Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists in Seattle is pastored by Kevin McGill. They also have a female pastor, Raven Leonardini.
This coming Friday night and Sabbath, they are hosting a series of presentations on LGBTQ affirming theology, by Ex-SDA pastorette Alicia Johnston.
What is affirming theology?
Affirming (or Gay) theology is an attempt to reform Christian beliefs on sexuality and accept LGBTQ+ practice as biblical.
Proponents claim that the Bible writers did not understand sexual orientation and gender identity. Thus, modern understandings must be applied to the Bible in order to rightly reinterpret Scripture. Affirming theology questions 5,000 years of Judeo-Christian teaching, and reinterprets it according to modern sensibilities. As in feminism and cultural marxism, these Judeo-Christian teachings are scornfully rejected as ‘patriarchal’.
Helping people resolve LGBTQ+ moral failure is harmful to them, so we must affirm them. This means that they must be included in church membership and leadership.
Nothing less than the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people and practice in Christian churches is acceptable to these people. Thus the Green Lake Church, (along with Sligo, Takoma Park, and Hamburg-Grindelberg churches) is attempting to change SDA biblical doctrine on sexuality. To make this happen, Green Lake is inviting a defrocked ex-Adventist pastorette to teach gay theology to their members.
The Arizona Conference referred to Alicia Johnston as a “gifted theologian and pastor” and praised the “honesty and sincerity of her [LGBTQ] views” in a public letter written on April 24, 2023. They also wished that she would “continue to seek God’s will in her personal life and ministry” instead of courageously denouncing her wrong moral ideology and calling her to biblical repentance.
This pastor should absolutely lose his job for bringing unbiblical error into the Green Lake Church, the Washington Conference, the North Pacific Union, and the North American Division.
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