![]() ![]() ![]() “I was a heathen reading the Bible. I read the way a glutton devours. “I actually started to read the Bible like I was trained to read a book,” she said. The Smiths never explained the gospel to her, nor did they invite her to church, but instead treated her as a friend and patiently encouraged her to read her Bible carefully. Through the consistent love and care from Pastor Ken Smith and his wife, Floy, Butterfield was gradually exposed to a holy God who hated sin but extended love and grace to broken people, she said. This wasn’t friendship evangelism this was friendship.” “I wasn’t Ken’s project I was Ken’s neighbor. “I felt that when Ken extended his hand to me in friendship, it was safe for me to close mine in his,” she said. Their interaction eventually grew into a friendly, and eventually redemptive, relationship. After initially throwing it away, she dug it back out and agreed to visit him. In 1997, after Butterfield wrote a scathing article about a nearby Promise Keepers conference, a Presbyterian pastor in town sent her a letter challenging her presuppositions and inviting her to dinner at his home. ![]() 6 plenary session at the ACBC conference. Rosaria Butterfield, former lesbian and LGBT activist, gives her testimony during an Oct. 6.īutterfield - once a liberal, feminist, lesbian college professor at Syracuse University and now a pastor’s wife - offered the perspective of someone formerly a member of the gay lifestyle, but radically and supernaturally saved out of it through the ministry of a local pastor. The conference, titled “Homosexuality: Compassion, Care, and Counseling for Struggling People” and held at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, featured the popular author and speaker’s testimony during one of its plenary sessions, Oct. While many speakers during the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC) conference were evangelical counselors or longtime pastors, Rosaria Butterfield offered a unique perspective on homosexuality. ![]()
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