{"id":13895,"date":"2022-03-10T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13895"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:01:18","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-say-god-is-love-to-lgbt-christians-im-at-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2022\/03\/what-does-it-mean-to-say-god-is-love-to-lgbt-christians-im-at-grotto.html","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Say &#8220;God Is Love&#8221; to LGBT Christians?: I&#8217;m at Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>doin\u2019 my thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGod is love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those things everybody\u2019s heard. Sometimes you feel like it\u2019s the most profound thing in the world; sometimes you feel like it\u2019s a stale marshmallow, sweet at first but then dissolving on your tongue into bland nothingness. But as I\u2019ve gotten to know LGBT people who were raised in Christian families, I\u2019ve started to see how this incredibly common sentiment can damage people\u2019s hearts and lives \u2014 because they were taught that the God of love couldn\u2019t acknowledge them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grottonetwork.com\/keep-the-faith\/belief\/why-lgbt-people-need-to-hear-god-loves-you\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>doin\u2019 my thing: \u201cGod is love.\u201d This is one of those things everybody\u2019s heard. 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