A "PROGRESSIVE 'CHRISTIAN' COMMUNITY", LED BY FORMER PENTECOSTAL,
SINKS INTO FULL APOSTASY
SEE: https://juicyecumenism.com/2017/11/09/gracepointe-church/
EVANGELICAL MEGACHURCH WITHERS AFTER SUPPORTING “GAY MARRIAGE”
EXCERPTS:
"GracePointe was no exception: a 2015 article from the Nashville Scene reported significant departures: both members of the church’s Board of Elders and half of the congregation’s 2,200-person membership quickly decamped following the LGBT announcement.
"GracePointe was no exception: a 2015 article from the Nashville Scene reported significant departures: both members of the church’s Board of Elders and half of the congregation’s 2,200-person membership quickly decamped following the LGBT announcement.
Changes ultimately were not limited to teachings on sexuality. In August, the Nashville Star reported that GracePointe would share space with another progressive congregation, now describing itself as “unapologetically interfaith”.
GracePointe has listed the 12,000-square-foot modernist chapel and 22 acre property where the church has met since 2009. The property, initially listed in February at $7.5 million, was dropped to $5.7 million in March and $4.9 million in April according to real estate records. The property is now under contract according to the Franklin Patch, and the sale could finalize by year’s end."
EVANGELICAL MEGACHURCH WITHERS AFTER SUPPORTING “GAY MARRIAGE”
BY DAVID CLOUD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
(Friday Church News Notes, December 1, 2017, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - We reported in February 2015 that GracePointe Church near Nashville had changed its stance on “gay Christianity.” After country music star Carrie Underwood spoke in favor of “gay marriage” in 2012, the pastor led the church in a three-year process of “listening on the topic of sexual orientation and identity.” Though the matter has been settled in Scripture for thousands of years and Bible-believing churches since the apostles have universally treated homosexuality as a sin to be repented of, the very modern senior pastor Stan Mitchell led GracePointe to accept homosexuals into “the full privileges of membership,” including “being able to serve in leadership.” Two years later, Out & About Nashville reports that GracePointe is a shadow of its former self. Attendance has fallen by more than two thirds, from 700-800 to 250, and the church is selling its multi-million dollar property. Mitchell told reporter Julie Chase, “We need to get being LGBGQI off the sin list, because it’s killing kids” (“Stan Mitchell and GracePointe,” O&AN, Sep. 8, 2017). No amount of “listening” and cunning exegesis can change the Bible’s simple and clear teaching that marriage is limited to one man and one woman and that any sexual relationship apart from sacred marriage is sin before God. “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). Mitchell frames the issue in terms of “love.” If we love the homosexual, we are supposed to sympathize with his condition rather than sit in judgment on him. In fact, the issue is love, but the first direction of our love must be toward God, as per His first law (Deuteronomy 6:5), and toward His infallible Word which cuts against the grain of this proud generation. Further, the call for sinners to repent is the truest definition of love, for this makes it possible for them to have a right relationship with God. Mitchell also frames the issue in terms of inclusion. He says that “inclusion means that we can live together in agreement and disagreement.” That is not what Paul taught. “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be
NO DIVISIONS among you; but that ye be PERFECTLY JOINED TOGETHER
IN THE SAME MIND and in the same judgment” (1 Cor. 1:10).
There is no unity in diversity here.
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