Gay SDA Membership

[Gregory Matthews]

Gay SDA Membership:   The article below informs as to a recent issue related to whether or not actively "gay" person could be a SDA member.

https://atoday.org/rocky-mountain-conference-leadership-will-disband-boulder-church-if-it-accepts-a-gay-member/

 

The above article contains a link to an important letter written by the Boulder pastor.  It should be read by all reading this article.

NOTE:  As a former member of that SDA Congregation, I personally know many of the members.  In the past, it has welcomed people to attend services who were not allowed to become SDA members.  

 

 

[Gregory Matthews]

The article listed in the post above may raise a question related to Glendale City Church.  The following is a statement taken from the website of that church.

 

Glendale City is a Christian church affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination (www.adventist.org) Our congregation was one of the first Adventist churches established in this part of Southern California. While we continue to partner with this denomination, we are in a posture of protest against the unjust actions taken by our General Conference that attempt to undermine the contextualized work of the Adventist churches and centers of education in the Western United States. We are in solidarity with the actions of our Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (www.puconline.org) that:

• Ordain both women and men as clergy
• Protect the right of Adventist centers of education to teach current science to its students while honoring God as Creator
• Stand with congregations that welcome and include our LGBTQ loved ones in their faith communities