What Does Jesus Say About Gender? | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

What Does Jesus Say About Gender? | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

What do you do when what you feel on the inside doesn’t match what you see on the outside? It’s one of the most disorienting experiences a person can have. And for some, that gap doesn’t just show up in a job or a role. It runs all the way down to identity itself.

In this message, Pastor Ellis walks through what Jesus actually says about gender, rooted not in culture or politics, but in creation itself.

1. The human experience of internal misalignment, and why all of us know what it feels like when the inside and the outside don’t line up
What Jesus says in Matthew 19, pointing us back to Genesis 1, where God declares humanity male and female, equally bearing his image, with identity received from God rather than constructed or discovered
2. What happened in the Fall, and why the cracked mirror helps explain why so many people experience a deep disconnect between their internal sense of self and their body
3. The gospel answer: not self-reconstruction, but Spirit-empowered resurrection. God didn’t discard what was broken on the cross; he restored it. 4. And that’s the hope he offers now.
5. What this means practically, for those who are struggling, for those who have taken steps to alter their body, and for parents and loved ones walking alongside someone in pain

If you’re trying to understand what Christians actually believe about gender, or you’re tired of the culture war version and want something rooted in Scripture, this is for you. If you’re personally wrestling with this, we hope you hear both truth and grace here.