Posted on 06/22/2024 1:57:30 PM PDT by Morgana
Christianity Today has been theologically liberals for a long time. One of the inspirations for Evangelical Dark Web was their treatment of Pete Buttigieg as a Christian, despite being a homosexual. So the fact that this outlet hired Russell Moore out of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission who once wrote that Jesus has AIDS should come as no surprise.
Last week they published a gay affirming article I’m an Evangelical Parent of Adult LGBTQ Children. Now What? The author, Victor Clemente states, “My theology is squarely orthodox. Now I need fellow Christians to help me work out a sustainable vision of day-to-day life with my children.” Yet he would go on to endorse many heretics. The first is Andy Stanley.
This is the context that produces high turnout for events that try to help Christian parents find responses, beyond fight or flight, to their LGBTQ children—events like last year’s Unconditional Conference hosted by the church of influential pastor Andy Stanley.
Though criticism of the Unconditional Conference is mentioned, Clemente never definitively denounces the conference. Rather he contrasts the controversy with this and Alistair Begg.
As an evangelical parent of adult LGBTQ children myself, I followed both controversies with interest. I share some of the detractors’ concerns, but I also believe that we American evangelicals who hold fast to Christianity’s historical doctrines on sex and gender—the traditional or “non-affirming” position, per current lexical shorthand—need more, not less, conversation about the intensely practical questions of how to be good neighbors to the LGBTQ people in our lives, be they in our homes, workplaces, or congregations.
This is a tepid allowance for Andy Stanley’s gay affirming ministry. However, it’s a prelude to endorsing a threat far more dangerous.
There are some resources available for Christians in my circumstance, like Allberry’s Is God Anti-Gay? and the course for parents from The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. But beyond books or online courses, we need real-life conversations about specific circumstances. Christian parents of LGBTQ kids, like me, thirst for a sustainable vision of day-to-day life with our children. There’s certainly grounds to criticize the vision offered by Stanley and Begg, but simply restating right doctrine, while necessary, isn’t alone enough to answer those questions of practice, of how to live with our children.
Sam Allberry is the founder of Living Out, a British gay affirming ministry. Preston Sprinkle is the founder of the Center For Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, a ministry that affirms homosexual desire and identity as not sinful. This ministry was prominently featured in Cru’s gay affirming curriculum.
But ignoring the reality that discernment is necessary is not an option. The presence of risk does not exempt us from doing the work of loving our neighbors. People need help, and decisions need to be made: Should Christians use preferred pronouns? Should we attend the same-sex weddings of our children or coworkers? Should we allow our adult children in same-sex marriages to sleep in the same bed when they come to visit?
For many of us, these are not mere academic exercises but real situations with real people demanding answers, often without much lead time. These are the circumstances in which we must practice discernment, applying what we know from God’s Word to the best of our ability, with great care and humility. These are the kinds of questions Christian parents like me (and grandparents, as in the case Begg addressed) long to have in-person help answering in conversations with our pastors and friends at church.
The article ends with an ironic call to discernment after treating slam dunk issues like they are esoteric theories. The fact that Christianity Today is promoting Preston Sprinkle should be a wake-up call to his effectiveness in subverting clear doctrine in making the church gay.
If I was doing something that the Bible called a sin and an abomination, I would try to stop doing that. And I would certainly would not encourage others to do it. Yet some think they can reinvent God and change his mind, and turn sin into virtue. God does not change.
Amen 🙏🏻!!!
Christianity Today was hijacked and corrupted years ago. They were targeted and like so many others and poisoned.
If Billy Graham were around to see what the magazine he founded has turned into, I’ll bet he’d be heartbroken and disgusted.
Liberal religion, also known as pro abortion, pedophiles, drag queens, transgenders and all the the rest of the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ freak show, have nothing to do Christianity.
They’re scum, some where below snail shxt.
Leftism is from hell itself and needs to be sent back there where it belongs.
Too few have investigated why the LGBTQ contagion is spreading in devout Christian families. I wish Christian publications would regularly address that phenomenon to keep parents from getting unhinged from the Faith. Remember: Corinthians converted to Christ through Saint Paul, who demonstrated how human desires can be properly directed to true Goods through God’s Grace.
When the desirability, even the possibility, of finding a lifelong mate and raising a family appear too difficult to attain (and they will appear so without the grace and power of God), easier options become very attractive.
We as Christians are called to love LGTB.... (whatever), but that does NOT require us to affirm their lifestyle. The problem is that they derive their identity from their lifestyle and reject efforts to separate those. In the case of queer children of Christian parents we are to call out their sin and pray for them, this is an act of love, wanting them to experience Christ as we do. But we are not responsible for the final outcome. If God chooses to redeem them He will, if not that is His decision. We need to resign ourselves to the fact that even some of our children may end up in Hell.
Yep. Has been for a long time.
By calling oneself a Christian does not make it so. Quite the contrary, especially when one does not live by and to daily keep God’s Commandments. One who lives their life in sin and proclaims to be Christian is a blasphemer and a liar and will be rejected by God. But as long as one is alive it is never too late to change. God’s desire is for each of us to be a reflection of His own perfection.
God made a promise not to destroy the world again. That’s why he created Islam.... To clean up the filth that Westerners created when they abandoned God in favor of the worship of secularism.
It may not be pretty, but it’ll be an improvement. I’m even starting till admire their dislike for dogs, considering how all these tatted up childless Western sluts treat their pets like children.
“Sprinkle on Homosexuality” coming to stores near you?
The left picks their targets for maximum damage to traditional institutions.
Anyone who hates dogs is immoral and untrustworthy.
I’m beginning to dislike Christianity…
God didn’t createIslam? , satan did.
So, you admire their hatred of dogs.
Anything else you admire about islam?
Which, by extension, means that no desire to act contrary to the word of God is sinful, but it is since the nature itself that it flow from is sinful, although one is not culpable, guilty of sin due to having a sinful nature.
However, the prohomosexual movement justifies acting out sinful desires under the premise that they were "born that way,' while condemning evangelical Christians who oppose them, which is due to being spiritually born that way, with a nature (if competing) that is oriented to obey the word of God, the Bible.
Alert ping.
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So you blame God for islam and are supporting a murderous, death , torture, and rape cult calling itself a religion?
I guess you’re fine then with 9/11 and Oct 7.
And that’s an *improvement* in your book?
You’re evil.
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