In 2019, Kendra Arsenault, an Andrews seminary student, started a podcast called Advent Next, where she interviewed ‘academics’ about current issues in Adventism.
After a July 31, 2019 podcast, Kendra Arsenault announced on air that she was bisexual and identifies with the LGBTQ ‘community.’ In her own words,
“At the end of that episode I revealed the reason why this conversation is so important to me. I'm also queer.”
Friends, this is the epitome of double-mindedness, warned about by James, the step-brother of our Lord (James 1:8).
Arsenault continued to study at the Seminary, praising pro-WO teachers like Jo-Ann Davidson and others. The astigmatic pro-WO Compass Magazine even praised her as an up-and-coming voice in Adventism. Discernment score=0. I regret ever having been a part of that organization.
Question. Did her time at the Adventist school help her to renounce homosexual sin and biblically resolve it? No. If anything, she became more committed to homosexuality, intending to use her ‘education’ to affirm and ‘validate’ the biblical sin of homosexuality.
Yesterday, she received a diploma from Andrews Seminary. Was she happy? No, she was complaining that she was under a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ position regarding her gayness while studying at the Seminary.
Observations
Dear Church. Where is repentance?
You cannot satisfy sin by trying to appease it, in fact you deeply wound the Body of Christ by allowing it to fester our midst (1 Corinthians 5:9-11). These immoral public declarations are public sin, and should be confronted with redemptive truth and discipline (1 Timothy 5:20). Properly resolved (and by ‘properly’ I mean, biblically), this story could be a tremendous blessing to the Seventh-day Adventist Church members everywhere.
Allowing WO in the Church (by not disciplining its rebellion) leads to other and greater sins. Listen up GC EXCOM. You failed the Body of Christ. WO is not satisfied with itself, it gives way to homosexuality after disrupting the gender binary. Homosexuality is not satisfied with itself, it leads to pedophilia and polyamory. That’s why the LGBT acronym keeps growing. It is now LGBTQIA2+.
Is there no one in the SDA Church or Seminary who could help this woman biblically resolve her moral confusion? I realize that the choice to be bi-sexual is her choice; that means she also has a choice to respond to the Holy Spirit and resolve moral confusion or reject Him. How do we know if people reject the Holy Spirit? They are unrepentant.
The church has choices to make as well. If a member refuses to resolve or renounce personal and public sin then the SDA Church Manual tells us what to do. The person must be dis-fellowshipped if they are unrepentant. This is the loving thing to do (1 Corinthians 5:1-5).
The Seminary also has a part to play in this. When/if a seminary student announces publicly that they are LGBTQIA2+ (morally confused & rebellious), the Seminary should expel them to safeguard the conscience and moral safety of the rest of the Church and other students. Failure to do so invites moral cancer into the Church. My guess is they don’t do this because one, they like the money that students pay, even morally deviant students, and secondly they are afraid of becoming the target of a Twitter mob via cancel culture. Or worse, they are ideologically aligned with the LGBTQIA2+ agenda.
Greed and fear become their primary motivations. Replace these two negative motivations with principle and courage and repentance, and the Lord will bless Andrews University.
Spectrum Magazine just announced a partnership with this person:
“Here at Spectrum, we are excited to announce the launch of a new podcast in partnership with Kendra Arsenault and SDA Kinship. The title is Imago Gei, and the show will bring the latest on queer theology and a minority perspective on faith.
“Imago Gei is a play on the term 'imago Dei,' which means in the image of God,” Arsenault says. “It’s a term to describe the affirmation of our humanity and shared value in the eyes of God. This dignity and affirmation of human value is the birthright of every living and breathing human being, but it’s one that’s often forgotten when affirming the dignity of LGBTQ lives.”
Arsenault is an experienced podcaster and multimedia producer who excels at exploring the intersectionality of modern life and faith. She is a graduate of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary with a master of divinity.”
Here are two responses from faithful Seventh-day Adventists who care about Bible truth and God’s people:
“I thought Spectrum had plumbed the depths of depravity but there was further to go. They say that this name is a “play on” the phrase Imago Dei or image of God, and they are changing it to Gei to reflect something about LGBT values. This name signals an attempt to change the actual image of God and remake Him into something different. A new “god”’.
“So, the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University grants a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree to a known lesbian, telling her to just “keep quiet.”
What Can We Do?
Dear friends, if you are disgusted and frustrated by this sin in the camp, please know, you are not alone. Most Bible-believing Adventists feel this way. What can we do? We can contact the following individuals:
Chair of the Andrews Seminary Board, Dr. Alex Bryant, who is also North American Division president
Dr. Artur Stele, chair of the Andrews University Board.
To send a message to Dr. Bryant, go to: www.nadadventist.org/contact-us and under “Select Entity to Send Email to” choose “Presidential.” You may also call Dr. Bryant’s office at: 443-391-7137
You may contact Dr. Stele by sending an email to: barbem@gc.adventist.org or by calling his office at 301-680-6613
You may also send an email to the dean of the Seminary, Dr. Jiri Moskala at seminary@andrews.edu, or by calling 269-471-3205.
Stand up for what you know to be God’s truth.
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“But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person” (1 Corinthians 5:11).
