David Gushee: When the evangelical establishment comes after you

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David Gushee: When the evangelical establishment comes after you

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When the evangelical establishment comes after you
David Gushee
17 July 2017
http://religionnews.com/2017/07/17/lgbtq-equality-evangelical-rejection

//Eugene Peterson discovered painfully that the evangelical establishment will immediately seek to destroy anyone who breaks with their understanding of orthodoxy on LGBTQ issues.

Nothing he did before mattered. Nothing else he believes mattered.//

//Today I would much rather stand with rejected LGBTQ Christians than with those who reject them. I have therefore turned in my evangelical ID badge and moved on to do just that.

So don’t worry about me, or about the rough week Eugene Peterson had. Do worry about those LGBTQ Christian kids who continue to experience stigma, rejection, and even contempt in their own Christian homes, churches and schools. Worry about what the events of last week taught them.//



Alex's comment:

Someone did some translation on Facebook:

當那些福音派建制要來對付你......

//畢德生痛苦地發現了,原來福音派建制可以在瞬間集中火力來摧毀任何偏離他們所理解的對多元性向議題立場的人。

他之前一生做過甚麼並不重要,他自己真心相信甚麼也不重要。......

但你要記住,不論你在福音派權貴手中遭遇到甚麼虐待,那都比不上多元性向人士在牧者、教師、父母、和他們生命裡的「基督徒朋友」所承受的。

所以,你不要替我擔心,也不用替走過這痛苦一星期的畢德生擔心。你應該替其擔心的是那些多元性向基督徒,他們要繼續在他們自己的基督徒家庭、教會和學校承受恥辱、拒絕和蔑視。讓我們憂慮上星期的事帶給他們甚麼信息。//
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胡志偉:當性議題取代了福音信仰

當性議題取代了福音信仰
胡志偉牧師
July 21, 2017
香港教會更新運動



//當性議題取代了福音信仰,可怕之處猶如聖經無謬誤、墮胎等爭議,你不支持聖經無謬誤就被打壓為新派、不信派、自由神學等,同樣你不反對墮胎,你的信仰就有問題,你就等同不尊重生命,你是屠殺生命的共犯。//

//真正福音信仰是以個人與基督的救恩關係來理解,並非以性議題來界定。著名神學工作者麥格夫 (Alister McGrath) 歸納「福音信仰」以六項信念作為中心 : 聖經的權威、耶穌基督的榮美、聖靈的主權、個人重生的必要、傳福音的首要與信仰群體的重要。「福音派」有異於「基要派」,在於前者對異見者存開放與容納,相反基要主義者則心胸狹隘、思想封閉、執著於次要事情、為支持的單一議題狂熱等。可惜是筆者所見,名為「福音派」而實質為「基要派」的居大多數,於是性議題就成為「獵巫」遊戲,誰人不按原有立場表態,誰人就會被圍攻、被封殺、被標籤為敵人。
 
當這些事件一再發生,明眼人看在心裡,那些領袖的偽善、法利賽式心態,只會把更多人趕往另一陣營,難怪年輕一代對那些建制堂會與領袖不滿,因為他/她們所展示的是道德教條的福音,而非真正福音的寬宏大量 ! //