We are a community of gay Christian individuals...Each of us has a story to tell...Weaving our voices through the fabric of community...Each of us a common thread...We are more alike than different...More the same than not... Read More
ECWR provides safe places for gay Christians to accept their sexuality and reconcile their Christian faith with their sexuality. Read More
If a gay Christian group is what you have been looking for, we welcome you and encourage you to contact us if you'd like more information or would like to get involved. Read More
So if you're asking, can I be a gay Christian? We enthusiastically say Yes! You can be a gay Christian and live authentically before God. We are saved by faith in Jesus Christ, nothing else. Not through works, not through law – only through faith. Read More
As gay Christians, we sometimes wrestle with issues surrounding our sexuality. Some faith communities may even shun us because we are different sexually from the majority. ECWR encourages gay Christians to embrace their God-given sexual orientation and to live lives that are fully out and fully affirmed in Christ. Read More
By fostering a supportive community of gay Christian believers, we desire to reunite people, regardless of their sexual orientation, with our friend, Jesus Christ. Read More
The EC-Gay Christian blog is where we will post weekly articles for discussion on various topics related to our cause. Community members can post comments on our weekly articles.
Is your marriage in transition? Need counsel or encouragement? Facing difficult circumstances because one partner is gay or lesbian? Read one pastor's story.
Can people change from gay to straight? Need help sorting out fact from fiction? Fellowship with Christians who experienced exgay ministries and who can offer support. Read stories of exgay recovery.
Please be advised that the next ECWR Board Meeting will be held on Sunday/Monday September 26-27, 2010 in Chicago Illinois.
The board meets Sunday from 1-6pm and Monday from 10am-12:30pm.
ECWR members are welcome to attend!
For more information contact Donald Frye at padrefrito@gmail.com.
The story of your personal journey of reconciliation of your faith and your sexuality is uniquely your own. Yet it is this testimony that holds the most powerful potential for change in others as they walk on pathways that you have also treaded. They may feel alone but they are not, for you have been there too. Share your story and encourage a brother or sister along the way!
Ruth and Naomi were no lesbians. David and Jonathan weren't gay.
Neither were Jesus and John, the men of Sodom, cult prostitutes, slave boys and their masters, nor call boys and their customers.
...as Calvin Theological Seminary Old Testament scholar Marten H. Woudstra says:"there is nothing in the Old Testament that corresponds to homosexuality as we understand it today"and as SMU New Testament scholar Victor Paul Furnish says:"There is no 'text on homosexual orientation in the Bible."
A national organization, we are open and affirming to all who embrace the Christian faith regardless of sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, or church membership. Through conferences, retreats, local groups, resource materials, education, leadership training, and personal support, EC serves as a role model to all evangelicals (gay or straight), to foster an integrated and healthy GLBT Christian life.
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EVANGELICALS is our first name. It's been our first name since Evangelicals Concerned was founded in 1975. But just as nobody should naively buy into whatever might be presented in the anti-gay or pro-gay press about "the gay agenda", "the gay lifestyle" or everything that passes in a Pride Parade, nobody should naively buy into whatever might be presented in the anti-gay or pro-gay press about evangelicals. Read More...
Evangelicals Concerned (EC, Inc.) is one of the many new Christian groups and churches which has emerged since the advent of the gay liberation movement.
While both minister primarily to gays and lesbians, there are some significant differences between the two types of organizations. Read More...
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