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.
Contents:
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
- TED CZ IS CG THE BIBLE AND PREACHG ON TWTER FENSE OF GAY PEOPLE, AND 'S QUE SOMETHG
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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. * twitter gay pastor *
Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St.
He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time.
When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy. “I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St.
EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn. “I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said. Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA.
Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement. ”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson. ”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr.
TED CZ IS CG THE BIBLE AND PREACHG ON TWTER FENSE OF GAY PEOPLE, AND 'S QUE SOMETHG
“My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson?
”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them. “If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said. | 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. ”“A gay person who knows, 'You know what?
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
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.
A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”
”“Stanley is filled wh such rpt theology that he believ ‘gay’ and other rpt inti are legimate, ” said Black.
”“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. ”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. I know hundreds of ex-homosexuals who are livg out a life whout labels and are found J Christ alone.