Atlanta Area “Christian” Megachurch Bows Before the False God of the Transgender Agenda
In a horrific video that recently surfaced (and immediately went viral), a ministry director from North Point Community Church details how their church approaches “ministry” to “transgender kids” and their families. For those who don’t know, North Point is Andy Stanley’s megachurch in the Atlanta suburbs. Andy Stanley is the son of Charles Stanley, a titan in SBC history and one of the indispensable leaders of the Conservative Resurgence.
I’ve written about the very serious biblical concerns with Andy Stanley’s ministry approach before. But this is by far the worst thing I’ve ever seen come out of his church (yet).
If you can stomach to watch the video, you’ll see a staff member of the church, Britt Kitchen, describe North Point’s approach to ministering to kids who experience “gender dysphoria.”
Three Thoughts On the Video
First, Britt Kitchen speaks in a maximally winsome, sing-songy voice, which is a dead ringer that the speaker is hiding something. It’s emotional manipulation and flattery. Go look up Romans 16:17-18.
Second, Kitchen relies exclusively on therapeutic language (dysphoria, safe space, uncomfortable, etc.), studiously avoiding the language of scripture (sin, righteous, repentance, biological reality, etc.).
Three, he also avoids the word “child.” The individual in his example was only five years old at the start of the “gender dsyphoria,” but he uses the word “student,” which is more abstract and doesn’t sound as damning.
“How to Trans Your Kid In Nine Easy Steps“
Throughout the video, Kitchen essentially gives a roadmap to Christian parents on how to “trans” their children by considering one family’s process in dealing with their own “transgender” child. To be clear, there is no such thing as a “transgender” child, but these people are pretending otherwise.
With each step he lists, he makes it sound like these are “good things” that other Christian parents and churches should embrace, not lies from the pit of hell that lead children further and further into the demonic darkness of “transgenderism.”
Let me briefly summarize the “steps” he walks through for this family, steps that North Point clearly embraces, supports, and encourages.
- Step 1 & 2: The parents take the child to a child psychologist and then a specialist. I wonder if these parents knew that child psychologists are trained to NEVER challenge the child’s expressed gender identity?
- Step 3: The parents start allowing the use of new pronouns at home.
- Step 4: The parents and the child pick a new name and use it at home.
- Step 5: The parents begin allowing the child to dress as the opposite sex.
- Step 6: The parents ask the extended family to go along and do the same.
- Step 7: The parents support their child in pursuing “medical intervention,” like hormone blockers, knowing that “surgery will probably come later in life.”
- Step 8: The parents ask the “public” and the school system to use new names and pronouns. Apparently, in this “model” family’s journey, everyone went along with this except their church. The parents and the child weren’t affirmed by the church, and the church wouldn’t use the child’s new name. So, they left their previous church. Apparently, everyone else in their lives had been coerced and bullied into compliance, but the church wouldn’t go along. They said church ended up being the only place where they had to “pretend to be someone else.” So they left. Praise God for this church for standing their ground against this family’s madness.
- Step 9: The parents begin discussing “upper” and “bottom” surgeries (on a child!).
Kitchen emphasized that this process played out over a “long, long, long time,” and they went slow, slow. How long? About “five or six years.” That’s not a long time. That’s shorter than elementary school!
Kitchen celebrates the fact that 75% of people who experience this do not complete the change. Another way to look at it is that 25% of children do, which means these children are permanently locked into a body-altering ideology.
Again, all of this is couched in the language of “compassion,” saying they want to be a church where people feel loved.
They don’t want North Point to be the “last place the student feels comfortable.” But let’s be clear: the church is the last place that anyone should feel “comfortable” in their sin.
Yes, a church should love anyone who is struggling with sin and support them in their fight against it. However, the church must be the first place, not the last, that preaches the truth of God’s good creation order and the binary nature of biological sex.
North Point has abandoned God’s truth for worldly madness. Instead of being a place that encourages parents and children to fight against the evils of transgender ideology and practice, they have chosen the Devil’s side in this war on our kids.
It’s obvious now that Andy Stanley and North Point don’t worship the One True God but rather worship the “god of self.”
They have traded Christ for an idol. Inclusion, feelings, and toxic empathy have become their god, and they will mutilate the bodies of children to worship it.
Andy Stanley, I beg you, repent of this. This not only harms children; this is blasphemy. God is not mocked. You will reap what you sow. Lord, have mercy.
Editor’s Note: This is a lightly edited version of an article titled “Training Christian Kids to Be Transgender,” which was first published at Michael Clary’s personal Substack, which you can find at dmichaelclary.com.
