Gender and Identity

[@mjhonsun]

Dr. Rosaria Butterfield is a treasure. She is right on - both in her command of the subject matter and her instincts & advice about how Christians, leaders, parents, grandparents, young people, and the Church should view and address this blatant deception. Listen to Rosaria!

[@RWB20]

First time I've heard her speak. Deep wisdom there. Wonderful to hear what she had to share.

[@alexthegadfly]

Thank you, thank you, and thank you, Ligonier Ministries for standing firm. Please, don't ever stop what you guys are doing.

[@jgarcia5214]

I'm so grateful for Ligonier's steadfast dedication to the scripture, especially in the midst of an ever changing culture not just in the country but within the church as well. May God continue to bless this ministry.

[@hermanvanveen3903]

I liked Dr. Butterfield’s statement about being sanctified in your ignorance with regards to all the different faucets of gender ideologies. I heard a story once that the way a banker knows the difference between a counterfeit bill and a real bill is not by knowing every counterfeit but by being so familiar with the real bill that if a counterfeit comes along it’s immediately detectable. We need to know the Word and by knowing the Word we will be able to stand against the fiery arrows of the devil.

[@GirlDragon928]

this was so needed and encouraging. grateful for Dr Butterfield.

[@sco1889]

Wow, beautiful music in the beginning. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the video. God Bless 🙏🏻❤️

[@GarthPlamping]

It took me 3 weeks to finally find time to watch this. I have found this very helpful and as a Pastor, am going to encourage my congregation to watch this. Thank you so much.

[@shilohdalstonchurch1965]

The time is truly now and there is no going back. I believe God is stirring his children as we surrender to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit, working and speaking through and in us.

[@robmarshall956]

The Corinthian believers are an example of the hope and transformation available : “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11). Thank God that there is hope for everyone, transsexuals, transgenders, those with gender identity disorder, and transvestites included, because of God’s forgiveness available in Jesus Christ. Find your identity in Christ alone and you will find the truth. The world will only lead you astray from the truth. There is one ☝️✝️ Truth. Like Rosaria I lived a lie that was fed to me by satan and the world and I reject my homosexuality and affirm it is a delusion and lie that is in opposition to Almigjty Gods word. Thank you Rosaria for your bold witness. ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@joannemayo2023]

Thank you for this comment, I Praise God for you!

[@samwaffle3293]

Thank you! I’ve been struggling with this and how, as a Christian, I am supposed to respond and feel about this anti human movement. This is an anti Christian ideology that is sowing deceit, chaos and mental and physical harm to children and young adults, all for profit.

[@rebeccawright2038]

So grateful for these edifying conversations! Sooo wish our pastors could hear these great helps in combatting "the sin that so easily besets us"!

[@k.s.obrien9459]

Dr. Butterfield is amazing, thanks Ligonier for this content!

[@williamflournoy4091]

So grateful for this teaching, it has truly helped me!

[@samwaffle3293]

@12:32 , this is the crux of everything! God knows us better than ourselves, not our “feelings”. Yaaas. The last 50 years has all been about our feelings, brought in by the psychology protocols to heal people. I know, I grew up with parents who got their Masters in psychology and social work. Many dinners where I got psychoanalyzed and the conversation always started out with, “ well how are you feeling” or, “ well, I’m feeling like you are saying this...blah ,blah”. I rejected this stuff as a kid, yet still was culturized to assimilate this “self actualized” inclination to only see the world thru this lens, and not thru the lens of how God sees me or what’s best for me thru his will. This “ feeling” perspective has become a doctrine for how to live in our modern culture. It’s taken me 50 years to wake up to this and desire to bring God to the center of my life, not me as the center. I’m a work in progress.

[@JML6988]

I appreciate how Dr. Butterfield distinguished between the pastoral aspect of taking feelings into account and God's Word, which does not take human feelings into account. Both are needed.

[@helmutlunstedt1176]

Dear sister Rosalía, Y like very much your explanations and declaration of a holy life, blessed be the one who preaches the truth of His Word...

[@shadiaesen9218]

I have been around the world for 12years and I can tell you it's not easy to find a true biblical church.

[@TheRoger1205]

So true. I have seen some of the most heretical blasphemies using the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to make money and fleece the flock! I have confronted the so-called pastors and get condescending platitudes. They seem to think this Christian walk is all some lifestyle choice no different than other sinful lifestyles.

[@jhondelosreyes8724]

Thank you so much for this! With that may I also suggest for a topic or perhaps a symposium if there is not yet before about, "pressing issues Christian students face in the campus"
I'm so blessed by your ministry. We all need to hear this and I praise God for this. Soli Deo Gloria! 🙌

[@cwstreeper]

Lots of Biblical TRUTH in this discussion. Thank you Ligonier!

[@Everlastingquotes7]

After a very exhausting day, this has been a very welcome conversation! Truth after truth after truth! Speaking truth in love - thank you and God bless you 🙏🏾

[@CharlotteRyerson]

This is so good. I’ll be listening again-so much helpful, Biblical wisdom here!

[@donahgreiner510]

I’m thinking that part of the issue is, here locally in my church, that God is love. I’ve been saying that NO God is holy, holy, holy. If the God I worship is not the one I find in the word of God, then I worship a god of my own imagination. No honor, and fear means to hold in high regard. A god stripped of all that I find uncomfortable is an idol with no substance or strength.
GOD
You’re Will and
You’re Ways are in
You’re Word revealed.
I’ve been studying the book of Judges. 😇
No king in ‘Israel ‘ and everyone did what was right in their own eyes. 🙏

[@samthemacman]

Thank you for this great video. Important content and a great dialog which the Church needs to engage with at this critical time in our society.

[@samwaffle3293]

Preston Sprinkle, I was conflicted on his perspective and his affirmations; this clarified for me this subject. Thank you

[@pianomanny1397]

Outstanding discussion! Thanks so much for your understanding and insight. All churches should be teaching this topic.

[@usedtobeifb]

Minute 45:34 is priceless. So when I here her speak it is direct and with substance, when I heard the pastor speak it almost seems that what he said could be applied to anything meaning not direct. When he speaks it almost seems rehearsed maybe because he preaches a lot but she speaks like a family friend that is really trying to help and I am glad she wasn’t afraid to contradict him with in regards to culture and whether or not she is right is a different question but you can definitely see she has courage to speak up. That is why all of the comments I have seen so far are about her statements not his.

[@savedBygrace29]

Amen 🙏 truth! God bless this Gospel preaching Ministry.

[@InspiredbyJM]

Videos like these are so encouraging, especially when this world seems to be more and more oppressive towards the biblical truth .
Speaking up in todays day and age requires a great deal of courage, but more so than that, we need to stay close to God. He will provide the way even when there seems to be no way.

[@craigwillingham9511]

Clarity and sanity.

[@jackkassabian4544]

All honestly I hope and pray that the church is ready to shine the light by the Gospel in time of darkness. Evil is increasing and the love of sin is increasing. The verse that gives me hope John 16:33.
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.””
‭‭John‬ ‭16:33‬ ‭ESV‬‬

[@joycebodah5026]

Thank you for this video. It is so timely when I was trying to look for Christian instructions on the gender concepts being advocated by governments and other institutions today, I was led to check my email and found this. Thank you so much. I work in a Gender and Development unit of a state university in the Philippines and I am confused on how, as a Christian, should I stand on this matter.

[@Encourage1another777]

what an amazing woman!!

[@jamesjohnson2003]

Very good disscusion,based in truth with good suggestion for further study

[@pattylengyel1861]

One of the problems I see in 'christians' I know is they do not read God's Word daily. If they aren't feeding on His Truth then they can not know Him.

[@HearGodsWord]

Very true. "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing the the Wod of God." Romans 10:17

[@danacse]

Wonderful clarity

[@JML6988]

One of the few issues I take exception with Ligonier on regards their stance on healthcare. I just don't see government financed healthcare as inherently wrong. I recall Dr. Sproul giving a brief lecture on this subject a few years before his homegoing.

[@ginahabig]

This was so great thank u

[@HearGodsWord]

I found Carl Truman's book helpful for getting insight into this.

[@sugansugan56]

Thank you all so much

[@simonodowd2119]

I agree with Dr. Butterfield when she says that the Church is following the world, and I'm an atheist.
I personally think that the Church should hold to the Biblical view of homosexuality, it'll increase the rate at which people leave Christianity.
Question for Christians; would you rather have people who are accepting of LGBTQI+ (the "rainbow" community) in the Church or to leave Christianity?

[@user-cu3xn4xj3i]

This is because we're in the last days. Satan is trying to make all sins legal and acceptable. GOD WINS IN THE END.

[@user-cu3xn4xj3i]

Is that what Preston says about lgb??? Oh my goodness.

[@samwaffle3293]

Yes, I’ve listened to him speak several times now. It just didn’t seem right to me, and I began to feel conflicted on this subject. I’m a new Christian and tried to find scriptures that would answer these questions to no avail. So I asked God to guide me and a few days later I come across this video that not only answered my question, but expanded my scriptural search. God is guiding me in ways that is amazing! Sprinkles intentions are from love, but I believe he is being driven by culture and not guided by scripture.

[@LindeeLove]

You would be hard pressed to find an instance where Rosaria admits that she doesn't know something.

[@stuartjohnson5686]

People have sexes, nouns genders -- Voddie Baucham

[@laurasswford6962]

She is right for the so called church that is in evidence today has no part of the true body of Christ .
To say that let the wheat and the tares grow together fits this situation
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[@gregoryjones7467]

Great conversation I. Can you please contact me on my email I really would like to discuss this father like you say not on the internet.

[@gregoryjones7467]

Thanks
For standing on the word of God without being authoritarian just explaining

[@ligonier]

Hello Gregory, you can email us with further questions at the email [e-mail].