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WE AFFIRM that people who experience sexual attraction for the same sex may live a rich and fruitful life pleas- ing to God through faith in Jesus Christ, as they, like all Christians, walk in purity of life.


WE DENY that sexual attraction for the same sex is part of the natural goodness of God’s original creation, or that it puts a person outside the hope of the gospel.


Article 9


WE AFFIRM that sin distorts sexual desires by directing them away from the marriage covenant and toward sex- ual immorality— a distortion that includes both heterosexual and homosexual immorality.


WE DENY that an enduring pattern of desire for sexual immorality justifies sexually immoral behavior. Article 10


WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.


WE DENY that the approval of homosexual immorality or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful Christians should agree to disagree.


Article 11


WE AFFIRM our duty to speak the truth in love at all times, including when we speak to or about one another as male or female.


WE DENY any obligation to speak in such ways that dishonor God’s design of his image bearers as male and female. Article 12


WE AFFIRM that the grace of God in Christ gives both merciful pardon and transforming power, and that this par- don and power enable a follower of Jesus to put to death sinful desires and to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.


WE DENY that the grace of God in Christ is insufficient to forgive all sexual sins and to give power for holiness to every believer who feels drawn into sexual sin.


Article 13 WE AFFIRM that the grace of God in Christ enables sinners to forsake transgender self-conceptions and by


divine forbearance to accept the God-ordained link between one’s biological sex and one’s self-conception as male or female.


WE DENY that the grace of God in Christ sanctions self-conceptions that are at odds with God’s revealed will. Article 14


WE AFFIRM that Christ Jesus has come into the world to save sinners and that through Christ’s death and resur- rection forgiveness of sins and eternal life are available by divine grace alone through faith alone, through Jesus Christ alone.


WE DENY that the Lord’s arm is too short to save or that any sinner is beyond his reach.


For more detail, information, Scripture references and signatories, visit: https://cbmw.org/nashville-statement/


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