"As longtime Seventh-day Adventist pastor Kris Widmer points out in the newest installment of the “Outspoken” video series, there is no pamphlet put out by the church for parents of transgender children.
Kris Widmer is a lifelong, fourth-generation Adventist who has been a pastor for more than three
decades. His wife Debbie Widmer is the daughter of an Adventist conference administrator and was baptized into the church early in life. In December 2011 their son Timothy came out as transgender by reading them a ten page letter. That’s when they went into the closet, as they put it. There were no resources available to help them process what they were experiencing, no one they felt they could talk to.
In figurative and literal ways, the Widmers open up in the "Outspoken" video about their experience of transitioning along with Timothy (now Teagan) in a church that officially understands trans people as rejecting a normative, biblical gender binary. As they unpack a box of hand-crafted figurines depicting the story of the prodigal son, the Widmers’ lives and experiences unfold in front of the camera.
Kris saw in the biblical narrative “story after story after story in the Gospels about Jesus saying ‘You may be different, but I have room in my group for you.’” He said he may never entirely understand transgender experience, “but the answer is before us, is the person—our own flesh and blood. And that person is an awesome person, still.”
The “Outspoken” series of short films produced by Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer (Watchfire Films) celebrates the experiences and contributions of LGBT+ people and their families. All of the films’ subjects have ties to Adventism, though not all identify as current members." Spectrum
HOW is this happening? WHY is Spectrum promoting this from a positive perspective (as they always do)? ... The OUTSPOKEN series is about desensitizing SDA's to transgenderism.
Instead of calling people to repentance...they are encouraging people to wallow in sin as probation's close is fast approaching....SAD.......does anyone out there take Scripture serious anymore?...or is it all just a joke?
Q: Was He joking when He kicked them out of Eden?
Kris Widmer is a lifelong, fourth-generation Adventist who has been a pastor for more than three
In figurative and literal ways, the Widmers open up in the "Outspoken" video about their experience of transitioning along with Timothy (now Teagan) in a church that officially understands trans people as rejecting a normative, biblical gender binary. As they unpack a box of hand-crafted figurines depicting the story of the prodigal son, the Widmers’ lives and experiences unfold in front of the camera.
Kris saw in the biblical narrative “story after story after story in the Gospels about Jesus saying ‘You may be different, but I have room in my group for you.’” He said he may never entirely understand transgender experience, “but the answer is before us, is the person—our own flesh and blood. And that person is an awesome person, still.”
The “Outspoken” series of short films produced by Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer (Watchfire Films) celebrates the experiences and contributions of LGBT+ people and their families. All of the films’ subjects have ties to Adventism, though not all identify as current members." Spectrum
HOW is this happening? WHY is Spectrum promoting this from a positive perspective (as they always do)? ... The OUTSPOKEN series is about desensitizing SDA's to transgenderism.
Instead of calling people to repentance...they are encouraging people to wallow in sin as probation's close is fast approaching....SAD.......does anyone out there take Scripture serious anymore?...or is it all just a joke?
Q: Was He joking when He kicked them out of Eden?
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me:
and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:37
