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Reformation Charlotte combines with Protestia once again as the Undynamic Duo to hyperventilate over Steve Furtick. Now, we're no fan of Furtick. He probably has said some controversial things in the past. So we do not intend to defend him. Our purpose is to discuss the Undynamic Duo to ascertain if their complaint is legitimate.
More often than not we find that their complaints are either not legitimate, or they are the product of misunderstanding, selective quoting, or they come from the inability to understand a different way of communicating a concept.
This last one is the case today. Furtick says, So it seems to me if we believe Genesis 1:26 that I was made from a mess in the image of my maker, that there is no mess in my life right now that I cannot bring to my maker and expect him to say “I’ll bless it anyway.” So the Undynamic Duo make two presumptions about this:
- Furtick is talking about sin
- Furtick is saying God will bless your sin
Neither claim is warranted by the excerpt. First, a mess is not sin. The Undynamic Duo jumps to that conclusion without evidence or justification. However, it seems clear Furtick is referring to the troubles of life, when things aren't going well. This is not sin. We can still come to God with expectation in those circumstances.
Second, the Undynamic Duo presumes Furtick was referring to the mess, when it is more likely he was talking about "my life." But in either case, since the mess is not sin, there is no error in claiming God can bless your life despite its messes; or, God can bless the mess.
Lastly, we note that the Undynamic Duo cannot bring themselves to quote the verse. We shall do so:
Ge. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
We can now begin to understand Furtick's thrust. Our take on the matter is this: If we are made in God's image, God's grace still abounds to us no matter our life circumstances.
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Steven Furtick, a notorious and serial blasphemer, narcissist, and Scripture-twister, is completely immersed in the Word-of-Faith movement.
Furtick has been hand-crafted by his mentor, Trinity-denier, T.D. Jakes, has been the motivation and inspiration for his style of self-help preaching. Whether it be Furtick denying God’s sovereignty over man, lying about baptism numbers, hosting a non-Trinitarian fraud at his church, claiming that Jesus sinned, saying that Abram asked God for Viagra, or comparing Jesus to a gay rapper, there is no doubt that Furtick’s theological understanding of God is severely lacking.
In one of his latest examples of spectacularly poor exegesis, Furtick goes on to claim that no matter what kind of sin you’re caught up in your life, God will bless that anyways. Protestia writes, “The whole statement oozes with a sort of hyper-deterministic grace, where God sees your mess,(i.e your sins) and the ramifications of your sins, and instead of you having to repent of your sins and give yourself over to some good old-fashioned metanoia, God’s just gonna do it anyway- bless your mess in order to solve your situation and keep you from the consequences of it.”
Now I need everybody who’s got a messy situation in your life right now to know what your maker did when this whole thing God started. He rolled up his sleeves and he said, ‘I’ll make the moon with my mouth. I can hang it with a syllable. ‘Moon!’ And the moon said ‘yes’ And the Lord said ‘hang!’ and the moon say ‘yes’. And the Lord says ‘shine’ and the moon said ‘alright’.
But when it got down to you, (screams.) So it seems to me if we believe Genesis 1:26 that I was made from a mess in the image of my maker, that there is no mess in my life right now that I cannot bring to my maker and expect him to say “I’ll bless it anyway.”
Steven Furtick, a notorious and serial blasphemer, narcissist, and Scripture-twister, is completely immersed in the Word-of-Faith movement.
Furtick has been hand-crafted by his mentor, Trinity-denier, T.D. Jakes, has been the motivation and inspiration for his style of self-help preaching. Whether it be Furtick denying God’s sovereignty over man, lying about baptism numbers, hosting a non-Trinitarian fraud at his church, claiming that Jesus sinned, saying that Abram asked God for Viagra, or comparing Jesus to a gay rapper, there is no doubt that Furtick’s theological understanding of God is severely lacking.
In one of his latest examples of spectacularly poor exegesis, Furtick goes on to claim that no matter what kind of sin you’re caught up in your life, God will bless that anyways. Protestia writes, “The whole statement oozes with a sort of hyper-deterministic grace, where God sees your mess,(i.e your sins) and the ramifications of your sins, and instead of you having to repent of your sins and give yourself over to some good old-fashioned metanoia, God’s just gonna do it anyway- bless your mess in order to solve your situation and keep you from the consequences of it.”
Now I need everybody who’s got a messy situation in your life right now to know what your maker did when this whole thing God started. He rolled up his sleeves and he said, ‘I’ll make the moon with my mouth. I can hang it with a syllable. ‘Moon!’ And the moon said ‘yes’ And the Lord said ‘hang!’ and the moon say ‘yes’. And the Lord says ‘shine’ and the moon said ‘alright’.
But when it got down to you, (screams.) So it seems to me if we believe Genesis 1:26 that I was made from a mess in the image of my maker, that there is no mess in my life right now that I cannot bring to my maker and expect him to say “I’ll bless it anyway.”
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