It is Biblical to change names - either as directed by God, or for the purpose of the ministry. Likewise as a Christian, we are no longer Jew or Gentile, but I primary ethnic identity in in Christ. Now the world view was division by race, religion, gender and nationality, but the lines are redefined (by the world not God).
For Christians, its a matter of knowing and living who you have been transformed into through Christ. I would even say, there is a time to preach God's righteousness to evils of "Sodom and Gomorrah" (the world system) and there's a time to get away from it before we become it. Christians should know who they are, its those who are lost who are confused about their identity.
Mat
PS The above sermon aside, if all the current gender confusion had happened when I was a teenager, I would have gone out for the girls basketball team and showered in the girls locker room (that's right all you parents of teenage girls, beware of this new gender identity thing). Just being honest, and I think I would have been a "star" player, unless of course any other teenage boys had gone out for the team. Then I would have been on the bench. Maybe I should have tried out for cheerleading? |
Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1994 2/13/21 9:27 am
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