Posted on 01/28/2020 8:55:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Evangelist Franklin Graham released a statement Monday after an entertainment venue in the United Kingdom canceled his event due to objections over his views.
Graham rejected the claim that he was “coming to the UK to bring hateful speech to your community.”
“This is just not true. I am coming to share the Gospel, which is the Good News that God loves the people of the UK, and that Jesus Christ came to this earth to save us from our sins,” he stated.
“The rub, I think, comes in whether God defines homosexuality as sin. The answer is yes. But God goes even further than that, to say that we are all sinners—myself included.”
The ACC Liverpool Group, based in Liverpool, announced last Friday that they were no longer going to hold the Graham Tour UK event as previously planned.
“Over the past few days we have been made aware of a number of statements which we consider to be incompatible with our values,” stated the venue.
“In light of this we can no longer reconcile the balance between freedom of speech and the divisive impact this event is having in our city. We have informed the organisers of the event that the booking will no longer be fulfilled.”
The venue went on to claim that they “are proud to represent all communities and will continue to move forward with our aim as a business to drive profile, major events and economic impact for Liverpool City Region.”
Objections to Graham’s tour appear to come from British LGBT activists and individuals.
In his response, Graham invited “everyone in the LGBTQ community to come and hear for yourselves the Gospel messages that I will be bringing from God’s Word, the Bible.”
“My message to all people is that they can be forgiven and they can have a right relationship with God. That’s Good News. That is the hope people on every continent around the world are searching for,” he said.
“I’m not coming to the UK to speak against anybody, I’m coming to speak for everybody. The Gospel is inclusive. I'm not coming out of hate, I'm coming out of love.”
Last September, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which Graham oversees as president, announced an eight-city tour of the United Kingdom scheduled to begin in May.
In addition to Liverpool, the British cities listed for the tour included Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, London, Milton Keynes, Newcastle and Sheffield.
Earlier this month, LGBT leaders sent an open letter to the Sheffield City Trust demanding that they drop the Graham tour event, scheduled to take place at their venue, the Sheffield Arena.
In response, the Trust explained that while they do not support Graham’s views, they do support the evangelist’s freedom to express his opinions.
“… if individuals or groups aren't breaking the law then their right to speak freely should be respected,” stated David Grey, chairman of the trust, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Unfortunately it’s not satire or parody. They have embraced sin to the extent that speaking about or pointing out Gods views on sin is forbidden. They have rejected God entirely.
Shake the sand from your sandals Mr. Graham.
You made a faithful effort.
The sign being given to our generation is the sign of Romans 1:18-32.
This explains the Doomsday Clock’s current time better than any other reason given.
Free speech as long as it's the free speech we approve of.
europe- in many places, has become increasingly and openly hostile towards Christianity over the last decade or so- They embrace islam, but reject Christ- and call Christians hateful and violent-
Satan has defiantly blinded them-
Hopefully the people there, that wanted to attend, can find an alternate location more fitting this saint.
Yet the flag of the country has crosses in it.
The ACC Liverpool Group, based in Liverpool, announced last Friday that they were no longer going to hold the Graham Tour UK event as previously planned.
“Over the past few days we have been made aware of a number of statements which we consider to be incompatible with our values,” stated the venue.
So your values are to hate the Word of God? Because that is what the Rev Graham speaks to. Good luck with that.
Feminism and the rise of homosexuality along with an obsession with racial redress
Killed western civilization as sure as a 300 win mag kill a whitetail
Does the LGBTQ community come across as a hate group to anyone else?
1. The want to force you by law or intimidation to not only accept them but to agree with them
2. They want to limit your free speech by law or through intimidation.
Prioritizing the plumbing challenged over the Word of God?
“if individuals or groups aren’t breaking the law then their right to speak freely should be respected”
Wait, didn’t anyone tell the Sheffield City Trust that Graham would be reading from the Bible? Surely that’s illegal by now in the UK.
The LGBTQ community is indeed a hate group for the very reasons you stated.
Funny because anybody in England can just look him up on the internet and see what his views are.
Wjhat a shame to the country that began the great 19th and 29th century wave of missionaries that evangelized the world, with the American ones close behind. Now, the focus of Christianity is wholly being rejected by both nations, advertising and promoting allegiance to the god of this world and all his corruptive entertainments instead. This whole absorption with hedonism is undergirded by, and the product of, the unrestrained media complex, accellerated electronically.
Some years ago, my wife, Ruth, was reading the draft of a book I was writing. When she finished a section describing the terrible downward spiral of our nation’s moral standards and the idolatry of worshiping false gods such as technology and sex, she startled me by exclaiming, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
She was probably thinking of a passage in Ezekiel where God tells why He brought those cities to ruin. “Now this was the sin of … Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen” (Ezekiel 16:49–50, NIV).
Read full article at: http://www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?articleid=8813
Europe is already lost.
Fascist thought and speech control.
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