Blogger, speaker and co-founder of the “emergent church” movement, Tony Jones (pictured above), is never shy of inflammatory things to say when it comes to the nexus of faith and culture. But in the wake of World Vision’s effective same-sex “marriage” endorsement, subsequently followed by their reaffirmation of traditional marriage, Jones made an exceptionally off base claim about Millenials like me.
According to Mr. Jones, young evangelicals are “looking for—even hoping for— some advance on the issue of rights and love and equality for GLBT persons. That is why we will keep them in the Christian faith.” He went on to declare, “What WV did yesterday…pushed scores of younger people out of the church and out of the faith.” As a young evangelical, I have to raise my hand and say whoa there Mr. Jones, you’ve pegged me/us all wrong.
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