Promise Keepers CEO says Churches are Making Men Effeminate by Teaching Jesus Wrong
Last time we checked in with Promise Keepers, we were ragging on them clucking our tongues after they brought in Trinity-denier T.D. Jakes to be a speaker at their 2020 conference.
Founded by former University of Colorado coach Bill McCartney and led by Ken Harrison since 2018, the Promises Keepers have seen a decline of their influence and prominence since their peak in1997 when they led an open-air gathering of nearly 800,000 people at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In the years since they’ve cut their staff from nearly 350 to 30, and their operating budget has fallen from a peak of $30 million to $2 million now.
One of the biggest contributors to the effeminization of men, is the church. I’ll say that. One of the biggest reasons. Why? Because we’re teaching cheap grace. And by cheap grace, I mean, the identity that you have of yourself will dictate how you behave.
And so the church has said over and over again, like the last several decades, that you’re a bad person, but Jesus loves you anyway. So try not to be bad. But if you are, don’t worry, Jesus will still love you, now have a nice day.
Now, how is that identity going to affect how I behave, if I hear that over and over? Especially as a man, right? ‘I can’t help but look at pornography, and I know what makes uncle Jesus really sad when I do, but he’s still gonna love me, so I’ll try not to, but if I do, whatever.’ And that’s not the gospel.
Harrison explains that Satan is the great deceiver and what the church is doing is 99% true, but that the rest of the story is that “you WERE a bad person before you gave your life to Christ” but now have become a new creature prepared for good works. That’s a mission that men find attractive, and he agrees with the interviewer’s summary that the church has been complicit in making men less masculine.
…We’ve taught a Jesus that’s an idol. It’s not the real Jesus. We’ve taught a Jesus that says that ‘love’ means being nice to everybody all the time. Well, when I read my Bible, Jesus wasn’t very nice. He was not very nice most of the time.
I mean, when you’re sending (unintelligible) set the world on fire and how I wish it was already alight and I came to this turn father against son and mother against daughter, what was Jesus saying?
Love is forcing people to make a choice, and doing all I can to get them to choose the only way to joy, which is salvation of Jesus Christ and then living for Him with complete abandon afterwards. That’s joy. And so if I’m doing all that right, He promises us ‘Blessed are you when people persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you great is your reward in heaven, rejoice.” That’s Jesus…”
Beth Moore, is perhaps one of the biggest proponents of this teaching.
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Yeah, they also make women put up with abuse and be doormats, and expect them to sit quietly, and smile.
This article is almost funny. The people reading this don’t actually believe this garbage do they? If so, then they are very easily led. I would suggest that middle class culture, education and psychology is more to blame than ‘the church’, or a poor upbringing. Coming from a working class Christian background, we were definitely not taught a ‘nice Jesus’, and the men in the church were not effeminate. Neither were the women. The emphasis was on the gospel, Word of God and worship of Him. We were taught to read it for ourselves, and our own lives before God. Women in the church quietly spoke to a minister who preached from commentaries and second hand experience, rather than his own personal faith. Please don’t force sickly sweet, Americanised stereotypes on people. This is your culture, not Christianity.