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this is crazy. two pastors who, for decades, Christians thought were the real deal. this is why im so scared to find a new church.
I’d encourage you to find a good church to the best of your ability. We aren’t responsible if the pastor walks away or falls years later, but we are commanded to gather together regularly.
And yes, it is crazy, especially Piper because he was good for so many years. He fooled everyone, but eventually the truth came out. So, don’t feel bad that he fooled you because I don’t know anyone solid who didn’t endorse him at one time.
My goodness David this is savage and…. necessary
According to their website, they’re going to “… celebrate the rich blessings of our union with Christ by studying what it means to be “alive together with Christ” (Eph. 2:5) …”
For some odd reason they skipped over verses 1-3 of that chapter. I wonder why [ahem] ….
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
They seem to have a habit of skipping over scriptures that say things like “… in which you once walked, following the course of this world … ” … past tense.
I have no doubt by the time they’re done with their usual twisting and contorting, and perversion of the grace of God, they’ll have it saying the complete opposite – that it means to continue in sin, and to follow the course of the world.
You attack Begg and Piper, who both have decades of fruitful ministry in spite of a few questionable statements, yet write a saccharine fluff piece the length of a novel defending a man who abused prescription drugs, embezzled money from his congregation, bullied the teen son of one of his victims to suicide and attacked his wife and child with a bladed weapon.
I disagreed with Alistair Begg on his comment regarding an LGBTQ wedding, but I would listen to him a thousand times over before I would ever listen to any of the vitriolic bile that gushed from J.D. Hall’s fat, bearded face. Or yours, for that matter.
tell us how you really feel though
Yeah, I was areader here, but the payment required to read certain articles has just soured me. I know you have to survive, but asking for money to read an article doesn’t sit well with me. I won’t be back. BTW, I’ve made donations in the past. I won’t again.
Grifters gotta grift. I suppose this is JD’s way of paying off the fines he was charged with when the courts found him guilty of embezzlement. Rather than humble himself under God’s just judgement and work hard with his hands to pay his debt to society, he instead falls back into his old ways of spewing his bile online and calling it a “ministry”.