This misconceived notion of the gospel believes that for God to genuinely love us, he has to love everything about us. Progressive Christians are under the wrong impression that ours is a gospel of affirmation: the idea that God affirms everything we think and say and do and want. The reality is that Christians cannot get gay marriage wrong unless they first get the gospel wrong. Their more-tolerant-than-Jesus definition of marriage (Mark 10:6-9) is, to use HarrisвЂ™ own words, incredibly damaging not only to the church, but to the most vulnerable as well. Whether approaching the issue from a natural law perspective where male and female complementarity features prominently, or considering the most widely ratified treaty in human history outlines a childвЂ™s right to be known and loved by their mother and father, or through the lens of scripture where God joins together man and woman in life-long union because he is seeking вЂњgodly offspringвЂќ (Malachi 2), Christian leaders have no excuse for getting marriage wrong. If this is your first time to the childвЂ™s rights party, let me throw you a bone - itвЂ™s because the scriptural and historical purposeВ of marriage is child-centric, and gay kids need their moms and dads, too.Д«ut Christian leaders who get sex and marriage wrong? Get off my lawn. I have clocked numerous hours conversing at the coffee shop in an effort to help them understand how I can love them wholeheartedly andВ reject gay marriage. Once you shift the authority from sola scripturaВ to sola feels, itвЂ™s only a matter of time before every other orthodox teaching finds itself on the woke chopping block.ДЄs a pastorвЂ™s wife and a childrenвЂ™s rights activist, I have a great deal of patience for nonbelievers and my LGBT friends who have questions about my support for traditional marriage.

ThatвЂ™s because to arrive at these вЂњinclusiveвЂќ and вЂњaffirmingвЂќ positions on marriage, Christians must exalt intoxicants such as emotion over uncompromising scripture, tradition, and natural law. The denial of sexual and marital norms by believers is often adjacent to a rejection of the core tenets of the faith. Rejecting Marriage Means Rejecting Scripture I suppose Harris is just following the crowd, as entire mainline denominationsВ are embracing the zeitgeist. ItвЂ™s no coincidence that Harris reversed himself on biblical teachings on sex and marriage while abandoning the core tenets of the faith. In August, Harris announced that he and his wife Shannon were divorcing, that he no longer considers himself a Christian, and that he regrets вЂњstanding against marriage equality.вЂќ Just in case the point was lost on any of us, he followed up his announcement by posting a picture of himself eating a rainbow donut at the Vancouver Pride parade. In a recent interview, newly ex-mega-church pastor Joshua Harris and author of the 1990s best-seller вЂњI Kissed Dating GoodbyeвЂќ remarked that the support President Trump has received from the evangelical community has been вЂњincredibly damaging to the gospel and to the church.вЂќ IвЂ™d wager Harris is projecting something fierce.

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