Posted on 10/23/2024 1:31:03 PM PDT by Morgana
For years, North Point Community Church, led by Andy Stanley, has been partnering with and promoting affirming LGBTQ+ organizations when desperate parents come to see them for help with their struggling gay children, all done through their Parent Connect Ministry.
Parent Connect is (was formerly?) led by Amy Blakeslee, an openly affirming queer woman, and is overseen by Debbie Causey, a gay-affirming, long-tenured pastor at North Point Community Church and the director of their Care network of ministries. Causey is also a board member at Renovus, a pro-LGBTQ+ activist and advocacy group led by many leaders within North Point church (and who recently sponsored a gay pride parade.)
During a conversation about her book by gay-affirming North Point leaders Greg and Lynn MacDonald, Causey gets asked about recommendations for “safe” counselors, which is a coded word they use to describe affirming counselors. She recommends an organization called ‘The Christian Closet,’ which she represents as a “great group” that serves children and youth struggling with their identity, and McDonald agrees. (She also recommended struggling parents attend a Queer Parent Summit)
The Christian Closet is a collective of all-LGBTQ+ ‘Christian’ counselors that offer virtual mental help on topics like depression, coming out, transitioning, starting your first queer relationship, deconstructing, dealing with trauma, and everything in between. It’s an “online therapeutic resource for people who are trying to work out what it means to have an LGBTQI sexual identity, or gender identity within a Christian context.”
This is not to say that some counselors are gay or that a majority are gay, but rather that all of them are gay, with their website reading “all of our clinicians identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum and have done the work of reconciling their faith with that.”
One of these counselors is Britt Kusserow.
According to her profile, she is a “she/they” who identifies as “queer, lesbian, and gender fluid” and charges a mere $160/hour.
She’s a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a “specialization in LGBTQ+ Affirmative therapy” and is “passionate about “work with LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly those of you whose multifaceted identities include an important, central faith practice, and/or relationship with divinity.” She explains her therapeutic approach:
“My work is relational and client-centered, guided by anti-racist principles, and the belief that we can deconstruct harmful stories and co-author new ones for the betterment of ourselves and our communities.”
Imagine being a desperate parent from North Point Community Church with a struggling gay teen or even an older child who is confused about their attractions. You build up the courage to talk to a Care ministry worker and get recommended by trusted church pastors to get counseling at a ‘Christian’ group, only to have your loved one end up in Britt Kusserow’s hands?
Andy Stanley’s church, when faced with a family who is in crisis because they think their child might be gay or non-binary, and is looking for some sound, biblical counseling and resources, directs the parents to pro-LBGTQ+ organization Embracing the Journey, and the kids to pagan pro-LBGTQ+ counselors at The Christian Closet.
There is no hope for children struggling with their sexuality if they’re going to these places to get this sort of help. The adults have stacked the deck against them. All the paths to freedom and deliverance have been taken away.
Lord, have mercy.
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Charles Stanley should have never let Andy Stanley into the pulpit.
I had somebody once tell me that Andy Stanley could be even greater than Charles Stanley. /huge eye roll
Not even close by a 100,000 miles.
SF tell me something? Did Charles ever take Andy to church with him? No really did he? The kid acts like he does not know the Bible and has never been to a church while growing up a day in his life.
I assume he did
I saw them on the stage together (on TV) a few times
I heard maybe one sermon by Andy Stanley way back in the 1990s.
Andy Stanley is NO Charles Stanley at all (obviously).
This is what happens when one tries to appease the Woke culture.
Yep, he’s a heretic. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the payroll of the world enslavement forum.
READ the BIBLE. AND flee this congregation!
LEX
We’ll I guess they’ve given up on concealment and decided to come out of the closet to join in the madness.
Been off the rails for sometime
Beware when your church adopts the “Safe Place” program. It is a covert queer affirmation scheme. My old Southern Baptist church did and I won’t have any more to do with them.
Every attendee is complicit.
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