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Author Interview
“I used to be a lesbian.”
In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?
At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel.
Listen in order to understand. Listen in order to hope. Or listen in order, like Jackie, to be made new.
Customer Reviews
- Insightful, Honest, and Empowering
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I am so thankful for Jackie’s testimony and the way she honestly and graciously shared her experience for the equipping of the saints. I have longed for more understanding to gain deeper compassion for those in the LBGTQ community so that I could confidently communicate (at the right time) with love AND Truth. What Jackie has shared here in this book was an answer to many of my own prayers. Thank you Jackie!
Overall - Amazing
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This book is amazing. I was originally drawn to it when I learned about Jackie’s story on YouTube and I always wanted to read it, and finally got the chance to, through a free audible trial. It only confirmed things that I’ve been believing for, in my own life, even though I am straight. I previously listened to the Perry’s podcast on how God brought them together for their glory, a month before God told me who my husband was. And now I’m currently waiting and learning that it’s almost time for me to exit singlehood and retrieve God’s promise for me as he heals things I’ve gone through in the past. Everything in this book was poetically conveyed in a language that God probably could speak, himself. I loved it.
Overall - beautiful
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This book was so well written. I am so glad I purchased the audio version. To hear Jackie Hill Perry, herself, narrate her own story just made it even more beautiful. I love that she was willing to share the pain of her past, the life she gave up for a relationship with God and the HOPE we have in Christ. And make no mistake... this book isn't just for same-sex attracted Christians. It's for everyone. I could not recommend this book more!
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- Excellent book by a poetic author
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A wonder-full book, inspiring a good look at why we serve and love God and the sin habits that keep us all chained if we don't take Biblical steps towards agreeing with Christ and dying to self. Beautifully written, a musical read by the author herself, well worth diving into.
Overall - A great read for all
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A great testimony of how God and the gospel can and needs to infiltrate every part of your life. Jackie is able to clearly lay out the gospel, share personal stories of how this through has changed her heart and life and inspires the reader to settle for nothing less in their own life.
Overall - Each of us needs this book.
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I was so helped by Mrs. Perry’s book. The biblical lens through which she tells her story makes it immediately applicable to all of us brothers and sisters in Christ whose sanctification is of greatest importance. She has much to teach us—and she does so with honesty, with grace, and with humility. I am so glad I read this book. I will, undoubtedly, revisit it many times.
Overall - Jackie, job well done.
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I ran into this young lady on Youtube. I purchased this audio to hear more about her story. Jackie has an incredible gift with words. She has been blessed to narrate her story in a very hip way. I am grateful that it was her who did the narrating. She tells a truth using quotes from some of our leading Christian writers. Most of all and most important, she quotes the Scripture throughout letting you know how the Word of GOD and the Holy Spirit changed her life, and can change even the heterosexual who deals with other temptations. She speaks of how she had to learn to say "no" to the same-sex attractions that cropped up in her life. Amazing story that I cannot wait to share with my friends. This is a wonderful tool for anyone who wants to learn how to talk to homosexual and heterosexual friends about this subject.
Overall - Not what I thought it would be, but worth listening to.
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The book wasn't what I thought it would be, but it was very insightful. I gained a lot of wisdom in the feelings of a part of culture that I am surrounded by, but knew nothing about. The thoughts, ideas and actions this author used to overcome her sexual desires are applicable to a multitude of other sins, if we are simply willing to do so.
Overall - The Beauty of the Gospel
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Beautiful picture of the transformative power of the gospel, absolutely relevant to all persons regardless of age, gender, relationship status. You will be blessed by this book, I was!
Overall - "Gay Girl, Good God" by Jackie Hill Perry was written out of love for what a good God what done for her – loving her and giving her new life and a new heart. She tells us that what God has done to her soul is worth telling. I agree. Highly recommended!
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Jackie Hill Perry is a 29-year-old writer, speaker and artist, who was born in St. Louis. She writes that she has written this book out of love for what a good God what done for her – loving her and giving her new life and a new heart. She tells us that what God has done to her soul is worth telling. It is to invite us into her worship.
The book is broken into three parts.
Part 1: Who I Was
The author tells us that she was attracted to girls before she knew how to spell her name. After discussing what took place in her second grade classroom, she writes that in 2006 she was asked by a girl at a high school dance if she wanted to be her girlfriend. She said “no” at the time, but really wanted to. But when she thought of the girl she would think of spending eternity in hell. Her heart was saying “yes” but her conscience was saying “no”. Eventually she gave in, however. Satan told her to do what felt good. She trusted herself more than she trusted God. Sin was better than submission.
The author’s mother and her father, an employee at her mother’s restaurant met at an East St. Louis club in 1988. This would eventually lead to a pregnancy. The author’s mother considered aborting the child. The relationship between Jackie’s mother and father didn’t work out, and Jackie grew up without a father at home. He rarely visited and she was convinced that he didn’t love her. Jackie writes of him dying unexpectedly at a relatively young age.
Jackie was sexually abused by a teen-age family member in a dark basement. As she grew up, her experiences with men in her life were an absentee father and a sexually abusive relative.
As a lesbian, Jackie was manly, and her girlfriend wanted her to play the role of the stud in their relationship. She would have at least one other girlfriend.
At that time, Jackie was an enemy of God. But God was using her conscience. He was hunting her. In addition, a family member prayed for her. She realized that she would have to choose between God and her girlfriend. She writes about being saved in her room.
Part 2: Who I Became
Jackie writes that she faced a temptation with a beautiful girl the very next day after she was saved. Fortunately, she was sustained by God.
Jackie writes that she wished that she had been told about more about the beauty of God rather than the horrors of hell, a good reminder for all of us. She writes of being discipled by a woman in Los Angeles, and moving there from St. Louis. She writes of missing her girlfriend, but God told her that His word was true, even if it contradicted how she felt. She needed to fight sin with the Gospel. Ultimately, she loved God more that the Gay community.
She writes of learning what biblical womanhood was, and starting to dress in a feminine manner. Jackie met future husband Preston at a poet event in Los Angeles. She writes of having hurt him, but he still pursued her.
Part 3: SSA and....
Approximately the last quarter of the book is comprised of chapters that serve as helpful resources for others dealing with Same Sex Attraction (SSA). Jackie writes that our identity is only in Christ, not our temptations, but what Christ has done for us.
• SSA and Identity:
Jackie writes that how you identify yourself will shape how you navigate life. She reviews four categories that will help SSA Christians in their sanctification:
1. Identity of Sin. Sin is not beautiful.
2. Identity of a Saint. You are not your temptations.
3. Identity of the Church. You are not alone.
4. Identity of God. God is better than you can imagine.
• SSA and Endurance
Jackie addresses the enduring and sometimes difficult struggle that SSA Christians will face against temptation.
• SSA and the Heterosexual Gospel (which is not a gospel at all).
1. We are more than our sexuality. We were not ultimately made for sex. We were made for God and his glory alone.
2. Marriage is not the pinnacle of the Christian faith.
3. Singleness is not a curse.
4. Evangelism is about God.
Jackie uses scripture effectively throughout the book. I listened to the audio book version of the book, which was well-read by the author. Highly recommended.Overall
