Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA | STLPR

Contents:

• HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
• IYANLA: FIX MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY PASTOR, PART 1
• 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
• A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
• NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
• I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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

And the drivg force behd Atonement beg "the quirkit church FIshtown" is Pastor Noah Hepler, a man who has stggled wh his own inty as a gay man while tryg to navigate his way through a belief system and muny that wasn't aaid to tell him very pla terms that people who acted on those feelgs would be sent to hell whout a send chance.

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"***For Hepler, his issu stemmed om the fact that he grew up as a closeted gay man a very relig hoehold, one that tght him that all gay people are sted for hell and worse. In nial of his sexual orientatn, Hepler married and beme a pastor of the Lutheran fah, spe the fact that at the time the church had still not changed s views on homosexual clergy (although that has sce changed), and lived what he lled "a lie that I had been told that I had begun to believe.

GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

Wh Antoni, Hepler got out of his fort zone as he was surround by "a gaggle of gays" the kchen. Wh Karamo, was a meetg he facilated wh two other LGBTQ figur the Lutheran fah, Bishop Guy Erw, the first openly gay bishop the church, and Pastor Megan Rohrer, the church's first trans pastor, that opened Hepler's ey to the fact that he was not to blame for his negative experience wh the church and the way s affected his life. Like Hepler, he was raised a strict Christian hoehold and a church that vilified homosexualy.

And for someone who knew at very young age that he was gay — and prayed that God would make him straight — that was a life-alterg experience that he still stggl wh to this day. In a prev season, Bobby had already reckoned wh his issu wh the church — although he still refed to enter the church self — and went to greater tail about how those stggl shaped his life, somethg he was unwillg to do origally, but was forced to when a last mute schle changed land the The Fab Five at Mama Tammye's church Gay, Geia. And so I fely felt more fortable walkg to that church knowg that was a church that accepts the LGBTQIA+ muny and that the pastor was gay.

Followg a nversatn the r which he explas to Bobby one example of how posive views of homosexualy have been more or ls wrten out of the scripture — not to mentn his own revelatn durg his time wh Karamo — Hepler do somethg unexpected. "I jt felt like anybody who's experienced what I have needs to hear an apology, even if 's om somebody who jt reprents the stutn but hasn't actively participated, bee, fact, I heard the same thg om Bishop Guy, who is an openly gay bishop, the day before, " Hepler said of his cisn to speak on his church's behalf.

IYANLA: FIX MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY PASTOR, PART 1

"What viewers didn't see was the full nversatn, which clud Bobby sharg some words of enuragement for the pastor as well as some of the msag he received after the Mama Tammye episo, not jt om others the gay muny who had been harmed by relign, but also om pastors and misters sayg his story helped change their views on homosexualy the church. "I jt shared wh him a lot of the emails and DMs I've gotten — and I mean, I've sce gotten hundreds and hundreds of them about his episo — om people who have grown up the church that are gay who felt abandoned and hated and not loved and through watchg this episo have been able to have some healg, " Berk said.

"You know, I shared some stori wh him about pastors and misters who have msaged me sayg that I've always thought that beg gay was a choice and that gays were an abomatn and evil. And I've learned that growg up and I tght that my church, but after hearg your story and knowg that you begged God your whole life not to make you gay, yet here you are, I've realized that beg gay is not a choice and I'll never preach that hate aga.

There's been people who have intified as gay specifilly, but jt people of all typ of inti who are sayg this feels like a place where I uld have fah aga.

'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF

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The tradnalists signed a letter clarg that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. ” But the bate on the proposal has been layed for nearly two years bee of the ronavis proposal, which would create a nomatn that ntu to ban same-sex marriage and the ordatn of gay and lbian clergy, is schled to be bated at the church’s general nference Augt terim pastor at Newburgh Uned Methodist Church, the Rev. 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.

A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time. 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.

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA.

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.

NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR

Vios: The Gay Pastor Wele YouTube channel offers 150+ vio clips of 12 gay pastors answerg up to 20 qutns about their experience arrivg on scene after beg hired by a church that never had an out gay pastor before. Openg Doors to Unrstandg and Acceptance: A Facilator’s Gui to Prentg Workshops on Lbian and Gay Issu. Sexually Stigmatized Communi: Rcg Heterosexism and Homophobia: An Awarens Trag Manual.

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

Almost all are the first out gay pastors hired by church not mographilly LGBT-pennt.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

The one exceptn is the first out gay man ordaed to mistry the Christian church. A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. " Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil.

""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said. Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty. Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime.