{"id":674,"date":"2021-04-27T01:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2021-06-21T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:38:38","slug":"coming-out-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/27\/coming-out-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Coming Out&#8217; Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mor\u00e1n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week I was able to rekindle a conversation with Michael Carducci, co-director and founder of &#8220;Coming Out&#8221; Ministries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael started this ministry years ago after experiencing struggles with a homesexual lifestyle and meeting many people who had numerous sexual struggles within the Adventist church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1-1024x606.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1-1536x908.png 1536w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-2.54.56-PM-1.png 1938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201c\u2018Coming Out\u2019 Ministries is not only about the homosexual,\u201d said Carducci, co-director and founder of the ministry. \u201cComing Out is talking about the biblical coming out of sin and into God\u2019s marvelous light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio aligncenter\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/new-audio.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having interviewed Carducci for several articles, I was able to continue to learn and educate myself about the ministry and the people that it helps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the organization&#8217;s website, the ministry focuses on helping \u201cchurches, schools, and organizations who are seeking answers and education\u201d regarding sexuality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ohio-based ministry presents its film, \u201cJourney Interrupted,\u201d to students and different churches around the country and even around the world. The film follows the stories of five individuals who are struggling with their sexual identity or sexual addiction. It presents the events that exposed them to the Gospel and helped them embrace God\u2019s plan for their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, it is always a blessing to continue to learn about a topic that I am not very familiar with. It is particularly interesting to see this topic from a completely different point of view such as generational differences in the Seventh-day Adventist church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I was very surprised by some of the findings during this interview, I was also baffled by how little I actually know about the LGBTQ+ community and about how much more work I have to do to be understanding of their circumstances and life experiences, regardless of age, race, and gender. Definitely a good reminder of how to love those who are different from us just as Christ has loved us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mor\u00e1n This week I was able to rekindle a conversation with Michael Carducci, co-director and founder of &#8220;Coming Out&#8221; Ministries.&nbsp; Michael started this ministry years ago after experiencing struggles with a homesexual lifestyle and meeting many people who had numerous sexual struggles within the Adventist church.&nbsp; \u00a0\u201c\u2018Coming Out\u2019 Ministries is not only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/27\/coming-out-ministries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Coming Out&#8217; Ministries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}