{"id":3973,"date":"2019-09-13T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2019-09-13T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:49:06","slug":"j-d-hall-addresses-his-controversial-tweets-about-dr-james-white-and-tom-ascol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/j-d-hall-addresses-his-controversial-tweets-about-dr-james-white-and-tom-ascol","title":{"rendered":"J. D. Hall Addresses His Controversial Tweets about Dr. James White and Tom Ascol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/jdhall.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>J. D. Hall, Curator at Pulpit and Pen, initiated a call to The Paul Edwards Program on September 13. In the course of the conversation, Paul asked him to address the Tweets which are embedded below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frankly, James White and Tom Ascol wouldn\u2019t have a line to read from the talking points teleprompter if we didn\u2019t write it for them first. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dBD4t4kySp\">pic.twitter.com\/dBD4t4kySp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Protestia (@Protestia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Protestia\/status\/1170413761057804288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">J. D. Hall Defends Reformation Charlotte&#8217;s Post Which Misquotes Jarrid Wilson on &#8216;Gay Christians&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The audio of my conversation with J. D. Hall of Pulpit and Pen is below in two parts, in which he defends Reformation Charlotte and Jeff Maples&#8217; doubling down on Jarrid Wilson after his suicide. The pertinent links to the articles being discussed are below the audio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/jdhall_2a.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part One of a Two Part Conversation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/jdhall_2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part Two of a Two Part Conversation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reformation Charlotte doubles down on Jarrid Wilson after his suicide:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reformationcharlotte.org\/2019\/09\/13\/southern-baptist-pastor-who-committed-suicide-said-gay-christians-represent-jesus-love-more-than-straight-christians\/\">Southern Baptist Pastor Who Committed Suicide Said \u201cGay Christians\u201d Represent Jesus\u2019 Love More Than Straight Christians<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read what Jarrid Wilson ACTUALLY wrote:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130922012254\/http:\/\/jarridwilson.com\/gay-straight-or-purple\/\">Gay, Straight, or Purple<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Jarrid never used the phrase &#8220;Gay Christians&#8221; in his piece, as Reformation Charlotte claims in its headline<\/strong>: <em>&#8220;I know a handful <\/em><strong><em>of people<\/em><\/strong><em> who are gay, go to church, and in fact show the presence of Jesus\u2019 love more than most self-proclaimed&nbsp;\u201cstraight\u201d&nbsp;Christians do.&nbsp;(Let that sink in)&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li>Jarrid&#8217;s post was a response to the hate-filled tactics of Westboro Baptist Church and NOT an endorsement of the gay lifestyle.<\/li><li>Jarrid clearly called Christians to not &#8220;stray from biblical truth&#8221; on the issue of homosexuality, but at the same time to show &#8220;the LOVE and GRACE of Jesus.&#8221;<\/li><li><em>&#8220;Regardless, my point of writing this is to hopefully&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>WAKE UP<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;our generation, and encourage them to start showing the LOVE and GRACE of Jesus&nbsp;(This doesn\u2019t mean that you stray from biblical truth).&nbsp;Our world is already filled with so much destruction and hate, and the last thing Jesus wanted when dying for us was us to be part of it.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. D. Hall Defends Reformation Charlotte&#8217;s Post Which Misquotes Jarrid Wilson on &#8216;Gay Christians&#8217; The audio of my conversation with J. D. Hall of Pulpit and Pen is below in two parts, in which he defends Reformation Charlotte and Jeff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/j-d-hall-addresses-his-controversial-tweets-about-dr-james-white-and-tom-ascol\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}