• Greg shares that stereotypes quickly became a checklist to figure out what he was going through.
• The posture of “having to rescue” gay Christians in the community actually distracts them from falling in love with Jesus more.
• He shares that stereotypes set a standard of height towards straight vs. gay people in a sense that straight people were “made” correctly while those apart of the LGBTQ+ community were not.
• Lusting after people of the opposite sex or the same sex are both a product of the fall of man. 
• The invitation is not to fix ourselves but to simply surrender the experience of sexuality that we have to Jesus and trust Him to sort out the rest.

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• Praying the Gay away is operating in a mindset that everyone should want to get married. It puts marriage on a pedestal.
• Equating “having a good ending” to a story that you have to get married to the opposite sex is limiting what God can do.
• Trying to do dating “normally” gave a clear realization that he was not predisposed to desire her up to the point of marriage.
• He shares how dating someone of the opposite sex felt very analytic and a way of sort of “checking every box”
• Through a process of elimination led to a revelation of living a life of celibacy
• Dating someone of the opposite sex felt a sense of closure

"Maybe the invitation for all of us is not to fix ourselves into a certain kind of sexual orientation, but maybe the invitation for all us is to simply surrender the experience of sexuality that we have to Jesus and trust Him to sort out the rest of it"

• There’s a tendency to insist that our lives should be a carbon copy of how other people should live their lives. 
• Messy conversations should be expected to have a clean and clear answer to pass on to people.
• It’s not possible to walk a lifetime of following Jesus on the basis of other peoples’ faith journeys. It has to be a personal experience. 
• The most constructive thing that people can do is simply point back to Jesus and let Jesus guide them

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• He was reminded that he was not a mistake which led to him believing in himself
• Using his experience to be a testimony to help other people
• Looking for the positive thing that God was calling him to use in the world around you

• l view singleness, dating and marriage as gifts not for your own comfort and happiness but as a gift in a way that God wants you to use in the world around you.

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