Another North Point Pastor Joins Andy Stanley’s LGBTQ-Affirming Conference

With the news that North Point Community Church is still committed to hosting the controversial Unconventional Conference, where Andy Stanley will be a keynote speaker, another conference speaker has dropped out and is being replaced by a North Point Church pastrix. 

The conference is being put on by Embracing the Journey, a radical gay-affirming ministry that partners with North Point that offers to counsel parents of struggling LGBTQ+ children. 

Notably, nearly all the speakers are gay-affirming and pro-homosexuality, some radically so, including at least one in a ‘gay marriage.’ While some have suggested the conference would be canceled after the revelation of who the speakers are coming to light, new announcements show it’s right on schedule and has garnered “unprecedented” interest. Tickets range in price from $276 for early bird pricing to $518 for late registration.

Because a distinct portion the leadership at North Point is gay-affirming, the speaker list refects this, with almost all of them being pro-homosexuality in one way or another. 

  • Greg and Lynn Mcdonald are both affirming. Their organization recommends all pro-queer resources and endorses books about why the bible celebrates homosexuality, rather than condemns it.
  • Andy Stanley is affirming, according to testimony by three pastors, and a famed apologist, as well as the ministries he allows to flourish in his church.
  • Debbie Causey is an affirming, pro-gay pastrix at North Point who celebrates affirming ministries and is a board member of the pro-LGBTQ advocacy group Renovus.
  • Justin Lee is the founder of the world’s biggest pro-LGBTQ advocacy group, and regularly promotes homosexuality as an excellent and normative orientation. 
  • Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee is a pro-LGBTQ affirming author who wrote a book about it Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBTQ Christians with Response to Critics
  • Dr Michael Sytsma sits on the board of Directors of Pro-LGBTQ organization Embracing the Journey and has appeared with North Point staffer Ryan Gray on the church’s Care Network several times as a teacher
  • Brian Nietzel is a gay man married to his ‘husband’ and is the founder of the pro-LBGTQ advocacy group Renovus, where several members of North Point Church sit on the board.
  • Al Causey is Debbie’s husband and the Adult Ministries & Ministry Services Director at Gwinnett Church, one of North Point’s satellite churches. 
  • David Quinones – a parent of a gay son and a frequent speaker at Embracing the Journey, he builds bridges that foster healing and reconciliation between the church, LGBTQ+ individuals, and their families. He recently created a Family Care Group for family members of gay kids. 

According to the most recent promo material, Pastor Chris Clark is no longer listed as a speaker. Clark is a leader of a pro-LGBTQ+ Embracing the Journey support group at Saddleback Church and has a daughter who he refers to as his trans “son.”

In his place is Pastor Jenny Boyett.

Boyett has spent over 17 years at North Point Community Church, most recently as the Associate Director of Adult Ministries and then the Director of Author Support and Leader Training. She claims to be a “Master Working Genius Facilitator, a Certified Temperament Coach, and sought-after public speaker.”

It is unclear whether or not she is gay-affirming, though if she is not, she’d be the first.

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3 thoughts on “Another North Point Pastor Joins Andy Stanley’s LGBTQ-Affirming Conference

  1. Show me someone who says sin is good, sin should be accepted, sin should be affirmed and endorsed, and I’ll show you a blind and lost soul who not only is not a Christian, but apparently doesn’t know what it means to be a Christian in the first place.

    A born again, spirit filled Christian cannot affirm sin. Not won’t. Can’t. The Holy Spirit will not allow it. Conviction, fear of the Lord, and knowledge of coming judgment will weigh on your conscience like a ton of bricks, not only out of concern for your own eternal fate, but the eternal fate of others.

    “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he CANNOT keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.” – 1 John 3:9

  2. Don’t worry, Andy’s out there there doing the Lord’s work. After all, his celebrity father Charles said he was proud of him. Just say no to evangelicalism and it’s industrial complex.

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