lonely, silent SSA strugglers within our churches would feel loved, and move toward the light of community, • and that the church, all believers, would shift from reacting to media and political stories, to proactively engaging our homosexual neighbors with the same love and the same truth that Jesus is offering to us. This book is not a counseling manual or a comprehensive theology of homosexuality. Neither is it a political action plan. I think of it more as a plea, an appeal to the church to rethink