Reconsidering Revoice & its Advocates
Think about it, this is in part how the church has gotten itself embroiled in the whole attempt to revoice the gospel in our present culture. Late last year, Wesley Hill wrote in First Things, after last yearās Revoice Conference, ā[I] knew the character of my same-sex desireā¦I was skeptical of the effectiveness of any therapeutic interventions.ā[1] But the article isnāt just about the failure of therapeutic treatments aimed at homosexuality. Hill also seems to implicate the means of grace as useless instruments in the wreckage of failed attempts.
Hillās end result is to capitulate. In other words, Hill writes that at some point he felt free to ponder whether his āsexual orientation be something that God does not want to remove.ā Now, to ponder the question is permissible but to actually argue the position that God wants sin to remain in his saints is contrary to Godās program of sanctification in the saint. The believer is definitively removed from the kingdom of darkness and set down in the kingdom of the Son of Godās love so that he might not offer his members as instruments of wickedness but rather as instruments of righteousness. The aim and goal of the Christian life is holiness and it stands to gospel reason that God does not stand in the way the believerās progressive conformity to Christ.
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