Alistair begg gay marriage

During the interview, Begg recounted talking to a woman whose grandchild was getting married to someone who was transgender. Begg, who opposes same-sex weddings, suggested she go to the. Pastor Alistair Begg says he won't repent for his counsel to a grandmother who wanted to attend her grandson's same-sex wedding. He argues that his advice was based on biblical principle and compassion, not affirmation or revilement. Begg lost his weekday morning show on American Family Radio over resurfaced audio of the pastor advising a grandmother to attend an LGBTQ wedding.

Pastor and radio host Alistair Begg doubled down on remarks he made in a podcast, advising a grandmother to attend her grandson’s LGBTQ wedding. Begg, 71, said he is “not ready to repent over this” in a sermon last Sunday at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Alistair Begg was removed from hosting his podcast on the Christian network, American Family Radio, after clips from a September episode recirculated online, in which he advised a grandmother.

Pastor Begg got immense blowback. His radio ministry was taken off some radio stations. Such is life these days in the media world of evangelical America. But did pastor Begg really make a mistake? Should I as a Christian, show support to my grandchild in marrying a non Christian? Whether my grandchild is entering into a marriage with a non-Christian, or is a non Christian, should I attend and support a wedding that does not embody Christian commitments?

Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. With Rev. In such a case, attending the wedding can be more than an act of friendship, it can be an act of witness. Now I already know that the phrasing of this question will raise red flags of all sorts for Christians, whether conservative or progressive.

For the progressives, it assumes a difference a radical difference between a Christian and other forms of marriage. This appears excluding and judgmental. I need to explain why, but for now, I contend that a regular process of sexuality discipleship in our churches, that is part of everyday life as Christians kind of like the Eucharist , makes possible the Christian attending a non-Christian or perhaps a gay marriage in love.

But most churches do not have such a discipleship process for those getting married or being single, or for those sorting out gender and sexuality. Most churches have pre-marital counseling, but such counseling rarely goes beyond compatibility tests, conflict resolution styles. They do not connect Jesus to the practice of marriage, sexuality and gender.

Many churches have policy statement pronouncements - Affirming or Not Affirming. No discipleship practices are offered for those getting married, staying single, sorting out gender and sexuality. We can no longer assume that what marriage means in the culture, and what it means under Christ, is the same thing. And yet, this distinction seems lost among protestant churches in N America Among both evangelicals and protestant mainline, Catholics I think do a better job at this.

And so, if the couple getting married do not know what distinguishes a Christian and a non-Christian marriage, if they only know a policy statement of not-affirming from the home church of the grandmother, then her disapproval of the wedding comes off as an act of condescending judgement.

And of course, this should be open to all persons whose sexuality and gender has been tainted by the ravages of abuse, bad gender constructs like toxic masculinity , ography, family dysfunction, the sexualization of bodies in culture, etc etc. Such a discipleship process would NOT set forth a new set of rules and ideals ala Purity culture. Rather it would describe what kinds of commitments and practices make possible a union of two people in mutual submission to Christ and His working among them.

It would describe marriage as a calling of God, versus a contractual arrangement to get my needs met, or find my self-fulfillment in another person.

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It would describe a commitment to raise children. Such a discipleship process would deconstruct the various attractions, scripted desires we have been trained into via culture and its media. It would differentiate lust from attraction. We would learn together how marriage cannot be based on immediate sexual attraction, although as we give ourselves over to each other, and the unique melding of sexuality, love, commitment, grows attraction over time, attraction itself becomes a wonderful fruit of a life lived in commitment to one another, even when we get old, and wrinkly this requires a deconstruction of cultural constructs of attraction.

We would learn that husband and wives MAY have different roles, but never is one spouse over another but always submitted one to another in the presence of Christ Ephesians Such a Christian marriage is based in mutuality. And the presence of Christ in the space of marriage is key. Granted many may have convulsions today at the thought of the church doing any kind of discipleship with regard to sexuality and gender.