Posted on 10/21/2025 9:09:59 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
I watched the clip—again and again—Steven Furtick laughing, giving some guy a piggyback ride in what he calls a church. The people around him cheering, clapping, filming on their phones like the presence of God is some novelty sideshow act. Honestly, this stuff just makes me sick. It should grieve us when what is meant to be holy is dragged through the mud and turned into a circus.
There was a time when men trembled to enter the sanctuary and especially when one took the pulpit. When the thought of the Most High, holy and righteous God stirred awe and fear in their bones.
Some accounts, whether true or not, claimed that even the priests would tie cords around their ankles before entering the Holy of Holies because the holiness of God was so consuming that a single misstep could end their lives.
But now?
The pulpit has become a playground. The sanctuary has become a stage. And men like Steven Furtick dance before a crowd that no longer knows the difference between worship and blasphemy.
The prophets warned of this. “My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Hosts, “but you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted.” (Malachi 1:11–12).
God’s name will not be mocked forever. He will not tolerate this cheap parody of His glory—a gospel reduced to catchphrases, an altar reduced to a show, a Savior reduced to a stage prop for men drunk on applause.
I look at what Furtick has built with his own hands and see the caricature of a bride, not clothed in righteousness but in glitter and lights. The Scriptures call her what she has become—a whore, chasing after lovers that flatter her and feed her vanity. This is what happens when men trade the fear of God for the favor of man. When they decide it is better to entertain goats than to shepherd sheep.
There is no trembling in that place. No repentance. No weight of glory. Just laughter, noise, and a preacher carried on the back of another man while the people clap as if heaven were clapping too. But heaven is not clapping. Heaven is silent, watching as men who claim to speak for God turn His house into a carnival.
The great preacher Charles Spurgeon spoke of this too, but even he had no idea what we were in for in our day. He said “A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats!”
God is patient, but His patience has limits. The fire on Mount Carmel still burns, and it will consume the false altars again. When He comes to cleanse His temple, He will not come with applause. He will come with a whip, overturning tables and judging those who mock Him.
And I fear for them. For all of them who confuse excitement for the Spirit and amusement for anointing. The laughter will die out. The music will stop. The lights will go dark. And then they will see Him—not as the harmless mascot of their circus religion, but as the Holy One of Israel whose eyes are flames of fire.
The question that lingers, heavy and unshakable, is this: how long will He let His name be carnivalized before He stops the show?
There was also a time when men giggled and laughed and acted so crazy that people thought they were drunk even though it was only the third hour of the day or some such thing. If you believe all that Bible stuff.
Isn’t this guy one of those word of faith, kundalini guys?
IIRC Furtick is an apologist for the
Sodom and Gomorrah Homosexual Agendas
If that’s incorrect, someone please
let me know and I’ll ask for deletion
of this post
No, You’re spot on. He’s one of thousands of preachers like that.
Thanks
Nonsense. Why let such things grieve our spirits—that’s exactly what evil wants: to insult righteousness and drain our joy.
Let God handle it. He will not be mocked.
I just listened to a news report that said the majority of H1B workers are in STEM occupations and in churches. Why would anyone be bringing someone into our country on a special visa to be affiliated with a church?
For how many years have politicians exported businesses and imported workers? Politicians have no respect for middle class, private sector workers.
Probably the same reprobate that
Kicked a Bible across the stage.
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It Is The WORD Of GOD and I find
This Dispicable.
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Yes will live in an Upholstered Sewer
where sin abounds but how could one call himself a teacher and behave that Way?
Upholstered Sewer. Sounds like a song title.
The Church is the Body of Christos, NOT a building.
One does not “go” to Church.
That was so the priest's attendants could pull him out if God struck him dead, since of course they couldn't enter the Holy of Holies themselves.
I would recommend you take the Bible as God’s Word and not as a literary exercise to be poked, prodded, and shoehorned into current philosophical cubbyholes.
Yes, believing humans are the church. But, we are still told to not forsake the assembling of ourselves.
The great commission was for the believers to make disciples. There is some group time and one on one time involved in that process.
Not all discipling happens in a building where we all meet, but we have been told to assemble together.
And to become a discipler, one needs to also be in the process of being properly discipled.
Song Title-—???
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I’m working on “More COWBELL!”
Don’t Fear the Cowbell
Good advice. Where did I do that?
Yeah, that’s what I recall.
And based on accounts of his behavior, that confirms it to me.
Pick up a Bible and start reading it.
And take it seriously.
You don’t need to *go* anywhere to do it.
I think I quoted it.
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