{"id":11757,"date":"2024-10-03T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:03:18","slug":"pastor-speaks-on-gods-design-for-marriage-sex-at-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/10\/pastor-speaks-on-gods-design-for-marriage-sex-at-lausanne.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Speaks on God\u2019s Design for Marriage, Sex at Lausanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11751\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11751\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2024\/10\/praise-church_credit-Adobe-Stock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rev. Canon Vaughan Roberts spoke at the\u00a0Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, South Korea and encouraged his audience to push back against the tenets of the sexual revolution and rather focus on a \u201cChrist Revolution.\u201d Roberts, who is from Oxford, reflected on how the once \u201ccountercultural\u201d messaging of the sexual revolution has become mainstream. The push for LGBTQ+ acceptance has made most people afraid to speak against it while children are learning to pick their own pronouns. The result, instead of a culture of prosperity as promised by the sexual revolution is one that has led to the \u201calmost complete collapse of family life in our culture and devastating effects on families, especially the most vulnerable: children,\u201d according to Roberts<\/p>\n<p>Roberts himself has been open in the past about his struggle with <a href=\"https:\/\/davidould.net\/vaughan-roberts-same-sex-attraction-a-battle-i-face-a-model-of-a-godly-response\/\">same-sex attraction<\/a>. However, he has pushed to adhering to the Bible\u2019s command for sexuality, rather than giving into his own desires. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/davidould.net\/vaughan-roberts-same-sex-attraction-a-battle-i-face-a-model-of-a-godly-response\/\">2012 interview<\/a>, he spoke of his personal battle. \u201cAll of us are sinners, and sexual sinners. But, if we have turned to Christ, we are new creations, redeemed from slavery to sin through our union with Christ in his death and raised with him by the Spirit to a new life of holiness, while we wait for a glorious future in his presence when he returns,\u201d he said. \u201cThese awesome realities define me and direct me to the kind of life I should live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Lausanne address, Roberts again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/pastor-tackles-harms-of-sexual-revolution-at-lausanne-4.html\">stressed adherence<\/a> to the Scriptures. \u201cWe must turn to God&#8217;s never-changing Word and not just to a few proof texts, but to its main overarching themes: Creation, fall and redemption,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can summarize God&#8217;s design for sex and marriage in some very basic statements. God is for sex.\u201d Roberts pointed to Genesis 2:24 to affirm that \u201csex is for marriage.\u201d \u201cAnd in God&#8217;s design, sexual union is designed to express, seal and strengthen the one-flesh union,\u201d he stated. His own struggles with same-sex attraction he said, did not define him.<\/p>\n<p>He warned against churches that have embraced the world\u2019s definition of sexuality over God\u2019s clear word in the Bible. Instead, he stated churches must openly proclaim the truth of the Scriptures. \u201cWe churches desperately need not to be silent. We&#8217;ve got good news to share,\u201d said Roberts. He stated that churches should present that \u201cChrist who said come as you are did not say, \u2018stay as you are.\u2019\u201d He stressed repentance and encouraged Christians to offer those struggling with same-sex attraction a safe place to express their struggles. \u201cBrothers and sisters \u2026 does the tone and manner in which you speak invite them to be honest and open? Or does it force them into a secret, lonely isolation, which will only be an incubator of shame and sin?\u201d he asked. He called on Christians to push for a Christ revolution, which will be the \u201cgreatest revolution the world has ever known, far greater than the sexual revolution.\u201d Even more than morality, he stated that Christians must stress the person of Christ. \u201cI was gripped and excited by Christ. I loved Him, and loving Him, I wanted to live for Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Canon Vaughan Roberts spoke at the\u00a0Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, South Korea and encouraged his audience to push back against the tenets of the sexual revolution and rather focus on a \u201cChrist Revolution.\u201d Roberts, who is from Oxford, reflected on how the once \u201ccountercultural\u201d messaging of the sexual revolution has become&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":11751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christian-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pastor Speaks on God\u2019s Design for Marriage, Sex at Lausanne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/10\/pastor-speaks-on-gods-design-for-marriage-sex-at-lausanne.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pastor Speaks on God\u2019s Design for Marriage, Sex at Lausanne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rev. 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