Refining our Focus

This blog has existed for nearly three years and has been visited over 80,000 times, but it's time now to refine the focus of what we are doing here.

Over time, the material has evolved (can I use that word and still claim to be a Christian?) from one focused largely on politics to more of a mix between issues of faith and politics. We're now moving the needle much more toward the faith side.

If you've been visiting here for a while, you know that my wife Brenda is a pastor at our church and I am a pastor-in-training. Over the last few months, the Lord has spoken very clearly to us and, more recently, much of our church, that we need to step out beyond the walls of our worship facility and tell people the Good News of Christ. We need to reach people who either have not heard the Gospel or have been hurt by people preaching hate, bigotry, and other non-godly messages that succeeded only in driving them away from God. We believe God is reaching out to ALL of the people who don't know Him and will embrace a GLBT person as they are once they reach back and accept Him as their Lord and Savior.

This is the message we want to put out there more strongly than before, and that is our mission in continuing this blog. We hope you continue to find it useful. We will still update news items that pertain to matters of GLBT faith. We will also be adding podcasts and eventually video messages to new original essays.

For anyone who has linked to this site because of the political content and no longer feels comfortable doing so, please just show us the courtesy of letting us know you are removing the link from your site.

We hope you will find blessings at Straight, Not Narrow. In addition, please check out our revamped ministry site, Affirming Christian Network.

God bless,

Jim and Brenda