@thisisfoster Better yet, how about you give us a blow by blow of how you personally have put to death a sin that once ensnared you.
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@thisisfoster You absolutely are gloating. How many tweets have you made about this? Pull your head in.
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This is a blockhead statement.
This isn’t about saying “I told you so.” It’s about the fact that we warned the church this was a dangerous departure from Scripture, that it would lead to real consequences. And when we said it, we were treated like we were harsh, unloving, or theologically off.
We weren’t. We were doing our job. We warned. That warning was ignored, dismissed, or mocked.
This is the same pattern again. There are people who want to act like they’re more loving, more understanding, because they refuse to connect theology to behavioral outcomes.
They’re not more compassionate. They’re just unwilling to do the hard work of pastoral ministry.
Jared@RevJaredJones
I think posting "I told you so" when a pastor resigns and has admitted his sin is one of the grosser things that happens on this app, and its always the same people who do it.
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@Galipette4242 @JoelWebbon You should hunt down and read the statement from Immanuel church.
I think "inappropriate" seems the best description.
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@CP19090 @JoelWebbon Sam had a gay relationship as a pastor. Just because you want to pretend otherwise doesn't mean that isn't a sin that the church chose to ignore. I guess you all missed that day in Kindergarten where we learned "two wrongs don't make a right "
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Sinful desires must be mortified, not managed.
So many faithful Christians tried to say this. They were ignored and slandered.
Don’t just focus on Sam Allberry.
Focus on everyone who defended him.
Protestia@Protestia
Protestia BREAKING: Pastor Sam Allberry Resigns From Church After Revealing ‘Inappropriate relationship with another man’ protestia.com/2026/05/03/pas…
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@ThymeToBeBorn @megbasham Some people will never bother to struggle against their sinful nature because it will never be front and centre like it is in the case of ssa. I guess in the end God knows and sees. The God who sees us as we are.
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@CP19090 @megbasham Yeah I don't know what to think. Has everyone gloating fully crucified all their sins? Meanwhile people at my church have a great impression of me, but I'm awful, just not about sex stuff. Lmao.
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There have been doctrinal issues with this church and its pastor for some time now, treating the sin of same sex attraction as a special sort of sin, which need only be half crucified.
It was not necessarily clear that this was how the bad doctrine would work itself out, but it was going to show bad fruit in some way eventually.
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@Calvinator8000 @RevJaredJones Just to be clear, you might like to read the statement from Immanuel church which suggests the former did not happen.. and then, just to be clear, you might like to delete false information.
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@RevJaredJones Just to be clear: by "his sin", do you mean the act of sodomy, or the legitimization of the modern myth of same-sex orientation (or "Side-B", which obviously led to the sodomy)? Or both?
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@CatherineHume10 @aaron_p_edwards May God give you grace sufficient to each day.
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@CP19090 @aaron_p_edwards Thank you. Most of us keep it Biblical and if people do fall, they get back on the horse with Jesus. Or the colt.
Holiness is a lifelong journey of God consistent purifying us - all of us, not just us SSA people. Wewon’t be perfect until we meet Him. But we pick up our cross.
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It's almost as if all those evangelical institutions who spent the last decade pretending "same-sex attracted Christianity is a good thing" was not a good thing?
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Breaking: Sam Allberry has resigned as pastor after revealing he'd been involved in an "innapropriate relationship" with another man several years ago. Notably, Sam was one of the architects for the acceptance of Same-Sex Attraction Christianity (SSAC) whose false beliefs include: -Same-sex attraction is never a result of early childhood abuse and is always unchosen. Same-sex attraction only becomes sin if it is acted upon. -Homosexual acts are no different than other sins. -Christian regeneration has no influence over same-sex desire. -The church is guilty of oppressing this group instead of helping them bear their cross of unchangeable same-sex attraction
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@SimonFish1529 @aaron_p_edwards I'm not reading that. I asked a very simple question
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@CP19090 @also_psyche @jonharris1989 No, heterosexuality is our design and default. Homosexuality is a corruption.
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Sam Allberry has resigned as a pastor.
Allberry frequently talked about the difficulties of being attracted to men and remaining celibate.
Sadly, he embraced this state of affairs as his only Christian option for avoiding sin and remaining faithful instead of seeing faithfulness as conformity to God’s design and faith that God can overcome sinful desires.
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@OvertimeThrill @MichelleDLesley Was just going to ask this. Very easy to say when you are heterosexual and nothing jumps out at you as needing to be killed off.
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@MichelleDLesley Have you killed all sin in your life?
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It is heartbreaking what sin - and the toleration of even a little bit of it - does to people. You can't just tie sin up with what you think are strong ropes. You have to kill it. This was only a matter of time.
Protestia@Protestia
Breaking: Sam Allberry has resigned as pastor after revealing he'd been involved in an "innapropriate relationship" with another man several years ago. Notably, Sam was one of the architects for the acceptance of Same-Sex Attraction Christianity (SSAC) whose false beliefs include: -Same-sex attraction is never a result of early childhood abuse and is always unchosen. Same-sex attraction only becomes sin if it is acted upon. -Homosexual acts are no different than other sins. -Christian regeneration has no influence over same-sex desire. -The church is guilty of oppressing this group instead of helping them bear their cross of unchangeable same-sex attraction
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@PastorAndyWebb Because Sam's work to decieve many, they have carved out a special category for his sin. They stopped calling it sin and downplayed the vilness of it, and here we are.
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Can you imagine a Bible-believing church hearing from a pastoral candidate that he had engaged in an adulterous relationship with a congregant's wife two years prior to applying to be their pastor and simply saying, "Not a Problem!" and then making him in their new pastor? Of course not.
However, the whole "Side B" mentality imports a false view of sexual sin into the church. It takes a sin that is considered worse in Scripture than ordinary adultery because it's an unnatural sexual sin and makes it far less serious than heterosexual violations of the 7th Commandment.
No Compromise Radio@nocoradio
They knew the whole time...
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@aaron_p_edwards We support people who are trying to honour God by living celibate. We let God be the judge. How about you?
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@aaron_p_edwards No one in evangelical circles said ssa was a good thing. We accept that it is a thing that happens in a fallen world. We understand the difficulties of wanting to change and being unable to and the minefield of marrying a person you are not attracted to.
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@MikeG04782097 The church statement very clearly says that what you claim in your screenshot is untrue.
Ask yourself why you feel the need to lie.
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@ShawnMathis1972 @coconservative7 This sounds like you are hoping to profit from someone else's worst day. Shame on you.
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@coconservative7 Read my book and you'll see the red flags from the beginning.
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Back in 2022, Sam Allberry claimed he was wearing a wedding ring to remind himself that "God is pursuing him." This was the same year he was in an "inappropriate relationship" with another man.
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@reformed_cajun @also_psyche @Boanerghes_ @thisisfoster And then there are the purported Christian nationalists out there who have the racist thoughts and justify them using scripture.
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@reformed_cajun @also_psyche @Boanerghes_ @thisisfoster I posit that most people have racist thoughts that they would never dream of admitting or acting on. So what is your point?
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People warned about Allberry’s position on same sex attraction for years.
It all was so obvious.
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@reformed_cajun @also_psyche @Boanerghes_ @thisisfoster You mean like many of the people in the universe?
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@CP19090 @also_psyche @Boanerghes_ @thisisfoster Just imagine he had racist desires but stopped short of racist acts, and then maybe you’ll understand the problem.
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@kody_dowell @thisisfoster It's not. At least get your facts straight before rushing to smugly condemn
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@OldTom_Morris @thisisfoster Why. Because he was maybe texting someone and emotionally involved? Are you *this* much of a reviler? Have you so little human compassion?
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@thisisfoster Immanuel's statement says, "...while the relationship did not go as far as it could have..."
I don't even want to think about what that might mean.
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@thisisfoster Sorry I think I replied to the wrong point in the thread. Interestingly though, TGC says inappropriate and stops short of sexual sin which is what Immanuel church statement says. You could read it before you self-righteously condemn the man.
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