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Unwanted Harvest?: Eventually, Every Christian Will Encounter Someone Who Is Struggling With Homosexuality. Your Response Is Critical to Encouraging

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This book is written for two distinct audiences--orthodox Christians and practicing homosexuals. Both sides will find it somewhat uncomfortable reading, but "Unwanted Harvest" is a book that is long overdue. What the authors make so clear is the Christian's need to compassionately embrace, even seek out, their gay brothers and sisters but to never stray from the Biblical precepts that homosexual activity is wrong. While so much of popular culture stereotypes practicing Christians as gay-bashing hypocrites, this book illustrates a far more real problem that is rampant in many churches. An unease or more accuately an unaware or uneducated attitude afflicts many sincere church-goers. The book rightly suggests that many Christains do not reach out to homosexuals, and many others would not know how to accurately respond to them. Practical guidance is offered, and several uplifting cases are documented. Every pastor in America should read "Unwanted Harvest" and suggest their congregations do the same. Apart from its contents the book succeeds by cleverly employing a harvest analogy throughout. Repeated metaphors involving crops and agriculture at all the appropriate moments make this compelling work all the more enjoyable.

I found this book to be rather harsh and unenlightened. I certainly would not recommend this to anyone who loves and cares for their fellow human beings. However, if you're interested in reaffirming your decision that homosexuality is wrong, and you'd like to learn how you can feel spiritually superior enough to accept those deviant homosexuals then this book is for you! enjoy.