Saddleback Church Purges LGBTQ Ministry Pages, But Of Course We Have Copies of Them
Three months ago we brought you the exclusive story that radical Pro-LGBTQ activists were running Saddleback Church’s family ministries Lead to Love.
Initially we uncovered the fact that Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church has gay-affirming pastors and ministries, recommends pro-LGBTQ+ counseling for children, and that they’re poised to put on a conference where nearly all the speakers are pro-homosexuality, including one man who is “married” to a “husband” and runs a pro-LGBTQ+ organization.
One of the speakers at this event was Chris Clark. He leads Premarital Mentors and Church Counseling Training at Saddleback. Years ago, his daughter came out as transgendered, and in response, he co-founded an ‘Embracing the Journey’ chapter at Saddleback, along with Shauna and Doug Habel- two radicals if there ever were some.
Embracing the Journey is an openly “affirming” pro-LBGTQ+ ministry that routinely partners with aggressive pro-LBGTQ activist organizations like The Reformation Project, which seek to advance full LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church. In 2020 they entered into a partnership with Saddleback Church to be their go-to resource for parents with kids who are struggling with their sexuality, and Saddleback even cut a video endorsing the group.
But now Saddleback is doing another sort of cutting.
Following a widely circulated article by Megan Basham about these very things, Pastor Chris Clark is no longer scheduled to be a speaker at the event, and the ministry page for Embracing the Journey is gone from Saddleback.
But of course, here at Protestia, things are never really gone.
Megan also points this out, asking similar questions that we did.
We reached out to Saddleback for comment but did not receive a response.
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Well, since this is/was Ricks church and since he has sold so many books, and responsible for so many churches in the SBC (just ask him) seems like ‘Thus sayeth the Lord’ really isn’t important. Amirite?