September 9, 2021
Christian Schools and Gender Identity + How to Reason in the Pro-Choice/Heartbeat Bill Debate
BreakpointAbout this episode
John and Shane talk through the challenges in reasoning through the pro-choice stance in the face of Texas' new heartbeat bill. John also answers a question on a recent commentary dealing with Millennials. The listeners asks how to communicate the goodness of the Gospel to those who might have a taste for it. To close, John and Shane go point-by-point through a series of statements a Christian school administrator is fielding in Australia. The listener's school is considering how to process sexual orientation and gender identity at their non-denominational school. The listener notes that many teachers haven't been able to process all of the points before the conversation rose. John and Shane provide resources and a step-by-step response to the points listed below: The Bible's authors only wrote to their particular context and knew nothing of what us contemporaries now understand about human sexuality, The word 'homosexuality' is a recent, Victorian-era invention inserted into scripture to condemn all same-sex sexual activity when that was not the original intent, The word/s used in scripture to denote homosexuality actually only condemn exploitative sexual practices, not same-sex sexuality between consenting adults, The story of Sodom and Gomorrah denotes God's judgment on the people of those cities due to their lack of hospitality rather than the practice of homosexuality, and Jesus said very little about sexuality anyway. -- Resources -- Same-Sex Marriage: A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage Sean McDowell & John Stonestreet | Baker Books | 2014 The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics Richard Hayes | Harper | August, 1996 Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story Christopher Yuan | Multnomah | 2018 The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics Robert Gagnon | Abingdon Press | 2002