David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
Contents:
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- DO ANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALLOW/ACCEPT HOMOSEXUAL/GAY RELATNSHIPS?
- BLACK GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS MERGE CHURCH TO PROMOTE 'RADILLY INCLIVE' THEOLOGY
- UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
- LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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? * churches that allow gay pastors *
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).
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week. * churches that allow gay pastors *
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.
There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church.
DO ANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALLOW/ACCEPT HOMOSEXUAL/GAY RELATNSHIPS?
Two predomantly black ngregatns Harlem, NY., where the rpective pastors are gay and lbian, have merged to fight for homosexualy to be accepted by the Church, givg their ngregatn the msage, "He (J) got up so I n e out. He got up for you n e out!" However, their promotn that God created people gay has been firmly rejected by mastream Church, who mata that the Bible clearly intifi homosexualy as a s. * churches that allow gay pastors *
The sfulns of homosexualy has never been up for bate until our sexually exploive culture cid should be. 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. It is agast the Bible’s clear teachg for a pastor to be gay.
BLACK GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS MERGE CHURCH TO PROMOTE 'RADILLY INCLIVE' THEOLOGY
* churches that allow gay pastors *
Homosexual s is no different om any other that all s keeps om God. 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.
UNED METHODIST NSERVATIV TAIL BREAKAWAY PLANS OVER GAY CLN
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991. * churches that allow gay pastors *
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.
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay?
It has weled gay people sce 1976, when s General Conventn cid that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church.
LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
Uned Methodists have long bated LGBTQ rights the church, cludg the ordatn of LGBTQ clergy and a clergy's thory to marry same-sex upl, for bate reached an flectn pot 2016 after hundreds of Uned Methodist clergy me out as gay and when a regnal nference elected the first openly lbian bishop.
UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
Ultimately, legat approved a proposal that did not fundamentally change the nomatn's stance on sexualy, which ntu to say "the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Not all Christian church view homosexualy as a s, and some church allow gay Christians as members and bls gay marriag. 6 He particularly nmned homosexual acts, which he emed were not only ltful but also a direct afont agast God and one's neighbor, bee he believed that homosexualy changed the God-given purpose of sexual ans and that homosexualy created tensn between men and women.
Augte's iology and step further, and both men equated homosexualy wh adultery. 9 They cid that bee adultery and homosexualy volve both lt and treachery agast others, and, th, both "ss" served a double punishment. Th, adulterers and homosexuals were banned om the holy sacrament for 15 years, whereas fornitors were banned for 7 years.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
10 However, this punishment was signifint pared wh the punishment that the Roman empire had proclaimed agast homosexuals. D., Emperors Constanti and Constans voked the ath penalty for anyone guilty of passive homosexual activi, although there is no historil rerd of anyone beg put to ath unr this law. D., the law was expand to clu active homosexuals; however, unr the new law, homosexual prostutn was now tolerated and taxed.
D., Jtian voked the law and equently burned and/or strated anyone who was acced of performg homosexual acts unr the law. 13 Acrdg to Jtian's urt historian, the law was ed to prosecute Jtian's polil opponents and other unsirabl, not jt homosexuals.
Likewise, the historian Malalas (491-569) stat, "(T)he emperor orred that all those found guilty of homosexual relatns be strated.