Sentences with phrase «encourages celibacy»

Paul also highly encourages celibacy in 1 Cor 7.

After all, as he really encouraged celibacy, he must have been totally ignorant of your great insight on the need to preserve society.

Justin says that until then, encouraging celibacy had always seemed like the «safest» Christian position.

Encourage celibacy in your place of worship for the LGBTQ folk among you.

This year, hundreds of LGBT Christians, family members, friends, ministers, and more will come together in Portland for the singular purpose of transforming how we engage with both Side A Christians (who support same - sex relationships / marriage) and B Christians (who pursue or encourage celibacy) across the church aisle.

Not exact matches

another example, a small percentage of Christians are called to sacredotal celibacy, but 99.9 % are encouraged to marry - there is no discrepancy involved, and they are not just some ideas in the bible that we pick and choose between to believe - there is one consistent and variegated holistic understanding off the whole bible to those who can reason well and who have minimal training that churches should be doing in sunday, but mostly are not.

We must teach and encourage them to discern whether they are being called to marriage or celibacy and that nothing in between can serve their call to holiness.

I just think that if New Direction is there to encourage celibate gays to remain celibate (read the celibacy article on their page) then they should make it very clear.

I support and encourage GLBTQ celibacy.

(You see this position reflected in a recent Gospel Coalition post, where those with fixed, same - gender attraction are described as «having SSA» — same - sex attraction — and encouraged to pursue celibacy.)