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!”, I actually heard a young New Calvinist preacher say “I am the gospel.”. Ruined several churches before coming to First Baptist of West Palm Beach. Rank and file Southern Baptists have been too trusting of their leaders – many have fallen (Patterson, Pressler, Page, etc.) Daniel Sillman: So apologetics is mostly historically an academic discipline. Whose human sympathy flows down in one continuous stream from that abode of glory, blending with our every trial, and suffering, and sorrow? I am a classical singer. I don’t have much respect for a guy that never did anything to reach Indians for Christ. “Church plants” …. The whole family seems to be scammers yet the SB stands behind them. Rinse, repeat. One of the things that annoyed me the most (and still annoys me) was being called a “masseuse”, as that term usually references people who practice “massage therapy” out of “massage parlours”. Lots of stuff comes & goes in the church, i.e., schooling. Additionally, rather than just using the word as a noun, they also use it as an adjective and an adverb. And to be clear, his ownership of the day spas were not a secret? Mr. Jesperson: “There is confusion about what the doctrine of limited atonement actually teaches. I always think it’s funny when, particularly the evangelicals, claim something is “biblical” like it’s some grand absolute, and even the people in their own church don’t agree with them on that topic. In February 2009, Hunt wrote back saying “I assure you we are looking into that.” Then… nothing. They all independently and separately said, “We don't want money. But the always verbose Hunt was not finished. Which is why people like RZ think they can get away with trafficking humans, and they do often get away with it. What Joshua said to the children of Israel, trembling to encounter the giants of Anak, may be truly said to every believer in view of his foes, “The Lord is with us, fear them not.”. With Hunt at the helm, they gain confidence that they too can learn to be a six-figure megachurch pastor in an oversaturated megachurch market. “We hold, then, that God wills not the death of a sinner, since he calls all equally to repentance, and promises himself prepared to receive them if they only seriously repent. Within the evangelical realm, there’s too much talk about grace-this and grace-that (particularly within New Calvinism). He worked out a deal where a cooperating church could get their donations to a specific church plant under the NAMB umbrella count as a NAMB donation. Personally, IMHO, the amazing work of TWW far outweighs this. It's a part of philosophical discourse going back to Aristotle and Greek philosophy and then even Seneca, and Aristotle's philosophy goes into the Muslim world, and it comes into the West through scholasticism and these doctors of the church who engage with these big philosophical arguments about being and causes and existence, capital E existence. But this will not work even if that person or persons do have a solid relationship with Jesus Himself. we have a praise team, a praise band, and women participate in all roles but the eldership. Oh, I know, but with Hunt involved, I think in that case it was mostly either moving the money around or getting more donors that were followers of Hunt. It’s evil. So the sermons through the year have to be about a lot of topics, not just whatever are the top three or four issues the pastor likes to talk about. And they didn't want to talk to me, but sent me an email denying all of the claims of sexual misconduct, calling into question why this would come up now, and then actually affirming the businesses existed. After establishing the standard systematic and text proofs of limited atonement, he turned to the seated audience and said, with a big smile, “so Jesus didn’t die for everyone.” At the time, I was persuaded of the validity of the logic of TULIP, but the evident pleasure he expressed in making this statement struck me as dismaying. Southern Baptist’s fundamentalist wing reveres Hunt”, “Flockhart said he was ‘licensed to preach’ in 1986 by Rev. (but maybe that’s most religions), yes, many do run in panic away from catholic, eastern orthodox, even from suspect lutheran, methodist, episcopal, anglican…, “Now the mission is spreading reformed theology …” Grace is not much from a cult. He may or may not have damned the rest. It was a huge scandal then. Lighthouse Trails editors do not post a story like this frivolously or with malice. If any one again objects—this is making God act with duplicity, the answer is ready, that God always wishes the same thing, though by different ways, and in a manner inscrutable to us. But, like I said, they seem to think that if they plant more church buildings, people will come, but the SBC is losing numbers like crazy. If a donut is defined by what is missing in the center, then maybe “gospel-centered donuts” is a good way to describe this movement. Ted Olsen: I do hope that for Christian leaders that there is a and awareness that these things don't stay hidden and that there is help on the other side of these things. I did count four people behind me asleep during the service. But here is what Calvin himself says in his exposition of Ezekiel 18:23. Whose blood, first shed on Calvary, now sprinkles the mercy-seat? Daniel Sillman: As I was writing and reporting, I kept thinking about people three groups of people. Daniel Sillman: Ravi Zacharias died earlier this year, but he was a Christian apologist—one of the most notable Christian apologists. So that's kind of my prayer as I send this out into the world. What say everyone? It’s getting harder to keep track of all the luminaries in the CIC (christian industrial complex). As questionable as the actions of Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler (former SBC leaders) were, I cannot imagine them thinking that speaking at the grand opening of a health spa/massage clinic would ever be a good idea. | RZIM A memorial service honoring the life of Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube on Friday with tributes from Passion Movement founder Louie Giglio, Lecrae, Tim Tebow and Vice President Mike Pence. Even the small-time operators (non-mega) are feeling the pinch of an over-saturated market (fundagelicalism). But he doesn’t “fake and bake” (does that mean, getting a fake tan?) I also ate lunch there and sat in the steam room. While the doctor was examining me, she noticed I was bruised all over. And the band plays on…. And yet Jesus warned us about how we, in these end times, would pursue teachers who would tell us what we only want to hear and would therefore be deceived by men. There’s a lot of gullible pastor wannabes out there; I went to school with a lot of them. Said he had a Ph.D. and we doubt he graduated from HS. I moved to rural east GA. Well defined church attendees with few options in the early days, thus, growth, thus programs, thus success for Hunt. Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020) [Video] May 28, 2020, 10:40 pm 1.8k Views. And of course there is a third way: evangelical universalism. — Adolf Hitler, Cult Leader, Jeffrey Chalmers: PS it is not very hard to go in the lab and do this…. Yeah, I’ve had people throw proof texts at me and tell me I don’t know the Bible. Ravi Zacharias as a Doctor, is certainly qualified to judge the ability of a masseuse. It all depends on how generous God is. Maybe they could show Johnny’s picture to some of the women whom Ravi Zacharias pulled a “Jeffrey Epstein” on and see if Johnny received similar, ahem, “treatments.”. This would also acknowledge the reality that a lot (not all, but a lot) of what passes for “church” in our day is about “pleasing people” rather than “honoring God.”. Her documentation of patterns of how these leaders operate is amazingly insightful. (1 Cor. Also Georgia laws on massage therapists tightened up in 2010. I’ve seen personality cults up close. Course he went to Hunt’s church so would defend him. Put your kids in your denominational $chool. It was a lengthy series called, IIRC, “Foundations”, basically a survey of systematic theology from a classic Reformed perspective. IIRC, in the lecture on “rewards and punishments”, he affirmed that the Christian life was so difficult that if it weren’t for the promise of reward and the threat of punishment, he would not want to follow Jesus. !”, Jeffrey Chalmers: I live in a “happy inconsistency”. Your passage I quoted is accurate enough for some hyper Calvinists. The new, new $hiny thing. to me – said nobody ever. There are a lot of Christian leaders who went to their grave having done stuff like this and victims who went to their graves never having had the chance to get some healing and thinking that a lot of people just didn't care. Silly of me, maybe, but I just have a strong negative reaction to it, especially on the more serious posts. His work has now been shown to be accurate. Has He not amply proved it? “You will know them by their love” just doesn’t apply to them. It as to mean something about not trusting celebrity and not trusting power and taking the accounts of people who aren't very powerful seriously. he is being ontologically transubstantiated to the right hand of on high, Todd, is this article a means of reform of the SBC¿, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4826n_gMxY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28d_A_NuJ7A&list=RD28d_A_NuJ7A&start_radio=1, Churches are nowdaz murdereing f0lk with lack of COVID. Additionally, according to Hunt’s Twitter account, he is now Pastor Emeritus of FBC Woodstock. When you take the board exams in one state, such as Georgia, you do not have a license to practice anywhere else in the United States. But then again they could turn right around and say Jesus doesn’t save anyone but leaves us to either work our way to heaven or believe the right theology our way to heaven, which means He accomplished nothing at the cross. Ravi and those like him do not care about the SOAP, only having their personal needs met. I think there’s certain personality disorders that definitely get marked as “leaders” in evangelicalism. There really should be only one Orthodox church in the US. In their view, it appears to be a lack of faith to grieve for the condemned (even loved ones) because God doesn’t grieve for them. Evangelism was SBC’s denominational gifting … that was forfeited when the New Calvinists took control. Nice to see you’re ending the year with your usual goodwill to all men except Calvinists, Max. The course work expands upon how and what steps should be taken and any legitimate massage therapy location will not challenge their licensed status to serve unsavory clients. Gospel-centered coffee, gospel-centered donuts, gospel-centered hairdos, etc. A touch of charisma, a gift of gab, and a bag of gimmicks will take you far in SBC ranks. linda: While that is the message of the majority of Calvinists, it is not the message of all Calvinists. 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