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Pastor Alistair Begg Says Christians Should Attend Gay Weddings So They Don’t Come Across as ‘Judgmental, Critical’
Protestia ^ | Jan 18, 2024 | Protestia Staff

Posted on 01/19/2024 5:52:34 AM PST by fwdude

Alistair Begg is the senior pastor at Parkside Church near Cleveland, Ohio and is perhaps best known for his syndicated radio program, Truth for Life. He has authored and coauthor of several books, including Preaching for God’s Glory, Name above All Names, and the Christian Manifesto. With a reputation as a sound teacher, he can occasionally be found on the conservative preaching circuit, and is a speaker at the upcoming Shepherds Conference alongside John MacArthur and Steve Lawson.

During a recent program of Truth for Life, Begg offers a scenario where a Christian woman called in saying that her grandson is about to marry a ‘transgendered person’ (either another man who has ‘transitioned’ to a ‘woman’, or a woman who has ‘transitioned’ into a ‘man’) and wants to know if she should attend the wedding.

Noting that “people may not like this answer,” Begg says that as long as grandson knows that she believes it is sinful and she does not agree with it, then she SHOULD attend the ceremony, and even buy them a gift, because if not, her absence will simply reinforce the fact that she is “judgmental” and “critical.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: alistairbegg; begg; homosexualagenda
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To: cgbg

Correct; there is, in fact, no such thing. Yet some out there insist for some reason that a.) it exists and b.) we MUST all ‘celebrate’ it. They’re delusional, and our interactions with them should always take that into consideration.


41 posted on 01/19/2024 6:52:12 AM PST by drwoof
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To: TheConservativeBanker

Exactly. The “nicer than Jesus” ethos has destroyed the SBC.


42 posted on 01/19/2024 6:53:43 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Tell It Right
We should treat everybody with love.
And we should never condone sin.


Does that mean you attend or do not attend these heretical unions ?
43 posted on 01/19/2024 6:54:00 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981
Does that mean you attend or do not attend these heretical unions ?

I would not attend because I don't want to condone sin.

Plus, I can stand only so much disco. LOL

44 posted on 01/19/2024 6:57:34 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: fwdude

Sigh.

Making JUDGEMENTS is how we survive. Do I hang out with heroin addicts? Do I affiliate with a gang? No, because there’s CONSEQUENCES that I’d be begging for. But that’s “being judgmental and wrong”?

There’s a difference between making moral and ethical judgements as to what you approve of and “standing in judgement” as judge, jury, and executioner. They are not the same thing.

The example of Christ saying “he that has no sin cast the first stone” is in the context of people about to be executioners of an adulterous woman. These people conflate this concept with AFFIRMING immoral acts, affirming sin. So have your ceremony, I’ll refrain from STONING them.

These folks are pure evil. Encouraging people into these lifestyles is not caring, it is not helping them do anything but destroy a life of what could be, one filled with real joy and purpose. It is designed to distract from that, to waste their life on a lie. What are the odds this “couple” will ever have kids of their own? Same with gay marriage....”trans” is worse, you reduce your partner compatibility to almost zero. Gay men don’t want “trans men”. Lesbians don’t want “trans women”. Yet they collectively tell me I’m “transphobic” if said I wouldn’t date a “trans woman”.

That so many can accept such lies tells you something very real about the human existence.


45 posted on 01/19/2024 6:57:54 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fwdude

Pillar of salt


46 posted on 01/19/2024 6:58:40 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: fwdude

I don’t condone nor approve nor do I want to aid it.


47 posted on 01/19/2024 7:02:51 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: bk1000

Nor would I.


48 posted on 01/19/2024 7:04:44 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: fwdude

meh. I have a closeted lesbian niece who married a not very well closeted gay man.
they got married in church to boot.
on the outside they look “correct” and they have 2 sons who are adults now.
But believe me, he spends alot of time with his college buddies in Key West.
the whole family attended that wedding. But we also knew this could be a sham.


49 posted on 01/19/2024 7:06:15 AM PST by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: fwdude

I must glorify perversion, not just accept or ignore it?

Well, no we don’t have to do any of that. This movement is demanding superiority over others and that’s not going to fly.


50 posted on 01/19/2024 7:10:14 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: blitz128
I love how these folks like to bring up “ye without sin cast the first stone”

If one is guilty of the (same) sin(s), one cannot cast the stone but must defer to one who is without sin. The solution is to live a holy life, free from sin and safe from all distress.
51 posted on 01/19/2024 7:11:50 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Tell It Right

wise answer


52 posted on 01/19/2024 7:12:49 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: fwdude

Should we also sleep in their beds with them so as “not to come across as homophobic”?

Hey “pastor”- you attend, and face God later- we however will agree with God that homosexuality is an abomination (the strongest word of condemnation that could be given), and that God’s wrath will come upon those whose hearts are so seared that they will never accept christ and repent of their vile sin.

Oh, and had Christians attended gay weddings or gatherings in soddom and ghomorrah, they would have been destroyed right along with those who were committing the acts of abomination.


53 posted on 01/19/2024 7:19:46 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ronniesgal

So, what’s your point?


54 posted on 01/19/2024 7:20:11 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: BobL

Another Baptist preacher who has lost his salt, now hiding out in a glossy suburban “Nondenominational” church. Sort if like No Labels in politics.


55 posted on 01/19/2024 7:21:11 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: fwdude
I am highly disappointed in Alastair Begg, who seemed an orthodox, Bible believing preacher. I never viewed him in the same category as blatant compromisers and turncoats like Russell Moore, Rick Warren, and Tim Keller. I was wrong.
56 posted on 01/19/2024 7:22:04 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: fuzzylogic

Very well said. There are two commands in the bible- one is to “not judge” others, the other is to judge others so that we don’t fall into their sins by accommodating and coddling them.

You hit the nail on the head- we are commanded to make rational judgements in life, but on the other hand, we are not to so condemning that we become executioners because we don’t know the other person’s heart and what they might do later in life, (ie they might repent and become saved- we can’t judge who will and who wont- all we can do is judge their acts at present and determine to avoid them if necessary and to condemn what they are doing now- not condemn them to death)


57 posted on 01/19/2024 7:25:15 AM PST by Bob434
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To: bella1

Great point.


58 posted on 01/19/2024 7:27:21 AM PST by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: Wallace T.
I am highly disappointed in Alastair Begg, who seemed an orthodox, Bible believing preacher. I never viewed him in the same category as blatant compromisers and turncoats like Russell Moore, Rick Warren, and Tim Keller. I was wrong.

As I learned more and more in my later life about Billy Graham, who was always idolized in Evangelical circle, the more I saw what an apostate he was.

It taught me to never hang my hope on any one man, except for that Man.

59 posted on 01/19/2024 7:27:22 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Wallace T.

It’s time for the church to collectively read John Bunyan’s book “Pilgrim’s Progress” and then ask ourselves which one of the cast of characters am I?


60 posted on 01/19/2024 7:27:44 AM PST by bella1 (Tytler's Cycle of Democracy)
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