6 Thgs Pastors Should Preach about Gay Marriage by Chad Napier. Free pastors and Christian learship rourc for your church mistry and ngregatn at
Contents:
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- 6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY PASTOR GETS TRIGGERED AND WALKS OFF INTERVIEW ?
- ANTI-GAY PASTOR JSE LEE PETERSON CGHT UP SAME SEX SNDAL
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GAY PASTOR WHO CAME OUT ON NATNAL TELEVISN
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- PASTORS DEBATE: IS GOD OK WH GAY MARRIAGE?
- WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
- THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY PASTOR LIVG WH HIV OH SHAR HIS JOURNEY: WHEN THE MAP DON'T MATCH THE TERRA, TST THE TERRA. STONEWALL OUTLOUD
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay. * gay pastor interview *
Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St.
When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy.
“I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St. ”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn. “I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said.
6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
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Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement. ”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson. ”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr.
“My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson? ”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them.
“If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said. Unrstandably, pastors and other spirual lears often have difficulty addrsg the subject of gay marriage. If the sermon is too soft on gay marriage or fails to take a stance, you n be nsired ambivalent or agreeable.
GAY PASTOR GETS TRIGGERED AND WALKS OFF INTERVIEW ?
Jse Lee Peterson is a Los Angel-based anti-gay pastor who is one of the loust voic the “manosphere". * gay pastor interview *
The odds are great someone wh the ngregatn has a gay iend or fay member who they love arly and will ntue to do so after the sermon is over. There may be greater odds that the ngregatn ntas an unmarried heterosexual uple livg together than a homosexual ntemplatg gay marriage. When the legaly of “gay marriage” was beg phed through the legislatur and urtrooms, church all across the natns changed their bylaws and nstutns to addrs their stance and prohibn.
ANTI-GAY PASTOR JSE LEE PETERSON CGHT UP SAME SEX SNDAL
“I stand here, I am Reverend—ordaed, y Lord—Reverend Derek Anthony Terry, and I am a black gay man who misters,” is how Rev. Derek Terry me out to many of his relativ, iends, and members of his ngregatn earlier this year. It’s also how he told the world when his g-out sermon aired last weekend on OWN’s self-help seri Iyanla Fix My Life, as the climax of Rev. Terry’s three-episo arc. * gay pastor interview *
This practice was likely done out of fear that the gay muny would be shg to the lol Baptist church mandg to be married by s pastor. Here are 6 thgs preachers should bear md when preachg about gay marriage:. The believer should have an urge to love the adulterer, be led to love the dnkard, and is directed to love the homosexual.
Our muny church should be welg to the adulterer, the dg aber, the fornitor, as well as the homosexual. Social media and Inter msage boards are often full of hate, cludg towards the gay muny. A pastor full of hate will not have the chance to reach the homosexual or the dg aber.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GAY PASTOR WHO CAME OUT ON NATNAL TELEVISN
The bate ntu wh evangelil circl regardg acceptance of gay marriage. One pastor sayg that embracg is listeng to the Holy Spir while another matas God's standards have never changed and the Bible forbids . * gay pastor interview *
Gay Pastor Walks Out Interview W/ Jse Lee PetersonGET DEVOTIONAL HERE: Lee Peterson wh The Fallen State Tv Interviewed a gay pastor and then he walked out after beg offend by “disrpect”. This vio is siar to tl like:Jse TRIGGERS Gay Pastor by Askg ONE Qutn"Are You REALLY Runng? Pieters spoke an emotnal Kisby for The New York TimPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 21, 2023In 1985, when fear and homophobia were still drivg much of the nversatn surroundg AIDS, the Rev.
Stephen Pieters, a gay pastor who had the disease, was a cidly different May, at the St. Pieters spoke forthrightly about beg gay and about his illns, and Ms.
”In the years sce, that terview has been creded wh helpg to change at least some viewers’ perceptns of gay people, AIDS and fah. Some televangelists had been implyg or statg outright that AIDS was dive retributn for homosexualy. He was spokman, Harlan Boll, said the e was a sepsis Pieters, who had ntued his mistry and sce 1994 had performed wh the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, was lookg forward to the publitn next year of his book, “Love Is Greater Than AIDS: A Memoir of Survival, Healg, and Hope.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
Allan Edwards is attracted to men, but his fah nflicts wh homosexualy, so he don't act on or intify as gay. Instead, he's married, startg a fay and stayg te to his beliefs. * gay pastor interview *
”When he was a teenager, he said, he regnized that he was gay and talked to his pastor at a Congregatnal church about .
PASTORS DEBATE: IS GOD OK WH GAY MARRIAGE?
Danny Cortez, once a Southern Baptist mister, did do more than accept his gay son: He cid to talk to his ngregatn about homosexualy, even though ultimately meant his leavg the church. * gay pastor interview *
’”He said that after graduatg om Northwtern Universy 1974 wh a bachelor’s gree speech, he joed the Metropolan Communy Church Chigo and felt lled to a mistry foced on gay people, that church’s ma dience. “I’ve had so many people over the years e up to me and say, ‘I saw your terview live, bee my mother always had PTL on, and changed my life bee I realized I uld be gay and Christian at the same time, ’” he said.
WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 24 of the New York edn wh the headle: Steve Pieters, 70, Gay Pastor Whose Words Changed Hearts, Di. *Jse Lee Peterson is a Los Angel-based anti-gay pastor who is one of the loust voic the “manosphere, ” which is a “hyper-mascule right-wg ter muny, ” the Daily Beast explas. So has e as a shock to many Peterson loyalists that several gay men have e forward to acce him of hypocrisy over his anti-LGBTQ+ views.
Conservative pund Jse Lee Peterson is one of the right’s most proment anti-gay voic, risg to the top of the macho “Manosphere.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
On LGBTQ+ issu, he has said that those who participate Pri paras are “children of Satan” and that “radil homosexuals are evil, ” the Beast not. Some of his other anti-LGBTQ+ statements, as piled by GLAAD: sayg that Pete Buttigieg, now secretary of Transportatn, “flnts his so-lled hband wh no shame, kissg him public, and people appld like [their marriage is] real”; that Rosie O’Donnell gets “mon stctns” om hell; that “lbians are really vlent their relatnships”; and that “radil homosexuals” have stroyed Black fai.
@beachmcl @JLPtalk I asked him outright, are you a homosexual predator. [There was a vio here]“I stand here, I am Reverend—ordaed, y Lord—Reverend Derek Anthony Terry, and I am a black gay man who misters, ” is how Rev.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Gay-iendly), was of particular tert to me, as were issu of tersectnaly, the supposed ntradictn of beg a gay practicg Christian, and the oft-repeated belief that black people are more homophobic than wh (“Black culture is so homophobic, ” said Kanye Wt, for example, an terview that was released this week). Some people I never thought were gay me out wh their stori, some people were sexually asslted.
Derek is—he’s gay, he’s gog to be on the show, he’s gog to be talkg about this... They hontly believe, “If you’re gog to be gay, jt be gay, you don’t need to talk about . It’s been posive but ’s been ’s the gay experience a nutshell: You jt have so much more to nsir than straight people.
GAY PASTOR LIVG WH HIV OH SHAR HIS JOURNEY: WHEN THE MAP DON'T MATCH THE TERRA, TST THE TERRA. STONEWALL OUTLOUD
” I have iends that are pastors who are gay and they wa till they go out of town, they fd any reason to go out of town, or any reason to do anythg, jt so they n go and be gay and then e back and be miserable aga. There’s a stereotype that black people are more homophobic than whe people.