Thursday, May 2, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:44)
A Denominational Surrender: United Methodist Church Reverses LGBTQ Doctrine and Policy
Part II (12:44 - 15:40)
‘The Practice of Homosexuality is Incompatible with Christian Teaching’: The UMC Just Abandoned This Truth … Without Debate
- United Methodist Church Reverses Ban on Practicing Gay Clergy by The New York Times (Ruth Graham)
Part III (15:40 - 17:29)
The Slippery Slope of Women Pastors: The Hermeneutic That Leads to Women Pastors is the Same Hermeneutic That Leads to LGBTQ Inclusion
Part IV (17:29 - 25:47)
Why Were the Police Not Called In Sooner? Campuses (Finally) Crackdown as Protests Continue to Escalate and Get More Destructive
- Police Clear Building at Columbia and Arrest Dozens of Protesters by The New York Times
- College students are telling you exactly how they feel about the Israel-Hamas war. Listen. by USA Today (Sara Pequeño)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 2nd, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | No doubt the big story on America's mind right now |
| 0:16.7 | is the unrest on America's college campuses. |
| 0:19.8 | And that really is a big story. |
| 0:21.6 | It deserves our attention, but it's going to have to take back seat today |
| 0:25.0 | to another story that in the great understanding of the Christian faith and our engagement |
| 0:30.4 | with these issues is actually a bigger issue and that is the fact that |
| 0:34.8 | just over the course of the last several days the United Methodist Church has |
| 0:38.6 | basically reversed its position on homosexuality. Extending to same-sex marriage, |
| 0:44.3 | extending to openly homosexual clergy, we are talking about a massive, |
| 0:49.0 | massive news story. And of course it doesn't just come out of the blue. The United Methodist Church, |
| 0:54.5 | which is the second largest non-Catholic denomination in the United States, has |
| 0:59.2 | been tearing itself apart. The United has become much less united in recent months. |
| 1:05.0 | Over the course of the time from 2022 to the end of 2023, |
| 1:09.2 | about a quarter of the and changing the doctrine and policy and discipline of the United Methodist |
| 1:25.2 | Church. Now what has really changed in terms of the way this is played out on |
| 1:29.1 | the ground is that a matter of say three or four years ago it appeared that the conservatives |
| 1:35.0 | were going to be the ones who remained in the church and would have control |
| 1:39.0 | over the church and it would be the liberals pushing for the normalization of homosexuality, |
| 1:44.4 | the celebration and consecration of same-sex unions and even same-sex marriages, |
| 1:49.2 | the ordination of openly homosexual or LGBT- clergy, the thought was that there were enough |
| 1:55.7 | conservative votes not only from conservative Methodists in the United States |
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