Posted on 06/11/2021 9:24:37 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
“Bishop” T.D. Jakes blasted white evangelical Christians during a “woke” interview with the far-left magazine, “The Atlantic.”
Jakes, pastor of The Potter’s House Church in Texas, was interviewed for a story titled, “T.D. Jakes on How White Evangelicals Lost Their Way.”
“I think white evangelicals lost sight of “What would Jesus do?” because they only define Jesus in very narrow terms,” Jakes told the leftist magazine.
It sounds like something Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton would say.
Is the black bishop simply misinformed or does he harbor bigoted feelings toward white Christians?
Following, is the pertinent portion of the interview:
Jakes: Can I be honest?
Green: Yes!
Jakes: That’s only a revelation to people who are far removed from it. [Laughs.]
Because the Church is a galvanizing place of all classes of people, this is something that we’re confronted with every week. It is amazing to me that we can live in the same city and have two completely different experiences. You can kind of be willfully blind to the pain of the people who are in your own city and have ladies’ meetings and come together to solve poverty around the world and not think a thing about poverty right in your own city.
Green: You know, when I hear you say that, I can’t help but hear an implication about the way certain other Christians—maybe white Christians in particular—live, with a kind of international orientation toward helping kids in Africa but not caring that much about helping people who are their neighbors in their own city. Am I hearing you right?
Jakes: [Laughs.] I think that’s true in some cases, but I don’t think that they are a monolith. I’ve met pastors who cared, and who have joined hands and tried to help and serve, and who were first responders in times of crisis. But by and large, it makes people uncomfortable to look at complicated problems. And the problems in underserved communities are complicated by poor education, poor access to medical care, crime, and the distance in culture. As a whole, I think white evangelicals lost sight of “What would Jesus do?” because they only define Jesus in very narrow terms.
Green: Well, you’re going to have to say a little bit more about that.
Jakes: [Laughs.] I think that social issues define the spaces where faith and politics and society intertwine—Roe v. Wade and same-gender-loving people. [White evangelicals] don’t always put the same level of weight on the poor, the disenfranchised, or criminal-justice problems. They don’t see that as important.
Green: Just to be clear, I take it that theologically speaking, you might not disagree with, say, a conservative Southern Baptist pastor on abortion or same-sex marriage. But you’re saying that there’s a difference in emphasis.
Jakes: Yes, there’s a great deal of difference—you’re exactly right. There’s a great deal of difference in emphasis.
To raise the concern for the unborn above the born—to fight for the life in the womb and not in the prison or in the school systems—if life is valuable, then after the mother pushes out the baby, that life should still be that valuable.
It’s really hard for truth to reach a depraved mind.
Jakes has been reprobate for a long time I believe.
He writes Self-help books. There is too much of that in the body. I never read them.
Will he let the poor blacks in Dallas on his jets.
Word of Faith takes a biblical ideal, and twists it.
I just wonder how the good reverend would do, were ‘the white evangelicals’ to cease purchasing his books, his recorded media, and not support his broadcasts. Also, what if (i dare say it), the ‘white evangelicals’ who own publishing houses, determine not to publish his books??
On the inside of the doorways, looking out from the assembly hall at Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle, was painted the phrase, “Beyond this door, lay your harvest field.” But they sure loved sending missionaries to Africa!
Modalism states that God is a single person who, throughout biblical history, has revealed Himself in three modes or forms. Thus, God is a single person who first manifested himself in the mode of the Father in Old Testament times. At the incarnation, the mode was the Son; and after Jesus’ ascension, the mode is the Holy Spirit. These modes are consecutive and never simultaneous. In other words, this view states that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit never all exist at the same time–only one after another.
Modalism denies the distinctiveness of the three persons in the Trinity even though it retains the divinity of Christ.
What a fraud this loser is
He was asked about white evangelicals and he answered about white evangelicals. Problem?
BTW, Texas mega-pastor Robert Morris considers TD Jakes to be his mentor.
NOBODY should be listening to Morris with that kind of influence.
And yet, 36,000 people attend Morris’ church each week.
African churches are now sending missionaries to North America, because they see how apostate American Christianity has become.
And no, I’m not kidding.
Massive, bloated ego.
“African churches are now sending missionaries to North America ... And no, I’m not kidding.”
You’re absolutely right. They are.
John Wesley, who founded the Methodist church, had this to say about giving:
• First you should take care of your family
• Second you should take care of your neighbors
• Finally, if you have any money left over, you should give it to your church
BTW, Wesley did NOT believe or teach that Christians were required to Tithe—ever.
And yet, how many Methodist churches today teach that their members should give 10% of their income to the church before they take care of their family or neighbors, in direct contradiction to Wesley’s teaching.
A wise and fair man would not allow himself to be baited into responding to such a divisive question - and certainly not in this fashion.
If the interviewer had asked whether Hitler might have had at least some justifiable reasons to hate Jews, a wise and fair man would reply, "Hitler was a depraved antisemite." Not "Well, the Jews do control a lot of finances..."
Regards,
Another black racist — only this time he parades as a minister of God.
A huckster who preaches the Word of God for his own personal gain. And I bet you a lot of white folks send him money too!
St. Paul told about these hucksters: Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. 2 Corinthians 2:17 (NIV)
I don’t listen to anything that man says.
Booker T Washington was a brilliant man. The Negro race has chosen to look to far inferior blacks and whites for their enlightenment.
True preachers of the gospel preach and teach a color-blind gospel. Racist preachers are false teachers. Sadly, sterotyping and scapegoating is common to man. The attitude and perspective of Jakes is not surprising.
Some of Jakes' teaching can be insightful. However, Jakes will periodically say something that reveals his belief that "white people, including white Christians" are bad people.
I wish I could be as good and perfect as virtue signaling folks like T.D. Jakes but I'm not. I am responsible to Christ - no one else. The Holy Spirit and Word of God are more than enough to teach me truth.
A preacher who broad brushes an ethnic group as being evil is a false teacher and a racist.
"For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not. As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth. To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed." - Titus 1:10-16
TRUTH
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