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“So God created human being in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27 (NLT)

“And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Mark 12:30-31 (NLT)

“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” Matthew 9:36 (NLT)

“Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.” Genesis 2:25 (NLT)

“Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.” Colossians 3:10-11 (NLT)

“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.” Matthew 16:25 (NLT)

“People need to be willing to let go of what they think they know about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman, because that doesn’t necessarily mean anything inherently.” Laverne Cox – Time June 2014

“Sexual identity must be for us more than an abstract social issue. Real souls have endured real anguish over it. We must seek to understand their painful stories before we speak into their struggles. The more we know, the more compassionate will be our truthful response.” Jon Bloom – Biblical Manhood & Womanhood

“Scientists do not know what causes gender incongruence. It is a rare phenomenon and one which we have little by the way of research to inform the discussion.” Mark A. Yarhouse – Understanding Gender Dysphoria

“Sex change is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women.” Dr. Paul McHugh – Former Chief Psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Hospital

“Cultural stories determine the dimensions that organize people’s experience. Cultural stories are not neutral… they lead to constructions of a normative view, generally reflecting the dominant culture’s specifications, from which people know themselves and against which people compare themselves.” Zimmerman & Dickerson – Using a Narrative Metaphor: Implications for Theory and Clinical Practice

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life. You never dealt with yourself.’” Caitlin Jenner – Vanity Fair

“I know there are people who think I’m telling them not to be true to themselves. And they’re right. The Christian preacher tells people all day long, ‘Don’t be true to yourself. The self you’d be true to is rotten to the core.’ Authenticity isn’t accepting your sins. It’s admitting your sins and then being true to the person King Jesus has declared you to be.” Trevin Wax – Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After

“I was made to know and enjoy God. The full enjoyment of God is my ultimate home, but I am still far off and one on the way.” John Piper – When I Don’t Desire God