According to sources in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Conference has twice prevented the liberal Boulder Seventh-day Adventist church from accepting active homosexuals into church membership.
Around ten years or so ago, the Boulder Church wanted to baptize a gay couple and were told by Ed Barnett (Conference President) in no uncertain terms that was not to happen. According to local sources, the Pastor at the time was Japhet DeOlivera, one of the founders of The One Project.
More recently, the same church (under pastor Geoff Patterson) wanted to receive a married homosexual man (Dave Ferguson) from Glendale into fellowship. The Conference, under Mic Thurber, intervened and persuaded (under threat of disbandment) the Boulder SDA Church to not do this.
As it was in the days of Lot, the church is being surrounded by LGBTQ+ moral deviants, demanding to be let inside.
There is an interesting parallel between Lot’s daughters being offered as an appeasement to the deviant gender-confused mob, and the church’s offer of female elders and pastors to the progressive gender mob in the church. Neither were satisfied. Lesson learned: Appeasement will never satisfy the gender mob. Stick the Word of God alone, and be safe. Protect our wives and daughters.
Good on Mic Thurber and the RMC executive committee for sticking to their guns and rejecting Boulder’s attempt to infiltrate the church with LGBTQ. The Facebook page discussion on this issue is rather enlightening. It brings liberals out of the woodwork, moaning that the church isn’t accepting of LGBTQ+. One of the protesters is a former professor at Andrews.
The church is indeed being surrounded like Lot’s house. The solution is not appeasement, but rather strong commitment to the Word of God on the issue of His divine gender distinctions. God’s judgment will eventually fall upon those who abuse honest Christians for staying true to His Word (Ecclesiastes 12:14; Isaiah 13:11).
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“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible” (Isaiah 13:11).
