Contents:
- THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
- WE GUI YOUR CHURCH TO BEE A PLACE WHERE GAY CHRISTIANS THRIVE ACRDG TO GOD’S WISDOM.
- GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
Pl even scrib reemed people, who were once idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, and so forth, as spirually “chaste virgs” through the cleansg blood of Christ (2 Corthians 11:1-2). He wr, “…homosexualy has bee an inty, not jt a s… We, as the church, mt strive to treat those who stggle wh this s wh more re, and those the LGBT muny wh more Christlike love. Some argue for the term of “gay Christian.
WE GUI YOUR CHURCH TO BEE A PLACE WHERE GAY CHRISTIANS THRIVE ACRDG TO GOD’S WISDOM.
Among those who advote for the term gay Christian ( should be noted that there is diversy of theologil opn here), some argue that the word “gay” is a more ntemporary synonym for same-sex attracted.
Others pos that “gay” is ed as a scriptor rather than a fer. Gog eper, some employ a very nuanced argument that while gay lt is sful, gay attractn self need not be ltful but n reprent an athetic appreciatn of bety and a sire for chaste iendship.
Many wh this muny g the term gay Christian argue that the phrase “same-sex attractn” is unknown among the larger LGBT muny and, therefore, lacks need missn engagement.
GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
Conversely, those who employ the language of same-sex attractn are ncerned that g the adjective “gay” to modify the noun “Christian, ” “obscur the disorred nature of same-sex sire. They also argue that when someone the general culture intifi themselv as gay, there is an implic acceptance of same-sex behavr. They would suggt that most non-Christians would therefore assume that people who label themselv as gay Christians would rrpondgly accept same-sex sexual exprsn, cludg same-sex marriage.
We pot out three problems we see biblilly and historilly wh g such signatns as “gay Christian, ” and, for that matter, “same-sex attracted believer. One, there is the nfn ed by lack of fn and mon unrstandg of signatns such as “gay Christian, ” and “same-sex attracted believer.