The PCA’s Grace Prbytery Rejects the Concept of “Celibate Gay Pastor”

Contents:

• HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
• PCA AND REVOICE PASTOR SAYS GAY ‘CHRISTIAN’ COUPL ROMANTILLY LOVG AND SNUGGLG TOGETHER ISN’T SFUL
• GAY PCA YOUTH PASTOR WHO IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO FRIEND MOV WH HIM TO START A “FAY”
• THE PCA’S VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE PROGRSIVISM, THEOLOGIL LIBERALISM, & THE GAY PASTOR
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERI CHANG RULE TO DISQUALIFY GAY MEN FROM LEARSHIP IN MISTRY
• I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
• LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'

HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI

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.

”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. 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.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN

”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. While grateful for the experience of beg gay, Hartley se his gay inty as somethg that go beyond jt sex — “I never say that I’m grateful for same-sex sexual sire, ” he said — also clus athetics, culture and worldview. As Si B disurse was fdg s way to onle foms, the flagship Christian ex-gay anizatn Exod Internatnal closed s doors 2013 after s of g nversn therapy on LGBTQ dividuals.

Many LGBTQ Christians who had been harmed by the ex-gay approach — but still held to tradnal church teachgs on marriage — turned to Si B for a more acceptg muny. Bridget Eileen Rivera, a celibate gay Christian and thor of “Heavy Burns: Seven Ways LGTBQ Christians Experience Harm the Church, ” don’t e the Si B label.

On the flip si, some progrsive crics, who are fewer number, said Hill and Hartley, see Si B as another eratn of the ex-gay movement or a form of rpectabily polics where LGBTQ dividuals reprs their sexualy to w approval om the broar church. “The ia that Si B is jt the ex-gay movement wh a different veneer ignor or mimiz the fact that Si B people are fleeg ex-gay movements and ex-gay church, ” said Hartley. Th agreed and add that the motivatns behd Si B and the ex-gay movement are entirely different; one is tryg to make gay people straight, and the other is tryg to expand how the church views love and kship.

PCA AND REVOICE PASTOR SAYS GAY ‘CHRISTIAN’ COUPL ROMANTILLY LOVG AND SNUGGLG TOGETHER ISN’T SFUL

“Si B me out of dissatisfactn wh the simple and easy answers of the ex-gay movement, ” said Hartley, “and so, embracg plexy or allowg plexy is ntrast to that sistence on uniformy. (RNS) — Pastors and church lears the Prbyterian Church Ameri passed an overture at s General Assembly this week sayg those who intify as gay are not qualified for ordatn the nservative Prbyterian nomatn.

GAY PCA YOUTH PASTOR WHO IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO FRIEND MOV WH HIM TO START A “FAY”

The overture clus any inty Christians may profs “that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, ” though sgl out “gay Christian, ” “same sex attracted Christian” and “homosexual Christian” among those inti.

Those who profs an inty (such as, but not limed to, ‘gay Christian, ’ ‘same sex attracted Christian, ’ ‘homosexual Christian, ’ or like terms) that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, eher by nyg the sfulns of fallen sir (such as, but not limed to, same sex attractn), or by nyg the realy and hope of progrsive sanctifitn, or by failg to pursue Spir-empowered victory over their sful temptatns, clatns, and actns are not qualified for ordaed office. Johnson, who voted agast the overture, has prevly shared his story as a “gay atheist kid who experienced a nversn to J llege and has joyfully walked wh him celibacy ever sce.

The pastor pots a fger at the ex-gay movement and nversn therapy, which, while wily discreded the mental health field, he said ntu to shape many evangelils’ beliefs about and expectatns of LGBTQ people.

THE PCA’S VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE PROGRSIVISM, THEOLOGIL LIBERALISM, & THE GAY PASTOR

Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, 10 nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. Revoice is the “gay Christian” movement largely associated wh the historilly nservative Prbyterian Church Ameri (PCA) that advot for gay “celibacy” whout givg up your gay inty while claimg to be a Christian. The movement is largely prevalent wh homosexuals who want to jtify their homosexual behavr, live a life of homosexualy, yet stop short of actual sex, they claim.

Yet, Art Pereira, a self-scribed gay Stunt Mistry Director at Hope Prbyterian Church (PCA) and his straight-iend, Nick Gallucc, a youth pastor at Stonecrt Communy Church expla why they have moved together to start a “fay. What’s gross is that the guy on the left, the straight one, ss there and tak as this gay du on the right talks about him like he bagged himself a trophy buck.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERI CHANG RULE TO DISQUALIFY GAY MEN FROM LEARSHIP IN MISTRY

Durg the entire terview, the gay one, Art, adms that he has romantic feelgs and is physilly attracted to the straight one, Nick and he adms that he is spendg too much time around him. (41-2-8)Allegatn 4: Cannot meet the biblil “above reproach” qualifitn for the elrship sce (a) homosexual clatns are s proper and are more heo for beg “agast nature, ” and sce (b) TE Johnson intifi as a homosexually cled man. There uld hardly be a better pastor to speak for all the other homosexual pastors, elrs, ans, and members of the PCA summg up yterday’s actns at the PCA’s 2019 General Assembly than Revoice Pastor Greg Johnson who jt tweeted:For clary, “NS” stands for the tepid Nashville Statement which abandoned male headship exchange for tryg to hold the le on homosexual terurse and marriage.

I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.

To Pastor Johnson, the Nashville Statement’s victory beg mend by the assembly will be short-lived sce:All the PCA’s homosexual pastors and elrs now have a seat at the tableThose opposed to homosexualy are old and gettg olrAlready this year, forty percent of the assembly missners opposed the Nashville StatementThe study mtee jt approved will wre a report which will superce the Nashville StatementThe awkward thg is I agree wh Pastor Greg Johnson’s read of the assembly.

Sce enterg the PCA back 1991, I’ve watched the PCA follow the same of you who thk the PCA is a signifint force for Prottant and Reformed Christian wns, remember Pastor Johnson’s appeal to the youthfulns of the pro-homosexual crowd the assembly. For rourc that more directly argue favor of the proposal, please refer to the list of rourc at the end of this has been over four years sce a ngregatn of the Prbyterian Church Ameri (PCA) hosted the gural Revoice Conference which promoted “Si B Gay Christiany. Chapell explas:“Here’s where we’re stgglg, how do we al wh a mister who says ‘I believe that homosexualy is a s, I will not practice , I will rema celibate but I nfs I stggle wh this sire?

Chapell affirmed his mment to the biblil genr and sexual ethic, the sfulns of both homosexual activy and sire, and everythg he wrote the AIC Report on Human Sexualy. Involved this bate is the qutn of whether or not an officer the PCA n claim a gay inty as a tegory of Keller, another thor of the AIC Report on Human Sexualy, f Si B our nomatnal publitn byFah as follows:“People attracted to the same sex, though remag celibate obedience to the Bible, still n ll themselv ‘gay Christians’ and see their attractn as a part of their inty which should be acknowledged like one’s race or natnaly…the PCA Ad-Interim Commtee on Human Sexualy nsired this Si B view and clearly rejected . So, he unrstood that Overture 15 is targeted at anyone who scrib himself as havg homosexual sire, even a person who is mortifyg and not actg on problem wh that asssment is that Rulg Elr Matt Fenr who prented Overture 15 exprsly disunted that view his explanatn to the assembly durg mut 29:22 – 29:45.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW

”[4]In a recent article on The Aquila Report entled “The Story Behd Overture 15, ” the Overture’s thor, TE Larry Ball of Wtmster Prbytery, explas:“My origal tent what has bee Overture 15 was not to disqualify om office the PCA anyone who stggl wh s… Contrary to the PCA Stated Clerk, the mere existence of the sire of homosexualy is not the issue.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN

Gay Christian – Some have articulated that there are Pastors and Elrs the PCA who ll themselv Gay Christians, or otherwise claim a Gay inty, and teach others to do the same.

I am acquated wh que a few pastors and elrs the PCA who experience unwanted homoerotic temptatns, and yet I am aware of no pastor or elr the PCA that intifi this way. This is supported by the same pastor’s repeated clarifitn that he do not prently, and has not over the past 20+ years, ed the term Gay or Gay Christian to intify himself. [4] There are some PCA pastors and elrs who will e the term “gay” as a scriptor certa suatns, specifilly when talkg wh non-believers, but they emphatilly reject that is a re aspect of their inty.

Furthermore there is a misunrstandg among some that some PCA pastors and elrs teach that there is an aspect of beg gay that is not of s or that should be celebrated. Sanctifitn – There are also reports that there are misters the PCA who teach that there n be no growth sanctifitn for those who experience homoerotic temptatn.

LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'

When someone asserts that orientatn change is extremely rare, he is referrg to a change where someone mov om havg only attractn towards the same sex to only havg attractn to the oppose sex; other words, om beg 100% gay to beg 100% straight.

“In January 2012, Alan Chambers, the last print of Exod Internatnal, an anizatn reprentg over 270 ex-gay mistri, stated, ‘The majory of people that I have met—and I would say the majory meang 99. “The error of some Christian approach to same-sex sexual sire has been to tie fahfulns to the elimatn of homosexual temptatn (or even the velopment of heterosexual sire) as though if Christians really did enough therapy, had enough fah, or repented sufficiently, God would liver them some fal and plete way, changg their orientatn.

In the prbytery vtigatn mentned above, the pastor stated that some who experience unwanted homoerotic temptatns are, by God’s grace, able to see their sir change to the pot that they n marry a member of the oppose sex and have children.