Pastoral Leadership and the Gender Issue: What Does Courage Look Like?

Dr. Russell D. Moore has some great thoughts on pastoral leadership and the gender issue.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

"A pastor must be willing to lose his pulpit in order to save it. He cannot simply renounce the same "culture war" opponents that might be demonized by Fox News. He must talk about issues that will be sensitive to people in his own congregation--a dating culture that by its very definition anticipates fornication, the outsourcing of parenting to daycare "professionals" in order to carry out dual-income households, and so forth. A pastor who addresses such issues will find some hostility, but he will also find Christians--and seeking lost people--who are willing to give him a hearing because of his honesty and conviction."

Read the rest here!

The Gender Blog

The Counsel on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood have redesigned their website. Here is a blurb from their website - "Welcome to our new website! At CBMW our passion is to help believers and local churches benefit from glorious biblical truths about God’s design of men and women. Our website has been updated to help you find answers to your questions and to encourage you to stand against the drifting currents of culture. Rest assured that this new site retains the same solid biblical teaching on the complementarian nature of manhood and womanhood."

Also, if you are not aware of it, check out "The Gender Blog." Well worth your time.

Gender issues continued...

Albert Mohler also has some great insight concerning the gender issue.

Gender issues

In case you haven't heard about this I thought I would post some thoughts about it. Transgender activists brought a proposal to the NYC health department that would have allowed them to change their gender on their birth certificate without a sex change operation. Thankfully, this proposal was rejected...so it is back to the drawing board for the GLBT association. However, read carefully why it was rejected and your rejoicings for its denial will soon end. It was not denied because it is contrary to common sense, or because it is contrary to human nature itself, or because it is plain wrong, but because of "certain societal ramifications."

We live in a society that has rejected any platform from which we can judge right and wrong. We live in a society where truth is thought of as relative, and instead of moral absolutes like "right and wrong," "sin and righteousness," we are confronted with a philosophy of "if it feels good, do it" and that is all that matters.

Well, lets follow this thinking through. If it feels good for someone to commit pedophilia, does that make it OK? If it feels good for someone to rape a women and then stab her to death, does that make it OK? If it felt good for Hitler to wipe out the Jews, did that make it OK? In other words, what feels good to one person may not feel good to another person, so who is right?

The fact of the matter is, it really doesn't matter how you feel or what might seem right to you, because after all what makes your feelings or thoughts better than anyone else? What matters is TRUTH, and if what you "feel" goes contrary to what is truth or reality, then don't follow through with what you feel. What matters is if as Scripture says, God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in it, and that God made us in His image, then that means we are accountable to live to the standard for which he created us.

The truth is, God created man and woman. God wants women, who are women because of certain physical anatomy, to be women! God wants men, who are men because of certain physical anatomy, to be men! Is that really such a radical idea! Is that really so terrible! I think not. What is terrible and indeed, quite sad, are those who people who are so convinced they are not made in the image of God and are merely the sum of their actions and feelings, feel they must change their sex to be happy and free!