A follow-up election held this past Sunday was held under new rules. Church members were required to show identification, and ballots were labeled with members’ names. Any church member on McLean’s inactive list was given a provisional ballot. Three new elders were approved by about 80% of active member votes. <
Never heard of the place but if it is trying to put ANYTHING in place of the Gospel: CRT, MAGA, prosperity preaching... a, etc. then God is not pleased.
Wow. This is disturbing. McLean used to be one of the good places to go in NVA.
Things were much better when fags self segregated in gay bars. Now they’re infiltrating all our institutions and redesigning them along marxist lines.
He sounds like he has that right, except he doesn't realize he is a tool of Satan.
Platt’s silent embrace of the radical Black Lives Matter movement and the promotion of Kelsey along with Social Justice Bible studies including Platt’s own book legitimizing Christians who vote for Pro-Abortion Democrats, conservatives are leaving the church for new homes.
Attendance is down about 40-percent year-over-year. So, in May 2020 just before Platt’s hard social justice push, McLean Bible Church reported attendance averaged 12,154. In May 2021 following the Social Justice push and Platt’s book on politics, McLean Bible Church reported average attendance of about 7,300. A drop of 39%.
Because of the mass exodus McLean cut spending. The church approved a 2021 budget slashing $2.5 million from what it budgeted in 2020. That follows the 2020 budget being about $1.5 million below the 2019 budget, according to a member of McLean Bible Church. Thus, McLean is spending about $4 million less in 2021 than in 2019.
https://capstonereport.com/2021/06/09/david-platt-is-harming-mclean-bible-church-with-woke-social-justice-theology/36219/amp/
These things never suddenly pop up in conservative churches.
Most likely its been going on for awhile and just like in America, the ultra-left is no longer hiding their agenda.
This should be an easy fix if the membership unites.
Platt’s first book was the most vainglorious self promotional fluff I have ever read, and I’ve been reading Christian books for a very long time. I knew as soon as they brought him in at McLean, there would be trouble. Amazing that things fell apart this quickly, though!
(To be fair, there was a scandal in the church a year or two prior to Lon’s departure that caused a large chunk of the volunteer staff to walk out, something about not allowing unpaid volunteers to work there or something like that.)
Where can a read a copy of what critical race theory is in their own words?
A well-known pastor of a large Baptist church once opined “This church will likely die after me. The next guy will do things his way and the people who like it done this way will leave. The guy after him will lose the rest”.
Probably true of most large churches with charismatic leaders.
Ron Solomon was a good pastor.
Used to always like hearing his “ Not a Sermon, Just a Thought” commentaries on secular radio stations. They were always thought provoking and certainly brought unsaved people to his door to hear the gospel.
TEN RULES FOR CONVERTING NOBODY
1. Let your supreme motive be popularity rather than salvation.
2. Study to please your congregation and to make a reputation rather than to please God.
3. Take up popular, passing and sensational themes to draw the crowd and avoid essential doctrines of salvation.
4. Denounce sin in the abstract but pass lightly over the sins that prevail in your congregation.
5. If asked, “Is it wrong to dance, play cards, or attend the theater?” answer very pleasantly, “Oh, this is a matter for private judgment. It is not for me to say you shall or shall not.”
6. Preach on the loveliness of virtue and the glory of Heaven but on the sinfulness of sin and the terrors of Hell.
7. Reprove the sins of the absent but make those who are present pleased with themselves so that they will enjoy the sermon and not go away with their feelings hurt.
8. Make the impression on worldly church members that God is too good to send anyone to Hell, if there even is a Hell.
9. Preach the universal Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, so as to show that no second birth is really needed.
10. Do not rebuke the worldliness of the church but fall in with the amusement policy. Instead of meeting for prayer, let the people ‘sit down to eat and drink and rise up to play.
Churches have become big businesses. Big business pleases its customers. The customer values are changing.
We need to get back to the New Testament style churches.
Back ion 2017 soros and associated foundations decided that a core source of support for trump was evangelicals. so they decided to weaken that support. the means they chose to do so was mostly through specifically conservative seminaries. these country seminaries are as poor as the people who attend them. the communist foundations dangled a couple hundred thousand in front of the staff at these foundations. on the proviso that they changed the language of their institutions to conform to UN language and introduced several courses into their curriculems about various woke causes. staff took the money forced their professors to conform. those who complained were fired.
This is the reason for the wierdest story of the year about the southern baptists having problems with many of their congregations going woke.
Platt belongs to an organization, the gospel coalition which is associated with the soros allies.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/david-platt/
The fuller story can be found in these articles and youtubes.
https://thirtypiecesofsilver.org/2020/09/04/the-dark-in-evangelical-institutions/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dny4AFUlFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoe6tNmRyk
It sounds like the elders were trying to exercise their mandated duties, which like our American system are spread among a number of entities instead of lodged in one executive dictator—and Platt was trying to focus all leadership decisions on himself and a group of allies installed through manipulation. This “cult of pastor” crap ruins many churches.
The elders are on solid ground to insist that the congregation act according to by-laws, which include the mandate that the Bible is their source of authority, not secular sources. This is especially critical now, since the pandemic, causing many to stay away or attend only by Zoom, was intended by the powers and principalities opposing Christ to subdue, weaken or eliminate the churches.
What a shock to read of its adoption of politics as a theme.
Mark