How Evangelils Are Changg Their Mds on Gay Marriage | Time

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• 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. "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.

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.

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

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.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

INSI THE EVANGELIL FIGHT OVER GAY MARRIAGE

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.

(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.

STOP PRAISG PASTOR ANDY STANLEY FOR PRETENDG TO LOVE GAY PEOPLE

'”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.

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

“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.