Alistair begs the question. January 29, 2024. Introduction. Let us begin by acknowledging that it is not good or appropriate to take decades of faithful

ministry and gospel preaching in order to wad it up and throw it away, and to do this over a few unfortunate,

albeit erroneous comments.

It is important to maintain perspective.

You should never throw out a good man's entire ministry just because he wants to say that

under certain conditions it would be appropriate to attend a tranny wedding.

And so that is why Alistair Begg shouldn't have done that.

The people who have appreciated his ministry for years and who have expressed dismay over this

incident are not the ones doing that.

This was an unforced error on Alistair's part and not the result of a bunch of

carping Christians.

There may be a handful who are rejoicing in this event as a proof of whatever it is they've been maintaining,

but they are people who have their own issues.

But however, truth be told, those folks always did have their own issues.

In case you were wondering, I'm not going to use this space in order to yell at

Alister. I do however want to explain the difference between what he thinks he is doing and what he is actually

doing. There's a subtlety here but it is not the kind of subtlety that justifies anything.

Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made,

Genesis 3.1. But Mark this, I am not saying that Alistair is a Serpent. I am saying that the Serpent dunked on him here.

To recap, if you are just now joining us in a recent interview, Alistair Begg recounted a conversation he had with a grandma who was wondering if she should attend her

grandson's wedding in which he was getting married to a transgender person.

A fuller account of all that is here.

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