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Pastor Ed Young’s Daughter, LeeBeth Young, Passes Away

Pastor Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Church, a 30,000 Member multisite megachurch spread across Texas and Florida, and founder of C3 global has announced that his daughter LeeBeth Young, 34, has passed away.

“It is with great sadness that I write these words. Last night, our precious and cherished daughter LeeBeth passed away. She was our firstborn, and we celebrate her life.”

LeeBeth was a bright, intelligent, strong, creative, witty, and faithful young woman. We love our daughter, and she loved the Lord. Because of her relationship with Jesus, she is now healed and whole in His presence. We ask that you pray for our family, our church, and so many others who loved LeeBeth deeply.”

Young’s firstborn with wife Lisa, LeeBeth is one of four Young siblings, along with Landra Young Hughes, EJ Young, and Laurie Young Kelly. She graduated from Baylor University and was serving as the director of the Fellowship Church since 2008, where he also occasionally preached and taught, having given messages along wih her Father on creativepastors.

She was actively posting on her social media accounts until Christmas last year.

No cause of death has been announced yet, but please keep her family in prayer in this time of grief.

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Breaking: John MacArthur’s Church Adds 1000 New Members Since COVID-19 Shutdowns + Other Updates

Pastor John MacArthur has returned to the pulpit after several weeks of absence. Rumors from rumor mongers have been whispering scurrilous lies against the faithful leader of Grace Community Church, claiming that he had COVID-19 and was hiding it from the congregation and all that. These have all been responded to and debunked by our friend Tim Hurd here.

But Macarthur, calling the previous week a day of God’s providence, shares with the congregation that he watched the live services and thanked God how the pastors giving the messages were all speaking either about exalting Christ, pressing to the goal, the glory of Christ, the majesty of Christ, etc.

If you were kind of tuning in to watch Grace Church last week you would have said ‘what election,’ ‘what’s going on politically?’ ‘What pandemic?’ ‘What virus?’ Christ is all in all. Amen?

The Lord did an amazing providential work because we didn’t plan all that. But Christ was exalted at Grace church and the kingdom of God is in no way linked to the kingdoms of men.

And this is what sets the Church apart. Jesus said ‘my kingdom is not of this world.’ We face another inconsequential event politically in a few days – meaningless to the kingdom – and we’re here again today to worship our King.

Commenting that it’s rare and painful to go a few weeks without preaching, due to his love of the word and congregation, he then lists some things to be recognized. Here they are, in bulletpoint form: The video can be seen below.

  • Says this is a season unlike any other, where everything has been taken out of their control, with people being forbidden to meet, sing, fellowship, have social events, attend funerals, weddings, etc.
  • Details the saga of the multiple court cases and legal struggles, including having 8-9 court hearings.
  • Says they’ve been fined every Sunday since August, but the money has been put into an escrow account so the LA County Health Department can’t get their fines, and they have not been paid yet.
  • Court appearance canceled this week, with another canceled next week, and the judge is saying “don’t come back to me with this.”
  • Says there is no more scrutinized church in the USA than GCC.
  • LA Times, ABC, and CNN tried to discredit them.
  • “Ungodly bloggers tried to discredit us. They’ve said terrible things against us. Lies. Misrepresentations. Inaccuracies. And if they were all honest they’d have to retract everything, because it’s just amazing how the Lord has protected us.”
  • The church is flourishing like never before.
  • They have 3000 people who plan to show up for Shepherds’ Conference in a few weeks. MacArthur says they weren’t sure if hotels would be allowed. But with recent court rulings and the church being essential, the hotels will be open and all the attendees will have places to stay.
  • 11 attorneys have been doing tons of legal work: cost to the church is $0, with everything being done pro-bono.
  • Church has not had an offering or passed plate in 10 months, but the congregation gave more since March 2020 than any 10 months in the history of the church.
  • The Lord has grown church immensely, with the GCC gaining 1000 new members in the last 10 months.
  • MacArthur says they have a new evangelical term: “Grace Refugees” which refers to new people or members who had no other church to go to, so they came to GGC as “refugees.”

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Full Transcript and video below:

This is the closest thing to the experience of the church in war. We’ve been under a massive assault. And it took all the prerogatives out of our hands in some ways.

Now all of a sudden, all kinds of people were telling us what to do, what we could do and couldn’t do. This has been a season of trials without any equal in my rather long life. Everything has been taken out of our control. So many attacks. I told somebody that you might think we feel like a cork in the surf, bobbing up and down with each new wave.

Forbidden to meet, forbidden to sing, forbidden to fellowship, forbidden to have social events, forbidden to be with each other, forbidden to have funerals, weddings. Los Angeles County told us we could not meet. To make sure that we got the message they sued us. They filed an indictment against us essentially.

And they have find us every Sunday since August for violation. By the way, that money went into an escrow account, because they can’t get to it. Because it’s held up in court. And I’ll say more about that in a minute. But just so you know, we’ve been fined every Sunday since August.

October came around and the city tried another approach. They declared to us that after 45 years of leasing the land across the wash for parking, that we had 30 days to vacate that. This was another attempt to shut us down coming from another angle. There was no reason given in the letter. But we had 30 days to comply.

Well, no court would honor that either. So they tried the health route, and no court would validate that. They tried the cancellation of a parking lot contract, the court wouldn’t honor that. Went through eight or nine court hearings, as you know, one was canceled from this week and another one canceled in the future. The judge is saying, “don’t come back to me again with this.” They couldn’t succeed in any of these. They tried every way to close Grace Church.

And I think it’s true that there is no more scrutinized church in the United States than Grace Community Church. I have been on some of these TV programs. And you’ve seen me there. While you see me on TV with those people I’ve never been with any of those people. I’m sitting in the back of a van because of COVID looking into black hole, talking to somebody in New York, and hoping I can make sense out of what I’m saying.

It has brought about some amazing incidents. A technician, one of those evenings said to me, “my life isn’t what it ought to be,” after we did the video. “Can you pray for me? Would you pray with me?”

ABC tried to discredit us. CNN tried to discredit us. The LA Times has tried numerous times to discredit us. Ungodly bloggers tried to discredit us. They’ve said terrible things about us. Lies misrepresentations, inaccuracies. And they’ve all, really if they were honest, would have to retract everything.

Because it’s just amazing how the Lord has protected us, isn’t it? Hey, we’re here. Sorry, world. You’re there and I’m still here.

I just wondered what once in a while what Satan is saying – “What’s this MacArthur guy got?”

What I have is divine grace and protection just as you have right? When I think about ministry, I have to say I don’t, I can’t say that in my years here I’ve ever seen anything like the flourishing of the hand of God in ministry through all of this.

Let me just let me just run down some things because I think it’s important for us, isn’t it to remember what God has done? Put up a banner and say, The Lord has helped us.

Early August, got into the lawsuit. Since then, we’ve had inspectors religiously visit us. Fifteen times. Supreme Court has issued two decisions favorable to churches. Los Angeles County was forced to change the guidelines to permit churches to meet.

And oh, by the way, there’s a little caveat to that. We have 3000 people gonna show up here in a few weeks for Shepherd’s conference. We weren’t sure about hotels, because they’re not able to be open unless it’s essential. Thank you, Supreme Court. Hotel Association says, “Hey, Supreme Court says you’re essential. All those hotels are available.”

There has been an immense amount of legal work done by Jenna Ellis and 10 other attorneys. Total cost to that to the church: Zero. And oh, by the way, you guys are getting a bad habit. We haven’t had an offering in 10 months. We haven’t had an offering in 10 months. We haven’t passed the plate in 10 months. And you have given more in the last 10 months than any 10 month period in the history of this church. Now we’re gonna retrain you. Just stunning.

In the middle of a lawsuit, the Lord has grown our church. If you came to Grace Church during the last 10 months, put your hand up. So this was a very, very small, tiny local church until COVID. You see how many hands raised? They’re out in tents, out in the patio? A thousand people and a thousand new members. Baptisms. Did you hear the testimonies and baptisms Sunday nights?

There’s a new evangelical term. I love it. It’s “grace refugees.” It’s the people who had no other church to go to. So they came here as church refugees. And aren’t we happy about that and aren’t we blessed? The Lord adds to his church. We’ll take you, whoever you are, even if you’re a Presbyterian refugee.


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NAR Heretic Ché Ahn’s Church Has a 24k Gold Ceiling, $1,000,000 Chandelier

Charismatic pastor and head of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Ché Ahn has revealed that his Church is bursting at the seams with all sorts of wealthy accouterments and treasures, detailing in a recent service how their church building has a 24-karat gold ceiling, a chandelier worth more than $1,000,000, and walls filled with precious gemstones – more so than any mine in the western hemisphere.

We bought our church building in 2004…called the Ambassador Auditorium. It was valued at $32,000,000 when we bought it. We’re talking about the ceiling is covered in 24-karat gold. The wall is pure Onyx. In fact the largest amount of Onyx, which is a gemstone, is in our building, in the whole western hemisphere. If you want to find it it’s not in some mine, it’s in our building. The chandelier is huge, it’s worth a million dollars just itself.

Though Ché Ahn has done some good work in the last few months in defying the government trying to shut his church down, his wild charismaticism and New Apostolic Reformation nonsense always shines through, as being one of their apostles, he tirelessly works to bring about the “Seven Mountain Mandate.” In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that he declared that Micheal “knock-’em-down” Brown was an “apostle” – a title which had him tickled pink and grinning like a fool for days on end.

We last saw Ahn explaining that Jesus appeared to his fellow NAR ne’er-do-well James Goll in a dream and told him that Ahn’s recent book was the most “important book in the world” for the hour.

H/T to Salt & Light for the video.

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Charges Dismissed Against Doug Wilson’s Deacon for Open-Air Worship Event

A man who was arrested and charged for singing worship songs in public, unmasked and without social distancing has had all charges against him dropped, according to a January 09 court ruling.


Gabriel Rench, a deacon of Christ Church in Moscow City, Idaho and host of Cross Politic, was arrested last September for worshipping in public at a Pslam Sing gathering. The event consisted of around 150 congregation members assembling to sing three acapella hymns and then the doxology at Moscow City Hall. Details of the case went almost instantly viral and gained even more national attention when President Trump tweeted about it.

Rench was cited for violating Public Health Emergency Order 20-03, which stated that:

“Every person in the city of Moscow must wear a face covering that covers their nose and mouth when in any indoor or outdoor public setting where the 6-foot physical distancing is not able to be maintained with non-household members.”

In accordance with Moscow City Code Section 1-11-10, any person who knowingly violates the provisions of this order may be charged with a misdemeanor. The maximum penalties for this offense are up to 6 months in the county jail and a $1,000 fine.

Special Counsel Michael Jacques, who is part of noted religious freedom defender Thomas More Society (Who also are representing John MacArthur and Grace Community Church) said in a press released that the City of Moscow “violated its own ordinance when police officers wrongly arrested Rench and the others.”

The city of Moscow, Idaho, appears to have been so anxious to make an example of Christ Church’s opposition to their desired COVID restrictions that they failed to follow the mandatory exemptions articulated in their own laws.

The Moscow City Code allows the Mayor to issue public health emergency orders, but exempts ‘[a]ny and all expressive and associative activity that is protected by the United States and Idaho Constitutions, including speech, press, assembly, and/or religious activity. Mr. Rench and the other worshippers who were arrested had their constitutionally protected liberties violated and their lives disrupted – not only by the inappropriate actions of law enforcement officers, but also by city officials who did not immediately act to correct this unlawful arrest.

There is no word yet on the other two people arrested and whether or not their cases will likewise be dismissed.

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Famed SBC Bible Teacher Beth Moore Doesn’t Know Denomination’s View of Spiritual Gifts

Beth Moore has been in fine form this last week, proving much fodder for the faithful demonstrating why she’s been flagged as a false teacher and all-around unqualified to be lauded and promoted by the #BigEva elites within the Southern Baptist Convention.

Yet in recent comments where she also accused the SBC of being racist and not wanting black people in positions of power (Editor’s note. These Tweets have since been deleted from her page, but posted here for posterity) she also betrayed a frightening lack of knowledge about her lifelong denomination, despite using her decades within it as a cudgel to carve out the problems she sees with it.

Beth Moore claims that the SBC doesn’t want women in leadership. Presumably, she’s talking about women pastors, and that her denomination should have the guts to say it and own it. Yet they do say it and own it. The official position of the SBC, as outlined in Article 6 of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 is that they are against women pastors- Beth just has been ignoring it for 20 years.

While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

In the aforementioned posts, Moore further cites the SBC position on charismatic gifts and speaking in tongues, again telling her denomination to just admit it and own it and have the guys to say it.

The thing is, the SBC has no official position on it beyond what it says in the BF&M 2000, which affirms that Christians receive “spiritual gifts” from God that are exercised in the context of the church. That’s about it. They make this clear in a variety of ways, the least of which is on the official SBC website in the FAQ.

The sending arm of the SBC, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) website also supports and reiterates this, explaining:

Although Southern Baptists generally do not practice speaking of tongues in public worship, many apparently practice speaking of tongues in private. A recent LifeWay study reported that half of SBC pastors believe that God gives some Christians a private prayer language. According to the same report, 41% of SBC pastors think that the gift of tongues passed away with the death of the apostles. NAMB takes no position on this question.

In another deleted tweet which we unfortunately did not screenshot, someone shows Moore the SBC view of charismatics gifts, that same FAQ picture above, and she seems astounded, saying something along the lines of “I’ve never seen that before in my life.”

So Moore, who proudly states that’s she’s been neck-deep in the SBC for 63 years, speaking at untold women’s conferences, having her books and bible studies and teachings consistently featured at Lifeway and hailed as a brilliant vaulted bible teacher, doesn’t know what her denomination teaches about spiritual gifts, believes that the SBC is racist and doesn’t want black leaders, and thinks it’s unbiblical to reject women pastors?

We can think of a few other things the SBC should have the guts to say and own.

If you want to know more about Auntie Beth’s wily ways and why she’s such a dangerous teacher, click on this link to Seth Dunn’s Book So Long, Beth Moore: You’ve Been a Bad Friend to Us.

For a few more of her recent greatest hits:

Beth Moore Doesn’t Want You To Preach or Share The Gospel at The Protests

Beth Moore Openly Affirms Woman Pastrix

Beth Moore Falsely Claims ‘White Supremacy’ is Running Rampant in ‘Much of the Church’










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Video: Bethel Church Literally Sings Worship Songs to Themselves

In a shameless move of self-adoration and idolatrous self-aggrandization that would make our brethren that hold to the ‘regulative principle of worship’ instantly take off their shoes and chuck them at the stage, a Bethel church pastor was seen leading his congregation in self-worship and self-adulation, in possibly one of the most self-centered things we’ve ever seen.

In the video, Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry Pastor Dave Ward stands on stage and claims to have a direct revelation from God, while the music plays and the lights are sufficiently dimmed to evoke the right heightened emotion.

Take a moment and bask and show off. Just like my 3-year old daughter…I tell her 14 times a day ‘you’re the most beautiful thing in the world.’

And she puts on a dress that doesn’t go with her shorts, and she wears long socks that don’t match….she walks up to me proudly and prances around and I just go ‘oh my goodness, you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.’

Let’s be like that with the Lord right now. Put on your outfit. Your quirks. The things you don’t feel good about yourself, the things that don’t match. The circumstances, the challenges, the weaknesses…

Telling the congregants to act like three-year-olds and get ready to prance and twirl so that God can tell us we’re the most beautiful thing in the world, he continues:

I dare you, says the Lord, to come before me, and give the Lord a little twirl… if you’re a man do it in a manly way… but just stand, prance, twirl before the King of the universe, the Father who looks at you and says ‘before you do a thing ‘you move Me.’ You move Me. You move Me. You move Me.

Pleased as can be that they are moving God, Ward then turns it around a bit, doing a little switcheroo, telling his congregation:

Now tell him it back. Do it proud. Because I move You…I move You…tell the world, tell those around you. I move You. I move the King of the universe! I move you. I move You. I move You.”

Watch the video.

It’s so grimy it hurts.

H/T to Salt and Light for the video.

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It’s About Time! Dwight McKissic Leaving the SBC Because it Isn’t Woke Enough

(Reformation Charlotte) Dwight McKissic, a racist, anti-gospel charismatic tongue-babbling black nationalist who masquerades as a shepherd of God’s people has done more to harm the body of Christ than possibly any other Southern Baptist pastor in history. McKissic, a Marxist and a socialist egalitarian, has regularly traded the gospel and the mission of the Church for social activism, called for slave reparations, and repeatedly maligned true defenders of the faith as “racists” and “white supremacists.”

Not only has McKissic stated that the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention were not saved because they were slave-holders and that their history must be eradicated, but he has also argued that voting for pro-abortion Democrats is no different than voting for Republicans who want to “place children in cages.”

McKissic has been instrumental in the Southern Baptist Convention’s hard slide to the left in recent years. Dwight McKissic sponsored an anti-“alt-right” resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention in 2017 which basically denounced conservatism and implied that…

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Editor’s Note. This article written by Jeff Maples and published at Reformation Charlotte. Title changed by Protestia.

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Where Are They Now? ‘Bad Christian PodCast’ Discuss Their ‘Faith’

For many people, the boys at the Bad Christian Podcast have been out of the limelight for the last few years, being much more prominent in the mid-2010’s when their proclivity to curse openly during their show and defending a routine dropping of the f-bomb was still somewhat novel for protesting Christians, with Mark Driscoll having grown of it by then.

The show, which comprised of Emery Bandmates Toby Morrell, Matt Carter and their friend, pastor and former Emery bassist Joey Svendsen, (now since gone) was fresh air for some who were burned out by the burning out of the emergent church a few years before. With their straightforward and unfiltered dialogue and discussion, as well as their willingness to question why Christians believe what they believe, it was a natural home for many.

But the deconstruction of their faith and the constant prodding and poking of theological foundations had consequences, and now five years later, they’ve been torn to shreds.

They released an interview they had with the Provoke and Inspire Podcast, and we were given clarity on exactly how far they’ve gone, describing “the journey of learning to let go of things that seem very important and unlearning the behaviors and patterns that we had been programmed with by our families cultures and choices.”

One big change is that one of their primary co-hosts, pastor Joey Svendsen has left the show. He struggled with mental health issues, a spiraling depression, and disagreements over how the show could proceed with that reality, and now he’s gone.

He has his own podcast now, “Pastor with no Answers” where he delves more into his progressive beliefs, such as his support of same-sex marriage, his belief that there is no eternal hell, his loss of belief in the sufficiency and infallibility of the scriptures, promotes aged Emerging church mainstays like Brian McLaren, and demonstrate that his shows namesake holds true.

For Bad Christian, however, Toby and Matt likewise explain that their views have changed and they’ve become “less certain” over time. Note that these quotes have been lightly edited for clarity.

“At this point I’m comfortable saying that I’m sure I’m some kind of relativist and it would probably make you more comfortable to think of it as “but do you believe in absolute truth?” And I’d just go with “no.”

Acknowledging that “we might just be like the culture and do what we want to do.” he explains:

One of the things I don’t want to do anymore is try to stop sin. What I want to do is to start seeing what things actually are and then I can realize if it’s good or bad for me.

Because his belief are ever-changing and contradicting themselves, he never has any confidence in them, and he’s ok with that “I can’t act like I know my morals are on the right track” and that because he knows he’s just going to violate them anyway, using pornography as an example, “I try not to think about morals, is a goal of mine, to try to not worry about those.”

Matt explains how “morals are a low-resolution tool for achieving desired behavior outcomes for myself” and using sex outside of marriage as an example, he explains how “I don’t believe my morals are right or wrong anyway. Like I don’t need to know which ones are the right or wrong ones. Like I just don’t have that view. “

When the host calls his belief system “a bit naive” Matt responds that his new perspective is that “it only works if it’s working for me now” and that the other way just didn’t work out so he’s trying a new system, explaining that his deconstruction means that “I’m going to have different words for what is definitions of what sin is, or what it means that God has a moral system.”

“That’s the thing that really bummed me out. Morals and saying ‘God told me not to do that so I won’t do it’ didn’t work for me. Like I still did things and then I just felt really bad about it.”

When the interviewer asks Matt how he sees scripture and whether or not it is infallible and authoritative, he says that he’s getting a lot closer to Thomas Jefferson on that one, the past president who famously created a bible where he cut out all the miraculous parts of it, and is moving in that direction heavily. He praises the efforts of the process of Jefferson to make the scriptures work for him, and says he is “interested in more types of scripture now”, which he acknowledges makes him “more of a pluralist.”

He says of the bible “I do not know if it should be the supreme authority of a human’s life….as authority is something that is earned.”

While it has earned a spot in his own life, he clarifies “I would never push that on someone else.”

Both hosts describe how they haven’t been to church in over a year, and Toby explains that they don’t take their kids to church because don’t want their kids introduced to the biblical historical Christian orthodoxy- “I wouldn’t want to do that to them” especially because it doesn’t line up with who they think God is or what they believe.

Toby offers that “I could see us in the future moving away from Christianity” and notes that all his family believes they are lost.

The show essentially ends with this bleak quote, which encapsulates the whole episode. The interviewer pushes a bit into the purpose of proselyting and sharing the gospel, and the boys respond poorly to it, challenging the belief that anyone really needs Jesus or why he’s needed to live a fulfilled life, comparing a Christian life vs non-Christian life.

You’re saying “Jesus is real” and so having that knowledge and that he lived and died and rose again gives you something that maybe the person that doesn’t believe that has, but I’m saying take morals out of it. Say you’re equally as moral people, I don’t know what more you have except for you have something you really believe in.

So that’s great for you, and it’s awesome for you, and it helps shape your life, but the person who doesn’t believe that has everything as well and you’re both going to die and figure it out when you die anyway.

I don’t know, like proselytizing the world and sharing Jesus seems more to me like a sales scheme to get more people on my team as opposed to, I’m not really offering them anything, except for maybe an afterlife.

I might get to say ‘hey, there might be an afterlife’ but no one really knows, I mean, no matter what no one’s been able to really prove that. When you’re dead you’re gone, so there isn’t really anything more, so your belief would be for you then.”

Pray for Matt, Toby and Joey. Nothing that you’ve just read should give you any confidence that they are believers. These are lost souls headed to hell, and only God can save them.

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New Theological Term: Capitol Hill Theory (CHT)

As the shockwaves reverberate throughout the world over what has become known to be the “storming of Capitol Hill” – a microcosal “last straw” that forever broke the minds of BigTech and progressive/progressive-adjacent Christian leaders everywhere, a new theological term is needed to describe a burgeoning argument and theological position that springs from it.

Their argument, which has been adopted and now assumed as fact, is that the incursion into the nation’s Capitol on January 6 was a watershed moment which once and for all, with absolute clarity, demonstrated that all Trump supporters are white supremacist who are complicit in the violence therein.

If you voted for the President, either joyfully or with reservation, you bear a portion of responsibility for the destruction and death of five people and the attack on our nation, and doubly so if you’re a white evangelical.

Priestess Tish Harrison Warren summarized it nicely in Christianity Today, when she wrote:

Though it saddens me deeply, it must be clearly admitted:  Yesterday’s atrocity was in large part brought to us by the white, evangelical church in America...

I have at times tried to dismiss these leaders and events as fringe, as the crazy cranks and bizarre displays we ought to ignore. I have instead focused on how, day in and day out, pastors and Christian laypeople are seeking to faithfully follow Jesus, to love their neighbor, and to serve the poor, to embody the truth we proclaim this season.  But I cannot overlook the reality that millions of evangelicals are swayed by those who proclaim untruth and ugliness in the name of Jesus.

The responsibility of yesterday’s violence must be in part laid at the feet of those evangelical leaders who ushered in and applauded Trump’s presidency. It can also sadly be laid at the feet of the white American church more broadly.

We call this term “Capitol Hill Theory” or CHT. It is the belief that anyone who voted for President Trump or the Republican Party shares responsibility, blame, and culpability with the rioters and criminals involved in the violence at Capitol Hill, as well as the racist ideology and rhetoric that surely accompanied it and caused it.

Whereas Critical Race Theory would suggest conservative white evangelicals are all inherently guilty of racism in some manner, Capitol Hill Theory says conservative white evangelicals are all inherently guilty of storming the Capitol.

In fact, the same progressive evangelicals and Reformed Leaders and Organizations™ declaring your ontological identity to be a racist who is oblivious to your white privilege, are also saying you are inescapably a “Capitol Hill stormer” oblivious to your complicity and white supremacy.

In a way, the “storming of Capitol Hill” has become the new “19th-century slavery.”  You’re guilty of it and need to repent of it, even if you weren’t there or involved.  Not only must you repent, but you need to joyfully offer reparations on account of it if you want to bring about true restoration and justice.

These reparations begin, at the very least, with an acknowledgment of the sin of voting for Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the first place. 

Expect to see this argumentation all over the pages of The Gospel Coalition, Southern Baptists sites, the ERLC, and most mainstream Christian publications, and know there is a term for it.  

 

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PayPal Blocks Christian Crowdfunding Platform GiveSendGo

PayPal has dumped and cut ties with the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo after it was revealed there were some campaigns running for protesters who had been arrested at the rally at the Capitol, including Ali Alexander of Stop the Steal movement.

The move to excise the company comes as the mass purge of anything to do with Trump continues across the digital world, recently with Shopify banning thousands of accounts and businesses selling MAGA wares.

The fundraising alternative to Gofundme, perhaps best known for its high-profile fundraiser for Kyle Rittenhouse, said it is in the process of trying to find a new payment solution, explaining:

We have/are changing/moved away from our previous payment solutions (examples. WePay, Stripe, PayPal, etc.) and are implementing/working with our own solutions to continue providing efficient service to our users.”

It is of note that GiveSendGo is still hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), who recently dumped Parler, forcing the Social Media site to go offline in search of other servers. AWS currently hosts about 40 percent of the internet alone.

PayPal, for their part, are unmoved by protestations from the website, saying in a statement on Monday:

We regularly assess activity against our acceptable-use policy and carefully review actions reported to us, and will discontinue our relationship with account holders who are found to violate our policies.

PayPal has a longstanding, well-defined, and consistently enforced acceptable use policy. Regardless of the individual or organization in question, we work to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments for activities that promote hate speech, violence, or other forms of intolerance.

Editor’s Note. During our research we found that this self-described Christian crowdfunding site allows campaigns for some very sinful and wicked things such as seemingly allowing pages that help fund the murder of babies via campaigns for abortion services. We don’t know what else that could refer to. We have reached out to GiveSendGo but at the time of publication have not heard back from them yet, and we will update accordingly.