Episode 293 - Session 1 Framing the Gender & LGBTQIA Conversation - OCEAN Homeschool Conference, Albany, OR - June 2022

Summary: Episode 293 - Session 1 Framing the Gender & LGBTQIA Conversation - OCEAN Homeschool Conference, Albany, OR - June 2022   Episode 293's video Link: https://youtu.be/o1Fmex7o6fU     https://www.oceanetwork.org/    Welcome to HealingLives with Corey Gilbert, a podcast sponsored by the HealingLives Center, discover how to love and lead your family well and biblically God created sex marriage and the family for our stewardship growth and benefit my heart and passion is to teach, train, educate and disciple christians that want strong marriages and families. The Healing Lives Center has been serving Christians since the year 2000. Its mission is to be a center for sex, trauma and marriage education and transformation, where we offer counseling, coaching courses and speaking services to you, your church or ministry check us out at HealingLives.com today   I invite you to listen in on session one from the ocean homeschool conference um delivered in Albany Oregon in june 2022. This one's entitled framing the gender and L G B T Q I a conversation, Thank you thank you. So this QR code here is the same one on those cards. It's gonna be a link to the power points and the videos of this um, everything today. So if you want to even just take that and you can also sign up that way too. So it's either way, hopefully that's helpful for you. Um let's pray to start this really important topic. Dear God, thank you so much for who you are and that you actually called us to be men and women that honor you learn. I just pray for this next hour. We will honor you with everything said and done and I just pray that each of us as parents and our families and our kiddos can learn to honor you with when it comes to their sexuality, their gender who you call them to be blessed this time as you pray. Amen. Alright. So yes, we're gonna talk about sex, that's part of it. But what I'm gonna start with when it comes to this topic is my story. I'm gonna start with kind of where I went where I was and where I come from just a little bit as we enter this topic. But the beginning thing that I want us to think about going into a very difficult topic right here. The people of faith christians who are navigating gender identity issues are our people, they're not some other people, they're not them or those, it's our people, we need to be careful with how we talk about this. So I'm gonna attempt to do the same today as we kind of talked about it. Very difficult subject now. Who am I? I grew up in chile missionary kid um grew up in as a in the Chilean schools. But I was an interesting young man, let's just say um let me show you a few pictures which will help you kind of see where that comes from. Um this is me when we came back to United States in 1992. Um I want a mission trip and someone said to me a missionary said to me, you know what you grew up in a country where you're a redhead white guy stood out like a sore thumb and you came to America and you're a nobody, you did everything you could to stand out and did a really good job of it. I love my pink suit coat and my purple coat and anything I could, my mullet. Um, those are awesome if you need to come back. But and then I even, I wanted my freedom. I came to America and it's like you have to have mommy take you everywhere. And so I bought a motorcycle, didn't even know how to write one. Um, I wanted my freedom. My mom had to take me to Mcdonald's which is where I worked. I hated that. So 18 and I still can't go on my own. So that became my story. What scares me is, where would I be today with what I was actually going through internally Because I had questions about who I was, my identity and one of the key areas was, I wasn't like all the other guys. I didn't like the stuff that guys liked. I didn't talk about politics, couldn't stand sports. There's only one sport in South America, which is soccer. So I played that and after 15 casts I decided I was being called elsewhere when I became a musician an