Another thought: churches and pastors can do better by being more active on social media and engaging conversations and sharing good info, otherwise, the mic is relinquished to the "bad actors"
Any church that goes woke or I braces critical race theory or supports such a godless organization like blacks lives matter or tries to reinterpret biblical sexuality is not a true church leave or fight to root out the elders and pastors and send them down the road
David is the one spreading misinformation. The "Melanin Bible church" was never "circulating" in an email. It was said by former MBC Pastor, Pete Lackey, not in reference to the diversity that has been at MBC for years, but rather that David is making the church all about the color of your skin. Also David is teaching CRT. He denies it, but just look at all the sermons on race. Too many to post. Even Voddie Bachman in his lastest book, Fault Lines, uses David Platt as a case study how a preacher can go off the rails. Also, MBC DID purge conservative members off the membership. They made people put their names on ballots and no surprise, many of those who voted no were removed from membership. Also, David Platt did usher in the SBC and join, going against the MBC constitution. So if you want to know who is spreading misinformation, look at the one who is holding the microphone. Proverbs 18:17--The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.
An additional thought would be to not outright dismiss the concerns of your congregation as being due to “misinformation”. It is the height of arrogance to think that pastors and leadership alone have the ability to understand the times. The moment you say that there is misinformation about COVID and the vaccine, for example, you have alienated Christians that have deep and LEGITIMATE concerns about way in which churches and the authorities have handled the response to them. Submitting to one another as to Christ goes both ways. This is not about freedom and exclaiming my rights as an American, but rather a plea for brothers and sisters in Christ to be more important than the voices around us. That includes government voices and drug companies who are more interested in power and money than in Christ or His church.
This article is just as sick as Platt, what a joke. You obviously work for the Govt. Misinformation about Covid, the Vaccine, the 2020 election. Give me a break they are all lies just like this article.
So many Christians talking so negatively. Platt’s sermons, for the most part, are Jesus focused. His heart is so saturated in the Word of God and you hear it with his passion to preach.
There are not many Pastors that have this deep passion like Platt does. It’s just crazy that (so-called) Christians would allow Satan to work through them to do bring Platt’s name down.
The Bible speaks of this and I suppose we see it first hand. With all these grumblers in the congregation. Instead of looking at how they can change, which there is a lot for every single Christian to change about themselves, they would rather talk nasty about this amazing brother! Stop doing Satan’s work and look at yourself!
Everything about having a computer/phone in our pockets has put us in a little vacum of “me”. What we write, what we say in public on our phones is not private! It can be copied and pasted, forwarded and screen shot, your voice carries and everything you say about everyone you mention can be heard in the next dressing room, the seat next to you, the table behind you. And it can be taped! So yes, social media has gone from something useful to something hateful, because we are not face to face, we can not see the impact of our words. Body language is a huge, vital part of communicating.
But there is another aspect to the situation shared in this article and that is the overall spiritual health of churches. Why don’t people feel they could solve these differences Biblically? Why don’t they call a church meeting of all involved and discuss this as the Bible directs. Matthew 18:15-20 speaks of addressing a sinner but can also be applied to discussing dissent. Colossians 3:1-17 speaks directly to this concern. The inability to discuss disagreements Biblically is a concern that I think has much to do with the current health of our places of worship. What has happened to our discipleship and mentoring? Much prayer and leadership introspection is called for.
There are two books I have shared with pastors and congregants that I find valuable on the topic of a healthy congregation, both by Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church and I am a Church Member.
"Achieving a healthy relationship with social media is a discipleship issue."
That may be one of the most profound statements of the decade so far, and more people need to get it.
Also, I'm not 100% on what happened with David Platt. I heard a few things but forgot to look into it more. Anyone mind giving a TL;DR for folks like me?
Agreed, there is a lot of misinformation on internet platforms. It's quite striking how many people readily believe the government and msm propaganda narrative. They without blinking an eye dismiss any opposing view. Friends there is no such thing as the science is settled, it is always evolving. The Bible clearly teaches, we must test the spirits, whether they are of God.
Journalists in general have exposed themselves as the disinformation artists, using the internet for that purpose, in service to their totalitarian masters who pay their salary and who they obey without question. If only there were more Christians who were so faithful to their Master Jesus Christ. It is sinful to participate in the Klaus Schwab WHO NATO disinformation. .
How say you to the banning of medications that are safe to use for decades already? This alone tells us so much about you guys. And don't pat yourself on the back too soon. For most of us, Christians and non Christians, see right through the fake media, and we are not as gullible as you would like to believe.
What is also evident is that, since we all understand that it is only the church that stands between the NWO that is currently attempting at implementation and freedom from enslavement, . These kinds of problems, along with sex crime allegations, reeks of an organised attack on strategic churches and Christians including the whole of humanity. There is a same kind of pattern. Infiltration by certain men who have crept in unawares. Spates or rather spades of lawsuits alleging sexual immorality, even by a 30 year old who attended a summer camp as a minor, 12 students band together to take down a well known Christian school. Just the allegation is enough.
But as I said, I am certainly very grateful to the LORD for judging our churches first. It sure will wake up the true Christians who will have the discernment to understand what is really going on. Very grateful for the shake up for only good things are ahead for those of us who remain steadfast in the face of the evildoing.
Wonder how long you gonna take to realise that the evil rulers are at war with you, yes, you.
Personally I am enjoying the apocalypse, it is great to see the exposure of the wolves in sheeps clothing. I feel real sorry for the liars, thieves and sexual immoral. You just have to read the last page of the Bible to know why. There are very real consequences for the deception that is being perpectrated on the vulnerable masses. Those who are telling the people who are resisting and fighting in this war that they are the problem are going to find that they are the victims of their own shenanigans, after they have been thoroughly used of course, and the transitory rewards will become exceedingly bitter, like wormwood.
Agreed (you might be more direct in terms of proffering solutions)… but the deeper, more systemic issue that puts now all at risk is the failure of pastors for decades to disciple their people according to the inclusive nature of NT ecclesiology; to express the whole of Pauline theology not just that part upon which they fixate (i.e., eternal salvation); to not only proclaim (rhetoric) but demonstrate (results) a love for all people, not just some people by building healthy multiethnic churches. Today, then, their attempts to engage (Platt too it seems) are reactive to the times which solicits the equal force of counter reactivity. Once again, church playing catch-up to the world when all along we could/should have been leading. That’s why there’s no credibility or experiential wisdom guiding pastors now. They’re by and large guessing in regard to the racialized, politicized moment… this, making things worse. #smh
Another thought: churches and pastors can do better by being more active on social media and engaging conversations and sharing good info, otherwise, the mic is relinquished to the "bad actors"
I literally just read about Platt a few minutes before you shared this newsletter. Thank you for writing this, and I hope more people will see it.
What I have seen and heard from David Platt, his teaching and view on race and CRT is unbiblical. This issue is destroying the church.
Any church that goes woke or I braces critical race theory or supports such a godless organization like blacks lives matter or tries to reinterpret biblical sexuality is not a true church leave or fight to root out the elders and pastors and send them down the road
David is spreading misinformation-
David is the one spreading misinformation. The "Melanin Bible church" was never "circulating" in an email. It was said by former MBC Pastor, Pete Lackey, not in reference to the diversity that has been at MBC for years, but rather that David is making the church all about the color of your skin. Also David is teaching CRT. He denies it, but just look at all the sermons on race. Too many to post. Even Voddie Bachman in his lastest book, Fault Lines, uses David Platt as a case study how a preacher can go off the rails. Also, MBC DID purge conservative members off the membership. They made people put their names on ballots and no surprise, many of those who voted no were removed from membership. Also, David Platt did usher in the SBC and join, going against the MBC constitution. So if you want to know who is spreading misinformation, look at the one who is holding the microphone. Proverbs 18:17--The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.
An additional thought would be to not outright dismiss the concerns of your congregation as being due to “misinformation”. It is the height of arrogance to think that pastors and leadership alone have the ability to understand the times. The moment you say that there is misinformation about COVID and the vaccine, for example, you have alienated Christians that have deep and LEGITIMATE concerns about way in which churches and the authorities have handled the response to them. Submitting to one another as to Christ goes both ways. This is not about freedom and exclaiming my rights as an American, but rather a plea for brothers and sisters in Christ to be more important than the voices around us. That includes government voices and drug companies who are more interested in power and money than in Christ or His church.
This article is just as sick as Platt, what a joke. You obviously work for the Govt. Misinformation about Covid, the Vaccine, the 2020 election. Give me a break they are all lies just like this article.
So many Christians talking so negatively. Platt’s sermons, for the most part, are Jesus focused. His heart is so saturated in the Word of God and you hear it with his passion to preach.
There are not many Pastors that have this deep passion like Platt does. It’s just crazy that (so-called) Christians would allow Satan to work through them to do bring Platt’s name down.
The Bible speaks of this and I suppose we see it first hand. With all these grumblers in the congregation. Instead of looking at how they can change, which there is a lot for every single Christian to change about themselves, they would rather talk nasty about this amazing brother! Stop doing Satan’s work and look at yourself!
Everything about having a computer/phone in our pockets has put us in a little vacum of “me”. What we write, what we say in public on our phones is not private! It can be copied and pasted, forwarded and screen shot, your voice carries and everything you say about everyone you mention can be heard in the next dressing room, the seat next to you, the table behind you. And it can be taped! So yes, social media has gone from something useful to something hateful, because we are not face to face, we can not see the impact of our words. Body language is a huge, vital part of communicating.
But there is another aspect to the situation shared in this article and that is the overall spiritual health of churches. Why don’t people feel they could solve these differences Biblically? Why don’t they call a church meeting of all involved and discuss this as the Bible directs. Matthew 18:15-20 speaks of addressing a sinner but can also be applied to discussing dissent. Colossians 3:1-17 speaks directly to this concern. The inability to discuss disagreements Biblically is a concern that I think has much to do with the current health of our places of worship. What has happened to our discipleship and mentoring? Much prayer and leadership introspection is called for.
There are two books I have shared with pastors and congregants that I find valuable on the topic of a healthy congregation, both by Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church and I am a Church Member.
"Achieving a healthy relationship with social media is a discipleship issue."
That may be one of the most profound statements of the decade so far, and more people need to get it.
Also, I'm not 100% on what happened with David Platt. I heard a few things but forgot to look into it more. Anyone mind giving a TL;DR for folks like me?
Who gets to decide what is “misinformation”? What ever happened to critical thinking?
Who gets to decide what is “misinformation”? What ever happened to critical thinking?
Agreed, there is a lot of misinformation on internet platforms. It's quite striking how many people readily believe the government and msm propaganda narrative. They without blinking an eye dismiss any opposing view. Friends there is no such thing as the science is settled, it is always evolving. The Bible clearly teaches, we must test the spirits, whether they are of God.
Journalists in general have exposed themselves as the disinformation artists, using the internet for that purpose, in service to their totalitarian masters who pay their salary and who they obey without question. If only there were more Christians who were so faithful to their Master Jesus Christ. It is sinful to participate in the Klaus Schwab WHO NATO disinformation. .
How say you to the banning of medications that are safe to use for decades already? This alone tells us so much about you guys. And don't pat yourself on the back too soon. For most of us, Christians and non Christians, see right through the fake media, and we are not as gullible as you would like to believe.
What is also evident is that, since we all understand that it is only the church that stands between the NWO that is currently attempting at implementation and freedom from enslavement, . These kinds of problems, along with sex crime allegations, reeks of an organised attack on strategic churches and Christians including the whole of humanity. There is a same kind of pattern. Infiltration by certain men who have crept in unawares. Spates or rather spades of lawsuits alleging sexual immorality, even by a 30 year old who attended a summer camp as a minor, 12 students band together to take down a well known Christian school. Just the allegation is enough.
But as I said, I am certainly very grateful to the LORD for judging our churches first. It sure will wake up the true Christians who will have the discernment to understand what is really going on. Very grateful for the shake up for only good things are ahead for those of us who remain steadfast in the face of the evildoing.
Wonder how long you gonna take to realise that the evil rulers are at war with you, yes, you.
Personally I am enjoying the apocalypse, it is great to see the exposure of the wolves in sheeps clothing. I feel real sorry for the liars, thieves and sexual immoral. You just have to read the last page of the Bible to know why. There are very real consequences for the deception that is being perpectrated on the vulnerable masses. Those who are telling the people who are resisting and fighting in this war that they are the problem are going to find that they are the victims of their own shenanigans, after they have been thoroughly used of course, and the transitory rewards will become exceedingly bitter, like wormwood.
Agreed (you might be more direct in terms of proffering solutions)… but the deeper, more systemic issue that puts now all at risk is the failure of pastors for decades to disciple their people according to the inclusive nature of NT ecclesiology; to express the whole of Pauline theology not just that part upon which they fixate (i.e., eternal salvation); to not only proclaim (rhetoric) but demonstrate (results) a love for all people, not just some people by building healthy multiethnic churches. Today, then, their attempts to engage (Platt too it seems) are reactive to the times which solicits the equal force of counter reactivity. Once again, church playing catch-up to the world when all along we could/should have been leading. That’s why there’s no credibility or experiential wisdom guiding pastors now. They’re by and large guessing in regard to the racialized, politicized moment… this, making things worse. #smh