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well the secret's out many of your
favorite christian worship artists do
not have sound doctrine at all and in
other news the sky is blue grass is
green and i'm wearing a black t-shirt
again in all seriousness it's painfully
obvious that so many christian musicians
are just compromised they've lost
virtually all ability to contradict the
culture in any meaningful way why well i
would submit to you it's because they've
practically become the culture they've
gotten their taste of fame they've
entered into the ranks of these
celebrities and now to come out and say
something really risky may damage their
career unfortunately the following
statement is true most christian
musicians especially the most popular
ones are more likely to say something
unbiblical than they are to say
something unpopular in fact this
statement is manifestly true all you've
got to do is pay attention when's the
last time your favorite worship band
said something politically incorrect i
would assume the answer is something
like never one example of this would be
the recent statements made by chris
lewellen of the immensely popular
christian worship band rend collective
this band has put out songs that you may
know like my lighthouse build your
kingdom here and counting every blessing
many christians have listened to their
music and over 20 000 people most of
whom you'd have to assume are christian
fans follow chris llewellyn the lead
singer of ren collective on instagram
ren collective has a whopping
266 thousand followers on instagram
that's over half a million people again
the majority of whom are probably
christians long story short this is not
some small rinky dink organization of
irrelevant artists this is an incredibly
popular worship band and a force within
christianity so now that you know the
context let me show you what chris
llewellyn lead singer and front man of
wren collective said about the issue of
transgenderism here's a screenshot of an
instagram post that he made the story
he's responding to was one in which a
ministry leader said the following quote
a man won the woman's swimming
championship end quote this was with
reference to the fact that a biological
man had won a swimming championship
competing against biological women go
figure most christians with an ounce of
common sense called this what it is an
appalling load of nonsense that
contradicts god's word but chris of wren
collective well he didn't see it that
way at all he said the following in
response to that post quote however you
feel about the implications for sports a
wider conversation for sure calling a
trans woman a man is hateful unkind
don't participate in this kind of speech
history won't be kind to you end quote
it is interesting that chris seems to be
so much more worried about how history
will view his position than how god
views his position that's what you call
compromise now to many emotionally
driven christians this statement may
seem like a very kind and charitable one
that all christians should get behind
while the post he's responding to well
it seems to have been written by a mean
conservative christian troll that lives
under a bridge somewhere in mississippi
but i assure you it's quite the opposite
the bible makes it abundantly clear that
there are only two sexes and that in a
normative biological sense you fit
neatly into one or the other depending
on your dna this is both a biblical and
a scientific fact in genesis 5 2 it is
written quote male and female he created
them and he blessed them and named them
man when they were created end quote all
of mankind is called male or female and
this is under god's creative decree not
man's in other words if god made you to
fit into one particular category it's
not your place at all to change that
category or the title attached to it the
bible is crystal clear on this issue but
contrast that with what chris llewellyn
said in his post he called this
biological man a trans woman so the
first point to be made is that right out
of the gate chris is lying he's
intentionally deceiving people he's
calling someone by a title that he knows
does not correspond to them accurately
he's doing so intentionally knowing full
well that it's not true this only serves
to reinforce the unbiblical deception of
the culture the next claim chris makes
is that calling people by the title that
god gave them well that's hateful that's
mean says who chris says who what's your
standard of hate and why should i care
about it why should i care whether or
not i violated your subjective standard
you see as a christian my standard of
unbiblical hate is the bible that which
is described in the scriptures by the
living god in the scriptures god calls
people man and woman without reservation
god also affirms what you might call the
stereotypes of the sexes indicating that
there are immutable and unchangeable
characteristics that come with being a
man or a woman well where do you find
that in scripture i'll tell you in first
peter 3 7 peter writes quote likewise
husbands live with your wives in an
understanding way showing honor to the
woman as the weaker vessel since they
are heirs with you of the grace of life
end quote therefore it is abundantly
clear that there are unexchangeable
unchangeable immutable biological
categories for men and women in
scripture and there are characteristics
that come with those categories and
there is no way that you can change the
fact that you fit into one of them and
this in no way violates that you are
made in the image of god and can accept
his grace the bible does not indicate
that calling a man a man or a woman a
woman is hateful at all in fact god
himself he does it many times in his
holy scriptures i just gave you one
example of thousands so calling a
biological man a man regardless of how
they want you to identify them that does
not violate the bible standard of love
at all and more than this chris seems to
have missed the command in scripture
that we are told to tell the truth to
one another colossians 3 9 says quote do
not lie to one another seeing that you
have put off the old self with its
practices end quote when you call
someone who is a man a woman you are
lying to them and that's something the
bible actually does call sinful but
according to chris llewellyn lead singer
of wren collective telling the truth is
what's actually full of hate but it
doesn't violate the bible standard of
hate which is the actual objective
ethical standard that christians are
bound to follow so to chris i would
simply say that because your standard of
hate is unbiblical and deceitful no
christian has to follow it or even
respect it in fact i for one have
absolutely no respect for it it's
completely unbiblical you're lying to
the person you claim to be protecting
you're opposing god's word directly and
you're telling christians who actually
follow god's word that they need to stop
immediately and instead follow your
subjective emotional standard christians
stop thinking like this and stop letting
your favorite christian musicians
manipulate you into violating god's word
under the guise of being compassionate
use the bible to find your moral
standards of hate kindness and every
other ethical category of speech and if
anyone comes to you with a different
standard in the name of being a good
christian feel free to reject that
standard entirely and outright to
encourage christians to lie to other
people actively about the sex that god
created them with is shameful it's wrong
one of my greatest missions guys is to
encourage you my fellow christians to
ask this question by
what standard by what standard are
things called hateful by what standard
are things called unkind according to
chris llewellyn of ren collective
calling someone by their proper title is
hateful what a load of garbage why do i
use such strong language here because by
chris's own standard the bible is
hateful he is indirectly accusing god
himself of hate speech because the bible
uses two exclusive biological categories
to refer to all human beings and it
attaches unchangeable natures to these
categories so please christians stay
away from this kind of compromised
popular christianity that wants you to
indiscriminately chug the world's
kool-aid without thinking critically and
without thinking biblically and be aware
that many of the people who will
encourage you to do this will definitely
tell you to do it in the name of
christian love and godly compassion but
always measure their standard of love
their standard of compassion against the
bible standard and you will find that
they are actually peddling deceitful
lies and fleshly ignorance that
christians should reject outright in
other words to put it simply don't
violate god's word in the name of god's
love that is foolish unbiblical and
self-contradictory and please pray for
chris of wren collective that he would
repent of this falsehood and turn to the
truth of god's word
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