The Bridge Between Us: Loving Your LGBT Identified Child Without Compromising Biblical Truth
Many parents walking the difficult journey with an LGBT-identified child feel burdened by guilt, shame, regret, confusion, or fear. Some are estranged from their children. Others are trying to navigate relationships filled with tension and uncertainty.
Most people focus on symptoms while ignoring the deeper issues beneath them.
Whether it's same-sex attraction, family conflict, shame, anger, addiction, or relational brokenness, lasting change cannot happen if root causes remain untouched.
As Justin explains, cutting weeds isn't enough. If the root remains, the problem continues to grow back.
In this powerful TBBU episode, Justin Greenfield brings both personal experience and ministry insight to this conversation.
Having walked his own healing journey, Justin offers compassionate guidance to parents and individuals alike. He emphasizes the importance of identifying lies, wounds, unhealthy attachments, shame, and other root issues that often influence behavior.
Melinda joins the conversation as a parent who understands the pain and complexity of this journey and encourages parents to pursue their own healing alongside their children.
Justin offers three key encouragements for parents:
The healing journey isn't only for your child. God is inviting parents into deeper intimacy, freedom, and restoration as well. As parents heal, they become a source of hope and strength for others walking similar paths.
Ask God to reveal the root issues beneath the surface.
Rather than focusing solely on changing behavior, invite Him to uncover:
Then seek wise, trusted people who can help you walk through the healing process with biblical truth and practical wisdom.
When individuals and families embrace God's healing process: