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BAPTIST MUST FIRE RUSSELL MOORE OR BE BOUGHT BY PAUL SINGER MOB.

RUSSELL MOORE OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST ERLC IS NO STRANGER TO THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS ON LGBTQ CONCERNS FOR THE CHURCH. NOW HE IS WORKING OPENLY WITH 3 MAJOR “FAIRNESS FOR ALL” ADVOCATES PARTNERED WITH BILLIONAIRE PAUL SINGER .

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                             6/19/20

Fairness for All is the “compromise ” for religious freedom offered by the Mormon church and Utah legislators as the “Utah Compromise”. In exchange for token religious protections and exemptions and in response to Activist dream list Equality  many “Christian Religious organizations like the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have teamed with the Mormon Church and the GOP to offer up Fairness for All as THE answer to threats against Religious Liberty from the advance of LGBTQ “rights.

SOME SINGER HISTORY FROM LIBERTY COUNCIL

https://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/072516-lgbt-activist-paul-singers-tangled-web-with-christians-to-reach-millennials

In the same week as SCOTUS decision to offer protected civil rights status to Sexual Orientation  Gender Identity (SOGI the legal language of LGBTQ) in matters of employment discrimination under Title VII- Russell Moore , who has denied support of Fairness for All is now announced on June 18th HE WILL BE working with a host of supporters of the Fairness For All  legislation .

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Join us on June 26 for an online conversation with The Trinity Forum on “Crisis-Ready Leadership,” featuring And Campaign Executive Director Justin Giboney, CCCU President Shirley Hoogstra, National Association of Evangelicals President Walter Kim, & ERLC President Dr. Russell Moore. https://bit.ly/2N3LbeV

THE EVENT

Upcoming and Past Events

UPCOMING EVENTS
Crisis-Ready Leadership
with Shirley Hoogstra, Russell Moore, Justin Giboney, and Walter Kim
Friday, June 26, 2020

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Crisis-Ready Leadership

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“Join the Trinity Forum and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities on Friday, June 26th for a conversation on leadership in a time of crisis. What does it take to listen, respond, learn, and lead? How do leaders prepare for the unexpected and unpredictable? Shirley Hoogstra, Russell Moore, Justin Giboney and Walter Kim will highlight the historic values of leadership, share lessons learned from their own life, and provide encouragement for leaders today.”

“Shirley V. Hoogstra became the seventh president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities in September 2014. In this role, Hoogstra combines her zeal for the rule of law and her passion for Christian higher education as she promotes the value and purpose of high quality, Christ-centered liberal arts education that shapes students who love the Lord with all their heart, soul, and mind.”

“Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Moore is the author of several books, including “Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel” and “The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home.”

“Justin Giboney is the Executive Director for the AND campaign, and an attorney and political strategist in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Giboney has managed successful campaigns for elected officials in the state and referendums relating to the city’s transportation and water infrastructure. He served as the co-chair of Obama for America’s Gen44-Atlanta initiative.”

“Walter Kim became the president of the National Association of Evangelicals in January 2020. He also serves as pastor for leadership at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kim received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He regularly speaks at college campuses, churches, and retreats, on biblical theology and cultural issues.”

 

THE PROBLEM WITH MOORE’S PARTNERS

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/december-web-only/fairness-for-all-evangelicals-explore-truce-lgbt-cccu-nae.html

“Fairness for All: Evangelicals Explore Truce on LGBT and Religious Rights”

“It worked in Utah. But national effort by the CCCU and NAE will be more complicated.”
“In recent months, the CCCU and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have discreetly led the charge to get evangelical institutions to think through potential legal options to safeguard their Christian distinctives as they look ahead to 2017. They met with more than 200 leaders in 9 cities to discuss Fairness for All, an approach that would bring together religious liberty defenders and LGBT activists to lay out federal legislation to secure rights for both.”
“The recent action by the boards of two organizations who have been nationally visible as representing conservative evangelicals is “The Great Evangelical Sellout” for a number of critical reasons, not the least of which are wrongfully capitulating to one of the most deceptive Straw Men of modern cultural and political issues.  The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) are supporting the inclusion of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in federal Civil Rights protections, a patent rejection of biblical truths, moral law and sound Constitutional principles.”

CCCU EMPLOYS REVOICE MARK YARHOUSE AS A “SENIOR  FELLOW”.

http://sexualidentityinstitute.org/sample-page/dr-mark-yarhouse/

“Dr. Yarhouse is the past recipient of the Gary R. Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling (American Association of Christian Counselors) and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at Regent University. He was a past participant with the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC, and he was named Senior Fellow with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to conduct a study of students navigating sexual identity concerns at Christian colleges and universities.”

YARHOUSE IS THE THOUGHT LEADER TGC AND VARIETY OF COMPROMISED ORGANIZATIONS ADOPTING APA SOGI IDEOLOGY.

“Dr. Yarhouse is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He was recently invited to write the featured whitepaperon sexual identity for the Christ on Campus Initiative edited by Don A. Carson for The Gospel Coalition.”

 

REVOICE JUST SPLIT THE ONCE CONSERVATIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA 

Leaving the PCA

“I could cite many other issues of concern but the crowning blow has been the issue of homosexuality in the PCA. Over the past two years, perhaps you have followed the controversy with the Revoice Conference in St. Louis and the many overtures at our General Assembly to address the issue of what many are calling “Side B” homosexuality (it is acceptable to be attracted to someone of the same sex, or even call himself “gay” as long as he does not commit the act of homosexual intercourse). I will not rehearse this issue here. Plenty has been said already. ” AL BAKER – LEAVING THE PCA

MOORE, TRINITY , CCCU, NAE IGNORE THE GLARING REALITY?

So the compromise and infiltration of APA/Yarhouse ideology  represented by Revoice has split one of the most conservative reformed denominations in the country PCA leaders coddle the Yarhouse/ Revoice ideology.

“Damn the (fact we have been hit by ) torpedoes  “FULL SPEED AHEAD ” with Yarhouse /Revoice ideology in splitting and dying denominations.

MOORE’S OTHER PARTNERS

Trinity Forum is working with some disturbing partners in compromise on a variety of issue including IMMIGRATION REFORM AND LGBTQ.

INROADS TO DISMANTLE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: PRO -ISLAMIC FUNDING/OBAMA FOUNDATION/ NCF -CHRISTIAN CHARITY.

Trinity regularly platforms Obama Foundation /  & Campaign leader Michael Wear  along with Russell Moore on the Immigration Reform  issue. Besides the progressive Muslim funding from Trinity event benefactor billionaire founder of Ebay and his foundation – Trinity also platforms ERLC Moore and Obama’s Faith Ambassador Wear in Soros funded National Immigration Forum / Evangelical Immigration Roundtable events.

The Soros Funding has recently been denied but internet archives confirm it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161117181227/https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/us-programs/grantees/national-immigration-forum-0

 

Open Society Foundations

 

National Immigration Forum

Year
2009
Location
Washington, D.C.
Amount
$2,500,000
Term
2 years

“The National Immigration Forum is one of the leading immigrant advocacy organizations in the nation. This grant is to support the design and leadership of Reform Immigration for America, a national level immigration reform campaign across community, business, labor and faith stakeholders, specifically with local elected officials and low wage workers”

ERLC MERGER WITH THE & CAMPAIGN -DEMOCRATIC PARTY- OBAMA FOUNDATION- PAUL SINGER

This NEW Trinity Forum event signals an ever deepening tie with/ between Russell Moore and the & Campaign .Moore now is openly working in the Trinity Forum events with both the & Campaigns executive directors Justin Giboney and Michael Wear. This time the event is announced three days after the SCOTUS  decision on LGBTQ rights

& CAMPAIGN POSITION ON LGBTQ RIGHTS

https://andcampaign.org/2020?fbclid=IwAR3Sh6o2LBMzBsxbomcVlSCgE4MbjjMDryqaICgIg_xaTrNHe1fKQKjfySw

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND LGBTQ RIGHTS 

“All attempts to remove more traditional religious beliefs from the public square should be opposed. We, like many other Americans, affirm the historic Christian sexual ethic, and we also believe that religious freedom and LGBTQ civil rights are not necessarily in irreconcilable conflict. Faith-based charities, hospitals and colleges should not have to choose between surrendering their convictions and closing their doors. At the same time, LGBTQ people should not lose jobs and housing because of how they identify. We must pursue ways to disagree and live together without bullying or compromising our conscience. Towards that end, we encourage all 2020 candidates to support the Fairness for All Act, which will grant basic civil rights for LGBTQ people while also protecting religious freedom for all faiths.”

& CAMPAIGN OPENLY ADVOCATES OF FAIRNESS FOR ALL AND PARTNERS WITH SINGERS AMERICAN UNITY FUND 

& CAMPAIGN AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL ADVOCACY

The & Campaign is a major partner with the push for Fairness for all just like the CCCU and the NAE.

 

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FAIRNESS FOR ALL IS LED AND FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN UNITY FUND WHICH IS BILLIONAIRE PAUL SINGERS VEHICLE FOR FUNDED AN END TO GOP AND OTHER OPPOSITION TO FULL LGBTQ RIGHTS.

SINGER PARTNERS LIKE & CAMPAIGN FORMED THE ALLIANCE FOR LASTING LIBERTY WHICH SUBJECTS THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TO BE REDEFINED THROUGH THE LENS OF LGBTQ RIGHTS.

THIS WEEKS SCOTUS DECISION HAS TAKEN US MANY STEPS CLOSER TO THAT REALITY.

The Support for Fairness for All

SINGERS ORGANIZATION IS LISTED AMONG THE “SUPPORT ” LINK WITH & CAMPAIGN AND A HOST OF OTHERS INCLUDING THE MORMONS WHO HAVE WEAKENED GOP OPPOSITION WITH SINGER TO LGBTQ “RIGHTS”.

American Unity Fund:

“American Unity Fund fully endorses the Fairness for All Act. This is the right solution for such a complex problem that urgently needs to be solved. Fairness for All acknowledges that we live in a diverse society. Civil rights should be guaranteed for everyone regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, or religion. ( THE SINGER ORGANIZATION)”

AND Campaign

“All attempts to remove more traditional religious beliefs from the public square should be opposed. We, like many other Americans, affirm the historic Christian sexual ethic, and we also believe that religious freedom and LGBTQ civil rights are not necessarily in irreconcilable conflict. Faith-based charities, hospitals and colleges should not have to choose between surrendering their convictions and closing their doors. At the same time, LGBTQ people should not lose jobs and housing because of how they identify. We must pursue ways to disagree and live together without bullying or compromising our conscience. Towards that end, we encourage all 2020 candidates to support the Fairness for All Act, which will grant basic civil rights for LGBTQ people while also protecting religious freedom for all faiths ( MOORE’S CLOSE ASSOCIATES WEAR ADN GIBONEY LED ORGANIZATION )”

RUSSELL MOORE’S ODD BEDFELLOWS AT &

 

& CAMPAIGN LEADER PROFILES /MOORES PARTNERS AT & CAMPAIGN 

https://andcampaign.org/leadership

Giboney

https://andcampaign.org/justin-giboney

“Justin Giboney is an attorney and political strategist in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Giboney has managed successful campaigns for elected officials in the state and referendums relating to the city’s transportation and water infrastructure.”

“In 2012 and 2016, Georgia’s 5th congressional district elected him as a delegate for the Democratic National Convention and he served as the co-chair of Obama for America’s Gen44-Atlanta initiative. A former Vanderbilt University football player and law student, Justin served on the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Board of Directors. Additionally, Justin has participated in LEAD Atlanta, Outstanding Atlanta and the Georgia Bar Association’s Leadership Academy. He’s written op-eds for publications such as Christianity Today.”

 

Michael Wear

https://andcampaign.org/michael-wear

“Michael Wear serves as Chief Strategist and member of the executive leadership team for The AND Campaign.”

“As one of President Obama’s “ambassadors to America’s believers” (Buzzfeed), Michael directed faith outreach for President Obama’s historic 2012 re-election campaign. Michael was also one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history: he served in the White House faith-based initiative during President Obama’s first term, where he led evangelical outreach and helped manage The White House’s engagement on religious and values issues, including adoption and anti-human trafficking efforts.

“He founded Public Square Strategies LLC, a consulting firm that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape.”

“Michael is the author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America. He also writes for The Atlantic, Christianity Today, USA Today, Relevant Magazine and other publications on faith, politics and culture. He holds an honorary position at the University of Birmingham’s Cadbury Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum. Michael and his wife, Melissa, are both proud natives of Buffalo, New York. They now reside in Washington, D.C.”

CONCLUSION

Moore DENIES  he is a supporter of Fairness for All.

ERLC opposes the Fairness For All Act of 2019

As Russell Moore, president of the ERLC, often notes, “A government that can pave over the consciences of some can steamroll over dissent everywhere.” The ERLC believes this legislation would diminish foundational individual freedoms and dramatically expand the government’s power to create, enforce, and teach a radical perspective on gender and sexuality. The bill fails in many key respects to protect the consciences of a range of professionals, individuals, and others in a variety of circumstances.”

“It is true that the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is preserved in the Fairness For All Act of 2019 and that the bill contains a number of other protections for communities of faith. We support this policy and several of the individual provisions within the bill. But even still, these proposed changes to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would bring a significant shift in civil rights law, religious liberty, and the foundations of civic pluralism.”

YET MOORE IS TEAMING WITH &CAMPAIGN LEADERS AS FAR BACK AS 2018 AND WITH MICHAEL WEAR DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, AT TGC, AND NOW WITH 3 FFA SUPPORTERS AT ONCE.

Moore speaks to the dangers in the recent SCOTUS DECISION

After the Bostock Supreme Court Case

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“The Supreme Court of the United States released its long-awaited decision in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia over whether sexual orientation and gender identity are included in the definition of “sex” in Title VII of the federal non-discrimination laws.”

 

https://www.russellmoore.com/2020/06/15/after-the-bostock-supreme-court-case/

“The ruling also will have seismic implications for religious liberty, setting off potentially years of lawsuits and court struggles, about what this means, for example, for religious organizations with religious convictions about the meaning of sex and sexuality. This will mean not only that this is just the beginning of the legal discussion at this point, but also that Congress must clarify precisely what they intended, or intend now, in laws that protect women from unjust discrimination—laws that now are to be applied much more broadly.”

BUT MOORE’S WARNING TRUMPET FOR THE CHURCH GIVES AN UNCERTAIN SOUND

“But, beyond that, there are other considerations for the church. This Supreme Court decision should hardly be surprising, given how much has changed culturally on the meanings of sex and sexuality. That the “sexual revolution” is supported here by both “conservatives” and “progressives” on the court should also be of little surprise to those who have watched developments in each of these ideological corners of American life. ”

MOORE LOOKS TO BLAMING THE CHURCH

“Those who decry the sexual revolution, but approve of, or participate in, sexual revolutions of their own—in excusing, for instance, adultery, sexual abuse, or pornography—will have, and should have, no credibility. Instead, what is needed is an ongoing demonstration of counter-cultural fidelity, accountability, love, and a recognition of the kinds of limits that make human life good and livable. And, at the same time, we can be the people who recognize that those who disagree with us are our mission field, to be persuaded, not a sparring partner to denounce. We must have both conviction and kindness, both courage and patience, both truth and grace.”

WHILE WARNING OF THE THREAT -TEAM WITH THE COMPROMISED SINGER AGENTS!

MOORE “SEES THE THREAT “- YET HE TEAMS WITH FAIRNESS FOR ALL ADVOCATES.

So Russell Moore- like many in the Baptist and evangelical world tend to say one thing and do another while they play both sides of the fence with partners like the & Campaign and CCCU and NAE – all the while pointing fingers back at the concerned Christians they assert to be representing – and blame THEM. It is  “churches and Christians duplicity ” and “poor understanding ” which are (they say ) the source of the problems.

TOO MUCH MONEY IS AWASH AND TOO  MUCH IS AT STAKE TO THINK THIS IS A SIMPLE CONVERSATION BEING LED BY RUSSELL MOORE. TIME FOR THE SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO AUDIT THE ERLC AND TO FIRE THE GUY WHO DANCES AROUND SINGERS ALLIES CAMP.

 

 

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION AND GOD’S VOICE LEADER “REVOICED”ON LGBTQ?

AN UPCOMING FILM PROJECT BY AFA BOAST TGC’s KEVIN DE YOUNG AND A HOST OF  MARK YARHOUSE FOLLOWERS TO PROMOTE “ANSWERS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY ”

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                                  6/7/2020

The movement behind Revoice “LGBTQ Thriving in Historic Christian Tradition” ( aka conservative churches and denominations) is alive and well. One of the primary thought  leaders is Mark Yarhouse. Yarhouse work is rapidly bringing the evangelical church  into full synchronization  with the American Psychological Association on the issues of LGBTQ or Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) . From his perch at Regent University and now at Wheaton College, Yarhouse promotion of the APA ideals of  SOGI  and religious counseling models to reconcile conflicted LGBTQ “oriented ” people of faith with their respective faith identities is the new gold standard for a growing herd of church and denominational leaders.

Casting aside the Biblical frameworks of repentance, salvation and transformation SOGI is now the new gospel of reconciliation (not TO God but to) how one feels about their orientation and desires and gender with their chosen ideals about God.The church is called to adapt, adopt and comply with the new constructs of LGBTQ sexual “orientation” ( fixed and unchanging) and gender identity ( fluidity). In short the voice of Revoice is the present and future apostasy of the church where ever it is embraced.

The American Family Association  has  long been a voice of opposition to the LGBTQ movement and its new found partner God’s Voice Conference and one of its leaders Stephen Black led the fight to expose Revoice and the Yarhouse errors. (NOTE  Stephen is a personal friend of this writer and we teamed together on the first God’s Voice Conference in clear denunciation of the Revoice and Yarhouse influence in the church ).  Stephen’s First Stone Ministries appeared to be committed to providing opposition voice to Revoice movement in 2018 as its organization oversaw the organization and funding of God’s Voice .

AFA AND GODS VOICE ALLIANCE AND NEW YARHOUSE and GOSPEL COALITION (TGC) PARTNERS.

The sudden alliance of AFA and God’s Voice Conference  (GVC) appeared in March 2020 as GVC promoted AFA new Film “In His Image ” and AFA began promoting GVC.

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(NOTE : This writers work exposed Revoice in 2018 by breaking the story in early May. I worked with many groups and media outlets in helping make this important issue THE front line story and concern for 18 months. It was the suggestion of this writer to put together a conference to address the issues related to Revoice for the church.I believed an effort was needed to offer the true transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to hurting people wanting out of LGBTQ and their families and to bolster the church ability to discern and debunk the false gospel of Revoice and Yarhouse. As a result of these efforts GVC was supported by this writer who helped in the leadership team, organize, support, fund and spoke at it’s early 2019 event.
Yarhouse / TGC / CTS / Tim Keller/Albert Mohler/ SBTS  ties to Revoice were exposed  at GVC. Some wonderful testimonies were shared like the mother daughter team of Francine and Laura Perry . YET meanwhile a key member of the GVC Team QUIT  immediately after GVC 2019 while Revoice 2019 came more out of the Yarhouse closet with Yarhouse speaking and openly becoming a leader in the Revoice organization for a time. But by that time media coverage of Revoice was being impacted by forces within TGC and beyond. As interest in opposition to Yarhouse and Revoice and God’s Voice Conference efforts continued, this author remained in leadership on the GVC Team.I reached out to remaining leaders including Stephen Black to answer that interest with a 2020 conference possibly to be held in the South. The ongoing efforts to bring about a follow up GVC went without response for many weeks until they were finally met with the sudden and “irreversible removal ” of this author from the GVC leadership Team and the planning of the 2020 event was then going forward. Months later AFA began promoting GVC new event focused on “LGBTQ Tyrany”. Long story- perhaps for another time . Suffice to say some things and powers  were moving in the background and something had CHANGED.-  DRASTICALLY CHANGED  at GVC, Now perhaps we can see some of what caused this change in the wedding of Yarhouse and Revoice ideology in the AFA/ GVC efforts.
The Perry’s are part of this AFA film project but this writer believes that their involvement and others, like himself does not reflect an endorsement of  the TGC/ Yarhouse of Revoice message.  They and some others likely would not knowingly endorse a partnership attempting to combine both the denunciation of Revoice and the wedding of GVC or AFA or any other such efforts with TGC/ Yarhouse, Revoice, Rethink  or any such compromised ideologies being promoted to the church. The mingling and mixture is deadly and robs people and their families in LGBTQ related bondage of the true and infinite  hope of the Gospel. Whatever motivations AFA and GVC leaders have -to combine these movements is not known. What is known is that these two opposite approaches to LGBTQ concerns in the church cannot find common ground as Revoice and Yarhouse ideology is antithetical to the Gospel. Pray for these organizations and for people like this author and others who are caught in the middle of whatever forces are moving this compromise.)

WHAT THIS NEW PARTNERSHIP NOW REVEALS

AFA WAS FIRST OBSERVED WORKING WITH TGC IN ANOTHER FILM PROJECT IN 2018

WHY IS AFA PROMOTING TGC CULTURAL MARXIST AS BIBLICAL CONSERVATIVES ?

NOW  THE SECOND AFA FILM PROJECT DETAILS EMERGE 

Just recently the contributors to the AFA film project became available to the public. In addition to God’s Voice leader Stephen Black is the SHOCKING reality that the film contributors includes TGC and other spokespersons most closely associated with the promoting and mainstreaming of the Mark Yarhouse /Revoice ideology.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE ON TGC ENDORSEMENT OF REVOICE LEADERS AND IDEOLOGY:

TGC CO-FOUNDER D.A. CARSON IN 2017 PROMOTED THE BOOK “SINGLE GAY CHRISTIAN BY REVOICE “WORSHIP “LEADER AND SPEAKER GREGORY COLES.

THE BOOKS FORWARD IS BY REVOICE AND “SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP LEADER WESLEY HILL .

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity Paperback – August 22, 2017

“To say this book is important is a painful understatement. It is the candid, moving, intensely personal story of a gay young man who wants to live his life under the authority of King Jesus and who refuses to accept the comforting answers proffered by different parts of the culture. Superbly written, this book stands athwart the shibboleths of our day and reminds us what submission to King Jesus looks like, what it feels like. This book needs to be thoughtfully read by straight people and by gay people, by unbelievers and by Christians. It is not to be read with a condescending smirk, but with humility.” (D. A. Carson, president, The Gospel Coalition, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)”

TGC HAS PUBLISHED AND CONTINUE TO PROMOTE REVOICE LEADERS ARTICLES AND TGC  OTHER CO-FOUNDER TIM KELLER AND HIS WIFE  ENDORSED THE RADICAL LIVING OUT LGBTQ CHURCH INCLUSION AUDIT AS LIVING OUT WAS ENDORSING REVOICE “FOR THEIR US AUDIENCE”.

DOCUMENTATION OF THE TGC  ISSUES WILL BE PROVIDED MORE IN FULL BELOW BUT HERE IS A SHORT OVERVIEW OF THE CONFLICTED PARTNERS AND THE PRO REVOICE /PRO YARHOUSE HISTORIES.

KEVIN DEYOUNG

Deyoung is a popular PCA and TGC leader. The PCA Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis MO is where much of the Revoice movement was incubated. Deyoung is part of the PCA Committee Report which only last week gave cover to the entire movement which has already split the PCA .More reaction is to follow to this PCA apostasy on LGBTQ. Deyoung is a close disciple of TGC founder Tim Keller and TGC fully signed on to promote Yarhouse SOGI ideology in 2010.

(NOTE Yarhouse long history with TGC recounted by Yarhouse bio here. http://sexualidentityinstitute.org/sample-page/dr-mark-yarhouse/

“Dr. Yarhouse is the past recipient of the Gary R. Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling (American Association of Christian Counselors) and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at Regent University. He was a past participant with the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC, and he was named Senior Fellow with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to conduct a study of students navigating sexual identity concerns at Christian colleges and universities. He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections under the Department of Justice to address issues facing sexual minorities in corrections, and he was part of a consensus panel from the American Psychological Association on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts that convened to provide input to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Washington, DC. Dr. Yarhouse is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He was recently invited to write the featured white paper on sexual identity for the Christ on Campus Initiative edited by Don A. Carson for The Gospel Coalition.”

STEPHEN BLACK  

Black is or has been one of the key defenders of “ex gay” counseling and his ministry First Stone defends these ministries while he has condemned the Revoice movement strongly. Black and his ministry help organize Gods Voice Conference in opposition to Revoice but is now working with AFA and a team of Yarhouse, Revoice, TGC ideology promoters.

RYAN T.ANDERSON 

Anderson is a Heritage Foundation leader but he worked DIRECTLY WITH  Revoice leader Nate Collins in 2017 as Revoice was being planned and founded. Revoice  founder Collins reviewed Ryan Anderson’s book for Christianity Today and other outlets in 2017. Anderson and Revoice leaders Nate Collins and Preston Sprinkle worked together in a panel in the “Q Ideas “forum led by Tim Keller disciple Gabe Lyons in 2017. Collins and Q Ideas history of this work with Ryan Anderson have been removed from Collins SBTS (TGCs Albert Mohler  SBC seminary) academic resume’ where he studied and worked (for 14 1/2 years) teaching New Testament . Q Ideas no longer list the Anderson/ Collins/ Sprinkle panel event either.

SEAN MCDOWELL 

McDowell is a leading Biola University Apologetics Department instructor. He works with Stand to Reason (STR) apologetics  and several other organizations. Biola is FULLY SUBSCRIBED TO MARK YARHOUSE  and McDowell promotes and interviews him. In 2016 Stand To Reason launched a version of Revoice  CALLED  Rethink in its LGBTQ conversations . On the topic of LGBTQ -“RETHINK APOLOGETICS  is all based on Mark Yarhouse ideology.

JAMES WHITE 

Apologist James White has recently become a big fan of Rosaria Butterfield who is one of the confusing speakers of the modern SSA/ Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity movement out of the TGC/ Yarhouse/ Revoice Stream. White’s daughter is the co-founder of the podcast “sheologians” which interviewed  Nate Collins promoting Revoice in 2018. White is very close to the Masters Seminary / John MacArthur camp yet remains silent as an apologetic leader to the Master’s Seminary training of Revoice leader Preston Sprinkle.White is also involved in controversial Interfaith Dialog with anti semitic   Muslims leader. Now White  is working in the AFA project with Mark Yarhouse subscribers.

 

 

https://inhisimage.movie/contributors/

The AFA film project says it wants to address issues of Gender and Sexuality in the throws of the LGBTQ movement and it’s deepening inroads into the church.Yet it now shares the shocking DNA from the Revoice movement which is now splitting several denominations including the PCA.  AFA and the God’s Voice Conference have come together with these key Revoice / Yarhouse idealist.

THE FILM IS “EQUIPPING THE CHURCH” WITH THE VERY SOURCE OF THE REVOICE MOVEMENT.

“About”
“This feature length documentary is an urgent message designed to equip the church to biblically answer culturally controversial questions concerning gender and sexuality.
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(IMAGES FROM AFA /IN HIS IMAGE SOCIAL MEDIA)

“If you want to learn more about the film, IN HIS IMAGE  Delighting in God’s Plan for Gender and Sexuality, go to https://inhisimage.movie/  ”

“An urgent message
Every church in America is filled with hurting people asking these tough questions: Can you be gay and be a Christian? What if someone genuinely feels trapped in the wrong body? Did God make me this way? Is change even possible?
In His Image is a critical and urgent message designed to equip the church to answer culturally controversial questions about gender and sexuality. This feature-length documentary presents much-needed truth with compassion and clarity through the use of:”
  • powerful personal testimonies
  • careful Bible teaching
  • scientific evidence
“Why: For years, we at American Family Association (AFA) have watched the momentum of LGBT affirming “churches” continue to grow with little or no pushback from Bible-believing pastors and churches. It is our deeply held conviction that, now more than ever, true followers of Christ must be ready to engage culture with truth and compassion by offering the gospel to those who are sexually broken.
Host: AFA is pleased to partner with Dr. Michael Brown, host of the daily, nationally syndicated talk radio show “The Line of Fire,” which also airs on the NRB TV Network. Dr. Brown is the perfect host for this topic. He’s the author of such books as Can You Be Gay and Christian?and Outlasting the Gay Revolution, and he holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages.”

DOCUMENTING THE TIES AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE CONTRIBUTORS YARHOUSE TIES

YARHOUSE IDEOLOGY EXPLAINED 

Yarhouse and his Center have moved from Regent to Wheaton

https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/mark-yarhouse/

Yarhouse consulting efforts are rooted in the secular and  highly gay activist inhabited and Atheistic inspired APA. His work operates on the assertions of “SOGI”. His work with APA is interfaith ini it’s application. Among Christians Yarhouse works with Side A (Fully Affirming of LGBTQ Christian groups ) and Side B ( non affirming of LGBTQ Christian groups) as well as  “everything in between ” according to Yarhouse own publications.His counseling goal is to help reconcile clients faith identity to their sexual and gender identity however that is needs to be navigated. For “side A Christians”this means the full acceptance of LGBTQ Christianity .For “side B Christians” this means  Acceptance of LGBTQ Christianity with the caveat of “SSA but Celibate or “married in mixed orientation  marriage gay and straight couples .Such “side B “believers are viewed as cross bearers own heros of the faith who deny their “unchanging sexual desires ” and remain celibate or marry with out sexual attraction to the opposite sex. Confusing yes but considered in the Yarhouse and Revoice TGC world to be a gospel success to be celebrated loudly

Yarhouse blog

About

Yarhouse work with “LGBTQ Christians” and family .

https://psychologyandchristianity.wordpress.com

CAN THIS APA SECULAR /ATHEISTIC / ACTIVIST IDEOLOGY BE “CHRISTIANIZED” ?

TGC THINKS IT CAN AND NOW AFA AND GOD’S VOICE THINK THEY CAN COLLABORATE.

 

A DEEPER LOOK INTO THE AFA FILM CONTRIBUTORS

https://inhisimage.movie/contributors/

KEVIN DEYOUNG IS A CENTRAL TGC LEADER NOW AFA REP

TGC SIGNED FULLY ON TO MARK YARHOUSE SOGI NARRATIVE IN 2010

TGC promotes Yarhouse books.

Understanding Gender Dysphoria

TGC  fully embraces his disciples even publishing  many of the Revoice leaders openly prior to the Revoice controversy.

TGC reviewed Revoice founder Nate Collins book in December 2017 just before the public launch of Revoice.

Figuring Out Faithfulness with Same-Sex Attraction

In 2013 TGC had Nate Collins now founder of Revoice review Sam Allberry’s SSA but Celibate book for TGC. Allberry is another Yarhouse Disciple and founded “Living Out” with Ed Shaw and other TGC contributors who claim to be gay celibate Christians. At times the word games and flip flops deny this claim but in the end this is the category they inhabit at Living Out. TGCs Tim Keller spoke at the 2018 Living Out event in London as Allberry adn Living Out promoted Collins “Revoice for  our US Audience”.

 

Is God Anti-Gay? – The Gospel Coalition

http://www.thegospelcoalition.org › reviews › god-anti-gay
Jul 15, 2013 – Nate Collins reviews Sam Allberry’s ‘Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attraction’

Nate Collins now of REvoice TGC profile “Nate Collins is the executive director of Aligned Grace Resources, a ministry he founded with his father to equip churches to minister the grace and truth of the gospel to people affected by same-sex attraction. Nate and his wife, Sara, live with their two sons in Louisville, Kentucky, where he is pursuing a PhD in New Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. You can follow him on Twitter. ”

 

TGC AND THE PCA SENT DEYOUNG OUT EARLY IN THE REVOICE CONTROVERSY TO RUN INTERFERENCE TO REVOICE.

Words, Labels, and ‘Sexual Minorities’

Kevin Deyoung who is now appearing in the AFA film with God’s Voice Conference leader Stephen Black .GVC was sole effort in the 2018 organizing was to fully expose Revoice . Now  AFA and Stephen Black/ GVC align with an assortment of TGC leaders and Mark  Yarhouse ideology  subscribers.

DEYOUNG’S PCA DENOMINATION AND REVOICE – THE SPLIT AND THE BAND-AID

THE PCA JUST RECEIVED THE WHITEWASH OF REVOICE FROM AN APPOINTED  “COMMITTEE “INVESTIGATING THE ISSUES RELATED TO IT. DEYOUNG WAS A PART OF THE COMMITTEE WHICH UTILIZED THE RESOURCES, INCLUDING YARHOUSE WHICH IN FACT CREATED THE VERY CONCERNS WHICH BIRTHED THE PCA COMMITTEE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

DEYOUNG’S ROLE IN PROVIDING CONTINUED COVER FOR THE REVOICE IDEOLOGY WHICH IS SPLITTING THE PCA DENOMINATION IS DISCUSSED HERE :

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICAN NOW OWNED BY TGC “RE-VICE” GAY LOBBY

Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Human Sexuality

Deyoung and TGC mentor Tim Keller were both part of the VERY compromised PCA Committee appointed in 2019 General Assembly to “Report” on the issues surrounding LGBTQ/ Orientation and Revoice. The Committee members all subscribe to Mark Yarhouse and have yet to denounce/ overtly condemn Revoice .

DEYOUNG AND THE LARGER SOCIAL JUSTICE/CULTURAL MARXISM  CONTROVERSY

KEVIN DEYOUNG SAYS REJECTING SOCIAL JUSTICE WILL SEND YOU TO HELL.

DE YOUNG IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE IN TGC

Seven Passages on Social Justice (4)

Seven Passages on Social Justice (4)

DEYOUNG EVEN INSIST PEOPLE WHO DO NOT EMBRACE SOCIAL JUSTICE WILL GO TO HELL .
”  Jesus says if we are too embarrassed, too lazy, or too cowardly to support our fellow Christians who depend on our assistance and are suffering for the sake of the gospel, we will go to hell. We should not make this passage say anything more or less than this.”

NOW DEYOUNG IS THE FEATURED CONTRIBUTOR TO AFA’S FILM

WHY?

 

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“This feature length documentary is an urgent message designed to equip the church to biblically answer culturally controversial questions concerning gender and sexuality.”
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MORE MUTUAL AFA AND GVC PROMOTION

 

“After seeing the image below, do you think you’re aware of how much the LGBT agenda has inundated our culture?

And the church? If your not paying attention it is coming into mainline evangelical churches nationwide!

We need https://inhisimage.movie to give HOPE for the church and our culture.”

(photos of contributors to AFA film below are from AFA link above)

GODS VOICE LEADER STEPHEN BLACK IS A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE AFA FILM

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Stephen Black

 

 

AFA CONTRIBUTOR RYAN T. ANDERSON AND REVOICE CLOSE TIES .

 

ANDERSON OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION IS A DEVOTED ECHO OF RUSSELL MOORE OF THE ERLC AND OF TGC WHO BOTH PROMOTED REVOICE LEADERS.

https://www.heritage.org/staff/ryan-anderson

In 2017 while Revoice was being planned and organized Ryan T Anderson , Revoice leader Preston Sprinkle and Nate Collins founder ,still teaching NT at Albert Mohler’s SBTS, appeared in a panel as part of Gabe Lyons “Q Ideas”. Collins on 3 page academic resume .curriculum from SBTS showed the event with Ryan T Anderson and Collins working together in 2017 on page 2. The Collins  CV . The SBTS academia page is now only two pages and does not include the Q Ideals/ Anderson work nor any of the other organizations/events Revoice leader Collins appeared in.

Collins current altered CV without Ryan T Anderson -2 pages

https://independent.academia.edu/NateCollins3/CurriculumVitae

Collins original CV with all three pages including the Ryan T Anderson work

 

Collins original 3 page CV /Resume’ can be provided in pdf form which shows the Anderson/Collins/ Sprinkle Q Ideas forum event if requested .

The ties to Heritage Foundations Ryan T Anderson and Revoice founder Nate Collins

are discussed in fuller detail here in August 2018 just after the 2018 July Revoice event.

The Stain of Revoice

“IS HERITAGE FOUNDATION BEING REVOICED? HOW THE “LGBT CHRISTIANITY” OF REVOICE COULD BRING DOWN CONSERVATIVE DENOMINATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE NATION.”

 

The Stain of Revoice

 

 

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SEAN MCDOWELL APPEARING IN THE AFA FILM

BIOLA UNIVERSITY APOLOGETICS LEADER AND STAND TO REASONS RETHINK A.K.A. REVOICE LITE PROMOTES YARHOUSE AND IS IN AFA FILM

Sean McDowell and Biola/ Stand to Reason/ Rethink( aka Revoice lite ) are key Outlets for the ideology of Yarhouse to younger apologetics audiences .

 

https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2018/the-church-and-the-lgbtq-conversation

featured in Biola’s site and McDowells own .com

https://seanmcdowell.org/podcasts/episode/15

(Like Ryan T Anderson ,Sean is having the conversation with one of the main thought leaders of Revoice in February 2018 )

The Church and the LGBTQ Conversation

with Mark Yarhouse

Sean McDowellScott Rae — 

“What is the church doing well in the LGBTQ conversation? Where can we improve? In this podcast, Sean McDowell and Scott Rae interview Dr. Mark Yarhouse about these questions and more. They ask Dr. Yarhouse some of the toughest questions surrounding this issue, and he responds with wisdom and insight. As a trained psychologist, Dr. Yarhouse brings a uniquely balanced and research-based approach to this issue.”

“Sean McDowell, Ph.D. is a professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University, best-selling author, popular speaker, part-time high school teacher, and the Resident Scholar for Summit Ministries, California. Follow him on Twitter: @sean_mcdowell”

RETHINK IS REVOICE LITE ON LGBTQ

BIOLAS RETHINK APOLOGETICS =REVOICE LITE -ALL BASED ON YARHOUSE REVOICE DOCTRINE OF SOGI

https://www.love2020.com/event/rethink-apologetics-orange-county-ca/

https://store.str.org/product-p/dvd067.htm

 

“This year’s conference theme, FOCUS, is all about rethinking how you understand the world, especially in areas of law, politics, race, gender, morality, and science. And we’ve employed some of the brightest Christian minds to tackle these tough topics. This DVD resource includes audio of selected breakout sessions, as well as video of the following featured presentations from our 2017 Southern California conference:”

 

  • Sean McDowell – What Is a Worldview and Why Is It Important?
  • Christopher Yuan – A Christian’s Response to Homosexuality
  • J. Warner Wallace – reTHINK How to Engage Your Faith
  • Walter Strickland – A Candid Conversation on Race and Grace
  • Christopher Yuan – Are People Born Gay?
  • J. Warner Wallace – Evil Is Evidence That Christianity Is True
  • Greg Koukl, Alan Shlemon, Tim Barnett, & Brett Kunkle – The Story of Reality

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JAMES WHITE AND THE AFA FILM PROJECT

DISCERNMENT APOLOGIST FROM MACARTHUR FOLD IS IN AFA FILM WITH YARHOUSE PROMOTERS.

James White is a close associate of the Masters Seminary  John MacAthur camp. Masters graduate and REVOICE LEADER Preston Sprinkle holds two degrees from MacArthur’s Seminary and and has YET to be called out by his mentors at Masters for his Revoice participation. Sprinkle speaks at Revoice and Yarhouse events and  he and Yarhouse work in leadership with each others organizations. White has not spoken to the Sprinkle Revoice ties to date (as far as research can provide).

PRO MUSLIM INTERFAITH DIALOG MOVES IN UNISON WITH THE LGBTQ RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH

White has his OWN ISSUES with involvement in Interfaith Dialog.

World View Weekend researcher Brannon Howse has exposed the radical connections and hateful rhetoric  of an Interfaith Dialog leader INTERVIEWED  by White and called for White to denounce it. This James White controversy continues to be a widespread issue and to date White has not altered his course.

“I am calling on James White to publicly denounce Muslim Brotherhood & Yasir Qadhi. Publicly apologize & repent for your interfaith dialogue with Yaser and for saying you sense a kindred spirit with him, giving a platform for his antichrist religion, and asking him to make a video from which Christians can learn about Islam. I am also calling on Phil Johnson of Grace to You to publicly repent and apologize for being all over social media for weeks & on a podcast defending James White’s interfaith dialogue with this reported Muslim Brotherhood aligned Jihadi preaching Imam.”

JAMES WHITE INTER FAITH CONTROVERSY IS WIDESPREAD CONCERN 

https://www.christiantimes.com/article/christian-apologist-james-white-draws-criticism-for-holding-interfaith-dialogue-with-muslim-imam/72525.htm

WHITE DAUGHTER AND REVOICE

JAMES WHITE DAUGHTER INTERVIEWED REVOICE FOUNDER NATE COLLINS AND PROMOTED REVOICE ON HER “SHEOLOGIANS ” PODCAST IN 2018

https://www.sheologians.com/revoice-conference-nate-collins/

“The upcoming Revoice conference has caused quite a stir in the conservative evangelical world. It includes speakers who call themselves gay, Catholics, “Spiritual Friendship” proponents, and language about “sexual minorities” that begs a lot of questions. So we decided to invite the founder of the conference, Nate Collins, a writer and former teacher at Southern Seminary, to come and answer some questions for us and talk about the conference. We might have more questions now than we did before, but we appreciate Nate taking the time to talk with us, and we hope this conversation encourages you to dive deeper in how we think and talk about this topic. It is not one that the church will be able to get on with without thinking more intensely about. Soli Deo Gloria!”

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EVERETT PIPER ,GODS VOICE SPEAKER SCHEDULED FOR 2020 IS IN AFA FILM WITH YARHOUSE /TGC FOLLOWERS.

“Are we willing to sacrifice our freedom on this altar of fear? If we are, our country is damaged irreparably.” – Dr. Everett Piper”

EVERETT PIPER (FROM AFA FILM CONTRIBUTORS PAGE) was scheduled to be a speaker in the 2020 God’s Voice Conference which has been cancelled by Covid -19 . Piper was outspoken against Revoice but is now in the project with

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ANOTHER POPULAR TGC AND JOHN PIPER WOMEN’S SPEAKER IN IS THE AFA PROJECT

KASSIAN IS A TGC CONTRIBUTOR AND AN SBTS (ALBERT MOHLER’S SEMINARY WHERE REVOICE WAS BORN) TEACHER .

Mary Kassian

Mary Kassian is the author of several books, including Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild and True Woman 101: Divine Design. She teaches women’s studies modules at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Mary and her husband enjoy biking in the Canadian Rockies, not far from their home in Edmonton, Canada. Check out her blog at GirlsGoneWise.com.

KASSIAN IS ALSO A CONTRIBUTOR AT JOHN PIPERS BETHLEHEM COLLEGE AND SEMINARY

 

https://bcsmn.edu/profile/mary-kassian/

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MICHAEL BROWN WROTE AN EXCELLENT BOOK ON THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT IN 2011 BUT IS NOW IN THE AFA FILM. HE IS ALSO PART OF THE “NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION” MOVEMENT WITH WHICH AFA HAS PAST CONTROVERSIAL TIES.

New Apostolic Reformation has many leaders from the very fringe of the Charismatic movement. Some are promoters of very dangerous Catholic mystic and Jesuit writings and mingle Christian Faith with new age ideologies.

Brown offers his defense of NAR

https://askdrbrown.org/library/dispelling-myths-about-nar-new-apostolic-reformation

 

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ROBERT GAGNON IS CONSIDERED AN EXPERT THEOLOGIAN ON THE ISSUES RELATED TO LGBTQ.

ACCORDING THE GAGNON IN 2018 -HE DOES NOT THINK THAT REVOICE PROMOTING “QUEER AND LGBTQ CHRISTIANITY” WAS HERETICAL.

YET is Dr. Gagnon is NOW working along with AFA and GVC leader to promote the TGC/Yarhouse message and doctrine ?

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Robert Gagnon

ACCORDING TO THE AFA WEBSITE FOR THE “IN HIS IMAGE FILM” – MORE INFORMATION IS DUE OUT SOON.

About the Film:

“In His Image is a critical and urgent message designed to equip the church to answer culturally controversial questions about gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective. Every church in America is filled with hurting people asking these tough questions: Can you be gay and be a Christian? What if someone genuinely feels trapped in the wrong body? Did God make me this way? Is change even possible?”

“This feature-length documentary presents much-needed truth with compassion and clarity through powerful personal testimonies, careful Bible teaching, and scientific evidence.”

About the Makers:

“For years, we at American Family Association (AFA) have watched the momentum of LGBT affirming “churches” continue to grow with little or no pushback from Bible-believing pastors and churches. It is our deeply held conviction that, now more than ever, true followers of Christ must be ready to engage culture with truth and compassion by offering the gospel to those who are sexually broken. In 2018, American Family Studios, AFA’s film division, began production of a film to bring clarity to the topic. In His Image has been bathed in prayer from its conception and is AFA’s response to the confusion many are facing.”

AFA reveals t’s projects origins : ” In 2018, American Family Studios, AFA’s film division, began production of a film to bring clarity to the topic.”. Yet given the clear Revoice origins in the APA and Yarhouse messaging- how are the AFA or God’s Voice Conference leaders able to claim it is adding “clarity” by mingling it’s message with the TGC /PCA/ Yarhouse / Revoice origins rooted in the APA / SOGI / “LGBTQ Christianity”and not in the Gospel?

CONCLUSION

The Gospel does not need Revoiced or Rethinking.  Christians need not feel pressured to comply with the new  cultural norms or conform to the ideologies of the gay activist who are in many of the leadership positions in organizations like the APA . We need not come into step  with “Christian” psychologist like Mark Yarhouse or our own Seminary trained SOGI “LGBTQ ACTIVIST OR ADVOCATES ” like Nate Collins or Preston Sprinkle.

American Family Assocaition and God’s Voice Conference efforts to promote the co-mingling of opposition to LGBTQ to the Yarhouse /Revoice message is a deadly fools errand at best or just one more example of opposition going over to the LGBTQ DARK SIDE .

As for me and my House -We will stick with the Everlasting Gospel of Jesus – the Lamb of God. He ever lives to be our faithful High Priest. No other exploration is needed to find the answer .Look to the Rock from which you were hewn and the one who truly made you IN HIS IMAGE.

 

HEBREWS 7

22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICAN NOW OWNED BY TGC “RE-VICE” GAY LOBBY

WITH THE REPORT OF AN “AD INTERIM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SEXUALITY”  -THE PREDETERMINED OUTCOME NOT TO CONDEMN THE “REVOICE LGBTQ THRIVING ” IN THE PCA IS COMPLETE.

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                            5/29/2020

“RE-VICE” MOVEMENT IS A MORE FITTING NAME FOR THE MOVEMENT THAT JUST DESTROYED THE PCA. .. AS THE PCA NO LONGER OFFERS HOPE FOR PEOPLE WANTING OUT OF LGBTQ BONDAGE BUT LEADS THEM AGAIN INTO THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.

Revoice LGBTQ Thriving and related movement  is / has / will continue to “march through the institutions” and churches of the remaining Christian denominations in it’s cross hairs. Much of the formerly faithful church in the US is now done. It began in part in the Seminaries and now, for the PCA at least, the movement is given total cover and cart blanche access to the once conservative denomination.

carte blanche
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noun
  1. “complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.
    “we were given carte blanche“”

BASED SIMPLY ON THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE FACTS.

The PCA report says nothing. Actually – really it says nothing. But it does echo The Gospel Coalition standard raised by the Whitepaper commissioned by TGC leader D. A. Carson of American Psychological Association spokesperson Mark Yarhouse for all things religious and LGBTQ/Gender Identity  issues. We will look quickly at whose information is used to back up the position of the Report. They are all the same TGC /SSA speakers and authors from the last 8 years who have been paraded on the platform to PCA, SBC and the broader evangelical community. The committee itself really predicted and predetermined the outcome in June 2019 when the appointments to the committee were made at the PCA General Assembly. No new voices or biblical case against the movement to promote “LGBTQ Thriving ” in the conservative churches was included.

FIRST: THE REPORT

Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Human Sexuality

 

 

Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Human Sexuality

“The Ad Interim Committee Report on Human Sexuality that has been prepared for the 48th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (originally scheduled for June 2020) is now available.The Ad Interim Committee studied issues assigned by the 47th General Assembly in June 2019. The Report will not be officially presented to the 48th General Assembly until its next scheduled meeting anticipated in 2021. Nevertheless, the Committee is making the Report available to the church at this originally scheduled time because members were commissioned by the Assembly to engage in this study due to pressing needs in our church and society. Our prayer is that the Scriptural solidarity and relational unity we experienced as a Committee will be reflected in what we have written, and may also prove helpful for the unity, witness, and mission of our church and her people.”

“Members of the Committee were chosen to represent varying perspectives in our church, and the Committee has also sought outside counsel from leaders representative of a wide range of organizations, life experiences, and presbyteries. We have been blessed by thoughtful and candid conversations that have found resolution and unified conviction through examining Scripture for answers that address our cultural concerns with Confessional integrity and mutual respect.”

“Statement Drafted by Committee Chairman Bryan Chapell (Teaching Elder), as commissioned by the Ad Interim Committee.”

 

Click to access AIC-Report-to-48th-GA-5-28-20-1.pdf

 

THE REPORT COMMITTEE

Tim Keller and Kevin DeYoung are both popular and top tier TGC leaders. According to several reports Tim Keller’s brother was gay and sadly died of AIDS in or around 2013.

NOTE-We can be compassionate about Keller’s family member and the plight of many other families facing similar trials but this does not give Keller license to move the church toward a more “Welcoming” posture.

Keller became a national figure  when Christianity Today  began promoting his 2008 book. Note CT is an early Revoice supporter and LGBTQ Thriving advocate and works very closely with Revoice leaders even providing former editor Andy Crouch as a Revoice leadership Council member along with many other CT contributors.

https://revoice.us/our-leadership/

As early as 2011 Tim Keller could no longer state that homosexuality was a “sin” in a public, secular setting with Veritas Forum.

Younger TGC leader Kevin DeYoung was among the early TGC affiliated voices sent out to deflect from Revoice controversy in 2018 even though it was being hosted in PCA “Memorial Church ” and had in part been organized through  Covenant Theological Seminary operatives including recent graduates, students, and professors. DeYoung took the company line for the PCA and TGC and gave cover to the Revoice event leading up to the debut conference.

TGC had fully subscribed to Mark Yarhouse APA ideology on sexuality and gender by 2010. Both Keller and DeYoung being key TGC leaders would already know that the APA narrative is TGCs “gold standard” on LGBTQ/ SOGI. Yarhouse by 2019 was openly part of the Revoice event speaking and part of it’s leadership council (Yarhouse leadership mentioned was later removed from Revoice website ). He is welcomed at TGC events and many TGC affiliated Seminaries and Colleges like CTS and Covenant College.

https://www.covenant.edu/calendar/all/2016/10/12-1

 

Keller and DeYoung presence on the Committee to “investigate” the issues related to the Revoice controversy is a brazen mockery of genuine faith and faithful believers in the PCA.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE APA/TGC ECHO CHAMBER?

A quick look at other members of the Committee reveals clearly the outcome of the report was determined in advance.

TE Dr. Bryan Chapell Northern Illinois Presbytery (Chair) Again TGC fully subscribes to Mark Yarhouse APA/ SOGI narrative.

Chapell is a TGC contributor and former CTS President then Chancellor for three decades. He is now Nominated for Stated Clerk of the PCA.

Bryan Chapell Nominated for Stated Clerk

Christ-Centered Preaching

Course Introduction

“About Dr. Bryan Chapell

Bryan Chapell, Ph.D. is Senior Pastor of the historic Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, IL and President Emeritus of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.”

MORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Dr. Jim Weidenaar Pittsburgh Presbytery

Dr. Weidenaar is a psychologist who works with Harvest USA, a once anchoredbiblical PCA affiliated ministry to those struggling with besetting sexual and homosexual temptation. Some Harvest leaders attended Revoice and have declared acceptance of the Yarhouse /APA false assertions of “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” (SOJI ) which is the foundation of the Revoice ideology and brain trust.

https://harvestusa.org/our-mission/regional-offices-staff/pittsburgh-pa/jim-weidenaar/

“Jim Weidenaar joined the Harvest USA staff in June of 2012 as Director for the Greater Pittsburgh Region (GPR). He has a burden to help those struggling with sexual sin, that they will come to understand and experience progress in gospel repentance.”

Harvest USA resources Mark Yarhouse books and ideology. Of course so does the PCA Committee Report as we shall see in a moment.

Good Reads on Gender and Sexuality

MORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Dr. Derek Halvorson Tennessee Valley Presbytery

Dr. Halvorson is current President of Covenant College in Georgia which has played host to Mark Yarhouse teaching and speaking inChapel since at least 2009

https://www.covenant.edu/about/who/leadership/president

“Dr. Derek Halvorson is Covenant College’s sixth president.”

Again Yarhouse speaks often since 2009 at Covenant College

https://www.covenant.edu/news/01.16.09-2

“After graduating from Covenant in 1993, Dr. Halvorson spent time trading foreign currencies in Charlotte and Chicago.”

“Dr. Halvorson serves on the boards of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. ( CCCU)

NOTE: CCCU IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPTED ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION .

CCCU is totally co-opted by LGBTQ lobbyist like AMERICAN UNITY FUND and pro- LGBTQ FUNDING BILLIONAIRE  Paul Singer to support the false compromise of Religious Liberty with LGBTQ inclusion and rights called “Fairness for All” legislation. Singer who is a hedge fund manager financially supports both groups like Human Rights Campaign promoting The Equality Act AND its hedge bet supported by many evangelical organizations called “Fairness for All”

Fairness for All

CCCU Statement on Fairness for All

AGAIN, Covenant President Halvorson works on the board of CCCU who is partnering with Radical gay funder Billionaire Paul Singer who funds Human Rights Campaign and a host of other pro- LGBTQ movements and legislation including the GOP and 2010 Romney campaign for President which deconstructed conservative opposition to gay marriage.

MORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mr. Kyle Keating Missouri Presbytery

https://spiritualfriendship.org/author/kylekeating/

SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP  is the ministry of Revoice leaders and speaker Wesley Hill and Ron Belgau and which hosted both Revoice pre-conference rallies in 2018 and 2019.

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AGIAN- Kyle Keating works in leadership with Spiritual Friendship

Kyle KeatingKyle Keating received his M.Div. at Covenant Theological Seminary and teaches theology and history at a small Christian school in St. Louis, Missouri, where he lives with his wonderful wife Christy. He can be followed on Twitter: @KyleAKeating.

Keating works among the  Editors of the “Revice” leaders

Editors

ron50Ron Belgau is completing a PhD in Philosophy, and teaches medical ethics, philosophy of the human person, ethics, and philosophy of religion. He can be followed on Twitter: @RonBelgau.

Wesley HillWesley Hill is an assistant professor of New Testament at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Zondervan, 2010). He can be followed on Twitter: @WesleyHill.

All of these Spiritual Friendship editors are working with APA and TGC Thought leader Mark Yarhouse

Mark YarhouseMark Yarhouse is Professor of Psychology and the Hughes Endowed Chair at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, where he directs the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity. He can be found on Twitter@markyarhouse.

 

Keating also works with Revoice 2018 speaker radical Eve Tushnet at Spiritual Friendship.

Eve TushnetEve TushnetEve Tushnet is a writer in Washington, DC. She blogs at Patheos and is working on a book on vocations for gay Catholics. She can be followed on Twitter: @EveTushnet

Spiritual Friendship also works very closely with Sam Allberry and Living Out whose London Conference in 2018 promoted Revoice and introduced the “Church LGBTQ  Inclusion Audit ” in 2018.

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MORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

 
Mr. Jim Pocta North Texas Presbytery

“Jim Pocta is a psychotherapist and biblical counselor in Dallas.”

Jim Pocta is a psychologist and TGC contributor who has experienced conflicted Gender Identity as a boy.

I Couldn’t Live the Lie of My Sexuality

“Somehow I just knew it. And I also knew there was something wrong with that, so I’d just have to keep it to myself. After playing dress-up with my six sisters, I’d get to wear their dresses when no one was looking. I’d be the princess in secret. Relief. Other boys had dreams of playing in the World Series; I dreamt of becoming a fabulous woman with a handsome boyfriend.”

Dr. Pocta is used as  a resource by TGC and others with Mark Yarhouse and Revoice leaders like Preston Sprinkle

https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2020/01/08/counseling-gender-questioning-teens-part-1/

A LOOK AT THE PCA COMMITTEE RESOURCES.

Simply put the resources are much more of the same players and narrative which led to the crisis in the PCA over Revoice and SSA and related gender and sexuality issues which led then -to the formation of the committee.

DIZZY YET?

THIS TGC MERRY GO ROUND IS NAUSEATING FOR ANY TRULY CONCERNED PCA MEMBER AND A MOCKERY OF YOUR CONCERNS.

HERE ARE THE COMMITTEE “RESOURCES”

“BOOKS FOR PASTORS AND SESSIONS IN THE COMMITTEE REPORT”

(THE SHORT LIST)

SAM ALLBERRY 
Allberry, Sam. Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible and
Same-Sex Attraction. Purcellville, VA: Good Book Company, 2013.

Allberry, Sam. 7 Myths about Singleness. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019.

Note: Allbery and his ministry Living Out promoted Revoice “for our US Audience” then went into hiding.

KEVIN DE YOUNG

DeYoung, Kevin. What Does the Bible Really Say About Homosexuality? Wheaton, IL:
Crossway, 2015.

NOTE: DeYoung is a TGC leader, subscribes to Yarhouse 2010 Whitepaper and who deflected for Revoice in 2018. Plus he is a Committee Member promoting his own book, Nice objectivity Kevin.

TIM GEIGER 

Geiger, Tim. Explaining LGBTQ+ Identity to Your Child: Biblical Guidance and Wisdom.
Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2018.

NOTE: Tim works for HarvestUSA , Attended Revoice 2018 and now subscribes to Sexual Orientation narrative of Yarhouse and APA according to his review of Revoice.

RACHLE GILSON

Gilson, Rachel. Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next.  Purcellville, VA: Good Book Company, 2020.

NOTE: Gilson is a Revoice leader and works for CRU which is deeply infiltrated with Yarhouse and TGC and the Social Justice false gospel which is very pro Revoice. She is a regular TGC contributor.

REVOICE 2019 /THE GOSPEL COALITION/COVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OVERLAPPING LEADERSHIP

JACKIE PERRY HILL 

Perry, Jackie Hill. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always
Been. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2018.

NOTE: Hill is a TGC regular contributor and her husband works for & Campaign which is working with Billionaire Paul Singer and the CCCU to promote “Fairness for All” LGBTQ empowerment legislation.

VAUGHN ROBERTS

Roberts, Vaughan. Transgender. Purcellville, VA: Good Book Company, 2013.

NOTE: Roberts is a Living Out leader and TGC contributor.

https://www.livingout.org/stories/vaughan

ED SHAW 

Shaw, Ed. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate
34 Life. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2015.

NOTE: Ed Shaw is a Living Out and TGC leader and contributor whose work beyond the Revoice controversy became even more radical .

FURTHER COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

 

BOOKS AND ARTICLES FOR FURTHER STUDY BY THE PCA REPORT COMMITTEE

MORE ALLBERRY

Allberry, Sam. Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With? Purcellville, VA: The Good Book
Company, 2020.

BUTTERFIELD IS A TGC FAVORITE PUSHING “HOSPITALITY ” AND WELCOME OF LGBTQ BY THE CHURCH.

Butterfield, Rosaria. Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith. Pittsburgh, PA: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2012.

DENNY BURK WHO HELPED HIDE REVOICE ORIGINS AT SBTS BAPTIST SEMINARY AND DEFLECT FROM REVOICE EXPOSURE AS THE FIRST TGC / CBM&W LEADER TO WRITE ON REVOICE.

Burk, Denny. What Is the Meaning of Sex? Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013.

 

WESLEY HILL IS A REVOICE AND SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP LEADER AND LIVING OUT CONTRIBUTOR. 

Hill, Wesley. Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010; revised & expanded edition, 2016.

PRESTON SPRINKLE IS A REVOICE LEADER AND MARK YARHHOUSE ASSOCIATE. 

ALSO NOTE: SPRINKLE , A MASTERS SEMINARY GRADUATE, HAS  HAS MADE A CAREER OF LGBTQ ISSUES IN THE CHURCH AS WELL AS WORKING WITH THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS LIKE REVOICE. SPRINKLE “RESOURCES THE CHURCH FOR INCLUSIVENESS THROUGH HIS CENTER FOR FAITH SEXUALITY AND GENDER.

https://centerforfaith.com/about/leadership/dr-preston-sprinkle

PCA COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION OF SPRINKLE BOOK

Sprinkle, Preston. People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue. Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.

CHRISTOPHER YUAN IS A TGC CONTRIBUTOR AND YARHOUSE SUBSCRIBER. 

Yuan, Christopher. Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story. Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2018.

AND OF COURSE THE PCA COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THE BRAIN TRUST /THOUGHT LEADER OF THE REVOICE AND LGBTQ THRIVING MOVEMENT AND SOGI AND APA NARRATIVE …..MARK YARHOUSE.

Yarhouse, Mark A. Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministry. Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.

“Primarily directed toward counseling adolescents who experience same-sex
attraction. Presents in layman’s terms a sexual identity therapy (SIT) framework,
employing secular psychological categories. Yarhouse’s strength, as a social
scientist, lies in his observation of empirical phenomena. This book contains
helpful insights when approached with appropriate Biblical discernment.”

WARNING  :Mark Yarhouse is promoting the American Psychological Association views of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity  (SOGI) not the Word of God or the Gospel that can transform peoples hearts including their sexual lust and desires by the power of Christ blood sacrifice and resurrection.

Yarhouse works with the APA promoting both “side A ” and “side B” and “everything in between” on SOGI counseling issues. He advocates for resolving conflict between a patients “sexual orientation and their faith”.  His work in the APA promotes a broad religious perspective on counseling models rooted – AGAIN -in whatever works to help remove conflict between the LGBTQ patient and their varied religious beliefs or “faith identity”. Yarhouse focus is on reconciling the gender identity based on SOGI , which they assert “cannot change”- with the client/ patient’s faith identity, whatever it may be. The outcome is, if need be, embracing the identity of “LGBTQ Christian or LGBTQ Buddhist or LGBTQ Muslim etc. as needed.Yarhouse APA work is fully interfaith applied.

Yarhouse center has moved from Regent University since Revoice 2018 and is now housed at Wheaton College where a vast assortment of heretical teachings are finding a home. AGAIN TGC adopted Yarhouse in 2010. It has never looked back. Nor is it  now with the PCA leadership in this Committee Report.

http://sexualidentityinstitute.org/sample-page/dr-mark-yarhouse/

“Dr. Yarhouse is the past recipient of the Gary R. Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling (American Association of Christian Counselors) and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at Regent University. He was a past participant with the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC, and he was named Senior Fellow with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to conduct a study of students navigating sexual identity concerns at Christian colleges and universities. He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections under the Department of Justice to address issues facing sexual minorities in corrections, and he was part of a consensus panel from the American Psychological Association on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts that convened to provide input to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Washington, DC. Dr. Yarhouse is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He was recently invited to write the featured white paper on sexual identity for the Christ on Campus Initiative edited by Don A. Carson for The Gospel Coalition.”

 

BELOVED YOUR DENOMINATION IS GONE !

 

CONCLUSION

ALL THESE VOICES ARE COMING FROM THE SAME ECHO CHAMBER BEHIND REVOICE AND LIVING OUT AND THE LGBTQ THRIVING IN THE CHURCH MOVEMENT.

The PCA Committee members, support, and resources and therefore conclusions are nothing more than a walk through a review of the VERY influences which produced the LGBTQ Thriving movement in the PCA.

PCA Believers -your denomination is gone – your leaders have tolerated compromise and allowed infiltration that has been focused to deceive you and your children and  pervert your faith. Stop giving these people and this organization and it’s affiliates money unless you agree with LGBTQ “Christianity “, “Queer Christianity” and the APA false concept of SOJO promoted my Mark Yarhouse. All these influences into the TGC in 2010 and the mainstream of evangelicalism and are aiding efforts to destroy religious liberty and redefine “Human Rights” globally.

The PCA is in APOSTASY and has merely hustled it’s membership with this Report and the movement that led up to it.

Get out- Get your family out – get your grandchildren OUT…NOW.

ISAIAH 1

Judah Called to Repentance

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Wickedness of Judah

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;
The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s [a]crib;
But Israel does not know,
My people do not [b]consider.”

Alas, sinful nation,
A people [c]laden with iniquity,
[d]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.

Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.

Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
So the daughter of Zion is left as a [e]booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
As a besieged city.
Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:
11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.

12 “When you come to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
13 Bring no more futile[f] sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you [g]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [h]blood.

16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,
17 Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke [i]the oppressor;
[j]Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.

18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
20 But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The Degenerate City

21 How the faithful city has become a [k]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now murderers.
22 Your silver has become dross,
Your wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebellious,
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

24 Therefore the Lord says,
The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, I will [l]rid Myself of My adversaries,
And [m]take vengeance on My enemies.
25 I will turn My hand against you,
And thoroughly[n] purge away your dross,
And take away all your alloy.
26 I will restore your judges as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
And her [o]penitents with righteousness.
28 The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For [p]they shall be ashamed of the [q]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.
30 For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.
31 The strong shall be as tinder,
And the work of it as a spark;
Both will burn together,
And no one shall quench them.