I want to encourage you to read at least part of a denominational ad interim committee report on human sexuality. That may sound rather drab and difficult, but I am convinced you will find it both helpful and rewarding. It won’t even be particularly difficult. So let me set the context and then tell you why you should read it.
In June 2019 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America adopted a recommendation from its Overtures Committee which directed the moderator to establish a study committee on sexuality. The committee was charged with researching and addressing a number of key contemporary issues related to sex and sexuality:
the nature of temptation, sin, and repentance, and the difference between Roman Catholic and Reformed views of concupiscence as regards same sex- attraction; the propriety of using terms like “gay Christian” when referring to a believer struggling with same-sex attraction; the status of “orientation” as a valid anthropological category; and the practice of “spiritual friendship” among same sex attracted Christians.
Further, the committee was to build an annotated bibliography of recommended resources for further study; to provide exegesis of the Greek terms malakoi and arsenokoitai as found
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