Steve Lawson gave his views on Alistair Begg’s advice that a Christian can attend a transgender wedding. The following is Steve Lawson’s advice.
There has been a lot of talk recently on whether a Christian should attend a homosexual marriage. There has been a lot of talk recently about whether a Christian should attend a transgender wedding and whether should they bring a gift to the wedding so that they would appear to be compassionate and loving.
I want you to know that the answer is absolutely No. You have no business being there. Because it is travesty, it is blasphemy, it is an abomination. It is not to be supported. It is not to be celebrated. It is to be repudiated and it is to be exposed. And by attending you are celebrating this union. And you cannot celebrate blatant, gross sin of the highest order.
Adrian Rogers said years ago and it needs to be heard again today (He is with the Lord now). “It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the holy counsel of the Lord. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth than to be wrong with the multitude.”
Let us not forget that marriage is not a product of culture or society. It is not the result of men’s thinking. It is God and God alone in his infinite wisdom who has designed marriage and there is sanctity of marriage in entering into a holy union. Those who are unholy are to be reproved for entering into that which God has made holy. And so even by attending, much less bringing a gift, you are giving your endorsement or approval of what is taking place.
