Welcome, welcome to the line of fire. Michael Brown, so blessed to have this time with you.

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All right.

When I began this series talking about can you be gay and Christian, the Bible of transgender

issues, when we started this series, there were two main foundations for us to consider.

One was the foundation of what does the word say? So we spent a lot of time digging into

scripture. We also talked about our attitudes that we reach out to the people with compassion.

We resist the agenda with courage. We have hearts of compassion, backbonebones of steel. We talked about how Jesus practiced transformational inclusion,

not affirmational inclusion. He didn't meet people where they were and affirm them in their sin.

He met them where they were and transformed them through the gospel, through his love,

through the power of the spirit,

through the power of truth. We talked about a lot of these principles. We said, all right,

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