Jen Hatmaker uses flowery words to say she supports homosexual sin
She smart, articulate, lovable but very wrong - even apostate. Jen Hatmaker uses a muddle of words below - but essentially without further clarification on point 3 - she appears to have moved from believing the Bible to liberation theology without even knowing it ....to promote homosexual sin as holy. Here is her wordy, flowery response.
Hi,
everyone.
A couple of quick thoughts on all these
tender things:
1. First, regardless of what you see
from strangers on the internet, our real friends and ministry partners and
colleagues and fellow pastors have been across the board, carte blanche, by the
dozens and dozens and dozens...kind and good to Brandon and I this week. Every
one of them. We can't even keep up with it. So know that regardless of
headlines, we have very much experienced a faithful witness to Jesus through
our friends in our real life this week. They give the church a beautiful name
worthy of its source.
2. I'm not here to defend or explain
right now. I have very open hands here. I have nothing to protect, nothing
worth losing that I am not afraid to lose. I have zero agenda for myself. I
don't feel self-protective or defensive or scared or angry. I am neither trying
to gain applause or start a war. Some people are throwing parades and some are
burning books, but I am not motivated by either; I'm neither overly encouraged
or overly discouraged. If you believe the hype, you have to also believe the hate,
and neither is fully true. Some are certain I am after "the approval of
people," but here is the truth: I don't love the approval of people, but I
do love people. I love them because Jesus' love for us is so insane and big and
outside our templates and it reaches and reaches and reaches past our comforts
to draw people to Him, and He does this with or without our permissions and
sanctions and rules and hierarchies, and He has done it for all of time and
will continue to do it for all of time. We are standing outside the city gates
with people He asked us to stand with, and that is the beginning and end of it.
3. The time will come to discuss and
talk about this together, but know this: we deeply, sincerely, with our minds
and hearts both engaged, including perspectives all along the spectrum, in deep
discussions with people we trust and respect, with prayer and careful study and
deliberation moved into this space. We wrestled with and through Scripture, not
around it. Our view of the Word is still very high, as is it for the hundreds
of thousands of faithful believers who believe likewise.
4. Regardless of your position, please
remember this as you respond, discuss, and take this conversation to both your
Facebook walls and your dining room tables this week: all around you, the LGBTQ
community is watching. They are listening. They are watching how we respond,
how we talk about them, how we actually feel about them in our churches. They
are your neighbors, your colleagues, they are in your churches already, some of
them are in your homes, some of them are your children and you don't know it.
Most of them are quiet because they are scared. With good and obvious reason.
But they are beautiful people loved by Jesus and no matter what, we should
speak in a way befitting the way of grace, the same way that found and saved
and redeemed and healed us too. Please don't mistakenly take me to the mat in
public or private and imagine it doesn't carry weight with tender, beloved
people who are bearing witness to all this.
I love you sincerely.
I am always grateful to be your sister. All of you. And I hold those of you who
are angry or shocked or confused with me this week very tenderly, too. I love
you and I am here in the tension, committed to our little community and to all
these sisters of mine. I am still here, hands open. Please remember with
kindness and mercy the eyes on my page this week, so impossibly dear to God.
