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Crossover Christian and pop music megastar Amy Grant recently made clear her thoughts on the LGBTQ+ community and Christianity. Grant shared her most pro-LGBTQ+ sentiment to date with Apple Music's Proud Radio host Hunter Kelly. Ever since Christian recording artist Amy Grant said she was hosting her niece’s lesbian wedding at her farm, people have been perplexed that this professing Christian celebrity was acting to legitimize a homosexual union — clearly condemned by God, all major world religions and contrary to thousands of years of Church history.

The singer, who’s written many songs for Hallmark movies and starred in “Amy Grant’s Tennessee Christmas,” has broken her silence about the backlash she recently received, particularly from evangelical Christians, for hosting her niece’s same-sex wedding on the farm she owns with her husband and fellow musician Vince Gill. In , Grant did her first LGBTQ+ press interview with for the promotion of her “How Mercy Looks From Here” album.

In that interview, Grant answered questions about her faith and the LGBTQ community. He took to social media to call out Grant for hosting the same-sex wedding, writing that she was misrepresenting text in the Christian Bible. A petition by the Christian grassroots organization. It means loving people enough to tell them the truth from the Word of God. Since then, plenty of folks have chimed in on the social media buzz, with a predictable debate escalating between teams Grant and Graham.

Both sides include professing believers, and both groups claim not only the high moral but the Biblical ground as well. Controversies like this have precedent. Peter, no less! According to Galatians , Peter had been breaking bread with Gentiles in Antioch, a counter-cultural thing to do, as custom forbade Jews from dining with Gentiles.

But since the Gospel erased the line between the two groups Ephesians Peter affirmed that truth, until it became inconvenient. Further, because Peter was a man of high influence, other believers, including Barnabas, were misled into following his example. Galatians Paul had to speak up. In early , I was making a new start during a season of repentance, alone and indescribably lonely.

After work my nights were spent taking long walks, and one of those nights I passed a record store and decided to browse. And Thy Word helped keep my nose in the Scripture, right where it belonged. My walls heard replays of Straight Ahead for months, while Amy spoke healing straight into my wounds. Like Graham, I disagree with her.

The two are not contradictory. Rather, he critiqued her words, explaining from a Biblical position why he did so, without denigrating her. Romans We can assess her words, but none of us can read her soul, nor can we judge her heart. Which raises the incident between Paul and Peter, and what we can glean from it. Between Peter and Paul, the issue was the doctrine of righteousness by faith alone, apart from the Law of Moses, and how that doctrine should influence their behavior towards Jews and Gentiles in the surrounding culture.

Both of them held to that doctrine — Paul write about it at length in Romans chapters ; Peter affirmed it in Acts 15 at the Jerusalem Council — but Paul took issue with Peter behaving in a way that contradicted it. The issue between Grant and Graham is the doctrine of marriage and family, and the way that should direct our conversations about LGBTQ with the surrounding culture.

I Corinthians All of which makes the issue of marriage a moral and doctrinal essential, framed in terms that are not meant to be abridged, or minimized. Psalm There are times we do just that, needlessly and childishly. Many believers are susceptible to jumping into contention over secondary moral issues like secular music, alcohol, or tattoos.

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If an issue is secondary, quarreling makes no sense. John Yet this same Paul knew that the truth Peter was misrepresenting had to be defended, and that his open misrepresentation called for open rebuke. An extreme move, to be sure, and rebuke is a practice which should be used sparingly. But when a Christian leader makes statements about serious matters that are seriously wrong, then other Christian leaders have to respond.