I beat you by 2 minutes ... just sayin
Another disappointment. Sad.
You never know.
I think that has been true for a long time. But I have found myself saying it rather often recently.
Remember Ravi Zacharias? You never know.
Back to this Alistair Begg thing: Since AB is a person who communicates detailed and important information on a regular basis, I don’t think he has failed to explain what he thinks here. I think AB has failed to clearly see how faulty his own logic is on this matter.
Then screwups like this cause further scrutiny, because, many would wonder “since this is so far off from what is correct, where else might he be wrong?”
Sad sad SAD
Some people sincerely believe that supporting Trump is against their sincerely held religious beliefs.
I have been following this from its beginning. To summarize for folks who don’t want to read the whole article. Alistair Begg still believes homosexuality is a sin and does not recognize the legitimacy of homosexual “marriage”. He encouraged the woman to go to her grandson’s “wedding” only as long as he knew she did not approve of his lifestyle. Her attendance, as Alistair saw it, would not be an affirmation of the wedding. It would only show that she loved her grandson.
I still think it was very bad advice. There is no way people would not see it as affirmation.
A few years back, my wife’s daughter married another woman.
To say that I was flabbergasted when I found out she was gay and marrying another woman would have been an understatement.
I outright refused to attend the wedding or have anything to do with it. The pastor of the church we were attending at the time sought me out to discuss it. He felt that I should attend primarily for my wife’s sake.
Long story short, I reluctantly attended but only in support of my wife. I found it totally disgusting and a mockery of God’s plan of marriage. I will NEVER attend another gay wedding if I have anything to say about it. I ended up eventually leaving that church over it. My wife still goes to there, but I go somewhere that adheres more closely to the Word of God.
I started praying for that gay couple though. Three years later: divorce, but not before they had a little girl thru artificial insemination. These people are insane.
I’m broadminded and non-religious. I believe if people want to bugger each other in private, it is their freedom, but they should clean their own sheets and keep it to themselves. It should not be condoned by law or religious institution. Certainly not promoted and encouraged by government.
I’m so glad they cut ties with that heretic.
The interview where he said these things was done last September. I wonder why it took 4 months to come to light?
Begg needs to address this personally and not through his “team”.
We have regarded attendance at a wedding to be an endorsement of the union.
Not attending certain weddings has created a bit of awkwardness with folks, but we didn’t want to set a bad example.
ok. i’m going to make a long and pointed comment on this because it is beginning to hurt my heart. i really love and have learned a lot from Alister Beg, his teaching, preaching and ministry. even today. he was preaching on Isa 41 and it was brilliant. also i know the long and sordid history of christian against christian sectarian violence over theological disagreements.
and oh brother, may God preserve Alister and his ministry. because, this situation strikes as ridiculous. we’re cancelling effective and longstanding ministers of God now, are we, for very small differences? like leftists’ cancel us? imho, this disagreement probably comes all under the umbrella of differences different denominations have out of common with CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity. i can certainly make a Biblical argument from Paul and Romans to support Alister’s advice to in some cases go celebrate with a group of sinners. not that Alisters’ argument would be mine. it would be a specific situation and i would have prayed on it before going, but i could see myself attending such a wedding, under some circumstance.
i believe Alister is still on God’s side, and and that God is continuing to use him mightily. he’s not ‘slipping’ for a long time as i’ve seen in other scurrilous posts against him. and i’m sure he has a Biblical reason for giving his advice to this particular woman. the other thing that might be involved involved is a pastoral relationship under the Holy Spirit that Alister had while ministering to this parishioner.
as a side note, going back a few years to another great Christian minister who was canceled, wrongly in my opinion. i’m glad that at least Alister is still alive to defend himself unlike the christian apologist Ravi Zacharias when the leftists in Christian Inc. decided to smoke him after he passed on to Glory.
Everyone has the right to be wrong. My prediction is that in 5 years, the majority of same sex weddings will be non-gay people.
There was a local guy who got divorced. In the settlement, he got the land where he hunted which had belonged to his father-in-law. They were in a hunting group. His wife always said she let him have it because she could get it back if he died. If he put it in the Will, she could contest it. He got cancer. His only option(he said) was to remarry so he decided to marry his hunting buddy. Fortunately or not, the cancer went into remission and the wife died.
Being kind to your enemies is a tenet of Christianity. Does that include those with whom you disagree? Like queers?