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.
Contents:
- METHODIST MISTER OUT AS GAY DURG SERMON. HERE'S WHY SHE'S CHALLENGG THE CHURCH
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- JIM SWILLEY, GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR, COM OUT TO CONGREGATN AFTER GAY TEEN SUICIS
- JIM SWILLEY, GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR, COM OUT TO CONGREGATN AFTER GAY TEEN SUICIS
- 500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT
- CHRISTIAN SGER RAY BOLTZ COM OUT, LIV A NORMAL GAY LIFE
- ‘BAPTIST’ ‘PASTOR’ COM OUT AS ‘GAY’ ‘WOMAN’ DURG SUNDAY’S ‘SERMON’
- ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
METHODIST MISTER OUT AS GAY DURG SERMON. HERE'S WHY SHE'S CHALLENGG THE CHURCH
Rev Cynthia Meyer announced to her ngregatn last Sunday that she is gay. Meet the woman who's challengg the Uned Methodist Church. * gay pastor comes out *
"Alicia Johnston, who pastored the Foothills Communy Church Chandler, Arizona, affiliated wh the the Arizona Conference Corporatn of Seventh-day Adventists, posted a "g out" vio on Facebook late April explag that she sent a letter to both her church and the nference announcg that she was steppg down om her posn bee of her ntentn wh the Church's biblil posn on homosexualy. Durg a sermon at her church Edgerton, Kansas, she me out as gay. The UMC currently do not allow "self-avowed practicg" gay people to be ordaed, or same-sex marriag, and Meyer said her relatnship "will seem to some to challenge church policy".
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
* gay pastor comes out *
A statement sent to Christian Today on January 8 om Bishop Stt Jon, who overse Meyer, said that her g out as "a self-avowed, practicg homosexual" is a chargeable offence for clergy the UMC, and that a "supervisory rponse procs" began on January 7. "While many persons wh The Uned Methodist Church disagree wh the le that says persons who are self-avowed, practicg homosexuals may not be ordaed and may not be appoted as pastors, the le is currently effect, " the statement add. Activists want what they nsir "discrimatory language" the Book of Disciple – the law and doctre of the UMC updated every four years – to be removed, for gay and lbian misters to be ordaed, and for same-sex weddgs to be performed UMC church.
RelatedMeet Allyson Robson, the first openly transgenr Baptist misterExplaer: How the Bible spls Christians on homosexualyFive bad reasons to oppose same-sex marriage... And some approach that might make more senseHow evangelils are rpondg to creased acceptance of homosexualyGay marriage is legal the US. Through what he scrib as "anti-gay polici", Berryman said the UMC is "seen to be ntributg to the harm mted agast margalized persons society – the very folks Christ lled the church to be mistry wh.
Todd Seifert, munitns director for the Great Plas Conference of The Uned Methodist Church – which has thory over clergy Meyer's area – told Christian Today that "there is no way to know how the General Conference will vote" May, but that is the only body that n change the worldwi Church's stance on whether openly gay people n serve as ordaed clergy. The Adventist Church’s official statement on Homosexualy, adopted 1999 and revised 2012, says that the church is “opposed to homosexual practic and relatnships. ” The Church Manual also nmns “homosexual and lbian practic, ” though the statements—and the church’s Workg Policy—do not explicly addrs bisexualy or prohib intifyg as non-heterosexual.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
Jim Swilley, Geia Megachurch Pastor, Com Out To Congregatn After Gay Teen Suicis * gay pastor comes out *
In s Media Reference Gui, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), a US-based non-ernmental anizatn, intifi “liftyle” as a term to avoid when discsg LGBTQ issu.
“We ll on lol Adventist ngregatns to provi sanctuary and wele to gay, lbian, and transgenred people, their iends and fai, ” SDA Kship said a statement. ” On his 39th birthday Jonathan Merrt jumped out of the closet wh both feet after years of repeated nials that he is a homosexual. In 2012 Azariah Southworth, a “gay evangelil, ” claimed he had a sexual enunter wh Jonathan and chid him publicly for not admtg to beg gay.
JIM SWILLEY, GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR, COM OUT TO CONGREGATN AFTER GAY TEEN SUICIS
Jim Swilley, Geia Megachurch Pastor, Com Out To Congregatn After Gay Teen Suicis * gay pastor comes out *
ris the fence bee of the strong anti-gay stance his relig muny ntu to take. Followg the news of Merrt’s homosexual adventure wh Southworth, Ken Silva of Apprisg Mistri penned a piece entled “Homosexualy and Jonathan Merrt” where he wrote:. Here at Apprisg Mistri I’ve told you that I believe a major evangelil figure will e out as homosexual “soon” servg to fully tonate this whole gay bate—currently rippg apart and dividg male nomatns—right wh the mastream of evangelilism self.
So today, I’m raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man, beloved by God, who has endured the worst the world uld throw at him and fought his way to health and wholens. It is troublg to hear Jonathan Merrt jtify his cisn to live as a gay man (a chosen inty and activy) ma out of whole cloth that has nothg to do wh the Lord J’s view of homosexualy that is the Bible. The pastor’s son sned agast a holy God when he enticed another man to m a homosexual act wh him.
JIM SWILLEY, GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR, COM OUT TO CONGREGATN AFTER GAY TEEN SUICIS
Christian sger and songwrer Ray Boltz me out as gay, shockg his fans. He says God ma him this way." emprop="scriptn * gay pastor comes out *
He knows that the Bible teach that homosexualy–and sexual relatns outsi of marriage–is sful. He knows this but perhaps, like so many other lud homosexuals and heterosexuals who dulge sexual activy out of marriage, he has chosen to put the tth asi and embrace a liftyle of his own choosg.
Merrt now wants to believe that he is a gay man “beloved by God” who has learned to live thentilly his personal life.
500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT
"I tsted my hband," Lydia Meredh reveals durg an terview wh rollg out. She recently penned a eply personal memoir, The Gay Preacher's * gay pastor comes out *
He n believe what he wants to, but what this tells me is that this profsg follower of J Christ, who brags that he’s “raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man” is actually thumbg his nose at his Creator. As I stated above, J, who is the Son of God and the Send Person of the Try, nmned homosexualy and sexual relatns outsi of marriage. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.
Like or not, God has not changed His md when to the matter of homosexual activy beg an abomatn. To the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who practice homosexualy, thiev, the greedy, dnkards, revilers and swdlers.
CHRISTIAN SGER RAY BOLTZ COM OUT, LIV A NORMAL GAY LIFE
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay pastor comes out *
I’ll end wh a quote by Calv Goligher om a piece I highly remend Gay and the Gay Christian:. There is no herent way to be the inti “gay” and “Christian.
” Homosexual practic are ss, and those who refe to repent of the ss nnot be Christ’s discipl.
‘BAPTIST’ ‘PASTOR’ COM OUT AS ‘GAY’ ‘WOMAN’ DURG SUNDAY’S ‘SERMON’
The Uned Methodist Church recently strengthened s ban on openly gay clergy and same-sex marriag. * gay pastor comes out *
From the two pots, follows that adoptg a homosexual inty is also a s, sce such an inty entails at least a tac approval of homosexual sir (Si B), if not also of homosexual practic (Si A). For a person to scribe himself as “gay, ” he mt believe that homosexual sir or practic are somehow natural for him.
Is there a homosexual agenda? 2, 2010— -- The pastor of a Geia 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.
ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
I want to tell you that is not, " Jim Swilley said a vio shot the nonnomatnal megachuch Swilley found 25 years Swilley said g out was a cisn he's stggled wh sce childhood, he ma the announcement last month not for personal reasons -- he said he hop to save 52-year-old founr of Church the Now Conyers, Ga., said he's g out to help stem the recent ti of gay suicis Ameri and won't be swayed by some hateful msag that have been wrten about him onle.
""Hearg about the kids who are mtg suici, the reactn as a gay adult is, 'I wish I uld have jt talked to them for 15 mut or five mut and told them gets better, '" Savage said. "Officials, Celebri Jo 'It Gets Better'Three weeks later, a cy uncil meetg Fort Worth, Texas, gay cy uncilman Joel Burns was moved to share his own emotnal story about how close he me to killg himself at age 13.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Jim Swilley, the pastor of a Geia megachurch, recently revealed to his ngregatn that he is gay. '" WATCH:Relatedgay teen suiciTyler ClementiViorelignGay RightsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. A letter om 500 openly LGBTQ clergy, future pastors and fah lear a number of different nomatns offered “much love and light” to the 111 Uned Methodist clergy and ndidat who me out as gay on May 9.
“Though we e om different tradns, you are our fay Christ and our siblgs the mon stggle to live fully and thentilly to our God-given inti and llgs, ” stat the letter posted on the webse Believe Out Loud, an onle muny that empowers Christians to work for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) equaly. They intify themselv as “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Qutng, and Intersex” the letter.
The majory of legat at the 2012 General Conference voted agast a proposal to say Uned Methodists disagree whether homosexualy is agast God’s will. Gregory Gross, a an and legate om the Northern Illois Conference, said often when Uned Methodists “talk about homosexualy, we talk about as an issue. Gross, whose homels mistry clus servg gay and lbian teens who have been kicked out of their hom, said he signed the letter also to provi a wns that the teens are not alone.
LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
The Book of Disciple, the nomatn's erng document, has stated sce 1972 that all dividuals are of sacred worth but the practice of homosexualy “is patible wh Christian teachg.
It lists beg a “self-avowed practicg” gay clergy member as well as officiatg at same-sex unns as chargeable offens unr church law. He announced that he is gay durg a church panel on sexualy last year, and he is unr appotment to Rencilg Mistri Network.
Alvaran strsed that the mistry of gay and lbian dividuals is not jt a ncern the Uned Stat. Ray Boltz officially me out to the world as a gay man through an article "The Washgton Bla.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Ray Boltz Com out as a Gay Man.