<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[faith, hope and love&#8230; and the greatest of these is Love. [unless you&#8217;re&nbsp;gay]]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="2691" data-permalink="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/faith-hope-and-love-and-the-greatest-of-these-is-love-unless-youre-gay/lovecross/" data-orig-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg" data-orig-size="640,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="lovecross" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=640" src="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=300&#038;h=300" alt="" title="lovecross" width="300" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2691" srcset="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=300&amp;h=300 300w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=600&amp;h=600 600w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lovecross.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p>
<p>i read these two powerful blog posts while i was eating breakfast before work today and really felt the need to pass them on [the third blog post where the author shares two of the negative responses from so-called christians i just don&#8217;t even want to post a link to &#8211; you can find it &#8211; because i just get so crazily annoyed that people can think of themselves as Christ-following Bible-reading people and still think that way] &#8211; i too have a series of blogs that have been shelved or deleted or sit unfinished in my drafts box simply because i know of the sensitivity of the topic and how close to home it is for me&#8230; and so for now, these will have to do and while i don&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything Dan Pearce has to say, i agree with enough of it to believe that these are two powerful messages for us to be reading and dialoguing about&#8230;</p>
<p>the first is <a href="http://www.danoah.com/2011/11/im-christian-unless-youre-gay.html">the original blog post which was titled &#8220;i&#8217;m Christian unless you&#8217;re gay&#8221;</a></p>
<p>and <a href="http://www.danoah.com/2011/11/few-more-powerful-responses-to-im-christian-unless-youre-gay.html">the follow up was &#8216;A Few More Powerful Responses to ‘I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay’&#8217;</a></p>
<p>may some words i write have such a powerful impact on somebody or many somebodies some day &#8211; way good reason and encouragement to keep on blogging and to search for truth while always pursuing Love through it all&#8230;</p>
<p>hope you enjoy. would love to hear your thoughts.</p>
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