Two openly gay pastors om the Wtern Jurisdictn and a third om the North Central Jurisdictn have been nomated for electn as Uned Methodist bishops.
Contents:
- DC GAY BLACK CHURCH CELEBRAT 4TH ANNIVERSARY WH GAY PASTOR
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- 3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
- A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
DC GAY BLACK CHURCH CELEBRAT 4TH ANNIVERSARY WH GAY PASTOR
Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy. * gay pastors anniversary *
Addnally, homosexualy seems to make the chief of sners ready to stand on their soapbox to exprs their disapproval. We nsir ourselv to be a light lled by God to she amidst the spirual ignorance of our age that perpetuat racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia as well as all isms and phobias that promote hatred, vlence, poverty, relig fanaticism and ignorance cloaked relig dogma. Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah.
Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here. Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt. As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg.
Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals. But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
* gay pastors anniversary *
If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate. Three openly gay pastors are ndidat for epispal electns when the five U.
3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * gay pastors anniversary *
God hears the cri of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people who are beg harmed, opprsed and margalized by The Uned Methodist Church.
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
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. * gay pastors anniversary *
The church do not allow gays or lbians to be ordaed clergy; however, many clergy have been g out before and after the General Conference. Thomas Lambrecht, executive wh Good News, an evangelil Uned Methodist anizatn that upholds the church’s current stance on homosexualy issu.
William Lawrence — former print of the Judicial Council, the church’s top urt — said that if an openly gay person were elected bishop, anyone the nomatn uld file a plat. Day said he didn’t believe the nomatn had ever had an openly gay bishop. “To elect a self-avowed practicg homosexual as bishop would ph many tradnalists over the edge of what they uld tolerate, jeopardizg the uny and the fundg of the nomatn, ” Lambrecht said.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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. * gay pastors anniversary *
We are set apart bee we intify as lbian or gay but we are not totally fed by our sexual orientatn, ” Wulf said. 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). 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.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay. * gay pastors anniversary *
There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church. 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.
NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
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. 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.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? If you said someone was evangelil you knew pretty much what you were gettg – errancy of the Bible, importance of preachg, a foc on evangelism, warngs of hell and most of all – opposn to gay marriage.
While still far om the mastream and the overwhelmg majory of self-scribed evangelils are still opposed to gay marriage, there are a growg list of pastors who scribe themselv as evangelil and yet support same sex upl. 'It has taken untls hours of prayer, study, nversatn and emotnal turmoil to brg me to the place where I am fally ready to ll for the full acceptance of Christian gay upl to the Church, ' he wrote. 'Through [my wife] Peggy, I have e to know so many gay Christian upl whose relatnships work much the same way as our own.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
In a bate at San Francis's Grace Cathedral 2013, the thor and pastor Rob Bell, already discreded by many evangelils for his book Love Ws, gave a blanket endorsement of gay marriage.
An outspoken cric of the Relig Right and print of the Sojourners magaze, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage an terview wh the Huffgton Post 2013. Several of Jen Hatmaker's books have been produced by LifeWay's B&H Publishg, who announced they would no longer work wh her after she changed her stance on gay marriageFacebook / Jen Hatmaker.