Episode 129: Pride Month, Healthy Friendships--Your Q & A with Matt and Laurie Krieg

Today is question and answer time with Matt and Laurie! We cover a lot including these questions:

• How did we first meet Steve?
• How do we handle Pride Month?
• How do we plan to address our mixed-orientation marriage with our kids?
• How can straight, single guys and girls be friends without the relationship getting weird?
• If we, as a married couple, invite a single person into our home how can we prevent it from becoming a situation where one of us falls in love with the single person?
• How can I care for my bisexual friend without compromising my beliefs or pushing my beliefs on her?
• How can I be committed to a worldview that has caused so much pain and depression for so many LGBTQ+ people?
• How do we grieve well—whether for trivial things or deep, human loss?

Let's go, fam.

 

//: Highlights:

• “It always has to be this recognition of what is good about Pride Month—about people being able to be open and not hidden. But there is also this sorrow: … the unity that comes from Pride Month is not oriented toward your relationship with God, it’s about something completely different.” —Matt
• “Ya’ll, we got to repent for the last x decades of idolatry of marriage, idolatry of sex in marriage, and really? Not honoring this thing that we have eye-rollingly said is ‘Every man’s battle, every woman’s battle,’ and ‘Oh, just hurry up and get hitched and put a ring on your lust.’” —Laurie
• “Yes, it costs LGBT+ people something to follow Jesus, but the gospel should cost all of us our lives. And if it is not, are we actually following Jesus?” —Laurie

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