Posted on 08/24/2019 7:36:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He’s an idiot who NEVER believed or had faith.
He was a charlatan zealot who cares more about appearances and status than ever what God wanted in his life.
Well, better to be honest now than pretend to be in the fold and deceive others.
You can’t leave something you never belonged to.
He was a charlatan zealot who cares more about appearances and status than ever what God wanted in his life.
I tend to agree.
RE: Seems using Christianity was his best opportunity to take the stage and he took it.
I wonder what’s next for him...
If you think that God will condemn those who love and follow Him (I am including the entire Trinity), you are not much of a Christian.
If you think that God should accept into His presence those who have mindfully rejected Him, you don’t understand His word.
God is love. He has reached out to all of humanity. Those who hear His call and choose to separate themselves from Him are making an eternal decision. There are two places for your eternal soul - in the presence of God, or outside of the presence of God. You get to choose which of these will be your resting place.
I choose to be with God. This composer has chosen the alternative. How very sad.
Sorry!!! I think I used the WRONG IMAGE.
but that is where faith comes in.....
Coming out of the closet in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...
I wonder what’s next for him..
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He’s either going to go mainstream music or come out as gay.
*Side note - I think I used an incorrect image.
All progress begins with telling the truth.
It is the correct place to start.
Now may he come to saving faith in Christ.
Does anyone have any more info on why or what happened? Ive played in a church band and it was always like family. we had our ups and downs. some got dis-illusioned, but no one denounced their faith. We laughed and we cried together but always had each others backs. My own family wasn’t as close as the band.
If he never encountered questions (and answers) about why evil things happen, or hell, or sickness, or apparent contradictions in the Bible, then he didn’t read the Bible much (Job?) and Hillsong utterly failed him.
Rather than condemn him, I condemn Hillsong for using someone who apparently was never grounded in the Word. For thrusting him into the limelight before he was ready. And for not teaching the whole truth. Babes should not be required to be leaders, and any church needs to teach the whole truth, not just the convenient truth - “the whole plan of God” and not just the parts that make people feel happy:
“22 “And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there, 23 except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.....25 “And now I know that none of you will ever see my face again—everyone I went about preaching the kingdom to. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of everyone’s blood, 27 for I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole plan of God. 28 Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. 29 I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them. 31 Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
32 “And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.” - Acts 20
Shame on Hillsong.
It’s difficult to know what the Lord is doing at times. Sometimes He pulls away people’s self delusions before He shows them the truth, sometimes He gives people bound and determined to depart from any knowledge of Him their wish.
This guy is in a perilous time. Will he be restored or will we soon hear him rabidly standing up for homosexuality (which is a sign, like a canary dying in a coal mine)?
He needs prayers.
Why should anyone be surprised? Judas walked and talked with Jesus every day as one of the Twelve, and he fell away.
One of the signs of the End Times is a “great falling away,” a winnowing of the wheat and the chaff. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.
I think it is appropriate for some to take three minutes and see this.
https://youtu.be/0iaZp3CzUXk
I suspect he never was a Christian, just another con man using religion.
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