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- A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
- THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
That is our goal at FBC Gay Geia. He didn’t mentn that Brockton Bat and his partner, Skyler, were gay nor that another new member was transgenr. His church knew who they were and had spent the past two years g to terms wh the fact that cln for Towne View had to look different om what was required to rema the SBC, whose bylaws say, “Church which act to affirm, approve, or endorse homosexual behavr would be emed not to be operatn wh the Conventn.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
For Bat, a lifelong Baptist who as a child was phed toward fah-based nversn therapy to “lerally try to pray the gay away, ” Towne View took a meangful stand. As a teenager, he had fed his fah a nservative Baptist church Stuart, Florida, when the state Legislature was workg to prohib adoptns for gay parents. He began to reexame the church's teachgs after the shootg 2016 that killed 45 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, but he adms he “wrtled wh how someone uld be gay and a believer.
”“Growg up a nservative Baptist church, the msage of homosexualy was that was sful. ”The fay began attendg, and the fall of 2019, Reynolds and McClanahan beme the first gay members approved by the church body. “When one of our church choos to affirm or endorse homosexual behavr through their fn of regenerate church membership, we have clearly e to a different unrstandg on what we believe is an sential doctre, ” Greear cisn to ot Towne View will not create a stampe of church fleeg the SBC to promote more liberal ials, Freeman said.