37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration

There’s much to pray about on the Peninsula this weekend as the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration begins today (the parade doesn’t begin until tomorrow). I was going to meet up with a church planting buddy from Spokane in the city today, but the traffic is too intense because of the Celebration, so we’re meeting up in a much more conservative city instead: Berkeley.

Anyways, this weekend marks a great opportunity to renew your prayers that as individuals and as the church we would relate with both truth and grace to those living a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) lifestyle. The church has often extended only truth or, on the other extreme, only grace, to those living a such a lifestyle. The gospel calls Christians to extend a message of both truth and grace to all, and the LGBT community desperately needs to hear this truth-and-grace-loaded message of the Savior who rules over all things and gave of his life to redeem and transform broken people.