After the young lady had a conversation with her sister explaining why and preached the gospel, Jackie said that “the sister got off the phone and repented and canceled the wedding.”
“So stuff like that tells me that God can use the conversation about the ‘no’ to actually do work,” she added.
Jackie disagreed with Preston’s philosophy of sharing publicly as to why he doesn’t agree with a gay wedding so he’d be able to attend. “I think it can come across as shaming,” she said.
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The public might not know about the person’s wedding you are attending, so you are possibly putting them in a position that might be embarrassing, Jackie said.
Preston argued, “I put them in a position, but I gave them a choice.”
“A choice no one is going to make” because of the number of followers Preston has, Jackie said in rebuttal.
“I wouldn’t use words that trigger Christians,” Preston explained.
“I would try my best to honor the God that I serve, while at the same time honoring them,” he added. “But I do think it’s about making your public dedication to Jesus not muddy. If a person really wants me there—like if you really want me there that bad—can you respect the foundation that I stand on and respect me not wanting to damage that?”
“That’s what sin does,” he told Jackie. “Sin makes everything hard. That’s what the church has to understand and that’s what unbelievers have to understand.”
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Preston explained, “When two people operate outside the way God intended them to be, things get hard. And I don’t think that God wants us to run away from the hard things.”
