Yes, this is a real headline: “Bible College Fires Professor for Tweeting Against Homosexuality, Threatens to Report Him as a ‘Terrorist.’” A Methodist Bible college located in the UK fired one of its professors, Dr. Aaron Edwards—and then threatened to report him as a “terrorist”—for a simple tweet warning evangelicals about the invasion of homosexual behavior into the church and saying that this is severe.
Dr. Edwards tweeted,
Homosexuality is invading the Church. Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this [because] they’re busy apologising for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it’s true.
He later defended his tweet with:
This is a ‘Gospel issue,’ by the way. If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Savior. That is the conservative view. The acceptance of homosexuality as ‘not sinful’ is an invasion upon the Church, doctrinally. This is not controversial. The acceptance is controversial. Most of the global Church would agree. It is not homophobic to declare homosexuality sinful.
The school claims he was “harming the reputation of the institution through his social media activities”—so, yes, this Bible school was concerned that it might have the reputation of believing the Bible and believing that sin is sin if this man kept tweeting! Shouldn’t they rather have been [pleased] to embrace such a “reputation”?
What have we come to as a church when someone proclaiming the obvious truth from God’s Word is fired and threatened by those who claim to be followers of Christ—and if they make that claim, they are obligated to be obedient to his Word? After all, God’s Word says,
John 14:15 KJV – “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
But it seems these professing Christians fear men, not God, and prefer the praise of men and their own “reputation” to the praise of the King of kings—who will one day sit as the ultimate Judge! Sadly, we are seeing a number of churches and Christian institutions cave to the LGBTQ movement.
Yes, our culture increasingly goes against the plain truths of God’s Word, and so many professing believers are caving to the pressure, going along with error so they can appear to be loving and kind. But in doing so, they are becoming false teachers who refuse to sound the alarm that danger is coming. They are broken cisterns that help no one!
Let us not be like those who suppress biblical truth—or even vilify it and threaten those who proclaim it—but let us be like the watchman in Ezekiel, warning people of the coming danger if they don’t turn from their sin and fall on the great, inexhaustible mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
