of dangerous desires, but we are promised power to fight victoriously (1 Corinthians 10:13).

...sin loves to grow in secrecy.