Steven Furtick Says God Doesn’t Make You into a New Creation - Staff Writer

Found here. And Reformation Charlotte chimes in. Our comments in bold.

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The Doctrinal Police are raising their hysterical voices in concert once again. The Undynamic Duo agree that Steve Furtick's statement is beyond the pale. But their track records as Defenders of Doctrine are pretty spotty. 

We should note that we are not here to defend Furtick, who has said some problematic things in the past. We intend to examine the statements of the Undynamic Duo.

Both of them, hyperventilating and unhinged, find themselves blinded by their obsession regarding any deviation from doctrinal purity, no matter how slight. But the glaringly obvious problem with their claim: Furtick was not talking about salvation or the new creation. 

Here's what he said in the video: "The process of discipleship is not God changing you into something else, it's him revealing..."

The embarrassing little detail, obviously missed by the Undynamic Duo, is that Furtick is talking about sanctification, not salvation. That is, we as Christians are ALREADY new creations, so the process of discipleship reveals who we are in Christ. Our identity has already been changed at salvation, so discipleship unveils this.

Furtick's statement is hardly controversial in context.

Unfortunately, we find this kind of thing quite often with these folks. One would think that organizations that presents themselves as Defenders of the True Faith would take the time to get things right. Alas, this too rarely is the case.

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Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church, a Southern Baptist-associated, 25,000-member multisite campus with 17 locations. He is known for having the term “narcegesis” (narcissistic exegesis) named after him based on his inability to exegete scripture in a way that doesn’t make every story revolve around him, as well as his penchant to wear outfits that cost more than most mortgages and buddying up to Trinity-Denier T.D Jakes.

Ten months ago he replaced Kenneth Copeland at the always-heretical TBN, filling the role of the Innkeeper Thénardier from the musical Les Miserables (TBN being the Inn), with these “Masters of the house” doing whatever is the theological equivalent of “Charge ’em for the lice/Extra for the mice/Two percent for looking in the mirror twice” in his efforts to promote his brand of prosperity preaching.

He also recently said that ‘God is a Molecular Structure’, laughed at the notion of ‘Twerking for the Lord?’, went on a Wild, Wild, Willllldd Rant about Betas and Blessings, went on another Rant About Angels that got Weird Quick and screamed ‘I Am God Almighty!’ in a sermon.

Now, we have this gem, posted on October 24, 2021, to his Facebook wall.

(Video excerpt.)

That is some kind of something else, particularly because it directly contradicts scriptures such as 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) which specifically says ‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

Not for Furtick, however, who really doesn’t care what the bible thinks and would never let a troubling little verse get in the way of a good point. This nasty little pearl was cracked open in his sermon yesterday, where using the example of Peter, he states that greatness and destiny was always in the disciple, it just had to be revealed.

And to think this is one of the most influential ‘pastors’ in the world.