Book Getting God’s Perspective: A Short Christian Introduction to Worldviews, Sexuality and Gender
The Christian worldview helps us make sense of everything - including Jesus' radical teaching about sexuality and gender
In a culture constantly talking about identity, sexuality and "being your authentic self", have you ever stopped to ask: what's shaping the way we see the world? In Getting God's Perspective, Andrew Bunt uncovers the worldviews beneath today's cultural conversations and compares the secular story with the bigger, better story of the gospel. With clarity, pastoral wisdom and real-life honesty, he explores what's at stake and why Jesus' teaching makes sense within God's design. Accessible, thoughtful and compassionate, this short introduction will help you think clearly, stand confidently and live graciously as you follow Christ in a confusing world.
"Christians in the West are faced with a paradox. On the one hand, affirming people's own choices about their relationships and identities appears to be so obviously kind and loving. On the other hand, this flies in the face of the consensus view among Christians in every tradition and every age - as well as the teaching of Jesus. How can this be so? Andrew Bunt offers us a convincing answer... a coherent and credible account of Christian approaches to these questions - and shows why the historical Christian view is good news that our world really needs to hear." - Ian Paul, Associate Minister, St Nicholas's Church, Nottingham, and Associate Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, Cambridge
"I like people who ask me tough questions... Andrew is up front. He is honest. He doesn't duck or dodge the tough stuff... I think for many people, wherever they are in relation to Jesus, this book will feel like a breath of fresh air. Please read it and give it to your friends." - Bishop Keith Sinclair, National Director, Church of England Evangelical Council
"a book on worldviews that simply and successfully explains and contrasts the contemporary secular worldview with the biblical Christian worldview, and then insightfully shows how these respective worldviews apply to the vexed issues of sexuality and gender... he's done it in a biblically faithful, refreshingly accessible and disarmingly personal way." - Robert S. Smith, author of The Body God Gives: A biblical response to transgender theory
"This excellent, easy-to-read book brings a fresh angle to this key contemporary issue. Written with disarming honesty, it will encourage Christians to be more confident in the biblical teaching on sex and gender, and help others to understand what Christians really believe and to consider whether it might make better sense than the alternatives." - John Stevens, National Director, Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches
