Nashville Statement

“Known as The Nashville Statement, it was sponsored by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.” - CPost

“…given some of these recent arguments against the PCA’s decision to declare the Nashville Statement to be biblically faithful, I thought it would be helpful to look at the clarity of the Westminster Standards, specifically as to what our standards have to say about sexual ethics and the ordering of sexual desires….While pastoral in nature, they are far more convicting and constricting than the Nashville Statement.” -

“Overture 4, titled’ ‘Declare the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood’s “Nashville Statement” on Biblical Sexuality as a Biblically Faithful Declaration,’ was accepted on Thursday by a vote of 803 to 541.” - Christian Post

“Even though they simply meant to reaffirm what Christianity has always taught for its entire 2,000-year history, the statement has been met with fierce opposition in the Netherlands.”

Carl Trueman: The [Nashville] statement operates within the accepted modern categories of identity, never addressing the root of the problem. It deals with symptoms, not causes, and only with the symptoms that play best within the increasingly fragile coalition of conservative evangelical Christianity.

Mortification of Spin: Just as we predicted on the podcast, signing the Nashville Statement has become a measure of one’s commitment to biblical sexual ethics and gender distinctions. These sorts of things are inevitable. One group drafts a statement and opens it up to signatures with all the right people and influencers signing gladly.

The Nashville Statement is well-intentioned, some genuinely sound stuff is contained there, but the substance in places is superficial, and some parts are not beneficial to an evangelical witness to LGBTI people.

in the presence of a person who claims to be transgender, avoid using pronouns altogether and refer to them only using the name they’ve adopted.

Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: [I]n the hope of serving Christ’s church and witnessing publicly to the good purposes of God for human sexuality revealed in Christian Scripture, we offer the following affirmations and denials.