Here is Laurie Higgins stopping the presses at IFI:
Leftist Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke has penned a column titled on the recently released Nashville Statement. His article is titled “150 Evangelicals DENY love for LGBT people.” The Nashville Statement is a critically important and desperately needed document that succinctly affirms theologically orthodox positions on homosexuality, marriage, and the objective goodness and immutability of maleness and femaleness.
The Nashville Statement signatories include these Evangelical luminaries: Sam Allberry, Alistair Begg Michael Brown, Rosaria Butterfield, Denny Burk, D.A. Carson, Francis Chan, Matt Chandler, Mark Dever, Kevin DeYoung, James Dobson, Ligon Duncan, John Frame, David French, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Wayne Grudem, R. Kent Hughes, John MacArthur, C. J. Mahaney, Al Mohler, Russell Moore, J. P. Moreland, Paul Nyquist, Marvin Olasky, J.I. Packer, Tony Perkins, John Piper, R. C. Sproul, Thomas Schreiner, Sam Storms, Owen Strachan, Eric Teetsel, Bruce Ware, and Christopher Yuan.
Pastor, theologian, and signatory John Piper says this about the Nashville Statement:
It speaks with forthright clarity, biblical conviction, gospel compassion, cultural relevance, and practical helpfulness. There is no effort to equivocate for the sake of wider, but muddled, acceptance.
It is built on the persuasion that the Christian Scriptures speak with clarity and authority for the good of humankind.
Here are Huppke’s beliefs about what Scripture teaches about love—which is something quite different from what Scripture teaches about love:
The love Jesus encouraged is often distorted in ways that, in my mind, run afoul of what the man was talking about. The Nashville Statement is one of those distortions, a declaration that some love is acceptable and some love isn’t…. I don’t buy that. I’ll never buy that….
What must Huppke think of the judgmentalism of Jesus who told the adulteress to stop “loving” all those men? And what about the Apostle Paul who condemned a man for “loving” his step-mother? And then there was that judgmental Moses carrying on about those who “love” their close relatives and animals.
Read more: Illinois Family Institute
Other articles on the topic:
Can a Progressive’s ‘Inclusive Values’ Include Christianity? (National Review Online)
The Nashville Statement Isn’t About Trump, And A Ton of Evangelicals Support It (The Federalist)
The Progressives Who Cried Bigotry (The Week)
Why The Nashville Statement Is Needed (The American Conservative)
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