- Trey Pearson, lead singer of the popular Christian rock band
Everyday Sunday, has "come out" as "gay." He joins Marsha Stevens, Ray Boltz,
Jennifer Knapp, Anthony Williams, Kirk Talley, Clay Aiken, Doug Pinnock, Ty
Herndon, and others. Everyday Sunday's 2001 namesake album has sold 250,000
copies, and Pearson has toured with Toby Mac, Switchfoot, MercyMe, Jeremy Camp,
and other big name contemporary Christian artists. In a June 2016 cover story
interview with 614 Magazine, the married father of two said, "I grew up
in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that sexual orientation
was a matter of choice," and though he was attracted to other males, he
attempted to suppress his feelings. His "coming out" is presented in terms of
"being true" to himself. The 614 Magazine cover story was titled "Gay,
Christian Rock Star: This Is Who I Am." After counseling with emergent apostates
like Rob Bell, Pearson says that "there is absolutely no conflict with accepting
who I am and following Jesus," because "God wants me to be healthy, authentic,
whole, integrated, and my truest self." For the Selfie generation, it's all
about ME, as prophesied in Scripture ("lovers of their own selves," 2 Timothy
3:1-2). Trey's vow to be faithful to his wife unto death is thrown aside,
because his desire to be faithful to himself trumps everything. He claims to be
"free" now and to be pursuing "health and wholeness." In reality, he is in great
and terrible bondage because he is being reconciled to his fallen nature. The
Lord Jesus Christ said, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (Matthew 15:19).
To say that one should be true to "feelings" of homosexuality is no different
than saying that a man who is attracted to women other than his wife should be
true to those "feelings." The Bible plainly identifies such "feelings" as sin,
and there is nothing right, godly, or honorable in yielding to them. The
emergent program categorizes "loving, committed same-sex" relationships as
honorable and as acceptable before God, claiming that Scripture only condemns
abusive and idolatrous acts of homosexuality, such as ancient temple
prostitution, but this is nonsense. The Bible plainly teaches that apart from
the union of holy marriage, sexual activity is sin, and there is not a hint
anywhere in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, that a holy marriage can
consist of a same-sex union. "Marriage is honourable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4).
The Lord Jesus Christ pointed to Genesis 2 as God's abiding standard for
marriage. "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which
made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For
this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife:
and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one
flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder"
(Matthew 19:4-6).
Friday, June 10, 2016
ANOTHER CCM ARTIST "COMES OUT"
(Friday Church News Notes, June 10, 2016, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org,
866-295-4143)
- Trey Pearson, lead singer of the popular Christian rock band
Everyday Sunday, has "come out" as "gay." He joins Marsha Stevens, Ray Boltz,
Jennifer Knapp, Anthony Williams, Kirk Talley, Clay Aiken, Doug Pinnock, Ty
Herndon, and others. Everyday Sunday's 2001 namesake album has sold 250,000
copies, and Pearson has toured with Toby Mac, Switchfoot, MercyMe, Jeremy Camp,
and other big name contemporary Christian artists. In a June 2016 cover story
interview with 614 Magazine, the married father of two said, "I grew up
in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that sexual orientation
was a matter of choice," and though he was attracted to other males, he
attempted to suppress his feelings. His "coming out" is presented in terms of
"being true" to himself. The 614 Magazine cover story was titled "Gay,
Christian Rock Star: This Is Who I Am." After counseling with emergent apostates
like Rob Bell, Pearson says that "there is absolutely no conflict with accepting
who I am and following Jesus," because "God wants me to be healthy, authentic,
whole, integrated, and my truest self." For the Selfie generation, it's all
about ME, as prophesied in Scripture ("lovers of their own selves," 2 Timothy
3:1-2). Trey's vow to be faithful to his wife unto death is thrown aside,
because his desire to be faithful to himself trumps everything. He claims to be
"free" now and to be pursuing "health and wholeness." In reality, he is in great
and terrible bondage because he is being reconciled to his fallen nature. The
Lord Jesus Christ said, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (Matthew 15:19).
To say that one should be true to "feelings" of homosexuality is no different
than saying that a man who is attracted to women other than his wife should be
true to those "feelings." The Bible plainly identifies such "feelings" as sin,
and there is nothing right, godly, or honorable in yielding to them. The
emergent program categorizes "loving, committed same-sex" relationships as
honorable and as acceptable before God, claiming that Scripture only condemns
abusive and idolatrous acts of homosexuality, such as ancient temple
prostitution, but this is nonsense. The Bible plainly teaches that apart from
the union of holy marriage, sexual activity is sin, and there is not a hint
anywhere in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, that a holy marriage can
consist of a same-sex union. "Marriage is honourable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4).
The Lord Jesus Christ pointed to Genesis 2 as God's abiding standard for
marriage. "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which
made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For
this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife:
and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one
flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder"
(Matthew 19:4-6).
- Trey Pearson, lead singer of the popular Christian rock band
Everyday Sunday, has "come out" as "gay." He joins Marsha Stevens, Ray Boltz,
Jennifer Knapp, Anthony Williams, Kirk Talley, Clay Aiken, Doug Pinnock, Ty
Herndon, and others. Everyday Sunday's 2001 namesake album has sold 250,000
copies, and Pearson has toured with Toby Mac, Switchfoot, MercyMe, Jeremy Camp,
and other big name contemporary Christian artists. In a June 2016 cover story
interview with 614 Magazine, the married father of two said, "I grew up
in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that sexual orientation
was a matter of choice," and though he was attracted to other males, he
attempted to suppress his feelings. His "coming out" is presented in terms of
"being true" to himself. The 614 Magazine cover story was titled "Gay,
Christian Rock Star: This Is Who I Am." After counseling with emergent apostates
like Rob Bell, Pearson says that "there is absolutely no conflict with accepting
who I am and following Jesus," because "God wants me to be healthy, authentic,
whole, integrated, and my truest self." For the Selfie generation, it's all
about ME, as prophesied in Scripture ("lovers of their own selves," 2 Timothy
3:1-2). Trey's vow to be faithful to his wife unto death is thrown aside,
because his desire to be faithful to himself trumps everything. He claims to be
"free" now and to be pursuing "health and wholeness." In reality, he is in great
and terrible bondage because he is being reconciled to his fallen nature. The
Lord Jesus Christ said, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (Matthew 15:19).
To say that one should be true to "feelings" of homosexuality is no different
than saying that a man who is attracted to women other than his wife should be
true to those "feelings." The Bible plainly identifies such "feelings" as sin,
and there is nothing right, godly, or honorable in yielding to them. The
emergent program categorizes "loving, committed same-sex" relationships as
honorable and as acceptable before God, claiming that Scripture only condemns
abusive and idolatrous acts of homosexuality, such as ancient temple
prostitution, but this is nonsense. The Bible plainly teaches that apart from
the union of holy marriage, sexual activity is sin, and there is not a hint
anywhere in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, that a holy marriage can
consist of a same-sex union. "Marriage is honourable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4).
The Lord Jesus Christ pointed to Genesis 2 as God's abiding standard for
marriage. "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which
made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For
this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife:
and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one
flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder"
(Matthew 19:4-6).
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