Major Evangelical Publication Twists Scripture, Urges Christians to Attend Same-Sex Baby Showers
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Alistair Begg and his censure by other Evangelical leaders for counseling a grandmother to attend her grandson's "transgender" "wedding," another controversy is brewing. It has been well-established by biblical exegesis and affirmed by solid and reasoned Christian leaders that attending a same-sex wedding would be sinful and offer tacit approval of such a blasphemous demonstration of rebellion against God's created order. Yet, there are those who abandon sound biblical reason in favor of emotionalism and hang on to it by a thread at their own peril.
But the other controversy that is now rearing its head is the question: "Can a Christian attend a same-sex baby shower?" This question was posed by a writer a Crosswalk and, reading through the article, it immediately became clear that the person writing the article has no interest in good biblical doctrine.
Right off the bat, in the first paragraph, the author writes:
As same-sex marriage has become more prolific and socially acceptable, there is a growing number of same-sex parents. Personally, I’ve interacted with same-sex foster parents who also attend the same church as I do.
Okay, my first questions back to her would be: What are you doing at a church filled with homosexuals adopting children? What is your pastor preaching that makes such people believe that trafficking children to homosexual parents is perfectly normal and acceptable? Seriously, I'm having a hard time getting past just the first paragraph in this absurd article. Clearly, someone with a deficient and sub-biblical worldview is writing this piece.
But I digress. The author goes on to twist the Scriptures—the kind of Scripture that any seasoned believer should know better than to twist—to make her case that its okay to attend a same-sex baby shower. She writes, "Jesus shows us a radical alternative way of navigating our sin."
"He asks who is sinless among us. Only they have the ability to justly throw stones! (John 8:7-11) Then Jesus, the only one with the right to judge us, goes to the person stuck in sin and gives them the chance to follow him. They have the chance to leave their life of sin and pain!
It’s our job to be Jesus to our lost friends..."
Full stop! Giving us permission to tacitly approve of unrepentant sinful lifestyles was not Jesus' purpose in this passage. The real meaning of this passage where Jesus addresses the crowd ready to stone the woman caught in adultery, is a profound illustration of grace, judgment, and repentance, not an endorsement of sin or a command to ignore God's law in pursuit of a misconstrued notion of love. Jesus' intervention was not to abolish the law or condone the woman's sin, but to highlight the hypocrisy of the accusers, also unrepentant sinners, and to point towards a deeper need for mercy and repentance.