An x of posts relatg to the 2015 Gay Christian Network nference on Christian Femism Today. CFT will be verg the nference.
Contents:
- 2015 GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE – INTRODUCTN
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
- SURPRISE! A CONFERENCE FOR GAY CHRISTIANS HAS SPARKED CONTROVERSY
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE, 2015 | REFLECTNS & OPEN LETTER
2015 GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE – INTRODUCTN
The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church. So, didn't surprise me that the issue took center stage at last week's Q Conference Boston, which gathers 1,300 top Christian lears to discs cultural issu. * gay christian conference 2015 *
"The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church.
"Hirsch's talk was the first of three talks on Thursday that specifilly addrsed sexualy and/or homosexualy. Instead, what followed was a discsn on the "The Church's Gay Dilemma" between Matthew V and Julie Rodgers.
V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and founr of the Reformatn Project, which seeks to tra Christians to support and affirm LGTBQ people.
THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
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Rodgers is a gay, celibate Christian whose hirg to work the chapla's office at Wheaton College last year sparked ntroversy. " As rult, their seemgly wholale nmnatn of homosexualy needs to be re-terpreted as only nmng homosexual sex outsi of mted monogamo relatnships. Rodgers, though she intifi as gay, disagreed wh V and affirmed the sexual boundari exprsed Scripture as good: "I jt tst that the boundari God put around sexualy are for our flourishg.
Gays, who knew? '" eliced a big lgh om the the discsn was posive, clearly assumed that "gayns" was beyond the spe of remptn: celibacy was offered as the only reasonable optn for people wh same-sex attractn who wanted to honor a tradnal Christian sexual ethic.
SURPRISE! A CONFERENCE FOR GAY CHRISTIANS HAS SPARKED CONTROVERSY
He then referenced Alan Chambers, the former print of the now-shuttered ex-gay mistry Exod Internatnal.
THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE, 2015 | REFLECTNS & OPEN LETTER
Another 30% reported they were able to live chastely and had "disintified" themselv om homosexual orientatn.
Unfortunately, this view that homosexualy is an immutable tra was aga prented the next Q talk on sexualy – a discsn between ethicist David Ghee and Pastor Dan Kimball on whether the church's historic teachg on sexualy is reliable.