What am I gonna do? I'm a bank robber." That is not an excuse for what you do.' 'That's like saying, "You know, I keep robbing banks, but I'm a robber. People commit adultery, they commit sins of homosexuality, they lie, they steal, they cheat. If you mean by that, that that's some hardwiring. He responded: 'Well, I don't know if for me, but no one is gay. MacArthur was asked, 'knowing that we are all sinner saved by grace', would a gay Christian enter the kingdom of heaven? MacArthur, a conservative evangelical pastor based in California, was speaking earlier this month at a conference for Ligonier Ministries in Los Angeles, according to the blogger Friendly Atheist. The influential Christian megapastor John MacArthur has said that 'no one is gay', comparing homosexuality to robbery or adultery and arguing that no one person is 'hardwired' with such a disposition. He quizzes Rob about his view of God, salvation and his recently stated support for gay marriage.Conservative Christian pastor John MacArthur has been unafraid to provoke controversy in the past. He talks about life after Mars Hill Bible Church and his latest book 'What we talk about when we talk about God'.Īndrew Wilson is an author and theologian with the New Frontiers church network.
Rob Bell returns to Unbelievable? 2 years after his debate on the controversial best-seller 'Love Wins'. Kimpan wrote, ‘The litmus test of our faith in Christ is not whether or not we’re able to agree on political, cultural or religious secondary issues…rather, it is in our ability to love, even those with whom we may not agree.’ĮXTRA CONTENT: Rob Bell debates God, Salvation & Homosexuality - Unbelievable? The poll also revealed that 81% of under 30s in the general US population support gay marriage. It showed that 31% of white evangelicals now support gay marriage, up from 7% in 2004.
Kimpan, associate director of the Marin Foundation, also cited new research from a Washington Post/ABC poll released in March. Writing for the influential Red Letter Christians website in response to Bell’s stance on same-sex marriage, Michael Kimpan said, ‘Some evangelicals are now.actually declaring him dead to evangelicalism.’ In the Odyssey video, Bell, who left the Michigan congregation he founded in 1999 to move to California last year, also said he believed technology has played a major part in the shifting of many long-held views, and claimed that the Internet in particular has shown that people cannot live in their own ‘tribal bubbles’īell’s 2011 book Love Wins challenged traditional teachings on hell and attracted widespread criticism from the global Church community, with conservative evangelical pastor John Piper famously tweeting ‘Farewell Rob Bell’ Williams wrote that the ‘one thing the Christian cannot do is ask Scripture to take a back seat to cultural whims. And if you adapt, it means you have to come face to face with some of the ways we’ve talked about God, which don’t actually shape people into more loving, compassionate people.’īrad Williams, an Alabama-based Baptist pastor, immediately denounced Bell’s comments and said it was ‘disconcerting for a Christian leader to say that the Church should simply get in line with whatever the culture says’. And I think that when you’re in a part of a subculture that is dying, you make a lot more noise because it’s very painful. I think the ship has sailed and I think that …this is the world that we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.’īell added, ‘I think we are witnessing the death of a particular subculture that doesn’t work. The video was released days after the Mars Hill church founder visited San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral to discuss his new book What We Talk About When We Talk About God.ĭuring that event, Bell said, ‘I am for fidelity, I am for love, whether it’s a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. ‘I believe God pulling us ahead into greater and greater affirmation and acceptance of our gay brothers and sisters and pastors and friends and neighbours and co-workers,’ he said. Dr Sharon James on challenging radical feminism and critical race theoryīell spoke out in a video recorded by the US multi-faith coalition Odyssey Networks, titled, Why Rob Bell Supports Gay Marriage.
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