Unwanted Harvest?

by Mona Riley

Book Overview

This book encourages a balanced judgment of homosexuality according to God's standards: refuse to condone it, but offer compassion and understanding to those living the gay lifestyle while trying to lead them out of it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805461566
• ISBN13: 9780805461565
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Unwanted Harvest reaps bountiful yield

This book is written for two distinct audiences--orthodox Christians and practicing homosexuals. Both sides will find it somewhat uncomfortable reading, but "Unwanted Harvest" is a book that is long overdue. What the authors make so clear is the Christian's need to compassionately embrace, even seek out, their gay brothers and sisters but to never stray from the Biblical precepts that homosexual activity is wrong. While so much of popular culture stereotypes practicing Christians as gay-bashing hypocrites, this book illustrates a far more real problem that is rampant in many churches. An unease or more accuately an unaware or uneducated attitude afflicts many sincere church-goers. The book rightly suggests that many Christains do not reach out to homosexuals, and many others would not know how to accurately respond to them. Practical guidance is offered, and several uplifting cases are documented. Every pastor in America should read "Unwanted Harvest" and suggest their congregations do the same. Apart from its contents the book succeeds by cleverly employing a harvest analogy throughout. Repeated metaphors involving crops and agriculture at all the appropriate moments make this compelling work all the more enjoyable.