Presbyterian or Reformed, Methodist, Lutheran and Other Mainline Protestant Pastors are the Main Protestant Support for Same-Sex “Marriage”
By Julio Severo
Even though a majority of evangelicals still
disapprove same-sex relationships, approval has grown among traditional Protestant
pastors, according to a new survey from Nashville-based LifeWay Research that
asked Protestant pastors their thoughts on this issue.
Presbyterian or Reformed (49%), Methodist
(47%), Lutheran (35%) and other traditional Protestant pastors answered to LifeWay’s
survey that they see nothing wrong with same-sex “marriage.” In comparison, only
3% of Baptists and 1% of Pentecostals have the same liberal view.
LifeWay found that pastors with a
doctorate (27%) or a master’s degree (32%) are more likely to support same-sex “marriage”
than pastors with a bachelor’s degree (9%) or no college degree (6%). So pastors
with higher diplomas are more likely to support same-sex “marriage” than
pastors with no university diploma.
Such result is no surprise. Universities
are filled with left-wing professors who transmit their ideologies, inclusive
homosexual ideologies, to their students. So if you fill your mind with a
left-wing education, you will end thinking as a left-winger. On the other hand,
if you fill your mind with God’s Word, you will think God’s thoughts.
LifeWay’s survey was conducted by phone
with 1,000 Protestant pastors Sept. 24-30, 2019. Each interview was conducted
with the senior pastor, from a random sample drawn from a list of all
Protestant churches.
From the Gospel viewpoint, the LifeWay
survey is bad news for Presbyterian or Reformed, Methodist, Lutheran and other mainline
Protestant pastors. But it is good news for Baptists and especially Pentecostals.
It shows that university diplomas do not equip pastors to face secular and
spiritual challenges, but supernatural gifts and the anointing of the Holy
Spirit are an excellent equipment for pastors to face such challenges.
While traditional Protestant pastors treat
their theological diplomas and doctorates as their greatest equipment to spread
their theological gospel, Pentecostal and charismatic pastors treat supernatural
gifts and the anointing of the Holy Spirit as their greatest equipment to spread
the living Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This
is the great difference. The best equipment that mainline pastors have are
their diplomas, which prove that they were massively indoctrinated by liberal professors.
The best equipment Pentecostal and
charismatic pastors have is the supernatural gifts and the anointing of the
Holy Spirit.
Without
such spiritual equipment, even the best efforts of mainline “conservative” pastors
fail. The Gospel Coalition, which is
Reformed or Calvinist, has supported a strange view that Christians can live
with homosexual feelings and desires without rejecting them.
In fact, the Gospel Coalition has many members who are Calvinist ministers in
this situation.
Liberalism is advancing in mainline
Protestant churches. Even
the Protestant church founded by George Washington, the first U.S. president,
has embraced homosexuality.
While university education turns mainline
pastors into religious liberal puppets, less attached to God’s Word and more
supportive of sodomy and the fake “marriage” between two men, the supernatural gifts
and the anointing of the Holy Spirit make Pentecostal and charismatic pastors more
attached to God’s Word, more conservative and more supportive of the
traditional marriage between only a man and a woman.
Portuguese
version of this article: Pastores presbiterianos ou reformados, metodistas,
luteranos e de outras denominações protestantes tradicionais são o principal
apoio evangélico ao “casamento” entre indivíduos do mesmo sexo
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