According to Josh and Reed's account, the NYC campus leadership placed Josh in church leadership with full knowledge of his active homosexual relationship. Josh and Reed claim they never hid their relationship from their leaders who have embraced them as they are. The letter appears to imply that the public outcry over the revelation has prompted Hillsong Church international to NOW take a public stand on the matter.
Reed states, "This [the revelation of Hillsong NYC's embracing of openly homosexual leaders] has now forced our church to globally reaffirm their hard stance as a non-LGBT-affirming institution and disallow any gays from being in a position of leadership within the church. I am re-posting their letter not at all desiring to harm Reed and Josh.
Hillsong NYC's gay couple say they have always been 'open and forthright' about relationship
I understand where they are and am sensitive to their circumstances here. I pray that their hearts would not be hardened by the earnest probing into their church's practical theological position. I would hope that they would remain open to a conflicting truth they have apparently not been taught, flowing directly from the word of God.
It is evident by what I've read that they have been touched and appear to be genuinely in search of Jesus, a fact which makes this entire ordeal regrettable. Notwithstanding, Reed's heartfelt letter below totally clarifies the situation, and in so doing, clearly outlines Hillsong NYC's actual position on affirming the "gay" lifestyle, explaining why Pastor Carl Lentz has been so silent on the matter, notwithstanding his senior Pastor's strained public attempt at "clarification. To our friends The drama that is unfolding at the moment all revolves around the fact that we have been heavily involved in our church, Hillsong NYC.
Josh has been with Hillsong for eight years in a variety of ways: I've been there since the beginning of our relationship, over three years ago, and eventually began singing in the choir and opening my apartment as the gathering place for a connect group for Hillsong members in the Broadway and theatrical communities. Hillsong has many campuses around the world, many in places where gay marriage is now legal, so this has been an ongoing dialogue trying to figure out how and where we, as part of the LGBT community, fit in.
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As a church family, we have been wading through these uncharted waters of shifting culture and social change. Several days ago some faceless, end-of-days blogger decided to attack us and our church for allowing us to serve when we are "unrepentantly embracing [our] sin" as homosexuals. Sadly, yet unsurprisingly, most super-conservative news sources picked it up and ran with it -- giving this man's voice worldwide amplification it never should have had. Not to mention it worked up Christian communities around the world, as many look to our church as a model of modern Christianity to be emulated.
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