Acts 29 was a major church planting organization in its heyday. However, wokeness has long infested the institution causing many good Christians to leave. The wokeness was largely helmed by Matt Chandler. Nevertheless, it was widely apparent that Acts 29 believes in Critical Race Theory. What was not known was their position on the debates surrounding homosexuality. A roughly six minute video surfaced where Acts 29 weighed in on the issue of homosexuality and transgenderism and the amount of compromise apparent is evidence that they are not gonna make it.
The context of the video is a summary of some sort of presentation for Acts 29. The host is Justin Anderson, the director of church planting, and the main presenter is Mike Sullivan.
Immediately out the gate, Acts 29 makes the mistake of using innocuous language to describe the issue. Speaking in alphabet soup and referring to homosexuality, transgenderism, and pedophilia as “LGBTQAI+” is a linguistic compromise that makes sins seem less serious. You’ll notice Evangelical Dark Web never speaks of sin in acronyms, and this video is a clinic on why we do not.
The next linguistic compromise is attaching the word “community” to sodomy. In reality, it’s more of a cult, as the love of this sin is the idolatry that is the core manifestation of their rebellion against God. What liberals call a community is closer to a gang or a cult. After all, what happens when you try to leave or apostatize? So sodomites, transvestites, and pedophiles are treated like an ethnic minority neighborhood in an American city. This is not done with other sins, and for a reason.
So with the adoption of liberal language in dealing with this issue, the main action items consist of bad advice. Sullivan advocates using hospitality to win them over. The problem with this is that the specific actions he advocates are dangerous for families to practice. It is easily unwise to allow sexual deviants access to your children. We should protect our children from not showcase the lifestyle which is a social contagion to them.
Lastly, Acts 29 argues that “they experience good love in their community.” Getting sodomized or sodomizing someone else is not an act of love. It is an act of hatred towards the other person and even to the self. Sexual sin is the only sin described in Scripture as a sin against the self. His idea is that God’s love is so much better than buttsex, and that by being nice we can persuade them of this reality. This ultimately is a bad sales pitch for Christianity, and a gross attempt at keeping the sword of the Spirit tucked away in its sheath.
Everything about this video is an example of compromise on this issue, and this is the material Acts 29 is showcasing. May their house decrease.
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They have fallen greatly. We had good experiences with Acts 29 about 10 years ago, but now wouldn’t go near them.
When he says they “experience good love” in their community, I think he’s talking about the acceptance and camaraderie among the friends in their cult, not the sexual act with a lover. I think your critique is misdirected on that point.