A broad coalition of US Christian leaders, including J. I. Packer and
Francis Chan, have released a statement articulating God's design for
human identity as male and female. Such a statement is needed, they say,
in order to resist the spirit of the age and for the church to maintain
its counter-cultural witness in a world that seems "bent on ruin."
The Nashville Statement, which was sponsored by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was published Tuesday. The document contains a preamble and 14 articles responding to the current realities in the Western world regarding the many messages swirling in society and even in some churches about sexuality, particularly homosexuality and transgenderism, which have come to the fore in both politics and church life in recent years.
Note EU-Digest: in relation to the potential impact of the Nashville Statement also read: "Take a deep breath: The Nashville statement won't change anything." by Jonathan Merrit.
Read more: Broad Coalition of Evangelicals Releases 'Nashville Statement' on Human Sexuality, Identity
The Nashville Statement, which was sponsored by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was published Tuesday. The document contains a preamble and 14 articles responding to the current realities in the Western world regarding the many messages swirling in society and even in some churches about sexuality, particularly homosexuality and transgenderism, which have come to the fore in both politics and church life in recent years.
Note EU-Digest: in relation to the potential impact of the Nashville Statement also read: "Take a deep breath: The Nashville statement won't change anything." by Jonathan Merrit.
Read more: Broad Coalition of Evangelicals Releases 'Nashville Statement' on Human Sexuality, Identity
