I’m a closeted gay man. When I first typed that sentence, felt good. The more I looked at on my screen, the ls good felt. I want the urage to lete the word “closeted” and to not nfe my claratn to wrten words that will never be attributed to me by name. I’m a closeted gay man, but of a different sort. I’m attracted to other men – always have been – but
Contents:
- I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- “CAN I COME TO YOUR CHURCH? I’M GAY.”
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- “MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
- I'M GAY, MY DAD'S A PASTOR, AND ... WE'RE WORKG ON IT
- “I’M THE GAY PASTOR OF THE GAY CHURCH”
I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy. * i'm a gay pastor *
A Gay Pastor Explas What the Bible Really Says About Homosexualy. Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah.
Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
* i'm a gay pastor *
a gay pastor who spent s nng om my te affectns. But now, after years of nial and fear, I fally realize that God lovgly formed me to be who I am, my mother’s womb, and that the Lord embrac me as his loved gay child.
Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt. As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg. Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals.
REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * i'm a gay pastor *
But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy.
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
Todd Morrison shar why he wants his church to be a safe place for gay people and why 's so damagg for Christians to munite otherwise. * i'm a gay pastor *
If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate. I’m a closeted gay man. I’m a closeted gay man, but of a different sort.
Gays started g phras like “g out of the closet” the 1960’s, the same when I was figurg out that I had this huge problem that I did not want, did not unrstand, and that I had no one wh whom to talk over.
“CAN I COME TO YOUR CHURCH? I’M GAY.”
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. * i'm a gay pastor *
No one celebrated beg a queer 1967 – that’s the word they would have ed the time before the word “gay” entered my public school panns’ vobulary or my fay’s nversatns.
The other people who really know me are my therapist – an atheist who saved my life --, iends a lol artistic muny where I have found some solace wrg fictn, my doctor, and a gay man my age who got divorced om his wife of almost forty years. Thirty years ago, when pastors my nomatn first began to separate to acuntabily groups, admtg to beg gay – even if I had no sful gay act to nfs – would have end my reer and would not have remaed secret. “The gays don’t want to be held acuntable for their actns, ” I heard.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
“You don’t thk they choose to be gay?
One time, on a trip, I vised a gay bar. My quiet listeng ma pla that I wasn’t the gay guy tribe eher.
Some people nsir themselv gay bee they are attracted to members of their own genr, even if they do not act on those attractns. So may be biblilly allowable for a pastor to nsir himself gay—that is, he stggl wh homosexual attractn—if he is mted to sexual pury, never acts on those sir, and never enurag anyone else to do so (see Romans 1:32).
“MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
For the purpos of this article, we will fe gay as “practicg a homosexual liftyle. This qutn of whether the Bible warrants a gay pastor was unheard of until the last uple of s.
I'M GAY, MY DAD'S A PASTOR, AND ... WE'RE WORKG ON IT
There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church. The sfulns of homosexualy has never been up for bate until our sexually exploive culture cid should be. God’s Word is as clear on the s of homosexual behavr as has always been (Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corthians 6:9).
Homosexualy is clud often lists of wickedns and never validated any way Scripture. It is agast the Bible’s clear teachg for a pastor to be gay.
Homosexual s is no different om any other that all s keeps om God. A pastor is a fallible human beg jt like those his ngregatn; so is biblilly allowable for him to stggle wh homosexual sir, adultero sir, greedy sir, priful sir, etc.
“I’M THE GAY PASTOR OF THE GAY CHURCH”
A pastor who choos to live a homosexual liftyle is unf to gui a ngregatn and has missed the pot of what means to follow J (John 14:15, 23). Unls we are willg to forsake our s, cludg the s of homosexual behavr, we nnot be followers of J.