Posture Shift

09/04/2026

Coming out led to being completely disowned by his family. Then, just when disaster for this young man had hit him hard, his village was decimated by the floods in Nepal.

Read his story in his own words. We were so moved here at Posture Shift! Roshan asked that we share his story to prevent other teens from being rejected.

Exclusive photos of the village and a call for all of us to rally to help.

Please take 5 minutes and read this heartfelt, inspiring story.
👉 https://postureshift.com/disowned-coming-out-disaster/

09/01/2026

Starts in 2 Hours! Last call, register now!

📢 LAST CALL!! Join our Guiding Families Facilitator Training and receive the skills and confidence to lead an online or in-person reading group.

⏰ This training group STARTS TOMORROW! It’s not too late to sign up! It's 2hrs of best practices for facilitating a reading group.

Reserve your spot now!👉 https://postureshift.com/upcoming-events/

WHAT FACILITATORS WILL LEARN:

- Empathy for those marginalized in and by their church communities
- What it means to support parents grappling with changing family dynamics
- How to support pastoral staff and ministry leaders as they serve families
- Ways to effectively lead a group with people at varying stages of growth

08/31/2026

📢 LAST CALL!! Join our Guiding Families Facilitator Training and receive the skills and confidence to lead an online or in-person reading group.

⏰ This training group STARTS TOMORROW! It’s not too late to sign up! It's 2hrs of best practices for facilitating a reading group.

Reserve your spot now!👉 https://postureshift.com/upcoming-events/

WHAT FACILITATORS WILL LEARN:

- Empathy for those marginalized in and by their church communities
- What it means to support parents grappling with changing family dynamics
- How to support pastoral staff and ministry leaders as they serve families
- Ways to effectively lead a group with people at varying stages of growth

08/29/2026

Include. Listen. Protect. Invest.

4 ways to care well for LGBT+ teens in your youth group! Important: Before they need your answers, they need to know they're safe with you.

Swipe through and share. 🔗 Link in bio when you want to talk training for your team.

08/27/2026

Do you have LGBT+ loved ones in your life and want to learn how to better care for them?

Join our reading group and dive into Guiding Families: Fifth Edition, alongside other parents, friends, and family members.

This group provides an opportunity to share experiences, ask questions, and grow in community with others. The reading group is centered around a biblically grounded, relationally honoring, best-practice approach to caring for LGBT+ people and their families.

The next Guiding Families Reading Group begins on September 29th! It will meet weekly via Zoom for 8 weeks. We hope to see you there!

👉 Reserve your spot today at https://postureshift.com/upcoming-events/

08/25/2026

📢 One week left to sign up! Now is the time!

After reading Guiding Families 5th Edition, maybe you felt a shift in how you parent, how you lead, how you show up for the people you love.

Now's your chance to help others have that same experience!

The Facilitator Training is Tuesday, September 1st, 1–3pm ET — for pastors or parents who want to learn how to lead a group like this well.

You don't need to be an expert. You need to be willing to hold the room. We'll show you how.

👉 Link to sign up in bio.

08/24/2026

God did not intend for us to carry our burdens on our own, yet that is what many pastors end up feeling required to do.

"What is hurtful to me is the underlying attitude that if someone's children don't fit the model the denomination has set, the parents must have done something wrong. While I believe in God's original design for marriage, I also realize we have all fallen short of the glory of God. The sometimes harsh attitudes and words about the LGBT+ community don't help us in our healing and dealing with the situation."

👉 These are real words from real pastors from a survey we conducted to better understand what ministry leaders go through when someone they love comes out.

"About nine years ago, my daughter came out. A year ago, my youngest son came out to me and my wife, and we found out on Mother's Day that he had gotten married. The sad thing is that no one came to us, wrapped their arms around us, ministered to us, or shared the love of Jesus. I was asked to resign as Senior Pastor at the church I had been at for 20 years because my adult child came out as LGBT+."

This is a heavy burden to carry alone...but you don't have to.

If this is your story, or you're walking alongside someone whose story sounds like this one, consider getting a copy of Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones: Revised Fifth Edition. Start there. Then join a safe, confidential reading group--a new one is starting September 29th.

You are not alone. Your ministry is vital. Your family is important. We are here to help.

GF Book links and Reading Group links in bio.

08/21/2026

Fifteen years of faithful service. No conflict of theology. No scandal. No discipline.

But he still left.

This is a true story about what happens when a church's stated beliefs and its actual posture toward a person come into conflict.

Read it here: https://postureshift.com/why-i-left-my-church-lgbtq-church-inclusion/

08/18/2026

Culture warrior or cultural missionary. You can't be both. Agree?

One fights to win. The other stays to love.
One sees people as opponents.
The other sees them as image-bearers.

If your church wants to be a safe place for LGBT+ people and their families, this shift in posture is important.

Want the other 80 tips in one place?

👇 Comment "80" and we'll send you the full list: "80 Tips to Make Your Church a Safe and Inclusive Place."

We didn't just make these tips up. We collaborated with pastors, parents, and LGBT+ Christians to develop 80 tips for building safer churches. These are raw ideas from our conferences and we know they will help you.

08/17/2026

If you allow a marginalized people group to be mistreated for decades, eventually a new generation will rise up and call it injustice.

And if that new generation cannot get us to see what they see, ultimately, they will abandon what they see as an unreliable truth in order to accomplish justice (kind treatment of people).

When this happens, they are not far off the mark!

While Scripture holds truth and grace together as two equally tethered strands that reflect the full character of our Heavenly Father, the Bible continually defaults to love.

Consider 1 Corinthians 13:13 (Amplified Bible), which states:
“And so faith, hope, love abide [faith — conviction and belief respecting man’s relation to God and divine things; hope — joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love — true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

Do you know what happens when a new generation rises up and begins to call out our blind spots?

It's the opportunity to listen to them, learn from them, recognize our sins,
repent, confess, and begin to build safe churches and families addressing their insights and concerns.

- Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones: Revised Fifth Edition

Get your copy. Link in bio.