The Church Cannot Affirm Homosexuality - Tim Keller

[0:00]for the first time in history, you have a kind of a revisionist movement inside even evangelicalism, that says, the historic teaching about homosexuality was a mistake. You could call it the open and affirming movement, that sort of thing. And usually it comes with the, the argument that this isn't a gospel issue. Because I'm not changing the doctrine of Christ, I'm not changing the doctrine of the Trinity or any of those things. This is an ethical issue over which good Christians differ. Now, here's the problem. You have to ask yourself, first of all, unlike other places where we've been differing about the sacraments, even justification by faith for centuries. The church has never differed on this ever before. So why would suddenly it people have to find this controversial? Only if there's a narrative of expressive individualism, which is what you're talking about. Only if you, if there's a deeper cultural narrative that says identity is found through self-affirmation and self-assertion, not not losing yourself to find yourself. Not self-denial, not saying I'm going to seek myself serving God and others, and I'll find myself in losing myself in service to God and others. That which always that underlying narrative has to the idea that expressive individualism, I have to decide who I am, I have to find out who that is, is, that's got to be behind that. Which by the way, changes every doctrine. That's exactly what Micah is saying. It changes your understanding of sin, of humanity, of grace, of I identity. Because it's not rooted in the same thing.