Steve Lawson update - G3 Ministries claims He was a member of Trinity / What is "Big Eva"?

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Hello, and thank you for watching this video. We're going to be doing two things today first giving an update about Steve Lawson Was he a member of Trinity Bible Church after all and then the second thing

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I'm going to give a definition of Big Eva What is Big Eva a lot of people have asked me that I use that term

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Big Eva basically stands for big Evangelicalism, this is the conference circuit, you know celebrity

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Christianity David Platt Russell Moore Alistair Begg you know the

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TGC crowd Really the gospel coalition is the epitome of Big Eva big evangelicalism, but we'll get into that afterwards

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And we'll talk a little bit about Social justice and Steve Lawson does sort of connect to that so Stay tuned, but let's first deal with this

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Issue about Steve Lawson so last week. I think it was last week Maybe the week before is when it came out

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But this was the big story last week where? Steve Lawson Protestia reported on it.

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They did an article. I read it on my video my video has somewhere like 90 ,000 views at this point a lot of other videos were made this was the bombshell report that dropped

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This podcast I forget I forget the name of the original podcast that released the information

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But they discovered that Steve Lawson. Not only was he not the pastor of Trinity Bible Church, which

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Was an open secret. I mean it was on the website and the people I guess that Trinity knew that but here's what people didn't

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Know he wasn't even an elder of Trinity Bible Church a matter of fact He wasn't even a member of the church, so that was the big news

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Steve Lawson wasn't even a member of a local church, so That is now contested information

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That's why I'm doing this video the main reason because people are saying no that's not true He was a member and when

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I say some people basically one person Josh Bice. He is the head honcho over there at g3

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Ministries so he reported that no Steve Lawson was in fact him and his wife were

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Members of Trinity Bible Church well, I mean my question would be Were they are they because if they were they should be under or Steve Lawson should be under Church discipline right now.

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He should be in the process of either discipline or restoration that does not seem to be happening which further confirms

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The fact I'm gonna say fact because that original podcast they said this has been confirmed by two or three witnesses

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We call Trinity Bible Church. He was not a member so I Don't mean any disrespect to Josh Bice But if I have to go with one man

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Josh Bice saying this or the two or three witnesses who actually called Trinity I'm gonna go with them

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But all of that to say this there is some new information or at least a new claim by g3 ministries that No, Steve Lawson was in fact a member of Trinity Bible Church So I'm calling this contested a contested fact right the fact is he wasn't a member

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But now this is being contested by Josh Bice Hopefully we'll get further clarification

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Trinity Bible Church really needs to release a statement I think that would be good for everybody because they see well

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Steve Lawson that that's his business It's Trinity Bible Church's business. It's not no one else's business.

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I Was a Minister there. He was a minister at Ligonier. He was a minister

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At Shepherds Conference grace to you or at least master seminary He was all over the internet one passion

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Ministries, so he's everywhere. He was teaching all these different people influence and books and seminaries uses books, so He has a lot of influence and I think the body of Christ Does deserve at least to know a little bit.

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We don't need the details nobody's asking for tabloid gossip, but just Hey, what is the situation?

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What is happening? I think the I think the body of Christ deserves to know at least the basics so That's the update with Steve Lawson and again.

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He will sort of tie in to the next story a little bit But let's talk about Big Eva. What is

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Big Eva as I said? It's big evangelicalism There was a definition.

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I pulled off the internet It says Big Eva is a term that refers to the network of large evangelical organizations and conferences that seek to shape the thinking and strategy of the

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American even Evangelical churches so the term was coined by Carl Truman the first time

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I ever heard it used was by Let's see it was 2019 Shepherds Conference Phil Johnson the right -hand man for John MacArthur at Grace to you

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Phil Johnson used the term Big Eva That's the first time I heard it, and I've been hearing it ever since so yeah these are the

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This is the conference circuit the the big more left -leaning ministers like David Platt Russell Moore and Paul David Tripp would be another one they basically

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Represent what is called Big Eva so they speak at the conferences make a lot of money selling books

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And they are sort of re I would say they're reshaping the way that American evangelicals

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Think and one of the big issues With Big Eva and this was in the context that I first time

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I heard it again Phil Johnson 2019 Shepherds Conference the big issue at hand was social justice and Social justice you say well

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We all want justice But what's this term social in front of like what does that mean?

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We all want justice right we believe in justice the Bible talks about justice true

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But when you put that term in front of a social justice Here's how I tell people

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I say you know think of it this way social justice Think of the term socialism like socialism like yeah leftist

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Marxist socialism that's more what we're talking about with social justice, and it's really a synonym

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With the term woke right woke Liberal social justice, it's pretty much the same thing and here's how this

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Ties in with Steve Lawson so Steve Lawson. You know hindsight is always 2020

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I Remember John Harris from the conversations that matter podcast which is a great podcast if you don't listen to it check it out, but John Harris from the conversations that matter podcast he mentioned this how

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Steve Lawson You know in hindsight looking back Steve Lawson really wasn't in the fight back in 2020 2019 when the social justice

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BLM all that stuff was raging Steve Lawson He wasn't in that fight.

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He wasn't speaking up matter of fact Steve Lawson actually, there's there's some clips where Steve Lawson seems to be almost in favor of Social justice now.

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I saw some other clips where he was he seems to be speaking against it, but John Harris again conversations that matter here's the video

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I saw in the latest podcast John Harris says I talked about a recent book by Paul trip

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Called do you believe and here's the thing Steve Lawson actually endorsed

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Paul trips book now The reason why this is significant why you should care is because Paul trip and you can check out this video

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I shared it on my community page, so I did a post on YouTube about this.

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I'll read it in a moment, but Paul trip like so many of these other guys David Platt they

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Came right up to the line and maybe even crossed the line into what some people thought

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Was false teaching because at least with Paul trip He said I don't have the full gospel, or I didn't have the full gospel

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Until I realized the need for social justice so let that sink in for a moment

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He said I have a trunk. I had a truncated gospel. I did not understand the full

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Gospel until I recognized you know the need for social justice

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Which some people said does that mean I'm not saved that I don't understand the true gospel

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Because I was believing in Christ and this atoning death and resurrection And I was believing in the gospel of Christ right grace alone faith alone in Christ alone.

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That's the gospel But because I wasn't marching with BLM, or I'm not involved in social justice

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Which a lot of these crowds and what they're saying seem pretty you know progressive Liberal or woke and all that like are you saying?

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I don't have the full gospel Unless I'm like advocating for it and involved in this stuff

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And well, I'm not gonna make the claim that that's what Paul trip was saying that you have to march with BLM I don't think he ever said that But he did say he did not have the full gospel until he

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Got into social justice. That's a concerning statement so because of that I posted this on YouTube so today is

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November 18th Monday morning I said talk about social justice has died down a bit since 2020

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But we still must remain vigilant knowing that some high -profile preachers and authors

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Are blending social justice with the gospel for example Paul trip who's part of Big Eva, right?

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This is this is the tie -in Paul trip is part of big evangelical ism

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You know TGC the conference circuit so Paul trip. Let me just check this out

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I just want to be sure because again. I always try to be accurate and everything that I say

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Paul trip TGC what's gonna come up? Okay, so Paul trip is an author at the gospel coalition.

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That's what I thought okay, so they are Big Eva, right? Liberal woke right stuff that you should avoid so Paul trip said that this is back to my post

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Paul trip Said that he didn't have the full gospel until he understood the need for social justice

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And I said see the video and I posted John Harris's podcast I Said this at best comes very close to the

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Galatian heresy where if a teacher adds anything to the gospel The Apostle Paul says let them be anathema

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Galatians 1 1 through 10 So if you have the gospel here and Paul David trip says well

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Christ is death burial and resurrection That's what I was trusting in but it wasn't the full gospel until I had social justice now you're adding something and that Does seem to be or at least come close to the

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Galatian heresy. This is this is serious That's why I'm talking about this I said back in 2020 many churches were shut down for months months and months some for a full year or more

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Christians were not allowed to worship our church never shut down by the way But that's another story

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Christians were not allowed to worship if they did gather on Sunday They were often rebuked

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Sometimes by the very same people who are gathering on Saturday or Friday for the

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BLM rallies Many of these same high -profile leaders. They admonished churches that remained open while Praising the protesters.

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So if you were gathering with the Saints and going to church During Kovac you were a horrible person.

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You were going to kill grandma, right? But the people that were gathering by the thousands packing the streets

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Oh, they were they're just fighting for justice same people were attacking Christians while defending these

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Protesters I wrote I am thankful for the you know The 7 ,000 who did not bow the knee so to speak the small minority who spoke up and stood against this hypocrisy

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Social justice continues to be a threat to the true gospel yet Big Eva Big Evangelical ism

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Continues to promote it in books and sermons Christians should reject

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Social justice and instead embrace God's justice, which is revealed in Scripture PS I said

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Big Eva stands for Big Evangelical ism a network of large evangelical Organizations that seek to reshape the thinking of American evangelicalism through conferences books websites such as TGC of the gospel coalition

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Etc. I said in hindsight. It should also be noted that Steve Lawson did not take a strong stand against social justice

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On the other hand his mentor John MacArthur John MacArthur did take a stand.

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He preached sermons put out that statement. Remember social justice and the gospel that was a Great statement that MacArthur and others

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Vodie Bockham. They put that out, but Steve Lawson did not sign the statement and What did

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Steve Lawson do instead? He endorsed a Paul trips book. So I Said check out this podcast.

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It really shines a light on the problem. So in conclusion I'm just gonna say what

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I said last week this whole problem of you know celebrity Christianity at the conference circuit

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I Think conferences for pastors are helpful, but conferences just for hey

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Let's bring everybody together to go listen to David Platt and Paul trip and gospel coalition

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I think this does more harm than good because what they're doing is they're bringing critical race theory

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Social justice they're bringing in these really woke left -wing ideas

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They're bringing them into the church and blending them together With the true gospel of Christ and once you blend the true gospel with this other stuff

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Then you have a corruption of the gospel. So in conclusion if you have any questions about this, maybe

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You've never heard some of these connections before you've never heard the term big Eva If you have a question reach out to me the email is

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We'll send a message through the website or my email Morse corner church at yahoo .com

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the best way because sometimes that goes into my spam folder So the best way to get through to me is just leave a comment on The podcast and I will try to get back to you

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But this is a serious issue and we want to fight for the truth and for the purity of the gospel of Jesus Christ.