“In scripture, love is defined by Jesus and His death on the cross.”

• “Love is first defined in Christ, and when you start from there, you can apply that truth to culture.“
• Culture has an idolatry of sex and because of that, has perverted that vision and design of love.
• David discusses the different types of love in the Greek.
• Eros is a love for the truth, to be unified with someone or something else that makes you feel a sense of wholeness…. So in a sense, eros love has a lot to do with God.
• Agape, which is a selfless love, is actually very connected to eros. Agape and eros are two sides of the same coin, and that’s where so many people get it wrong.
• In the Protestant Reformation, eros and agape were separated as eros was associated with sex.

• The early church was focused on living a “love-charged” life which really didn’t even have a whole lot to do with marriage.
• “We can live these two vocations of love-charged marriage and singleness or celibacy and we can rest in them.”
• David talks about how he hurts for his single, straight friends and how they feel incomplete.
• He talks about the dangers of putting marriage on a pedestal and how that can keep you distracted from what God’s calling you to now.
• “You can be present as you are in your reality and love people.”
• Living a love-charged life is living a life of enjoying creation and keeping God at the center by loving others, regardless of your marital status or sexual orientation.

• We should feel thrilled that people are simply being honest about their sexual orientation, and we have to start there.
• We don’t necessarily have to agree where culture takes gay activism, however we do need to acknowledge the people and how they have faced being marginalized, how they face homophobia, historically and now.
• Let’s face our history as the church and celebrate the joy that people are able to safely be honest about their sexuality and gender identities at this point in history.
• “We’re going to love gay people with the truth. We’re not going to compromise the gospel, but we are going to love them and celebrate that liberation.”
• Go and be with gay neighbors… and love them as you love yourself!
• “Christians keep falling into a culture script instead of being more like Jesus and we have to defy that cultural script that we are supposed to hate gay people and see them as the enemy.”
• “Before we go to the ethics, we have to recognize the suffering, and the difference and the difficulty of being gay.”

“Being gay is differently fallen, and differently a gift… it is both.”

• Find something that brings the other person joy and find questions about who they are and just be creative with your experiences.
• Invite God into the space as you enjoy each other and create experiences for each other.