Posted on 03/29/2024 8:41:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Rachel Gilson, a self-described same-sex attracted woman who spoke at the Southern Baptist Convention’s women’s conference in 2023 has now appeared in a promo video released by Preston Sprinkle’s Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. The video portrays God as perfectly accepting of homosexual and transgender lifestyles devoid of any true repentance. In the video appear multiple homosexuals, lesbians, and “transgender” people who argue that one should be able to live out who they really are, including rebelling against who God created them to be, and feel welcomed and accepted in the Church.
Here’s that clip:
In 2019, during a student conference (see video below), Gilson remarked during a sermon that gay married couples who come to Christ can stay together because God hates divorce. Speaking on the topic of homosexuals coming to Christ, after a bit of build-up, Gilson said, “It’s not like if someone in a same-sex marriage comes to know the Lord, it’s like, ‘Okay, what we’ve got to deal with first is your same-sex marriage’…”
“I’ve known some couples where one person came to Christ and to honor the Lord, he needed to be celibate [remaining married] and his husband decided to leave him. Paul talks about this reality in 1 Corinthians 7, sometimes if a spouse comes to know the Lord, the other spouse can’t abide it leaves and that person is free,” Gilson continued.
Gilson then went on to lament the “divorce” of gay couples who are “married” saying, “God hates divorce, he does. It breaks that image of marriage just as surely as anything else.” Here’s the clip:
Gilson has also been closely associated with Grant Hartley, another former Cru leader who converted to Roman Catholicism a few years ago. Just last year, Hartley boasted about his experience of dancing at a gay bar, stating that it felt like “heaven” to him. In 2019, Hartley quote-tweeted a message from Rachel Gilson while she was preaching a sermon at Cru:
In 2022, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, which is presided over by Danny Akin, is highlighting Rachel Gilson’s paper on marriage. According to a press release on Southeastern’s website,
Several of Southeastern’s current advanced degree students are presenting papers at this year’s annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in Denver, CO, on November 15-17. As an institution committed to rigorous scholarship and a robust Great Commission vision, Southeastern celebrates the academic contributions of its advanced degree students who are participating in the 2022 ETS meeting.
After scrolling down, you can see Gilson, who self-describes as a “same-sex attracted disciple of Christ,” says that she “cast[s] a positive vision for why Christian marriage is male and female and not any other arrangement of gender” and that she is “concerned that the Church’s default response to same-sex marriages is mostly to look at the ways in which the Bible says “no.” It is a needed reminder that God is saying “yes” to something and not just “no” to something.”
This represents the usual attempt to downplay the sinfulness of same-sex marriage by redefining it as a Christian ordinance rather than a Creation ordinance. It suggests that God’s teachings on marriage are only applicable within the realm of Christianity. While Gilson does acknowledge that marriage is intended for a man and a woman, her viewpoint implies a similarity to Christopher Yuan’s belief that God is primarily concerned with one’s holiness rather than their sexuality, as if the two concepts are not connected. This is how Gilson describes her own motivation for conducting research on this topic when questioned:
As a same-sex-attracted disciple of Christ, the questions were first personal and then ministerial as I became a campus worker for Cru. I realized we need better — more biblical — answers not only for same-sex-attracted people who are trying to be faithful but also for straight people who need to be reminded of God’s design concerning marriage.
Unfortunately, these are the vocal voices leading the conversation on sexuality within the professing Church.
VIDEO ON LINK
She’s a heretic, no doubt about it.
Why is this denomination letting these people run the show??? Someone tell me this please!
That’s what I’d like to know.
“Why is this denomination letting these people run the show?”
Because the Leftists were VERY CLEVER. They infiltrated the SBC (which isn’t hard), and rather than outing themselves, they hire a bunch of Lesbos and give them power, calling it the “Women’s Conference”.
Just like with the GOP, the counter-revolution has to begin at the grassroots, one church at a time.
These people are incredibly evil.
Normal people are busy raising their families and working their jobs, while crazed commie leftists spend their time cooking up evil schemes and infiltrating godly organizations.
(Normal people are busy raising their families and working their jobs)
Yes. Hence, tagline and the Scripture it references.
And life seemed to continue as normal, people had no idea what was coming; ignorant of the Word of God.
Luke 17:26-32
King James Version
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A26-32&version=KJV
>> Rachel Gilson, a self-described same-sex attracted woman who spoke at the Southern Baptist Convention’s women’s conference
SBC, what the hell? (and that’s not just a figure of speech)
Oh yeah. Russell Moore’s style of triangulation. Now I understand.
Repent or be damned, SBC.
Someone - actually a lot of people - are not paying attention. This is the denomination now overwhelming removing churches who have women pastors. Seems they are enforcing some standards more vigorously while not having their eyes on things much worse creeping in.
Women’s jeans have zippers? Since when?
Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
I may be wrong but I see the acceptance of gay couples into the church as well as homosexuals, as an economic calculation. With that segment of the population entering the church congregations, it means more money in the collection plates. Since gay members of the population have more disposable income, their contribution should be larger than those with the financial responsibilities of children.
Gilson remarked during a sermon that gay married couples who come to Christ can stay together because God hates divorce.
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These deluded people are confusing same-sex couples with God’s creation of and purpose for marriage. Two of the same sex can never ever be married. Even if they call it marriage, it’s counterfeit. There’s nothing there to divorce because there was never a marriage to begin with. They’re in sin. Christ forgives believers but they must go and turn their backs on sin. Only the prideful insist on going forward in their sin.
I’m curious...can a church survive with only 3-4% of their population tithing?
Romans 1:26-28 ~ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
I met some Southern Baptists who grew up in that denomination. They eventually came to Christ by faith. They said the denomination is more of a social club, with many non-Christians attending.
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