Two days ago we told you about how Chris Llewellyn, frontman and lead singer of the well-known Christian Rock/ Worship Band The Rend Collective showed himself to be thoroughly compromised on the question of whether or not we should bow to our culture’s confusion on transgendered pronouns, telling Kris Valloton on Instagram:

“However you feel about the implications for sports (a wider conversation for sure) Calling a trans woman a man is hateful. Unkind. Don’t participate in this kind of hate speech. History won’t be kind to you.”

This was a surprise to many, as his public lyrics are at odd with his wretched theology and worldview. Upon digging into it further, we found that Llewellyn has some deep-seated problems, all of which likely stem from the deconstruction of his faith he’s widely acknowledged he’s undergone in the last 10 years, explaining: “When I started asking big bold questions about who God is, they warned me I was losing my faith. NOPE. I was finding the wonder all over again.” Here are a few of the many red flags we found:

LGBTQ

While Llewellyn is not at this point overtly and publicly professing that he personally believes that being an unrepentant homosexual is not a sin, he sure comes close. Writing on his Storied Substack and responding to someone who said homosexuality was sinful:

It seems that your position is that all LGBTQ expression is sinful and that there is no room for doubt about that. Fair enough. There’s room for that.
What I’m saying is that I think there is room for conversation around what is sinful and what is not. There always has been.
For example the church used to think the movie theatre, tattoos, dancing and consuming any quantity of alcohol were sins. A lot of people felt the Bible was ultra clear on these things. But there was room for debate here – within the church.

and:

“The ancient creeds, such as the Apostles’ Creed were designed as benchmarks to define the beliefs that qualify someone as Christian— and not a one of them mentions having a concrete stance either way on the inclusion and affirmation of the LGBTQ community as one of those critical beliefs.
Jesus doesn’t touch on the issue one time in four gospels worth of reporting. That’s not to say that he doesn’t care about the conversation. But He certainly didn’t make it the focal point of what it means to be a disciple. (Things like: love for the outsider, and unity among believers seemed to be the priority over hot takes on hot button issues….
Wherever you eventually land, I’m not sure it matters as much as we’ve been conditioned to think.
It’s not a deal breaker.
It’s my belief that there is room for diversity of opinion on this within the capital C Church.

In response to a completely orthodox post about how God designed sex between a man and a woman only:

What is a sad thing, exactly?

Hell

Several times within his page, Llewellyn recommends reading Rob Bell’s ‘Love Win’ which is basically a belief in radical inclusivity, and that all people will be saved in the end.

The Bible

As part of his deconstruction, Llewellyn believes that the bible is inspired by God, it’s just not inerrant, infallible or completely true in all it says. This is why they repeatedly recommend How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns. Enns is a raging heretic/ pagan who believes that the scriptures are full of lies, falsities, fables and myths, all the while claiming he’s a Christian. Being one of their ‘favorite’ authors, the Llewellyns covered him as part of their book club a while back.

Llewellyn recently wrote on Instagram:

So when Christians want to win an argument, sometimes they say the sentence “The bible is very clear that…”. Is it though? Or is it a book that’s written in languages we don’t understand, by people whose culture and context we don’t understand, about a God whose text says we can’t fully understand? I prefer to think of the bible as beautiful and useful and God-breathed, those are claims it makes about itself. I love reading it every day, but ‘clear’ it ain’t.

Miscellaneous

This recommended reading list of books they love: basically self-explanatory.

In short, the frontman for Rend Collective is messed up theologically, yet in his deconstructed state, believes he’s closer to God than ever.

Chris Llewellyn, frontman and lead singer of the well-known Christian Rock/ Worship Band The Rend Collective has shown himself to be thoroughly compromised on the question of whether or not we should bow to our culture’s confusion on transgendered pronouns, telling Kris Valloton on Instagram:

“However you feel about the implications for sports (a wider conversation for sure) Calling a trans woman a man is hateful. Unkind. Don’t participate in this kind of hate speech. History won’t be kind to you.”

Hate speech? To women, maybe.

In an article being released tomorrow, it’ll become evident that this is not the first time Llewellyn has made comments like this, which is the rotten fruit of the reconstruction he’s been doing of his faith for the last decade.

In fact, a month ago he attacked Skillet’s John Cooper for his war on deconstruction, with Chris saying that he supports anyone who wants to deconstruct their faith, having done it himself, describing the process as something that can “illuminating, rich and necessary“