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Preston Sprinkle+ Guest Says Christian Parents Should Let Their Teenage LGBTQ Children Go On Same-Sex Dates

Preston Sprinkle is the co-founder of Revoice, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, and host of Theology in the Raw podcast. No stranger to perverse and novel theology, he’s known for platforming a Roman Catholic lesbian who praised an X-rated BDSM film, and championing “gay-Christian” or a “trans Christian” identities, declaring that these designations ought to be celebrated and fully embraced by the church, promoting personal pronouns, and arguing that annihilationism and universalism as legitimate, orthodox Christian positions. 

In a recent episode of his podcast, he and guest Bill Henson of Posture Shift Ministries discuss how best to parent LGBTQ kids from a Christian perspective. Henson has previously suggested that parents should definitely use their LGBTQ children’s personal pronouns, and now the two surmise that it’s “good parenting” to let their teenage LGBTQ children to date people of the same sex so they can retain ‘influence’ in their lives. Of course, the exact same argument could be used for allowing your teenage children to drink and do drugs or a number of really bad decisions.

Sprinkle: But if I look at the long-term picture,  I want to do whatever I can to maintain a relationship here. And there’s already going to be things stacked against the deck, kind of stacked against this.  And so maybe making some accommodations to preserve the relationship.  Is that…?

Henson: Yes. And maybe also to protect my child emotionally. For example,  if my child is an older 16-year-old or almost 17-year-old, or if they’re in their senior year,  okay,  am I going to say ‘no, no,  no, no, no to dating?’  And then when they go off to college,  they literally fall off a cliff where for the first time in their life, they are now making dating decisions on their own outside of my household without any of my insight or influence or oversight.  

So surely there has to be this kind of letting go. Do we want the letting go to be this binary on-off switch when a kid is 18 and out of our house? Or do we want to be able to say,  ‘well,  okay,  you’re 17 now and you want a date.  Okay,  we’re going to allow you to make that decision on your own. We don’t support it,  but we’re allowing you to make your own decision.’  At least it would give me a year to have oversight and to be available to them.  If they got hurt they (would) be able to come to me.  I’d be able to comfort them.  I’d be able to talk to them about the lessons that they learned.  

So that is not promoting sin.  It’s not approving of sin.  It’s not encouraging sin,  but it is saying,  let me have some relationship with my soon-to-be  adult child and be part of their life rather than just no,  no,  no, no, no.  And then they go off the cliff on their own.  

Sprinkle: So you think it could,  because again,  this transfers to,  this is just good parenting.

h/t The Dissenter

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Preston Sprinkle LGBTQ Parenting Video is Explicit: Your Child Will Be Gay Forever

Preston Sprinkle is the co-founder of Revoice, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, and host of Theology in the Raw podcast. No stranger to perverse and novel theology, he’s known for championing “gay-Christian” or a “trans Christian” identities, declaring that these designations ought to be celebrated and fully embraced by the church, promoting personal pronouns, and arguing that annihilationism and universalism as legitimate, orthodox Christian positions. 

He is a big believer in the notion that once gay, always gay, and a recent promo for his Parents LGBTQ Kids program lends credence to this misguided view. While not as openly LGBTQ- affirming as the parenting curriculum that Andy Stanley’s North Point Church uses, one of his interviewees exclaims under the heading of “Powerful Stories and Insights.”

My parents, God was asking them, “I’ve given you two beautiful sons who are gay, and I’m NOT going to make them straight. Do you still believe in me?

This statement is repeated in a different video, where the man offers:

“I look at (my parent’s) life, and I see Jesus saying “you have a son who is gay, and I’m not changing him straight, but he loves me, and I’m using him, do you two still believe in me?”

This statement is blasphemous, and it robs the struggling Christians of the hope of having their sexuality redeemed by Christ, to be counted among the “and such were some of you, but you were washed….” in 1 Corinthians 6:9. 

The idea that the Holy Spirit can sanctify and redeem every part of a person’s nature except for their thought life regarding who they want to have sex with and who they are attracted to is a lie from the pit of hell. No part of a man or woman’s life is not subject to the Spirit’s sanctification and the renewing of the mind towards His good intentions and purposes. 

That Sprinkle doesn’t understand this is a damning indictment against him, and it demonstrates he is not to be trusted or listened to. 

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Rosaria Butterfield Blasts Tribalistic ‘Gay Christians’+ ‘Side B’ Revoicers

Rosaria Butterfield is the author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert and The Gospel Comes With a House Key. She’s one of the main go-to people for Christian leaders to point to as an example of the power of the gospel on account of being a lesbian Women’s Studies professor who was saved and having her sexuality redeemed. She ultimately married a man, had a family and turned aside from her wayward ways- being a shining success story in an ocean littered with failures.

We’ve scrapped with her over the years primarily because of ancillary perspectives on homosexual habits, including the use of personal pronounces relating to “Christian hospitality” and her occasionally boorish behavior towards our founder. While Butterfield’s LGBTQ theology is not as sub-biblical and theologically schizophrenic as Jackie Hill Perry, Rebecca McLaughlin, or Sam Allberry; three other mainstays in this space, we’re thankful that she has begun to button up some of her more wanton errors that we’ve previously criticized her for.

While Butterfield has, to her detriment, typically refused to “name names” of those causing theological chaos in her space, she has reserved some quiet criticism for Preston Sprinkle and his wretched book “Embodied,” having previously publicly criticized it. Now, she’s getting a bit more vocal, taking more shots at ‘Side B’ Christians and in particular, at the Revoice Conference in a Truth over Tribe guest post.

For some context, the whole notion of ‘Side A’ and ‘Side B’ Christians- ‘Gay Christians’ who embrace their homosexuality vs. ‘Gay Christians’ who believe homosexuality is a sin- was formulated 20 years ago on messages boards by the likes of Justin Lee and then later Matthew Vines as a way to categorize the incongruous and diverse voices on the matter now frequently found on the Spiritual Friendship page; a loose-knit coterie of sexually confused souls that frolic there.

As far as Revoice, well we’ve made out thoughts known here, So who are all the She/Her, They/Them, and He/Hims Speaking at Revoice? and here Revoice Introduces ‘Semi-Celibate Throuple’ to Christendom, and here Revoice Conference is Bringing Back the Roman Catholic Lesbian Who Praised X-Rated Gay BDSM Film.

Butterfield writes in part:

After we are justified by God, we can never return to Adam. What does this mean for someone like me who lived as a lesbian for a decade and believed I was gay? It means that homosexuality is part of my biography, not my nature. My nature is securely chained in Christ (Colossians 3:10-20). What does it mean if a Christian falls back into an old sin pattern? It means that he is acting against his true nature. How do we stop acting against our true nature in Christ when our flesh craves our old sin patterns? By going to war with our sin through the power of Christ’s blood. A genuine Christian will not make peace with sin, for doing so scorns the atoning blood of Christ. Puritan Thomas Watson says, “Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.”

Taking Revoice to task for their merciless tribalism and hopeless, gospel-less ideologies, she concludes:

One dictionary definition of tribalism is “the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own social group.” Tribalism is extra-biblical teaching. Tribalism comes from false ideas entering the church from the world. Tribalism is infectious and poisonous, and it leaves a wake of division in its path. It destroys the peace and purity of the church and produces false professions of faith as well as unstable Christians held captive to destructive sin patterns. Tribalism falsifies the blood of Christ.

Side B Christianity—Revoice—is tribal, not truthful. Instead of offering fundamental liberty in Christ, including redemption and change, Revoice theology denies the power of Christ’s blood to sanctify His people such that they no longer are homosexual. Revoice theology is tribal in its use of Freudian anthropology over biblical personhood, recording homosexuality as a morally neutral sexual orientation. But the Bible records both feelings and practices as sinful acts if directed against God’s commands (Matthew 5:27-28). Revoice theology is political in its embrace of LGBTQ+ language and ideology. Revoice theology believes that homosexual orientation cannot be repented of, thereby withholding the power of repentance and sanctification to transform lives. In contrast, Scripture teaches us to “repent…and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19).

Because I choose Truth over tribe, I reject the false teaching of Revoice/Side B Theology.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

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Prominent Friend of Matt Chandler Says Situation is Overblown, Explains Nature of the ‘Coarse Jesting’ + Reveals Reaction From Woman He Was DMing

Prominent Christian leader Preston Sprinkle shared an Instagram post about the Matt Chandler situation yesterday, claiming that he’s spoken to the suspended pastor and the situation is overblown.

In the post, Sprinkle, who is the President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender, on the Revoice Advisory Council, is a New York Times bestselling author, and host of Theology in the Raw podcast, reveals he’s spoken to his friend twice about what’s happened, along with a long-term employee of the church, and that the church’s language suggests a far more severe offense than occurred. He alleges that the “coarse joking” was not sexual at all but involved joking about alcohol. 

Furthermore, he explains that the woman Chandler was DMing was not offended by their banter, does not consider herself a victim, and urged Matt not to apologize. Preston alleges that the woman who confronted Chandler followed a particularly strict interpretation of the Billy Graham rule that precluded these conversations- an interpretation neither Chandler nor his messaging partner held.

Lastly, Sprinkle claims that the results of the investigation by the lawyers into his phone and tablet came back clean, with no porn, sexual messaging, or otherwise inappropriate conversations found anywhere on Chandler’s computers or electronic devices. 

Hey Friends,

I just wanted everyone to know that I’ve looked extensively into all the stuff involving Matt Chandler on the Village Church. I’ve talked to Matt twice and talked to a woman who’s been on staff at the church for over 18 years. I can’t share private details, but I will say that so much of the way the popular media (secular and even Christian) is portraying it is pretty bad and even the church’s messaging framed it in some pretty negative terms that could be misconstrued. The “coarse joking” was jokes about alcohol (not sexual innuendo or lewd jokes) and the big issue was that his DM relationship seemed too “familiar” for someone that he didn’t know terribly well in person. He basically violated the Billy Graham rule.

To be clear, the woman he was messaging wasn’t at all offended and told Matt “don’t you dare apologize; you did nothing wrong!” It was the woman’s friend, who lives by a very strict Billy Graham type of rule, that was offended that Matt was DMing a married woman (even though Matt’s wife and the woman’s husband was fully aware of it)

An independent org scoured his electronics and found no porn and no other inappropriate or romantic sort of messaging.

All this to say, I have no problem still having Matt speak at the Exiles conference this year. I mean, if we applied the same standard to all the speakers, I’m not sure I’d be able to have any speakers at the conference.

Honestly, this whole thing gas made me want to re-integrate the Billy Graham rule into my own life. People give me a hard time because I do try to be extra vigilant in keeping my relationship with other women much more cautious, but I’ve been thinking maybe I should be more friendly and jovial. But it(sic) situations like Matt’s that make me more nervous about this. But, I’ve gotta run.

Hoping(sic) on a plane to Sabbatical.

Preston

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In New Interview, Beth Moore Talks SBC Racism, Sexism, and Whether or Not Women Can Preach

Beth More joined Preston Sprinkle for episode #1000 of Theology in the Raw, where they touched on her life story, the infamous “go home” statement from John MacArthur, her views on complementarianism, and the direction the SBC is heading, which she says is very, very bad.

Explaining her growing misgivings about her former denomination, she shares that because right-wing fundamentals are taking it over, soon what she was mostly doing, women preaching and teaching other women, would soon no longer be tolerated.

“I was watching a severe pull to the far conservative, what I would say beyond conservatism into fundamentalism, in a part of our denomination where I was beginning to watch…and see, oh my word, women are not even going to be allowed to do what I did.”

She says that those pulling the denomination to the right were not the “old guard” but instead coming out of Southern Baptist seminaries. With many churches not having Sunday school anymore, she asked, “Where exactly do you want our women teachers to teach now?” while lamenting the church “has made no place for us.” She explains:

“It just to me, it was a train wreck. And it was like, You know what, I’m old. I’m old. I’m almost done. You can’t now go take it all away from me because it’s all done.

But I will fight to the death for my little sisters to have a place to serve in the Gospel witness. There is no possible way that the Holy Spirit was poured out on sons and daughters to prophesy, that women are not also gifted to proclaim the gospel. It is a lie to think otherwise.“

When pressed whether she is a complementarianism (she’s not, because she’s been preaching everywhere), she says that she doesn’t like labels but that:

“I’m comfortable where I am right now. Because where I am, the only thing that women can’t do in my region and where I go to church is that they can’t be the senior pastor or priest.”

She concludes that she’s glad she left the SBC because there’s a a lot of “weirdness” found in Southern Baptist Churches not found in her current denomination, and that while there are some salt of the earth Southern Baptists who are decent folk, those who were sexist toward her were also likely racists as well.

“I was in so far that I saw things that were so objectionable, and to me in regard not only to sexism but racism, which I believe almost always- that body and just a physical body, the body that holds on to sexism, I mean, we got two arms and two hands, almost always in the other hand, is racism.

Because its power, its power. It’s the fists, that’s the fists, and I have been in so far and seen so much that it to me was, I no longer felt that I belonged. I no longer felt welcome. I no longer felt wanted, but also, it was an act in some ways of protest, of saying no, no, I will not be part of this.

And if bringing a lot of attention to it, in a very public divorce, very public, very public, nasty divorce. If that somehow does something to change the climate for the young women coming up behind us, then I promise you, my pain will not be in vain.”


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Bi-Sexual Southern Goth Womanist Christian Claims to Find God By Leaving Church For 5 Years

Preston Sprinkle’s recent Theology in the Raw Conference could be likened to a sandwich of false teaching and heresy. On day 1 of the conference, Francis Chan likened the Lord’s Supper to having “intercourse with Jesus”, while pushing ecumenism under the false idea that the church didn’t have any issues with division or disagreement until the Reformation. On day 3 of the conference, Sprinkle discussed the issue of hell, and promoted the heresies of annihilationism and universalism orthodox views of hell.

Sandwiched between the first and third days of this conference was day 2, which featured a session that promoted side B Homosexuality, the idea that people can identify as both Christian and a sexual deviant as long as they don’t commit physical sexual sins. Many of the presentations made to advocate Side-B homosexuality leaned heavily on personal testimonies of the individual coming to grips with their sexuality, while battling against unsupportive elements in their church or family. Ultimately the heroes in these stories are always the story-teller and those who decide to support their decision to “come out”, and the villains are any church or person who teaches Biblical sexuality.

Preston invited Johana Marie-Williams, a self-described “Bi-sexual, Southern Goth Womanist” to tell her story as part of the day 2 discussions. Williams begins her “testimony” by claiming a special revelation from the Holy Spirit that led her identify as bisexual.

I usually begin my testimony between the ages of 16 and 21, from when I first started contemplating what a Christian should believe and sexuality, to when through the power and prompting of the Holy Spirit I let go of my denial about my own sexuality and admitted to myself that I was bi(sexual).

I tend to begin my story here because I was only able to do that, admitting my attractions to myself, about my attractions to people regardless of their gender, because of an unrelated in-depth scriptural study of, and contemplation on the love of God. (2:18:10-2:18:40)

This enlightenment that Williams obtained through sexual gnosticism didn’t lead her to a deeper commitment to her faith. On the contrary, according to her own words, it led her away from the church.

At 21, I recognized my attraction. I’d come to a theological position, and now I needed to figure out exactly what that meant, to live as a Christian that was Bi-sexual. So I stopped going to church for 5 years. (2:19:20-2:19:35)

Like many of the other speakers in the Theology in the Raw sexuality conversation, Williams railed against the idea of feeling shame and place an emphasis on the deliverance from shame rather from the deliverance from sin. The church is cast as the villain in her struggle.

…I knew I needed time and space to figure out what this new lack of shame about my sexuality paired with my commitment to celibacy meant, not just theologically but in the day to day, in my real day to day life, and I knew that the church at that time had no grace or equity in this conversation, because at 21 I had already watched my two younger siblings come out. I had watched at least 3 acquaintances come out of the closet and struggled to find a place in the church. Without fail their pastors, peers, mentors failed to express the assurance of God’s love that allowed me to even confront my sexuality in the first place. (2:19:50-2:20:38)

Williams proceeds from this point in her story to create a strawman of the church that hates and persecutes what she calls self-identified “Queer Christians” who she claims are capable of spiritual maturity and should be considered for church leadership. While claiming to be celibate in her bisexuality, Williams admits that she openly spurned the teaching of churches that urged believers to avoid temptation, compromising situations, and seeking advice from others who had also fallen into sexual sin.

I need to connect to other believers who were queer in ways that the churches I knew of explicitly discouraged. The internet has been and continues to be a huge boon for building those kinds of relationships and connections. (2:23:15-2:23:35)

In summary, Williams believes that “Queer Christians” who “find themselves” and learn to not feel shame are mature believers, while the Bible-believing Christians who understand that God’s definition of “love” isn’t disobeying his commands are immature and “misrepresenting God’s emotions,” as if the opinions and emotions of God on the issue of sexuality aren’t clearly stated in scripture.

The idea of “Side B” homosexuality that Williams represents is patently false, because scripture clearly demonstrates that sin begins in the heart. Jesus explained this in Matthew 5:28-19, when he explained that adultery began with the sin of lust in a person’s heart.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 

When addressing sexual sins, if we look at what Jesus said, the understanding is clear that the sin of adultery begins with a sinful desire in the heart of man. The idea of accepting a man’s lust after a woman as just an “orientation” that he was born with clearly isn’t compatible with Jesus’ explanation of how sin begins in the heart. Advocates of homosexuality and other deviant lifestyles that are clearly against the Biblical teachings on marriage and sexuality somehow believe that their status in a “sin special interest group” and deviant heart “orientation” towards sin is different and somehow excuses them from being called to repentance rather than celebrating and claiming an identity that is rooted in open rebellion towards God and debauchery.

Sexual deviants don’t need deliverance from shame. They need repentance, the Gospel, deliverance from sin, and a new heart that pursues God. In this perverse generation, many, including Preston Sprinkle and his followers, have abandoned these fundamentals of the faith in pursuit of a compromise with God that doesn’t exist, because God is Holy.

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Preston Sprinkle Promotes Annihilationism and Universalism as Orthodox Views on Hell

Preston Sprinkle’s ‘Theology in the Raw’ is akin to going to a third-world open-air meat market and purchasing a rancid salmonella-infested hunk of meat that has been sitting out in the sun for days, rotting away and covered in flies. Consume such “raw” theology at the peril of the body, and by body, we mean both yourself and the church body to which you belong.

The theology of Sprinkle’s recent Theology in the Raw: Exiles in Babylon conference is no exception to this description. Protestia previously reported on the first day of the conference, which included Francis Chan’s description of the Lord’s Supper as having a mysterious “intercourse with Jesus”. Within days of the reporting, Preston removed video of the first day of the conference from Youtube, scrubbing evidence of false teaching. You can still view day one of the heretical conference here.

Day three of the conference included a debate and discussion on views of hell. Before introducing Chris Dates, the defender of the annihilationism heresy, and Gerry Breshears the defender of the eternal conscious torment position; Preston began by making the argument that he believes that there are 3 orthodox positions on hell that can be held by a believer. (Preston Sprinkle, Conference Day 3, 20:10-21:52)

There’s three Christian views of hell. By Christian, I mean views that have been held by Christians who hold to Christian orthodoxy and have different views of hell.

There is the most familiar one, eternal conscious torment, and that’s the view that probably almost all of you… when you think of the idea of hell this is what comes into your mind. That hell is a place in the afterlife where people who don’t follow Jesus will suffer never ending punishment. That’s eternal conscious torment.

Then there’s the annihilation view, or sometimes called conditional immortality. This view also says that there is a hell. It’s a place of punishment, but when people go there, they die. They will cease to exist. There is no never-ending ongoing conscious torment.

The third view is sometimes called Christian Universalism. It’s better titled ultimate reconciliation. That says that, and you have to distinguish between Christian universalism and non-Christian forms of universalism or pluralism, which would say ‘oh all roads lead to you know heaven or whatever you know. Jesus is one way and Hinduism is one way and even atheists is another way.’ You know that’s radically different from Christian Universalism or ultimate reconciliation Christian Universalism says that the blood of Jesus is so powerful that it can even overcome the unbelief of all humanity, and that God will ultimately reconcile all things, including all people to himself.

All three of those views have been held by orthodox bible-believing Christians throughout the centuries and this morning we have two of those three views.

Notice how Sprinkle cloaks his own heretical views (annihilationism) and the heretical views of the unrepresented position (Christian Universalism) with an unproven declaration of orthodoxy. He also refers to the views by their adherents favored names, conditional immortality and ultimate reconciliation, in an attempt to make heresy more palatable. According to Sprinkle, alleged orthodox Christians held these views, therefore they must be orthodox.

Prior to the conference, Facebook advertisements for the conference were blitzed by commenters who called out the conference as woke and heretical. Sprinkle responded in the comments section by telling the commenters that they would have to answer to God for calling such great preachers as Francis Chan and David Platt these things. Such methodology is backwards. The scripture defines orthodoxy and heresy. Men who are orthodox follow orthodox Biblical teaching that adheres to the scripture. By definition, men who follow heretical teaching are heretics.

Splitting the hair of the heresy of universalism, as Sprinkle attempts, gives cover to rank heretics, such as Rob Bell. Universalism is heretical whether the heretic believes that Jesus universally saves everyone or the heretic believes that all paths, whether Christian or not lead to heaven. These beliefs are two sides of the same coin. Both “types” of universalism are unscriptural and lead the heretic away from the clear scriptural command to repent and believe on Jesus for salvation. Both brands of universalism lead their adherents to false, but easy pragmatic positions where there is no point to evangelism or teaching ministry. If all people end up in heaven, as universalism claims, what is the purpose of anything done by the church on earth? This is the reason why “churches” that believe universalism are dying. They have no purpose.

Sprinkle didn’t have a universalist at his conference, because an explanation of universalism by a universalist would clearly reveal that universalism is heresy, in light of scripture. While the remainder of the debate and discussion of the views on hell remained cordial, at one point Chris Dates exclaimed that Gerry Breshear’s position was “nearly heretical”. One could only imagine what would have happened if Sprinkle invited a universalist to represent the position rather than simply excusing universalism as just another orthodox position.

All of you know what might have broken loose.

This article was written by Paul Brown for Protestia.

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Preston Sprinkle Believes That The Church NEEDS LGBTQ People

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Co-founder of pro-LGBTQ Revoice conference, author, and false teacher Preston Sprinkle wants you to know that your church needs the advice of the world. By world, he specifically means individuals who are unregenerate and given over to a debased mind to the extent that they openly embrace sexual deviancy.

In a speech titled “Why The Church Needs LGBTQ People” that Sprinkle gave for the Revoice conference and reproduced for episode #920 of his Theology in the Raw Podcast, Sprinkle describes the otherworldly anti-Biblical concept of allowing sodomites and transexual folk to disciple the church, enlightening the body of Christ with what could only be described as homo-gnosticism (an idea that closely parallels the ethnic-gnosticism that is advocated by proponents of Critical Race Theory).

“Specifically, There are four major things I’ve learned about Jesus and the Christian way of life from my LGBTQ friends: friendship, marriage, faithfulness, and masculinity.”

Sprinkle’s theology in the raw podcast has delved into nearly every topic of sexual deviancy, including transgenderism, sodomy, polyamory, and bestiality. While Sprinkle claims to have an Orthodox view of sexuality (headvocates for the ‘side B’ homosexuality identity position), he interviews those who identify as LGBTQ, listens to their experiences, and then scapegoats conservative Christian’s lack of grace and understanding as the chief cause of pain and suffering in the world. In contrast with Sprinkle’s view that sexuality is a complex issue and sexual deviants are a victim of their “orientation”, the apostle Paul gave a crystal-clear picture of the state of those who identify as sexual deviants, in Romans 1:24-28:

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

In addition to his platforming, Sprinkle espouses a broad range of leftist viewpoints that he syncretizes with faith, including the idea that Jesus was a refugee, self-defense is contrary to scripture, and egalitarianism is Biblical. Sprinkle laments conservatives’ “inability to recognize and weed out strands of misogyny, patriarchy, and a cultural view of masculinity”, the typical talking points of effeminate leftist Big Eva Talking heads.

The scope of theological error in Theology in the Raw will soon be highlighted by the upcoming Theology in The Raw Conference, which includes speakers that are openly woke and egalitarian, as well as Johana Marie-Williams, a self-described bi-sexual “Southern Goth Womanist” who lists the following goals on her blog:

Considering the numerous false teachings and heretical positions held by Theology In The Raw Conference speakers, Sprinkle should consider changing the conference name to the “Did God Really Say Conference.”

Editor’s Note. This article was written by Paul Brown for Protestia.

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David Platt is Going to a Very Bad Conference

David Platt’s theology continues to shift from the good kind of radical to the bad, with the Mclean Bible Church pastor joining a bunch of Revoice teamsters and allies at the Theology in the Raw conference, whose theme is ‘Exiles in Babylon’

“To be a Christian is to be an exile. The Bible has a name for the country we’ve been exiled to: Babylon. As exiles living in Babylon, we need to think biblically, Christianly, indeed exilically—not partisanly—through cultural and political issues.

Some of the speakers at the event are Preston Sprinkle, Jackie Hill Perry, Thabiti Anyabwile, Chris Dates, and Greg Coles.

Readers of Protestia will recognize many of those names present, with a friendly reminder that we last saw Preston Sprinkle organizing the latest Revoice conference, which featured a devout Roman Catholic ‘who praised an X-rated gay BDSM film, and Chris Date, a self-styled apologist who openly, actively and vigorously rejects hell and the possibility of eternal damnation.

Jackie you can read more about here, Thabiti here, and Greg Coles? He’s also a Revoice acolyte who had to have theological reconstructive surgery after his queer LGBTQ positions were curb-stomped by the PCA at their recent General Conference. As far as the others, we don’t know much about them. Some may be fine, with the exception of having to have their discernment radars rejiggered.

Lest you think Platt is the odd man out from that serving of scallywags, the past President of the International Missions Board has drifted in other ways, from saying that he is part of the problem in promulgating racial injustice on account of his white skin, or telling congregants who “can’t live” with the fact that their church family may be members of the Democratic party, who may vote for them, campaign for them, fundraise for them, and even run for office under their banner, that they should leave the church. Oh, and his co-pastor was caught explaining how it’s difficult for him not to ‘torch all white people’.

Unfortunately, with his trajectory, we see many more of these and other conferences like it in his future.