Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

"Today's young people have gay friends whom they love. If they view the church as an unsafe for them, a place more focused on politics than on people, we just might be raising the most anti-Christian generation America has ever seen, a generation that believes they have to choose between loving and being Christian."

Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

"If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians---all sinners ourselves---treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?"

Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

"My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; or to lie to everyone, pretend I was straight, and forget about it all."

Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

"Unfortunately, some churches are now so worried about being arrogant and unbending like certain other Christians that they fail to stand for anything at all. They hang question marks over all the major doctrines of the faith or throw them out entirely. Bit by bit, they lose the things that set them apart as Christians."

Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

"I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay."

Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate