Former Homosexual Shares How Churches Can Better Minister to LGBT Community: ‘Only Jesus Can Make You Whole’

Jackie Hill-Perry, a Christian rapper and former lesbian, has shared her thoughts on how churches can better minister to the LGBT community and why she believes Christian leaders should remind those struggling with same-sex attraction that their identity is more than their sexuality.

During a recent interview with The Gospel Coalition, the 26-year old St. Louis native was asked “what is the most important thing church leaders can do to help people in their congregations who struggle with same-sex attraction?”

“What was helpful for me was that my leadership did not isolate my same-sex attraction from my whole person,” she responded. “They looked to see ‘how can I help her in a Gospel-centric way that’s holistic’ because it wasn’t that I struggle with lesbianism. I struggled with hatred, bitterness, laziness, gluttony, lack of stewardship, pride. There was a lot to me that was much deeper than just my sexuality.”

Hill-Perry, who is now married to fellow spoken word artist Preston Perry and has a daughter, explained that Christian leaders need to let people know that their identity is in more than just their sexuality.

“When I was able to see that all of me needed Jesus, all of me needed to be whole and all of me needed to be discipled, that’s what helped me. Because it kind of humbles you where [I said] ‘I’m real messed up because it’s not this one little fraction of me. It’s all of me’ and I’m able to really crawl to Jesus and know He can fix me. Only He can make me whole,” she said. (Read more from “Former Homosexual Shares How Churches Can Better Minister to LGBT Community: ‘Only Jesus Can Make You Whole'” HERE)

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