Insi the Evangelil Fight Over Gay Marriage | Time

Contents:

• HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• EX-GAYS CHALLENGE ANDY STANLEY'S STATEMENT ON LGBT COMMUNY'S STRONG FAH
• ANDY STANLEY TAKEN TO TASK AGA FOR REMARKS ON 'GAYS' AND CHURCH
• EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
• PASTOR ANDY STANLEY DRAWS PRAISE, CRICISM FOR ASSERTG GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN I DO'
• INSI THE EVANGELIL FIGHT OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• STOP PRAISG PASTOR ANDY STANLEY FOR PRETENDG TO LOVE GAY PEOPLE
• ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'

HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Pastor Andy Stanley recently left some Christians qutng his stance on homosexualy after preachg a msage on grace and tth that clud an acunt of a gay uple last month.

They separated after the woman's hband began a same-sex relatnship wh another man, who was still married to a man and his partner wanted to serve as volunteers at the church, but Stanley explaed that the two men were mtg adultery sce one of them did not falize his divorce yet and th uld not serve as "msy" story, as Stanley scribed , ends wh the gay uple, the first man's ex-wife and their child, as well as her new boyiend and his child om another relatnship, all g together to worship together at a big service at North Pot Church.

EX-GAYS CHALLENGE ANDY STANLEY'S STATEMENT ON LGBT COMMUNY'S STRONG FAH

"Stanley clearly and repeatedly strsed the s of adultery, but then left the realy of the homosexual relatnship between the two men unaddrsed as s, " Mohler wrote on his blog this week. "Both Mohler and Delzell are hopg the Geia pastor will clarify his stance and "affirm the biblil claratn of the sfulns of homosexual behavr, even as he preach the fivens of s any form through the ath and rurrectn of J Christ, " as Mohler first seven parts of Stanley's "Christian" sermon seri are available for viewg on North Pot's official webse. "READ: CHRISTIANITY IS NOT ABOUT GOING FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT; IT'S ABOUT TURNING FROM SIN TO JESUSFree Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post.

ANDY STANLEY TAKEN TO TASK AGA FOR REMARKS ON 'GAYS' AND CHURCH

My magaze story for TIME this week, “A Change of Heart, ” is a ep dive to the changg allegianc and divis evangelil church and muni over homosexualy. Support for gay marriage across all age groups of whe evangelils has creased by double digs over the past , acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute, and the fastt change n be found among younger evangelils—their support for gay marriage jumped om 20% 2003 to 42% 2014.

EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’

“I refe to go to a church where my iends who are gay are exclud om Communn or a marriage venant or the bety of Christian muny, ” Meeks tells me. At the Southern Baptist Conventn’s three-day, October bootmp to tra more than 1, 300 evangelils to double down agast gay marriage, Stanley met together wh both LGBT evangelil advot and SBC lears for a closed-door nversatn about whether their different views on gay marriage put them outsi the fah.

Brandan Robertson, 22, is the natnal spokperson for Evangelils for Marriage Equaly, an effort started by lennials to help evangelils support civil gay marriag, if not marriag church. Jt Lee, 37, of the Gay Christian Network hosted his 11th annual nference last week Portland, Ore., and 1, 400 people attend, double the number who me last year. Lee’s iendship wh Alan Chambers, the former head of the ex-gay anizatn Exod Internatnal, was one of the key factors that led Chambers to apologize for the hurt his anizatn ed, and the anizatn shut down.

In the clip posted on Twter, Stanley praised the rilience and unwaverg fah of dividuals who intify as gay but still choose to attend church, spe the church's past treatment towards their on earth… let this be a lson. Acrdg to a story Christian Post, pastor Andy Stanley posed a thought-provokg qutn the viral clip, askg if any straight dividuals have ever gone to a place where they were uncerta of their pared this bravery to that of a gay person who still wants to attend church, spe the possibily of rejectn. Stanley also poted out the immense fah tak for gay dividuals to ntue to worship their heavenly Father, even after experiencg rejectn durg their formative marvelled at the ia of a person who still lov God, spe God not answerg the cry of their heart when they were young.

PASTOR ANDY STANLEY DRAWS PRAISE, CRICISM FOR ASSERTG GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN I DO'

(BP) — Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley is beg cricized for a recent sermon illtratn volvg a gay uple which Stanley labeled adultery, but not homosexualy, a s. I need a … drama-ee zone, '” Stanley gay uple did go to another church — Buckhead Church, which is one of North Pot’s mp church that shows Stanley’s msag on a large screen.

Stanley — who ed graphics of stick figur durg the sermon to illtrate his pot — said he learned about the gay uple’s attendance at Buckhead Church durg a nversatn wh the woman. '”The illtratn is problematic, Mohler said, bee Stanley seemed to be sayg that while adultery is a s and a barrier to service, homosexualy isn’t. “Stanley clearly and repeatedly strsed the s of adultery, but then left the realy of the homosexual relatnship between the two men unaddrsed as s.

INSI THE EVANGELIL FIGHT OVER GAY MARRIAGE

“Stanley is a master munitor and I n’t help but thk that his illtratn was signed to munite a particular belief about how the church should apply grace and tth as relat to the issue of homosexualy (although he went to great lengths to avoid mentng homosexualy at all his illtratn). "The subject of homosexualy me up, and over the next hour and a half Andy shared overtly heretil views that clearly ntradict what the Word of God says. He said – quote: 'We need to make room for gay men who choose to be married to each other our church bee that's as close as they n get to a New Ttament amework of marriage.

| Screenshot: YouTube/Gwt Church Christians who once intified as homosexual have mixed opns about recent remarks ma by Pastor Andy Stanley, which the megachurch lear said that LGBT dividuals who go to church have “more fah than a lot of you. ”Last month, a short clip of Stanley was posted on Twter which he said “a gay person who still wants to attend church after the way the church has treated the gay muny, I'm tellg you, they have more fah than I do.

Stanley acknowledged that there were vers the Bible that nmned homosexualy, but then add, “oh my goodns, a gay man or woman who wants to worship their heavenly Father, who did not answer the cry of their heart when they were 12 and 13 and 14 and 15. ”“Andy Stanley repeatedly munit ‘gay people’ as a legimate inty given to this morn culture over the last 100 years om psychology and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn legimizg rpt human sexual sir as orientatns.

STOP PRAISG PASTOR ANDY STANLEY FOR PRETENDG TO LOVE GAY PEOPLE

”Black drew a parallel to the mistry known as Revoice, a Christian mistry that, while adherg to the belief that homosexualy is sful, garnered ntroversy theologilly nservative circl for s embrace of ias like Christians beg able to intify as LGBT.

Dpe headl on gay webs proclaimg, "Atlanta pastor rejects anti-gay rhetoric of his dad" and, "Megachurch pastor rejects his father's bigotry: J would want you to bake a gay weddg ke, " Pastor Stanley did issue a clear ll to holy livg a California pastors nference said, "If all the Christians for jt one year... "'s why I've said for many years that Ameri is msed up bee the Church of Ameri is msed up, and the Church here is msed up bee the lears are msed means if repentance begs wh (lears and believers), the natn will be posively 's lled the salt retag s salts and the light shg Stanley also said that the church should be the "saft place on the pla" for gay youth, which uld be taken one of two he meant that a kid should feel safe to nfi youth lears or pastors that he or she is same-sex attracted, that's absolutely te. They should be able to do so knowg that they will be loved and red for jt the same – as they seek to follow J and pursue he meant that a practicg homosexual teenager should feel safe church, that's absolutely false.

ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'

That young person should feel the lovg nvictn of the Holy Spir, leadg to eedom and new life the this be why Pastor Stanley omted "practicg homosexualy" om his list of ss? Based on his ment that he met wh gay members of his church, askg them if they wanted him to clu gay illtratns his book on sex and datg, one should fear the explicly, he stated, "There is not nsens this room when to same-sex attractn; there is not nsens this room when to gay marriage. In other words, if enough people apostatize, then we should rensir what the Bible is terribly misguid and very dangero, the reason we stand agast the refg of marriage and the normalizg of homosexualy is not bee we are brgg our polics to our spirualy but bee we are brgg our spirualy to every area of life, cludg our polics.

I thought we were to clu J everythg rather than leave him out of some, the issue here is not one of servg a gay uple but of participatg somethg that to vlate our nscience, like a Christian photographer askg two men to pose a romantic kiss for their "weddg" pictur, or that same photographer dog a porn shoot orr to serve the world, or that same photographer shootg a fund raiser for a newPlanned Parenthood abortn worst of all is his ll for Christians to "take a break" for one year om the culture this clu our fightg for the liv of the unborn? Or is only issu havg to do wh homosexualy, which se we should s idly by if the Supreme Court mak a disastro cisn on marriage June, or when our kids e home om school cryg bee of the latt gay doctratn assembly they had to s through, or when yet another believer is fired om his or her job for havg a polilly rrect viewpot? Nothg short of a enzy has transpired sce North Pot pastor Andy Stanley's viral sermon clip about gay Christians started circulatg across the web.