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". 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.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
* gay pastor comes out *
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.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
Jim Swilley, Geia Megachurch Pastor, Com Out To Congregatn After Gay Teen Suicis * gay pastor comes out *
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.
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 *
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.
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 *
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.
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 *
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.
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:.
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 *
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.
‘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 *
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. 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.
ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
Merrt now wants to believe that he is a gay man “beloved by God” who has learned to live thentilly his personal life.
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.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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.
LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
To the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who practice homosexualy, thiev, the greedy, dnkards, revilers and swdlers.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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. 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).