Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry
Week 9: For the Struggler — Hope for the Long Road
Read the final chapters of Gay Girl, Good God in which Jackie addresses the reader who is in the middle of the struggle — offering hope, honesty, and the long view of what faithfulness looks like. Key Scripture: Philippians 1:6; Hebrews 12:1-3; Romans 8:18
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Jackie's final words are to the person still in the thick of it — not to offer a shortcut, but to testify that the God who started something in them is faithful to finish it. Let these questions sit with you slowly.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Jackie writes as someone who is further down the road — not at the destination, but not where she started. What is it about a testimony like hers that is more compelling than an argument? What does a lived story offer that a theological treatise cannot?
2.She is honest that the road is long and that there are no shortcuts — but she is equally insistent that the road leads somewhere, and that God is present on it. How do you communicate both the difficulty and the hope of sanctification without giving false promises or discouraging realism?
3.Hebrews 12:1-3 calls us to "run with endurance" by looking to Jesus — not to our progress, not to our feelings, not to the finish line, but to Him. How has this practice of looking to Jesus specifically helped you in seasons of struggle? What happens when we look somewhere else?
a.What does it look like concretely to "fix your eyes on Jesus" in a moment when a temptation is acute?
b.How does remembering what Jesus endured — the cross, the shame — reframe the endurance you are being asked for?
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