Pca homosexuality

How a gay St. Louis pastor triggered a war within the Presbyterian Church in America

Greg Johnson describes himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for Jesus — and found himself at the center of evangelical Christianity’s internal battles over sexuality.

For nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, right across from Forest Park. He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time. When he came out to his church, he said he received a standing ovation and shouts of “We treasure you, Greg” from congregants.

But since Johnson went common with his orientation in Christianity Today, pastors in his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, hold tried to banish clergy who identify as gay, even if they commit to celibacy.

Johnson has fought that. He says orientation is largely fixed — but believes there is still a place for people like him in conservative churches.

“I spent a lot of years convincing myself that I was a straight man with a disease called homosexuality that could be cured,” Johnson said on Wednesday’s St. Louis on th

The PCA&#;s Very Slippery Slope
Progressivism, Theological Liberalism, & the Gay Pastor

“Do not be conformed to this world.”[1]

The apostle Paul’s inspired exhortation to the church in Rome has never been more relevant or pressing for the Presbyterian Church in America. A growing number of our ministers and churches are conforming to the world’s values, attitudes, and ideals, especially as it concerns homosexuality and the social gospel. The future doesn’t look good for the PCA. Frankly, the future looks pretty awful, and I’m not alone in my assessment. Far from it. A considerable number of respected leaders inside and outside the PCA have expressed similar sentiments. Indeed, many are asking, “What’s going on in the PCA?”

It doesn’t take a theologian or a church historian to recognize that many of our churches are headed in a wrong direction. The steady growth of theological progressivism is as obvious as it is troubling. Progressivism is a fast-moving slippery slope in the PCA, ultimately leading to the idolatrous mire of theological liberalism; yes, the kind of theologic

Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers
will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified
in the call of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

I CORINTHIANS b

What is Mistaken with Gay Christianity?

By Rosaria Butterfield:

Over the years, we have seen many Side B Christians defect for Side A, declaring that God sanctions gay unions. And I predict that we will see many more defectors, since the theology behind Side B is biblically untenable. How can any of us fight a sin that we don’t hate? Hating our own sin is a key component to doing battle with it. At the same noun, we need to separate ourselves from the sin we hate. This can be a very challenging issue for a Christian who experiences SSA, an issue that becomes exceedingly more challenging if one assumes the social identity of “gay Christian.”

The Christian’s New Identity

by Sinclair Fe

PCA Digest: Studies, -

5th General Assembly, , , 4, p. 67 and 8, p.

HOMOSEXUALITY

Overture No. 11 be answered in the affirmative:

Whereas, God has plainly spoken of homosexuality in his Synonyms, denouncing both the, operate and the desire as sin, condemning this perversion as unnatural, a degrading, passion, an indecent verb, an error, an abomination and hence worthy of death (Lev. , Rom. ); and
Whereas, we recognize, that God's righteous judgment is upon those who approve of such detestable acts, as adv as those who perform them; and
Moreover, whereas God has clearly stated that the condoning of homosexuals along with murderers, immoral men, kidnappers, liars, perjurers and all other unrighteousness is hostile to sound teaching (1 Timothy , 2 Peter );
Therefore, be it resolved that the General Assembly encourage Christians to recognize their responsibility to petition the powers that be that such men and women who apply , approve, or condone any of these activities not be invested with the authority to teach in schools or be in a position where they can inf