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The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert : An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith, by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Product details
Paperback: 154 pages
Publisher: Crown & Covenant; 1st edition (October 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1884527388
ISBN-13: 978-1884527388
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.4 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
979 customer reviews
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This book was referred to be by a dear Christian sister. At the age of 18, I decided that I was gay....being brought up in the Catholic faith, I always 'suspected' that homosexuality was wrong; when I became involved with a woman, I went to a priest for council and he informed me that 'there was no hope for me'.....armed with that statement and convinced that God didn't like people like me, I proceeded to live as a lesbian for the next 22 years....Little did I know that God used those 22 years to bring me back to Him....as Dr Butterfield, I was an activist in the gay lifestyle as well...Like Dr Butterfield, I had a few Christian people sprinkled in my life thoughout those 22 years who became my friends and shared and allowed me into their lives 'with no strings attached'. My journey is similiar to Dr Butterfield's in so many ways and some of the questions she asks in her book could have (and did) come from my lips. I also experienced a train wreck as well,although mine was due to the fact that at the time of my conversion, I was very much still involved with a woman and the gay lifestyle and I left both cold turkey.I read this book in one sitting because I had never come across somone like me who had come out of a lesbian life like I did to claim Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Her story very much interested me in how she coped with the 'break' from her homosexual past. As someone who has 'lived' her story with my journey, it brought back alot of the feelings and issues I dealt with in my own healing and how God's grace and mercy can cover a multitude of sins.Although I got bogged down in her theocracy of the RP church ( I ascribe to the teachings and philosophy of the General Baptist Conference), I found it quite inspiring that she shared how God can truly change someone from the 'inside out'. He did that to me as well and I am not ashamed of my past. God has used my story, and I would have to believe hers as well, as a powerful message to many Christians and non Christians alike that He is a changer of lives and hearts and souls for anyone willing to take that first step of, 'What if'...? Today, I also live with the freedom of who I am in Christ and even though life has its ups and downs, I have truly and fully been cleansed by the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ..Way to go, Dr Butterfield!!!!
What an amazing testimony! Praise the Lord! I give it only three stars for two reasons: 1) I think the chapters on specific denominational preferences such as how we sing songs in church is not really relevant or necessary for this book, and for me, it took away from the way God works originally in all our lives to bring redemption to us. His grace and love is the same for all of us, but it comes to us in many ways. He knows we are all unique, and I thank him for that. We need to show grace to the different ways we worship and experience him in our lives.2) Also, I think the author side stepped from explaining some of the reasons why she may have struggled with same-sex attraction in the first place. She made sure not to talk about relational factors and influences in her life but chose rather to focus mainly on spiritual influences. In my own experience struggling with same sex attraction and finding freedom and new life in Christ, dealing with relationship issues was (and is) so very important and it is spiritual and Biblical. I realize that we don't want to hurt our families and bring up the past to blame, nor do we want to blame our environments without taking responsibility for our own actions. But to ignore family dynamics, abuse, and heart wounds prevents healing and forgiveness and does not fully reveal the loving heart of God.Certain denominations are reluctant to address family dynamics and environmental abuse or injustices for fear that to do so is too psychologically secular and not Biblical enough. They feel we should just stick with the basic Gospel: we are sinners and God saves and redeems us through Jesus death. Don't bring in anything else. But if you have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, you find that dealing relational wounds, especially in our families and churches, is extremely Biblical. The last words of the OT address it as the reason Jesus came: "to turn the hearts of the children to their parents and the hearts of parents to their children."We can address our sin and our need for Jesus' saving redemption while at the same time understanding the reasons why we sin and how pain, hurt, abuse from outside sources and within ourselves are things we must overcome, too. For me and many others addressing relationships has been critical in understanding and finding healing in our wounded hearts. It also has revealed to me that God is a loving Father who doesn't dismiss our pain and need. He is the ultimate relationship we need and yet in our own desire to be above it all we make him out to be the same. No, he is not above it all - He is in it all and he loves us and sees us and is with us.This relational emphasis is lacking in Rosario's book and greatly needed.
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