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God loves you just as you are, and God doesn’t expect or even ask you to first change your clothes, your lifestyle, your sexual orientation, your language, your eating or drinking habits, your problems, addictions, whatever the worst thing you can think about yourself (past or present) so that you can be loved.

What Jesus demonstrated was that God loves you exactly as you are right now! God loved you yesterday, loves you today, and will love you tomorrow.

Hermeneutics, Homosexuality, Controversy, and Ministry with E. Scott Jones: Podcast Interview on Homebrewed Christianity, Episode 16

Here is the audio of the entire interview, broken into four segments:

Part 1: Pastor Scott Jones talks about his call to ministry, coming out, and the merging of the two

Part 2: Pastor Scott Jones talks about being an openly gay minister

Part 3: Pastor Scott Jones talks about the “clobber” passages

Part 4: Pastor Scott Jones addresses the struggle gay Christians deal with when their Christianity is questioned

Lecture at Wake Forest University Divinity School on Queer Theology

In April 2008, Pastor Scott Jones was invited to lecture at Wake Forest University Divinity School. In the lecture he discusses Al Mohler’s comments on the gay gene, the born gay argument, the question of identity in the LGBT community, the connection of freedom and diversity in Christian theology with the LGBT community, and some commentary on Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern’s anti-gay remarks. Below is the audio of Pastor Scott’s lecture, “The Pizzazz of Creation.”

Part 1: Pastor Scott Jones addresses being born gay

Part 2: Pastor Scott Jones discusses diversity

Part 3: Pastor Scott Jones discusses freedom, and addresses the remarks of Rep. Sally Kern

Part 4: Pastor Scott Jones addresses Christian theology and bodily freedom