As ministers of various churches and denominations we recognise that the churches we belong to, and the church in general, is rapidly becoming a place of no support for Christians struggling with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) issues. Indeed the church is becoming profoundly unhelpful in transforming GLBT to godliness. For these things we apologise, whatever the distinctive of our Christian position on the role of man in his sanctification – to which we remain committed. We are deeply sorry and ask for the forgiveness of those with GLBT issues. We long that the church would be a place of faithfulness for all people and commit ourselves to pursuing and teaching godliness in all aspects of life.
We ARE a group of Christian ministers who voluntarily and individually bring this apology.
We ARE NOT official representatives of our churches or denominations.
We ARE NOT making a statement on the biblical relation between justification and sanctification.
We ARE recognising the lack of teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness that the churches have offered the gay and lesbian community in recent times.
We ARE a group of Christian ministers who voluntarily and individually bring this apology.
We ARE NOT official representatives of our churches or denominations.
We ARE NOT making a statement on the biblical relation between justification and sanctification.
We ARE recognising the lack of teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness that the churches have offered the gay and lesbian community in recent times.
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