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They could say a bunch of stuff, but I don't think they'd say ‘compassion.’”
“So now, in my one attempt at compassion, I should have known better,” he added, as the audience laughed. She blogs about current events and theological trends on her Substack, Demotivations with Anne.
Alistair Begg Stands by LGBTQ Wedding Advice with Sermon on Jesus’ Compassion
For the past few weeks, Alistair Begg, pastor of Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and host of the Truth for Life radio program, has been caught in what he calls “a storm in a teacup” over advice he gave about attending an LGBTQ wedding.
That advice, he said in a sermon this past weekend, was based on Jesus’ command for Christians to love even those they disagree with or disapprove of.
“Jesus said you are supposed to love your enemies,” said Begg, drawing on a series of Bible texts to claim that Christians should show compassion—and not condemnation—for those who have gone astray.
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It is the household of faith, the affectionate life that manifests God’s immeasurable love for the world he has made. The grandmother believed that was so. He paid for her in His blood. “After all, attendance so as to show ‘love’ or avoid giving offense is a form of blessing, just without the name,” wrote Carl Trueman, professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College, for the Catholic publication First Things.
Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, hosted a special broadcast explaining why the group parted ways with Begg.
He, Begg says, was afraid of being tainted, polluted by the sins of the prodigal. Many have family members, friends, and ordinary acquaintances who are caught up in destructive ways of life, and who yet demand affirmation and acceptance for their lifestyles. “Well then,” counseled Begg, “As long as he knows that, then I suggest that you do go to the ceremony.
Begg said he was thinking with his “grandfatherly hat” when he gave that advice, hoping to help that grandmother show God’s love
“All I was thinking about was how can I help this grandmother,” Begg said, adding that he didn’t want her to lose her grandchild.
To a different person in different circumstances, he said, he might have given different advice.
I was wandering around Aldi, trying to do my weekly shopping, distracted by my phone, when the link appeared in my feed.
Recently, a study was released that just under 30 percent of professing Christian Millennials identify as one of the letters on the LGBTQ acronym.2 Most faithful believers are asking the question because they love someone who is planning to get “married.” They don’t want to blow up their relationships any more than they want to disobey the Scriptures.
Like so many others, about two months ago, my heart in my throat, I stood listening to a sermon by a preacher whose thoughtful and deft exegesis of the Bible over a lifetime has sustained me in innumerable ways.
ed. Begg’s sermon was laced with a sense of personal grief, of disappointment that his detractors questioned his judgment.
It is a weary business to deal with a bride determined to run away from her husband. Marriage is between one man and one woman (Ephesians 5:22–33). By refusing to attend the wedding, they entrench the already accepted narrative that they are “judgmental, critical, and unprepared to countenance anything.” I stood, crushed in the baking aisle of Aldi, listening to this great preacher, for the first time in my hearing, twist the Scriptures.
It isn’t that a single child has run away to the pigsty and to wild living.
A parent whose child recently came out as gay, or (this actually occurred in my town) a sixty-year-old pastor who left his wife and congregation because he suddenly decided he is a woman, or the eighteen-year-old gender-bending grocery store clerk, or the two men dressed as women who wander around the gym I frequent — the instances of sex confusion that impinge on peaceful relationships proliferate.
Expositor’s Collective put out an 8-minute clip with auto-captions to promote their interview, highlighting Begg’s position and response to the gay wedding scandal. Begg, to the grief of thousands of Christians, doubled down on his advice in his sermon.8 Working through Luke 15, he likened those who disagreed with him to the older brother, who, in the text, represents the Pharisees accusing Jesus of welcoming sinners and eating with them.
It is for these reasons that everyone wants a piece of it. We may participate in the mystery, but we are not its origin or measure. She stood by the side of the road, begging men to take her in, willing to offer money to anyone who would be with her (Ezekial 16). But he has no plan to repent of his advice, no matter what happens on social media.
Begg also said he was glad his advice to this grandmother—rather than his other sermons about sexuality—had gone viral.
“Because If I’ve got to go down on the side of one or the other, I’ll go down on this side,” he said.
The right moment is always just around the corner.
The truth is that there is a path down the center. I do compassion, all hell breaks loose against me.”
Begg, who has been in pastoral ministry since 1975 and served as the senior pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1983 until last year, echoed the sentiments he expressed in a recent sermon following the controversy.