Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones: The Essentials Edition

When LGBT+ loved ones come out, families can experience shock. Emotions erupt. Words spill. Relationships become disconnected. One courageous disclosure can be met with a response that communicates, "I don't understand you"; Meanwhile, in the church, LGBT+ people often face impossible hurdles and suspicion about their faith.

Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones: The Essentials Edition offers a relationally honoring, biblically sound path forward.

The Essentials Edition offers 42 pages of the most essential guidance for Christian pastors and parents when an LGBT+ loved one comes out. Filled with practical, ready-to-use relational tips; answers to common questions; and explorations of grief, parental influence, and relational care, Guiding Families is beautifully presented in a magazine-like format.

Pastors and church leaders, parents and families, seminarians and college administrators, counselors and social workers, student and campus missionaries, youth and justice workers — anyone who cares about LGBT+ people will find Guiding Families to be a helpful resource.

For over 80 pages of additional content, read Guiding Families: Expanded Edition.

Endorsements for Guiding Families

"My number one go-to resource for leaders, pastors, parents, and friends with LGBT+ loved ones."
– Dr. Preston Sprinkle, President of The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender

"Don’t let the accessible format and practical guidance fool you — Guiding Families is a great work of theology!"
– Rev. Branson Parler, Ph.D., Professor of Theological Studies, Kuyper College

"[A]n invaluable treasure trove of information and wisdom."
– Dr. Nate Collins, Ph.D in New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Author of All But Invisible

“I long for a world in which every Christian who holds a traditional sexual ethic loves their LGBTQ neighbors with the kind of sensitivity and compassion modeled in this book.”
– Gregory Coles, Ph.D., speaker and author of Single, Gay, Christian

About Us

Lead Them Home is North America’s leading training and consulting resource for church and ministry leaders on LGBT+ inclusion and care. Their vision is loving LGBT+ people in the Church via their mission: to enhance church inclusion, increase family acceptance, protect against victimization, and nourish faith identity. Their nationally leading training seminar, Posture Shift, has equipped over 60,000 Christian leaders on biblically sound LGBT+ inclusion and care since 2005.

The Expanded Edition of Guiding Families has over 40,000 copies in distribution in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden.