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Contents:
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- HOLY HISTORY: GAY PASTORS NFIRMED TO SENR POSNS THEY WERE ONCE NIED
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- 3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
- PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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. * pastors gay *
Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St.
When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy. “I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St.
”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn.
HOLY HISTORY: GAY PASTORS NFIRMED TO SENR POSNS THEY WERE ONCE NIED
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“I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said.
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * pastors gay *
Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement. ”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson.
”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr. “My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson?
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. * pastors gay *
”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them. “If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said.
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "l * pastors gay *
Kipp Nelson and a group of 14 others, which clud straight people, were nied the new rol bee he and two other people are gay. A church divid went agast the l and nfirmed three gay pastors to senr posns — posns they were once nied jt a year ago bee of their sexualy.
A South Florida pastor is hurt and dismayed after he was nied a senr posns his church bee he is openly gay.
Nelson and his group, which clud straight people, were nied the new rol bee he and two other people are gay. Uned Methodist tradnalists strictly uphold the current l which state “the church has mataed the posn that the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg, " and that “…pastors may not be “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
The pastor of an Atlanta megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay. * pastors gay *
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).
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.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
Two openly gay pastors om the Wtern Jurisdictn and a third om the North Central Jurisdictn have been nomated for electn as Uned Methodist bishops. * pastors gay *
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.
3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
In his Sunday sermon, Pastor Dillon Aw of the Stedfast Baptist Church said that all gay people Ameri should be "led up" and executed. * pastors gay *
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.
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.
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.
PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
(RNS) — Stt Barber, chair of the Overtur Commtee, told the elrs votg on the overture that s tent is not to exclu Christians who are gay but rema celibate. Still, that’s not the way many opponents of the overture received s approval. * pastors gay *
Jt as we nnot clare that is allowable for a pastor to actively pursue other ss, we nnot clare that is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay. 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 pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here.
Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
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.
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. A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head.
At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil.
PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said. Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty.
The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial. The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy.