I was greeted this morning by this little gem from a PCA church in Portland which illustrates the confusion to which I am referring. Notice how the writer simply accepts the world’s categories of human identity which are a simulatneous rejection of the Biblical categories. He then sweeps such issues as the nature of marriage, human identity, and sexual ethics away as relatively small things upon which we can all agree to disagree. He relativizes the Bible’s clear teaching while making ultimate the blithe sentimentalities of, “some of us feel…”

I have never seen a time when discussions and debates about homosexuality and gender identity were more ubiquitous as they are today. And with those discussions have come much confusion, error, and sin. We all know about denominations like the PC(USA), the United Methodists, Disciples of Christ, and Episcopalians who have in one way or another normalized and celebrated homosexuality. And while denominations like the PCA and SBC continue to remain faithful to the Bible’s teaching about human sexual ethics there are nevertheless some confusing messages coming from otherwise faithful churches.

Some evangelical churches seem to have blindly accepted worldly categories for human personhood. Specifically, an increasing number of evangelicals (Baptist and Presbyterian) have taken up the world’s categories of “gay,” “LGBTQ community,” “sexual orientation,” etc. But these terms are deeply misguided and carry with them a fundamentally unbiblical understanding of human ontology and original sin.

I was greeted this morning by this little gem from a PCA church in Portland which illustrates the confusion to which I am referring. Notice how the writer simply accepts the world’s categories of human identity which are a simulatneous rejection of the Biblical categories. He then sweeps such issues as the nature of marriage, human identity, and sexual ethics away as relatively small things upon which we can all agree to disagree. He relativizes the Bible’s clear teaching while making ultimate the blithe sentimentalities of, “some of us feel…”

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