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📖 Episode Summary
In this episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave Jenkins explains what transgender sanctuary cities are, how they function, and why Christians must respond with biblical clarity, conviction, and compassion.
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✅ What You’ll Learn:
- What transgender sanctuary cities are and where they’re spreading
- How these laws affect parents, churches, and Christian schools
- What Scripture teaches about gender, identity, and cultural confusion
- How Christians can respond faithfully, boldly, and graciously
📖 Key Scriptures:
Genesis 1:27; Psalm 139:13–16; Romans 1:24–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Isaiah 5:20
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is a transgender sanctuary city?
A transgender sanctuary city is a municipality that passes laws or policies to protect individuals—especially minors—seeking gender transitions, even when it contradicts parental consent or state law. These cities may block enforcement of laws from other states that restrict such procedures.
How do these cities affect Christian families and churches?
These laws can threaten parental rights, limit biblical counseling, and introduce ideological teaching into public education. Churches may face legal or social pressure for teaching biblical truth on gender and identity.
Does the Bible really address gender and identity?
Yes. From Genesis 1:27 to Romans 1:24–27, the Bible clearly affirms God’s design for male and female. Identity is not self-defined but given by God. Scripture confronts cultural confusion with eternal truth.
How should Christians respond?
With clarity, courage, and compassion. We must stand on God’s Word, support biblical teaching in our homes and churches, and speak the truth in love—always pointing people to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
