Hill has faced a tougher journey: resisting his own sinful desires, on a daily basis, with little relief (13-15). And there are those who were healed of their sinful desires so that they no longer struggled to be holy (in at least some part of their lives).ĭr. There are other types of autobiographies: those who struggled with sin until, at last, they redefined sin away so they could live as they pleased. At the end of the day, the only “answer” I have to offer to the question of how to live well before God and with others as a homosexual Christian is the life I am trying to live by the power of the gospel (17-18).
“I have no answers anymore,” he says, “only the life I have lived.” In many ways, I feel similarly about what I have written in the pages that follow. Lewis, he shares with us the point of his book: He models for us how to see our own stories in light of God’s storyĪll of this is done within the context of the great challenge of his life: to be faithful to Jesus while experiencing “a steady, strong, unremitting, exclusive sexual attraction to persons of the same sex” (13).He gives us insight and understanding for how we can love and befriend fellow strugglers in community.He models for us what it means to struggle faithfully and tenaciously to become holy.Hill accomplishes at least three major objectives:
Hill has offered us, his readers, just this kind of rare gift in Washed and Waiting. If someone else did this, would you be interested to hear their story?ĭr. Have you ever bared your most intimate struggles, on a highly controversial issue, knowing that the mean-spirited will use your weaknesses against you?
Would you be willing to share your ‘darkest’ secrets in order to serve others?
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