Gay-iendly church whdraws om Texas Baptist body – Baptist News Global

Contents:

• GAY-IENDLY CHURCH WHDRAWS OM TEXAS BAPTIST BODY
• TWO CHURCH FACE REMOVAL OM BGCT DUE TO GAY ISSUE
• A DALLAS CHURCH VOTED TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAG, AND ’S GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE TEXAS BAPTISTS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

GAY-IENDLY CHURCH WHDRAWS OM TEXAS BAPTIST BODY

In November 2016, a proment Dallas-area Baptist church st a 577-367 vote to extend full membership to homosexually active people, cludg learship ordatn and marriage officiatn. My first qutn was: how did a Texas Baptist church start out examg the same-sex dilemma facg the Church and then move to full affirmatn of homosexually active behavr? And y, we have had a number of gay Christians jo the church.

“The majory of people—and there’s more than 100 now who have joed sce the vote, maybe about 120 at this pot—are not gay, but they want to be a church that has no rtrictns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” said Mason. “But ’s not like Millennial gay people have joed our church drov or anythg like that.

“It seems to me [Evangelil church] don’t have a uful path for gay Christians non-affirmg church.

TWO CHURCH FACE REMOVAL OM BGCT DUE TO GAY ISSUE

I thk if you try to thk about where that leav the Church, leav the Church wh many gay Christians who do not have a way to exercise their spirual gifts on behalf of the body of Christ a healthy, wholome way. “Hontly, one of the difficulti for gay Christians is that they’ve had to choose between non-affirmg church or affirmg church that are sgle-issue church. We don’t actually thk that most gay Christians want to be sgled out some way.

Many wonred what that meant and whether extend to the full participatn of members who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT). Their greatt ncern votg NO was that they be falsely st as beg unlovg toward gay persons. I have seen over the past uple of years your outreach to God’s children, whether they be gay, grievg, displaced, sick (Ebola), etc.

”Specifilly, the Dean Nomatg Commtee has wrtled for at least five years wh the qutn of whether a gay person uld be nomated for an ordatn. ” And the majory of the room quickly agreed they had heard much more passg mentary about the biblil vers on homosexualy than actual study of the biblil texts and backgrounds. Actually the nventn warned uld no longer accept ntributns om the church if some of their money me om gay people who were members.

A DALLAS CHURCH VOTED TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAG, AND ’S GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE TEXAS BAPTISTS

The words LGBT or gay were never ed, although LGBT members had bee part of the church learship. The Baptist General Conventn of Texas is aligned wh the Southern Baptist Conventn, which stat, "homosexual behavr is a s. I have seen over the past uple of years your outreach to God's children, whether they be gay, grievg, displaced, sick (Ebola), etc.

"Breakg NewsGet the latt breakg news om North Texas and nventn said s posn is one that is "welg, but not affirmg, " and at issue is not whether a church wel a gay Baptists is one of two groups Texas aligned wh the Southern Baptist Conventn. One of s re beliefs is that "homosexual behavr is a s. A rolutn at the 1982 BGCT annual meetg stated, “The homosexual liftyle is not normal or acceptable God’s sight and is ed lled s.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

In 1996, the BGCT Executive Board approved a report om s Msenger Seatg Study Commtee that said: “The Bible teach that the ial for sexual behavr is the maral unn between hband and wife and that all other sexual relatns—whether premaral, extramaral or homosexual—are ntrary to God’s purpos and th sful.

Homosexual practice is therefore nflict wh the Bible.

In 1998, the nventn’s Admistrative Commtee and Executive Board voted to cle any fancial ntributns om Universy Baptist Church At after the ngregatn ordated a gay man as a an. The BGCT Executive Board 2010 took siar actn toward Royal Lane Baptist Church Dallas, sayg the ngregatn’s cisn to orda gay ans placed outsi the BGCT unrstandg of biblil sexual ethics.