There's Something Scary About This Celebrity Pastor...

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You see these boots those are very well your turn off white these are off white I was here these are off white So these are off.

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Yeah good to see you. Shut up Virgil Virgil Virgil do you watch CBS? It's the justice.

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I want to get better. That's why we don't love people more. I just want to love Carl more You're doing a good job with that My angel said

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I'm gonna break it my angel said I'm right on time On March 17 2018 the

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New York Times published an article titled this preacher would be happy to share your bowl of a sigh

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The article is about Chad Beach 38 year old founder of Zoe Which is also the church that popular actor

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Chris Pratt currently attends Beach is a 24 hour a day presence on Instagram Photographed at the gym or beach singing car karaoke with the pop star

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Justin Bieber Watching the Lakers even waiting for the valet beach says

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Instagram built our church Immediately we wonder why would the

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New York Times a solidly leftist organization? Like you're here today

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Because this morning the Supreme Court announced its ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act Was unconstitutional

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Publish a positive article about a Christian pastor and his church

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Before we look more into the article. Let's recall that in 2019

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Ellen Page tweeted regarding Chris Pratt. Oh Okay Um, but his church is infamously anti LGBTQ so maybe address that too

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Interestingly, if you try to find out what Chad Beach and Zoe Church teach about homosexuality

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You'll find very little if anything at all in fact in a

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Christian post article Beach said I think when we shine a light we don't have to tell darkness how dark it is

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So I don't have to address all these peripheral issues when the gospel is the main issue for example

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Rich Wilkerson jr. And I and a lot of our friends We try to shine bright in the dark spaces and we don't have to go around telling them how dark they are

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Or address these issues. We are just trying to shine bright and God will do the rest

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I think some people get themselves in a lot of trouble by trying to make statements about subjects that I don't think are gonna

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Heal anybody. I don't think they're gonna bring that much health to people's souls

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So I think as long as we keep pointing people to Jesus, he's gonna deal with the heart issues

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He's gonna deal with lifestyle stuff from this It seems that the reason why we can't find anything about what

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Veech believes or teaches about homosexuality Is because he stays away from controversial issues like these.

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The next tool they use is jamming and the way they talk about jamming is that they they they want to Eliminate and reverse what they call psychic rewards

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So the way that they explain jamming is this you equate being against homosexuality with being part of the

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KKK or skinheads or neo -nazis so that when people think about Homosexuality and they think about whatever their biblical position on homosexuality their biblical position on gay marriage that they

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Automatically have a check they're jammed, right? It's like you you've got a machine and they throw sand in the work

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So that the machine gets jammed and it doesn't work. So now you have to stop because you feel bad

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About believing what the Bible says about homosexuality Similarly, we notice that Stephen Furtick another extremely popular pastor with an enormous following on Instagram essentially has nothing to say about controversial issues like homosexuality or But my assumption based on my research and based off of what

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I've seen in Stephen Furtick's ministry Is that Furtick didn't want those sermons to remain online because they are offensive and because the opinions shared in those sermons make it really

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Hard to grow your church again. That's just an assumption. Don't take it as a fact It's basically impossible to find any teachings from Furtick about subjects like these

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Back to the article it continues Mr. Veach believes he can save souls by being the hip and happy -go -lucky preacher

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The one you want to share a bowl of acai with at Backyard Bowls on Beverly Boulevard Who declines to publicly discuss politics in the

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Trump era? Because it's hard to minister if no one wants to come to church Jesus is supposed to be fun, right?

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I want to be loud and dumb. Mr Veach said with a wide toothy grin. That's my goal if we aren't making people laugh.

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What are we doing? What is the point? Wow three things

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First maybe people don't want to come to church because they're sinners who love their sin and hate the

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Bible God and the gospel that's certainly a possibility. We can't ignore

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Second Jesus is not supposed to be fun Jesus is holy.

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He is Lord and he is the king of kings He's coming again to defeat his enemies and judge the nation's

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He calls all people everywhere to repent and trust in him alone for salvation

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That's not something to laugh or joke about and third

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The point of a church isn't to make people laugh The point is to tell people about their sin their need for a

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Savior and Everything else God has clearly revealed through the Bible Including what

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God says about controversial issues if we aren't doing that Then what are we doing?

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What is the point? The article continues? Asked about a rights.

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Mr. Veach declined to give a specific answer At the end of the day, I am a

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Bible guy. He said mr. Veach's father shrugged about his son's equivocation

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Last thing you want to do is turn off a whole demographic He said of today's pastors if you draw lines in the sand people are going to think

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God hates them and Mr. Veach wants Zoe to be a refuge for many against the rhetoric of so many other dogmatic

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Evangelicals, but God himself draws lines in the sand Concerning what sin and the

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Bible teaches that God hates sin if we avoid calling sin sin

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We are deceiving people into thinking they're right with God when they are not

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Because they still love and approve of sin finally Veach says

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From the time I've entered and maybe just what we grew up in It's like you don't bring politics into church.

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He said we're here to preach good news We're here to bring hope to humanity.

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We're here to talk about God. This is not the place for a political agenda

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This is the last place When I come to church, you know what

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I need. I need Encouragement but teaching about topics like homosexuality and Isn't about teaching a political agenda.

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It's about teaching truth and far more than encouragement

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People need to hear the truth that God has revealed all of it.

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So That's the secret Avoiding controversial topics that God speaks clearly about is how cool

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Instagram pastors like Chad Veach and Stephen Furtick Stay cool, because we try to be like Jesus very rarely.