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Due to perceived homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny, the Nashville Statement has attracted significant controversy. [2] An opposing statement was published on August 30, 2017, by Christians United, a group of signatories. Brandan Robertson drafted the Christians United statement, and the Rev. Steve Chalke and others edited it.
John F. MacArthur Jr, in turn, taught that such a receiving was both non-passive toward Christ and actively submissive to Christ, offering this as a way of understanding the English idiom, of what receiving a person "as" Lord, really means. [5] Yet the "as Lord" language was not the only metaphor for the controversy.
The statement grew out of a meeting of a group of evangelicals that took place on June 19, 2018, in Dallas, Texas, organized by Josh Buice. [3] Tom Ascol was given the responsibility to write the original draft, [3] which upon revision was signed first by the original summit attendees also including James White, John MacArthur, Voddie Baucham, and others.
It later developed into the Lordship salvation controversy in the late 1980s and the 1990s, centering around the question on if making Jesus as the "Lord of your life" was necessary for salvation. [10] [11] [12] Modern advocates of Lordship salvation include individuals such as: John MacArthur [4] John Piper [3] R. C Sproul [2] John Stott [13]
John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. (born June 19, 1939) is an American pastor and author who hosts the national Christian radio and television program Grace to You. [1] He has been the pastor of Grace Community Church , a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California since February 9, 1969. [ 2 ]
He wrote that "Mr. MacArthur's deceptive article serves only the cynics who seek to rewrite the history of the Persian Gulf war" noting "the article's sinister innuendo suggests that the girl was not even in Kuwait at the time of the Iraqi invasion, and that the whole gruesome incident was a diabolical plot by an American public relations firm."
1 DOBSON CONTROVERSY. 2 John MacArthur is a fundamentalist, and not an evangelical. 2 comments. 3 NPOV Criteria. 2 comments. 4 A proposal for differentiating between ...
Others, like John Chrysostom and Martin Luther, write that it excludes women from teaching, praying, or speaking in public but grants some freedom to women in the home. The verse has been criticized for its sexism and its perceived inconsistency with other verses attributed to Paul , such as Galatians 3:28 , which states "there is neither male ...