5LQ Episode 287: Jackie Hill Perry

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Jackie Hill Perry, author of Gay Girl, Good God. During their conversation, they discuss being discipled as a new Christian and what led her to write the book. BEST QUOTES “When I talk about my conversion, I am actually teaching about conversion." "God made me right with Himself. And in making me right with Himself, He has given me power over my temptations." "She taught me how to drink deeply from the Scriptures." "My discipler is imperfect, but even when she falls she has the faith to go to Jesus with it." "She discipled my whole person, which was way more beneficial to me than if she zeroed in on my sexuality and left everything else out, as if I didn't need to learn how to walk by the Spirit in all ways." "Over the last year and a half, I've been trying to work harder at becoming a servant in my church, but I want to find ways to serve secretly." "I just want to model what it is to be a woman who is empowered by the Spirit of God to my daughter." "Teaching in the home is such a vulnerable place, but that makes it that much more effective." "By experience, I was able to learn how to love people better." "There is so much talk about sexuality and not enough talk about how God is involved in this subject." "This isn't as much about your sexuality as it is about you being made in the image of God and being made primarily for His glory. And Jesus dying not to make you straight, per say, but to make you like Him." "In our desiring for our family members to come to Jesus, oftentimes we will present straightness and marriage as the means by which they should turn from their sin, instead of Jesus Himself." RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry