Facebook community meets 4000 evangelicals and gays shows growth of inclusive churches
Posted by Tiago Chagas on May 26, 2015 Tags: Anna Virginia Balloussier , Bible Commented Grace of Grace , the Holy Bible , Homosexuality , Contemporary Christian Church , inclusive churches , Marcos Gladstone , Evangelical LGBT Dating , fabio inacio pastor , pastor Gladstone landmarks , Sin
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Inclusive churches, dedicated to gather without preaching against
homosexual practice, have been growing year by year in Brazil. A sample
of this is a community on Facebook that brings together 4000 members.
The idea of the virtual group called Evangelical LGBT Dating is to
protect gays and lesbians against "outside world". One of the
participants, Douglas dos Santos, 18, is presented as a Pentecostal
evangelical gay.
"I said I went to church just for interest by the pastor and the
brothers," said Douglas, in an interview with journalist Anna Virginia
Balloussier, the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
The young goer Assembly of God long heard that needed to be delivered,
and this was fasting until chocolate: "They said that if I fasted would
be released, that [being gay] was a thing of the flesh", he told .
Unlike the majority of homosexuals, he did not feel well in an
inclusive church: "I had the fervor that I needed," said Douglas, who
returned to attend worship services of a Pentecostal church.
As for Simone da Silva, 43, and Marcia Innocent, 55, just the opposite
happened. As they felt repressed in traditional churches, they sought a
place where they could adjust and began to attend the Contemporary
Christian Church (ICC), the couple of gay pastors Marcos Gladstone, 39,
and Fábio Inácio, 35 (pictured).
Simone, the mother of three children, he was "wounded by so many
aggressions" suffered in heterosexual relationships, until it came to
dating women. He met Marcia who was attendee of a traditional church,
and heard the pastor who "had to be Adam and Eve, not Eve and Eve."
"I was wilting inside. It is not possible that Jesus does not love us,
"Simone said. Marcia, who was trying not to express their orientation,
said he did not feel well in the church: "It was dificultoso disguise
[sexual orientation]. Always tried to brush the hair. Shirt, never, "he
said.
The frustration of the two led them to find the inclusive church
Gladstone and Ignatius, which currently has nine temples, scattered São
Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and three thousand members.
The preaching of both is that the Bible should be interpreted according
to the time you are reading, and argues that the passage of Leviticus
which considers homosexuality as an "abomination" as something that was
in the past: "The same passage says that you can not eat pork, touching
the woman during her cycle and shave, "noted Gladstone.
In the services of the ICC, women play dressed in suit and tie, and men
wear bright shirts while dancing with colorful umbrellas, as a frevo
show. The celebrations attract homosexuals and their mothers and
friends.
Soon, the couple of gay pastors will launch a version of the Bible,
commentary, called "Grace of Grace" with explanations of homosexuality,
racism and prejudice against women.
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