What is Up With All Those "He Gets Us" Commercials?

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Perhaps you were watching college football and you saw this strange ad about a teenager who got pregnant and had a baby and wait, this is the story of Jesus?

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Only Mary had to take a pregnancy test and she was sad about it? The ad directs viewers to a website called

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HeGetsUs .com. When you go to their About page, they insist they're not a church or political, even though they sell shirts that say

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Jesus was a refugee. They say, we simply want everyone to understand and relate to the authentic Jesus as he's represented in the

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Bible. But then there's nothing about the Bible. So you go to the Topics page and they have articles like, How did

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Jesus deal with injustice? How would Jesus be judged today? Why did Jesus cry? But not one of these pages, yes

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I read them all, say anything about Jesus being Savior or God. One page says, Some believe

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Jesus lived a perfect life, for others that's a stretch. Either way, Jesus set a high bar for himself and for others.

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Jesus said you are to be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. If you don't think Jesus lived a perfect life, you don't get

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Jesus. If you get on their chat and ask them if Jesus approves of homosexuality, they will say he does.

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They'll even connect you with a church that loves your sin. These guys are heretics, spending $100 million in advertising to preach a different Jesus.

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But evangelical leaders Ed Stetzer and Kevin Azell think they're great. Makes you wonder how much they're getting paid.

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The Bible says that if anyone preaches a different Jesus, they are accursed. Jesus gets us in that we're sinners in need of a