Who is Steven Furtick?

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the the furtick Stephen the furtick so I want to I want to do a little

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I said Jesus do a little the captain Narcissus I don't know what we're talking about Maybe you could explain that Daniel the difference between exegesis

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I said you sure exegesis is drawing something out of a text. I said Jesus is reading it into a text

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So Narcissus is when you read yourself into the text. No Joseph Smith Mormons a lot, but That's really what we're talking about today when we talk about Stephen Furtick and yeah an

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Elevation Church if you don't know about them At all it's a giant Multicampus Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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I know they have a presence in Canada too. I think But and then obviously a huge online Huge their videos of hundreds of thousands of views.

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Yeah sermons do yeah And we were just talking one of the clips we were watching which I don't know if we'll get to but like he said

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Something that just literally I don't even understand what he was saying it made zero sense and like the crowd was like Roaring with like cheering and clapping.

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I was like, what why are you cheering? That didn't make any sense I think one of the best ways to understand

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Stephen Furtick is that he invited Matt Chandler to his church to speak once and Matt Chandler preached a sermon about how

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God is for God's own glory and not for and you shouldn't you shouldn't you're not the hero of the story and They basically tried to kill that sermon after having it invited him.

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Are you serious? Yeah, and that's a great illustration of what we're talking about. Yeah when we talk about this

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I first found out about Stephen Furtick. I think it was three or four years ago. I heard his name I was like, who's that? Yeah Everyone at the church we were going to the times going crazy playing his sermons and all that and then

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I started to listen to Some of the things he actually had to say and then there was a video that dropped with him talking about the law of God and how

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Jesus essentially broke God's law for the sake of love, right, right I know that's something we're gonna get into but Immediately, I just had red flags going up And so I just start to listen to some more and then it's just kind of been on my radar to avoid him because yeah, you have a very man -centered man -pleasing structure style of church

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Messages, it's all about you. It's all about your place in the story. Well and a very man -centered man -pleasing version of God Yes.

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Yes He's basically the soft core version of the prosperity gospel word of right heresy for sure

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He teaches it but he teaches it in such a way that it's palatable to the

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Southern Baptist type person and because he's a graduate right? Yeah, cuz he

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I think he started out pretty solid didn't he I don't know it just seems like he went to a solid place But it doesn't that doesn't mean it just seems like the more popular he gets the more crazy.

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He gets as well Right huge following huge church That's probably the main thing dynamic and He's useful.

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He's a good auditor. He gets everyone fired up, you know, it's intense when he you know It's just like, you know the the emotional, you know building up and and getting everyone worked up into a frenzy as he speaks and the thing that People maybe haven't made the connection.

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Is that Elevation Church is home of Elevation worship? so You know whether or not you've heard of Stephen Furtick if you're a

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Christian You've probably heard worship songs from Elevation and didn't know it illustrates how important worship is to To the church because you think about like there are churches out there who are the most influential in the realm of music

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Hillsong Bethel With the teach heresy just downright heresies and yet those are the songs that we're continuing

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To sing all over the world because of their influence in music. Yeah, speaking of Hillsong.

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Did you watch that? that video Yes, that was horrible Oh my

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Large my border and large might be yeah, what's that? What are those called? I can't think that's what they're called now

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That's super deluxe is a super deluxe one of and it was like it was Carl and Justin Bieber and my favorite part that was like they were doing this interview and the