The Nashville statement on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people

face. For over two years, we have always released the Truth and Love podcast on Monday morning.

And for the first time since we started this podcast, we held off the release of our podcast 24

hours, and that is because we wanted to participate

in a very special announcement. And that announcement that is public as of this morning, this

Tuesday morning, is that the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has released the Nashville

statement. The Nashville statement is a statement

on biblical sexuality as it seeks to provide biblical parameters for human sexuality in the 21st century.

I think a statement like this has been desperately needed for Christians to write and for Christians to embrace.

Because if you've been paying any attention at all, you know that our current age is marked by

sexual confusion. And there have been Christians who have been sucked into that confusion,

and it has been a matter of great importance for the Church of Jesus

Christ to address this issue. I really believe confusion about sexuality, homosexuality,

transgender, marriage, and all those kinds of things. I believe that is the defining issue

for faithful Christians to weigh in on in this day and in this age.

And I am thankful that the Nashville statement weighs in on those issues in a way that I think

is reflective of a biblical morality. I was honored to be on the draft committee for this statement

and am thrilled about all of the people from a

diverse range of evangelicalism who have signed on as initial signatories. Just as an example of

who some of these initial signatories are for the document, R. C. Sprole, John Piper, James

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