Inspiring Transformation
Welcome to Justin Greenfield Ministries
Justin’s mission is to connect people, inspire faith, and share the love of Jesus. He provides a welcoming space to explore Christian teachings, deepen your journey, and discover resources that honor God.
Justin Green is an author, conference speaker, and spiritual director. He leads a ministry serving those who’d like to seek the Lord with another person in their pursuit of God’s next step in their lives. Oftentimes, he serves those who are dealing with sexual and relational problems and family members who need insight and support. Justin received his Master’s Degree in Spiritual Formation from The Institute for Spiritual Formation at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University). He also holds a four year degree in missions and studied graduate level philosophy of religion and ethics under JP Moreland and others at Talbot. Justin has been speaking at churches, at conferences, and on radio stations nationwide since 2004.
Jesus and Humor in the Journey
Justin learned early in his deeper journey with Jesus the importance of embracing humor. God called Justin out of a homosexual life in 2003. And there has been a lot of humor along the way – like when the universe of corporate consumerism aligned to confirm God’s work in Justin’s life (see the photo).
Being flexible to Jesus gives us the opportunity to see life differently. It allows the Kingdom of God to take its rightful place and to remember what we’re here to do. We are here to love God and love others as ourselves. We are here to make God’s name great and to bring others to Him. Along the way, we are called to focus on what is true, honorable, good, and lovely with peace and joy.
It wasn’t always like that for Justin. He grew up in a home where Jesus was honored through Bible reading, prayer, and church fellowship. But there was also abuse – physically and emotionally. As a teenager when he discovered his attractions to other guys, he was deeply concerned about his eternity. Despite his begging God to “take away” his attractions, God never did. As the abuse Justin faced continued to worsen, Justin wondered if God really was loving, or at least, if God really loved him.
In high school, Justin drifted from God and the church into a community that embraced him, that seemed kind to him. It was the land of fun friends, those who accepted him and treated him as valuable. They seemed to understand Justin. But these friends were far from truth-telling. They weren’t interested in God or to discover His plans for their lives. He was caught in a world of “kind” people who were headed towards destruction.
Greenfield was recruited to swim for Johns Hopkins University and that’s when he found rock bottom with alcohol and hook-up culture. It was there that God reached down and spoke to Justin through a young lady who lived on his dorm hallway.
Catherine walked past his room and saw him in tears. She asked him what was wrong and Justin poured his heart out. He shared his desperation, that he was gay and didn’t want to be; that he wanted God, but didn’t know how a relationship with him was supposed to work. And in gentle grace, she looked kindly in Justin’s eyes and said,
“You know, I don’t think you chose to be gay. I think circumstances, probably with your father, have made you think that you are gay.”
And that started Justin down the path of discovery. He noticed the roadblock he had placed at an early age between himself and his own journey into manhood. He had felt rejected by an absent and angry father. So Justin rejected his father back – only he didn’t just reject his father, but everything that a father represents, which is masculinity.
As Justin chose to recommit his life to Jesus he started finding peace. He found insight and tools for the journey. He forgave his father. He stopped holding men to low social expectations. He moved beyond codependent relationships with the opposite sex.
God called him to a private Christian school. There Justin found healthy Christian brothers who did not struggle with same sex attractions who embraced him and loved him just as he was. He also found friends who had left or were leaving homosexuality through redemptive ministries like Restored Hope Network and Changed Movement.
Healing came as a result of the church’s compassion for Justin. It took good logic that made sense of his experience. It took closeness, rather than distance from “ever-straight” guys in the church. It took courage. And it took a God who continued to pursue him.
Justin completed his bachelors in missions and went on to Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) to receive his master’s in spiritual formation. After graduating, he studied further at Talbot in the philosophy department.
Now Justin shares his journey of victory over homosexuality in Christ with others. He speaks on matters of spiritual transformation, of addressing the real roots of interpersonal and identity issues, on God’s love, and on how Christian community is intended to look like.
Greenfield also offers individualized support through his ministry for those who want to go on a deeper journey with Jesus. Some of these individuals face same-sex attractions or are family members of those who identify as LGBTQ. However, many do not face these issues personally or in their family. Justin’s training and personal experience in walking with Jesus, hearing Him, and understanding the tools for the journey have prepared him for the ministry he now does.
Click on the “Coaching Sessions” tab to connect with Justin for Spiritual Direction/Coaching sessions. Or click on the “Speaking” tab if you’re interested in hosting Justin at your church, conference, or on your radio/tv/podcast show.
Justin's Mission
At the heart of Greenfield Ministries is the commitment to connect individuals with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Here everyone is provided space to explore their faith, find encouragement, move beyond the lies of the Enemy, and engage with the Holy Spirit to seek His path for their life.
Justin's Values
Greenfield Ministries values authenticity, compassion, and commitment to Jesus. The ministry is built on the belief that everyone deserves love and respect. Honesty about one’s struggles with Jesus and life is necessity. Greenfield Ministries aims to support others through life’s challenges while celebrating the work that God has already done and is doing.
Statement of Faith
The question Jesus asks of His disciples is, “Who do you say I am?” (Matthew 16:15)
Many leaders who claim to be Christian aren’t actually trusting the Bible or following Jesus. It’s only after we trust these leaders and walk with them miles down the road that we are realize that they don’t define “Christianity” and “love” the way God does. By then the damage has been done. I’d rather clearly define my terms from the outset
The Apostles Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father, the almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is,
seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen
Morality of Sexual and Gender Practice Inconsistent with Scripture
We believe that God’s design that marriage is to only be between one man and one woman in a lifetime commitment. Sex is only designed in marriage as defined by scripture. All other forms of sexual practice is sin.
The requirement of only one man and one woman demonstrated by creation, by nature itself. Jesus grounds marriage in the creation narrative, quoting Genesis 1:27 & 2:27, when he says, “At the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and the two will become one flesh'” (Mark 10). If the two-ness of the sexes not longer has a place in marriage, then the two-ness itself is ungrounded. It might as well be 3, 4, or more parties joined by a “marriage”. The generation that uproots truth to seed lies must acknowledge the challenges it imposes on the next generation in the form of needless confusion and suffering.
With regard to gender, God made us male and female. We are not “assigned” at birth, but rather created as engendered spirits by God. There is something eternally different between male souls and female souls as God has uniquely gifted each half of humanity. Men and women are made in His image and have exceeding worth and value just as he made us. In order to fulfill our purposes, to be who God made us to be, we must accept own genders as good gifts from God.
We understand that there are problems in human biology by which some individuals, in very rare cases, have biological challenges that prevent them from being able to decipher the bodily gender that God gave them at birth. There are biological malformations of organs, other body parts, and, even, chromosomes. God takes great compassion on these individuals and every Believer is called to love them deeply (more on this in the next section). Godly endocrinologists can oftentimes help in these cases.
However, for the rest of humanity, their bodies are God’s message to them about what their gender is. He has demonstrated what their soul is as it manifests through their biology. For those who have thoughts that suggest their gender is other than what their body demonstrates, coherence of personhood does not come by altering the body’s structure to fit self-perceptions. The engendered soul will never match how one fashions their body anew. Instead, incorrect self-perceptions, delusions, must come into alignment with the gender of the soul.
The Old Testament law teaches us that it is good for males and females to identify in appearance accordingly (Deuteronomy 22:5). There are various issues to work out as to what is “male” vs. “female” clothing are from article to article of clothing. Some things need to be sorted out and prayed through person-to-person. However, the principle here is that accepting, enjoying, and standing confidently in our own god-determined genders and demonstrating our differences even in our appearance is the way God intends us to live. It is a sin to embrace gender distortion and it leads to destruction. It is a sin to confuse your fellow man by presenting oneself in the form of a lie.
For more on the matter of morality in these issues, we agree with the The Nashville Statement in all that it intends to address.
Biblically, compassion 1) is commanded by God, 2) demands insights, 3) and includes both comforting love and tough, Fatherly love.
Compassion is commanded by God from the Christian to those who find themselves in desperate situations.
James 2:2-6 says, “For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ while you say to the poor man, ‘You stand over there,’ or, ‘Sit down at my feet,’ have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man.” In the same way, many Christians treat poorly the man or woman who faces deep challenges with sexual and gender confusion by neglect and platitudes rather than providing powerfully transformative insights and the relationships that lead to resolution of underlying issues.
Barna Research Group has demonstrated that 27% of all 18 to 37 year-olds who identify as Christian also identify at LGBTQ. These young adults are coming out of Christian homes, Christian churches, and ending up in horrific, life-controlling confusion. That’s over 1/4 of our youth group members who never hear the message on something that has become a real heaven-or-hell battle in their lives. How can we continue to overlook them?
When insightful research starts being compiled, the revelation starts to surface that same-sex attractions and gender identity issues are typically the curse of facing certain childhood problems that the individual didn’t choose.
A good first-order place for an open-minded consideration at the horrific injustices those with sexual confusion face a children is a study led by Vanderbilt researchers using Centers for Disease Control data from over 60,000 participants. With regard to LGBQ-identifying individuals, they found that:
- 1 in 5 grew up in a situation where there was an incarcerated household member (21% vs 8% of non-LGBQ-identifiers)
- 2 out of 5 grew up in a home where there was a household member with a mental illness (40% vs 17%)
- Almost half grew up in a home where there was substance abuse (44% vs 27%)
- 1 in 3 grew up in a home where there was domestic violence towards someone else (31% vs 17%)
- Almost half had separated parents (44% vs 30%)
- 1 in 3 had been sexually abused (30% vs 13%).
- 2 out of 5 were physically abused (40% vs 24%)
- 3 out of 5 were emotionally abused (57% vs 33%).
The grief, heartache, need, and genuine oppression is statistically significant. While these adverse childhood experiences leave their own painful wounds to heal from, the defenses the child’s heart implements create a whole new set of challenges. For instance, in the case of the majority of boys who end up gay, as a response to rejection, perceived rejection, or outright abuse from their father, they oftentimes defensively detach. Many take on an internal vow that rejects the father back and says, “I’ll never be like my father.” Not only do they put a wall up between themselves and their father. They unintentionally put a wall up between themselves and what their father represents – which includes their own masculinity.
Loneliness becomes a gateway for seductive lies to enter the lives of many children who are dealing with household challenges, shame, and pain. TikTok, Facebook, X, and other social media outlets are laced with beautiful people pushing lies about sexuality and gender that lead to destruction, like candy-coated poison-pills. While “Good Samaritans,” non-Christians in various posts like hospitals and clinics, take up the cause of those with a number of life-controlling sin issues (like alcoholism and eating disorders), if Christians don’t take up the cause of those facing same-sex attractions and gender confusion then no one will.
Christians, we must do our part to become equipped, become vocal about the painful issues and the solutions for healing for who end up facing same-sex attractions, and engage in practical care. The loneliness in their heads and hearts must end at the crossroads of our vocal and informed love.