{"id":7297,"date":"2017-09-05T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2017-09-05T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:08:24","slug":"nashville-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7297","title":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE STATEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbmw.org\/nashville-statement\/\">https:\/\/cbmw.org\/nashville-statement\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I would not sign it, even though I am in close agreement with the various articles.\u00a0 Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I<strong>t comes across as a sterile statement from too many who were either quiet or supportive of Trump.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is tone deaf in its timing: Charlottesville and now the flooding in Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>If the church in America had a better record of compassionate disagreement with gays, perhaps the statement would be okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I am glad, however, that this issue will force a more honest and comprehensive conversation about the Bible&#8217;s authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a very good critique of someone who signed (HT: Peter Coelho):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YmUawV0Lep\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/alastairadversaria.com\/2017\/09\/01\/on-the-nashville-statement-and-my-signing-of-it\/\">On the Nashville Statement and My Signing of&nbsp;It<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;On the Nashville Statement and My Signing of&nbsp;It&#8221; &#8212; Alastair&#039;s Adversaria\" src=\"https:\/\/alastairadversaria.com\/2017\/09\/01\/on-the-nashville-statement-and-my-signing-of-it\/embed\/#?secret=3ZsY2O0vrq#?secret=YmUawV0Lep\" data-secret=\"YmUawV0Lep\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would not sign it, even though I am in close agreement with the various articles.\u00a0 Why? It comes across as a sterile statement from too many who were either quiet or supportive of Trump.\u00a0 It is tone deaf in its timing: Charlottesville and now the flooding in Texas. If the church in America had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,122,88,7,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-controversy","category-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}