Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says he is “concerned” about a July conference that will discuss LGBT Christians.
In an episode of “The Briefing” podcast released last week, Mohler said the event, called the Revoice Conference, seems to accept that sexual identity is “a defining issue that isn’t changed by the Gospel and isn’t transformed by sanctification.”
“I did not say that coming to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ results in any kind of immediate transformation of sexual desire,” he said.
The conference is schedule for July 26-July 28 at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
Revoice says the mission of the conference is to discuss “supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex-attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they can flourish while observing the historic, Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality.”
But Mohler says Revoice is implying that LGBT identity “has something morally and theologically positive and profitable to add to Christianity.”
Mohler isn’t the only one criticizing the Revoice conference. Stephen Black, executive director of First Stone Ministries, said the conference is trying “to manipulate the Church to embrace LGBT+ people as a victimized minority group instead of a group of Christians only.”
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