Jeff ⚓️

Sadly, this is not at all surprising, especially for those who warned about Alberry and Revoice for years. The ideology that disordered desires were not inherently sinful is the crack in the door that allows someone not to repent of the sinfulness of their heart. To treat "same sex attraction" as an orientation that is fine to have, provided it is not acted on, is antithetical to the holiness demanded of us in Scripture. The only surprising part of this is the language of “currently disqualified,” in the church's public statement, as opposed to permanently disqualified. Let's be real, the man was engaged in a homosexual relationship and lied about certain aspects of it. That certainly fails the “above reproach” standard of Scripture. Unless this church and those who have been swayed by the Revoice ideology come to recognize this, then this will not be the last time this happens. Alberry should absolutely be held accountable, and he should be guided through a disciplinary process that includes full repentance of his acts and desires. We should desire to see him restored, not as a pastor, but as a member of the body of Christ. But if he should later be restored to the pastorate after years of teaching a compromised ideology and then demonstrating through his own sins the fallibility of that ideology, then this will only perpetuate the same cycle of sexual sin in others. Alberry should be seen as a cautionary tale about what happens when we try to compromise the word of God with the ideologies of the world.

Why don’t schools teach about the Bolsheviks who killed millions of Orthodox Christians? Churches were destroyed, icons and relics smashed, priests executed and the faithful who resisted were tortured.

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