Hillsong worship leader said he is leaving Christianity

[Guest]

Hillsong church has been accused of being quite liberal for some time...I have noticed as have others that some of their music is theologically questionable to put it politely...

https://www.charismanews.com/us/7756...ianity-anymore

[SAT]

Hi Lewis
I found Franklin Graham's response interesting..

Graham said he is especially disturbed by Christians who publicly renounce their faith in Christ, citing a warning from the Book of Revelation.

He wondered if the reason why was so that other Christians might join them and fall away from the teachings of the Bible.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd...ng-their-faith


But I found John Cooper's response very interesting

https://www.facebook.com/johnlcooper...305499/?type=3

Thought you might find it interesting.

[Issachar]

This is good to be posted here SAT. Thanks. I have been considering those words for a couple days. There is a lot of truth in them.

I just read today in a renown worship leader’s statement, “How could a God of love send people to hell? No one talks about it.” As if he is the first person to ask this? Brother, you are not that unique. The church has wrestled with this for 1500 years. Literally. Everybody talks about it. Children talk about it in Sunday school. There’s like a billion books written on the topic. Just because you don’t get the answer you want doesn’t mean that we are unwilling to wrestle with it. We wrestle with scripture until we are transformed by the renewing of our minds.

It is aggravating to me when I hear many ignorant (not used here in a derogatory manner) people saying "no one talks about it" when so many well versed Christians do.

Brothers and sisters in the faith all around the world, pastors, teachers, worship leaders, influencers...I implore you, please please in your search for relevancy for the gospel, let us NOT find creative ways to shape Gods word into the image of our culture by stifling inconvenient truths. But rather let us hold on even tighter to the anchor of the living Word of God. For He changes NOT. “The grass withers and the flowers fade away, but the word of our God stands forever” (Isaiah 40:8)

Amen.

Issachar

[Issachar]

. . . we are in a dangerous place when the church is looking to 20 year old worship singers as our source of truth.

1 Timothy 3:
1 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

Issachar