Posted on 12/13/2019 11:56:40 AM PST by xzins
How about just “You”?
Wow...not the Southern Baptists I used to know.
And now the Baptists are going wobbly? WTH is going on around here?
Hey Mr. President! F@ggots in dresses are mentally ill, and you do no one any favors by indulging them in their delusion.
What if someone identifies as the Queen of England and demands that you call them Your Royal Majesty?
Or they identify as Vlad the Impaler and demand that you call them Prince Dracula?
Ed
Enabling delusions is not true compassion.
AND NOT
If a person identifies himself to you as she, I hope you will consider it an act of Christ-like love to call him she out of respect, whether or not you believe that the way he expresses his gender identity is honoring to God (11.1).
FIXED IT!
Sounds like SBC leadership is out of touch with the people in the pews. This is becoming an all too familiar dynamic. To whom is the leadership accountable?
I think doing this is to deny what God created.
Oh, wait, the leader of the SOUTHERN BAPTISTS said that?
Hmmmm. Well...
Nothing to see here, move along.
This is why the Muslims are winning. They stand up for their beliefs.
Idiot. Or is it Itiodit..or perhaps femidiot?
Sadly, the infection of western churches is widespread and growing.
They have a female pastor in the SBC, iirc, who is pushing this. Can’t recall her name.
That whole sentence I wrote just above blows my mind compared to the SBC I grew up with.
BillyBoy, this guy is a fraud. People should leave the Southern Baptist denomination too because of this and other abominations
Jesus exited a corrupt religious institution, so should we!
“How about just You?”
Or in other contexts “the person”
To MY simplistic, parochial, not terribly erudite mind; their basic problem isn’t pronouns. Their life paradigm is out of kilter because they haven’t arrived at a proper relationship with their Creator and Savior. My obligation in Christ is to do my best to love them to Christ, if they’ll let me. Once they see their need of Christ, and invite Him into their heart and life, the Word and the indwelling Holy Spirit will go to work in them to bring them into the likeness of God’s Dear Son, per Romans 8. It’s not our job to change them. We just help them find their way to the One who CAN. And know at the head end, that many will NOT respond as we’d hope; because they’re locked into their OWN schtick. Even Christ lost approximately 8.5% of His handpicked staff.
How you refer to the person in the moment isnt so important, what is important is to keep your eye on the ball. They are where they are because they do not know who they are in Christ, they dont know who God intended them to be, and who they can still be once God takes up residence in them. So dont seek offense but dont feed delusion... There is stuff going on that only God can heal... but which God can and will heal.
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