Matt Chandler vs. Scott Stapp on Affirmative Action (Yes THAT Scott Stapp)

Scott Stapp’s Song About Affirmative Action

There was a great philosopher that I followed in my college and high school days. And his name was Scott Stapp. And he was the lead singer of the band Creed and he wrote a song about affirmative action and you know Scott Stapp.

You might like him. You might not like him. I don't know how you feel. I don't that's not what this is about, but I can't imagine he's a huge intellectual. Maybe he is. I don't know it's hard for me to say when he writes such catchy songs such as one last breath and higher and my Sacrifice all of these are fantastic songs, but in his song about affirmative action He talks about how it might be justified.

Let me read you a few of the lyrics from that amazing song. He says affirmative may be justified. Take from one give to another. The goal is to be unified. Take my hand be my brother. Poetry the payment silenced the masses sanctified by oppression.

Unity took a backseat. Sliding further into regression now that is very wise because he's saying this is a well-intentioned Kind of thing unity is the goal. We all want unity. But then he says that that that it actually unity takes a backseat.

When you take from one and give to another and I very much agree with that. It slides further into regression is what he says. Let me read you the second verse. He says society is blind by color. Not that how it should be but then he says why hold down one to raise another.

I agree. He says discrimination is now on both sides seeds of hate blossom further. You see what's going on here affirmative actions very well intentioned. We want unity. We want goal. Oh, the goal is unity.

But then because you know, you're holding down one to raise the other you're holding down the majority culture to raise the minority culture. Instead of just giving an even footing the seeds of hate the seeds of Contempt and and suspicion they actually grow they blossom further.

He says it's poetry I'm telling you and then he says this he says this is very prophetic. I would say he says the world is headed for mutiny. When all we want is unity. We may rise and fall but in the end, we'll meet our fate together that truer words have not been spoken.

Matt Chandler, Affirmative Action, and Partiality in Pastoral Hiring

I think and I'm being serious here Scott stat is on to something affirmative action. Well intentioned it sounds good sounds very compassionate and loving but it ends up being a disaster and We talked about how Matt Chandler is promoting affirmative action in his pastoral hiring practices.

He decides to take a lesser qualified person that has a darker shade of skin Than a better qualified person to be his pastor at his church that has a lighter shade of skin. It's really the skin that's that's very important to Matt Chandler one of the firms that's helping us find men.

Said let me ask you a question pastor Matt if if we find an Anglo eight and an African American seven. Which one do you want. I said I want the African American seven. And he said what if we find an Anglo eight and an African American six?

And then I said then give me the Anglo eight because the African-american six will look and feel to our people like the kind of tokenism that I'm preaching against.

And that's affirmative action and that is the biblical sin of partiality. Okay, when you're partial to someone for ridiculous reasons like that skin color ethnicity whether they're rich or poor things like that.

That is a sin. God says you can't do that. You cannot show favoritism to a rich man, but you also cannot show favoritism to a poor man and I think we can make the application that you cannot show favoritism to someone who's in the majority culture and Likewise, you cannot show favoritism to someone who's in the minority culture.

It works the same way. It's all partiality and it's a sin and It's not really that surprising that affirmative action will lead to more division and it will actually lead to more problems the way Scott Stapp has so heroically come out and said and It's no surprise because God won't let it you see here's the thing God will not bless you breaking his law his holy Righteous moral law.

He will never bless that in fact the Bible talks about there's blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. And so Matt Chandler's little affirmative action plan will cause disaster for his church.

God Will Not Bless Disobedience to His Law

God won't it's not magic. It's not just that I've run the numbers and I've decided that affirmative action is not gonna work. It's not just that I just think we're too racist for affirmative action to work.

No, it's not that it's that God will not bless it. God will not bless you breaking his holy law. If you are showing partiality to someone who's has a darker skin shade of skin. Then you will that will never.

Give you the positive result you're looking for. God won't let it. God won't let the world go topsy-turvy like that. He will not bless disobedience to his law. You must obey his law. So if you want to have a darker skin pastor, that's a goal of yours.

I would recommend getting on your knees and praying to God Lord. Send me a qualified person that meets my ethnic requirements. I'm not so sure God will answer that prayer because it's a wrong prayer. But at least you won't be showing partiality at least you won't be sinning in order to accomplish what you think is a good thing.

You can't sin your way out of sin. I know you're trying to correct the discrimination. I know you're trying to do that, but you will never correct a discrimination with more discrimination. It doesn't work that way.

God won't let it you can't there's not a single sin in the Bible that you can say you can say to me. Well, I'll do this and God will bless it. Doesn't work that way.