Posted on 07/01/2023 6:32:17 AM PDT by Morgana
With the news that North Point Community Church is still committed to hosting the controversial Unconventional Conference, where Andy Stanley will be a keynote speaker, two more speakers have been added to the list.
The conference is being put on by Embracing the Journey, a radical gay-affirming ministry that partners with North Point that offers to counsel parents of struggling LGBTQ+ children.
Notably, nearly all the speakers are gay-affirming and pro-homosexuality, some radically so, including at least one in a ‘gay marriage.’ While some have suggested the conference would be canceled after the revelation of who the speakers are coming to light, new announcements show it’s right on schedule and has garnered “unprecedented” interest.
Because a distinct portion the leadership at North Point is gay-affirming, the speaker list refects this, with almost all of them being pro-homosexuality in one way or another.
Greg and Lynn Mcdonald are both affirming. Their organization recommends all pro-queer resources and endorses books about why the bible celebrates homosexuality, rather than condemns it.
Andy Stanley is affirming, according to testimony by three pastors, and a famed apologist, as well as the ministries he allows to flourish in his church.
Debbie Causey is an affirming, pro-gay pastrix at North Point who celebrates affirming ministries and is a board member of the pro-LGBTQ advocacy group Renovus.
Justin Lee is the founder of the world’s biggest pro-LGBTQ advocacy group, and regularly promotes homosexuality as an excellent and normative orientation.
Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee is a pro-LGBTQ affirming author who wrote a book about it Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBTQ Christians with Response to Critics
Dr Michael Sytsma sits on the board of Directors of Pro-LGBTQ organization Embracing the Journey and has appeared with North Point staffer Ryan Gray on the church’s Care Network several times as a teacher.
Brian Nietzel is a gay man married to his ‘husband’ and is the founder of the pro-LBGTQ advocacy group Renovus, where several members of North Point Church sit on the board.
Al Causey is Debbie’s husband and the Adult Ministries & Ministry Services Director at Gwinnett Church, one of North Point’s satellite churches.
David Quinones – a parent of a gay son and a frequent speaker at Embracing the Journey, he builds bridges that foster healing and reconciliation between the church, LGBTQ+ individuals, and their families. He recently created a Family Care Group for family members of gay kids.
Now, the conference has added two more speakers to the mix. One is Pastor Chris Kim, Director of Adult Ministry Environments at Woodstock City Church, which is one of North Point’s multisite churches. He’s doing a presentation on “Your Core Beliefs and Why They’re Important: Understanding How Differences Don’t Have to Separate Us.” The second is S. LaShay Dowley, a Christian sex therapist and owner of Owner of Enduring Connections Counseling Group, doing a talk on “The Walking Wounded Caring for You and Your Child’s Mental Health.”
It is unclear whether or not they join the rest of the speakers in being gay-affirming.
Never heard of North Point Community Church and I guess it will disappear soon
Andy Snakely
Do you follow the news items about evangelical Christianity?
Is that a point of interest for you?
I know there are many different news threads and topics that different people focus on…. I know I don’t follow all the different currents of thought here on FR.
It seems like most of the mainstream churches feel they must conform to society, not society should conform to Christian doctrine. In doing so they make a fatal and eternal mistake.
Follow the money.
Many churches are dying just like Bud Light as a brand is dying.
Could there be a connection? /s
I never heard of them until last night but then again I’m not evangelical
Who is this? Is there some connection to the late Charles Stanley?
“Follow the money.”
Hear, hear!
Also, the thought that if one’s precious son or daughter engages in it, it can’t be sin.
It’s his son and he’s wicked
I don’t know about any of the readers here, but I can spot a work, emergent church within mere SECONDS of viewing their services and speeches.
Andy Stanley is Charles Stanley’s son. Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of the Atlanta metro megachurch, North Point Ministries.
Andy is his son. I don’t know if Charles Stanley condones the behavior of his son though and it’s odd he’s so silent about it considering they are both pretty high profile and in the mainstream.
“Breaking news”? Really? Nobody cares. Never heard of these idiots.
Don’t understand your post.
Well, one reason may be that Charles Stanley has been dead for almost three months.
Well, I am no biblical scholar and have never heard of North Point Community Church before this sprang up on Free Republic, but this LGBTQwerty stuff seems a little un-biblical to me.
I sorta kinda reccomember something about Sodom and Gomorrah in there sommers.
Boy Howdy in Genesis 19 I think, there sure was a lot of Heing and Sheing, heing and heing, sheing and sheing, daddying and daughtering and even more stuff that I have never really understood.
But the Good Lord decided it needed to stop and he stopped it.
But now some Churches are saying it is OK?
Yup. Un-Biblical.
These guys are buckling under the LGBTIMSCREWEDUP+ pressure. Wait until the anti-christ tells them they can’t buy anything unless they worship him. They will rationalize and buckle in about 1 day.
I have because I don’t rely on FR for all my news
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