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A lot of you have been asking me if this Twitter account is really me or if someone's impersonating me. It's at adroblezmedia on Twitter. Oh, it's me. All right, let's jump into it today. This is adroblez on the Fight Laugh Feast network, and yes, it is all true.
I have joined Twitter once again. Now, the reason I joined is because I had heard that Joe Carter here, pictured in this very lifelike image, had quit Twitter because, well, I mean, he quit in a pious blaze of glory because, you know, Twitter has, I guess, tempted him to sin or something like that.
And for that, you know, if that's true, I am very supportive of him leaving Twitter. But in reality, though, he left because he was exposed for doing what he regularly does, and that is writing a bunch of nonsense on the Gospel Coalition, getting called on it, and then pretending that everyone else is the problem except for him.
And in this case, it was that Megan Basham article on the Francis Collins promoting that evangelical leaders did all over the place and how they just, you know, flat out were just wrong about so many things, and they ought to apologize.
They probably won't. They don't really know how to deal with Megan because she's, you know, she's mainstream media as far as, like, popularity is concerned. I don't want to insult her, but it's pretty mainstream.
You know, they don't know how to deal with someone who writes for the Daily Wire, and also it helps that she's a woman. They're not really sure how to deal with a woman and all of that. And he was trying to defend some indefensible stuff, and a few hours later, he decides to leave Twitter.
And so, basically, he was exposed. And my thing is, you know, leave Twitter if it's causing you to sin. Definitely. I mean, there's no shame in that. But I would argue that you should probably leave the Gospel Coalition as well.
You should stop writing blog posts altogether and do a lot of soul-searching for a few years. That's my suggestion. But, hey, you don't have to listen to me. Some people are saying he just got reassigned, you know, to another division of whatever agency he's a part of.
But that's all a legend. Allegedly, I have no knowledge of such things, no knowledge at all. But I joined Twitter just for a laugh, right, just to post this picture. But, you know, I think I'll stay a while.
I think I'll stay a while. And if you peruse my channel here, you'll notice that I am only following one Twitter page, and that is the Gospel Coalition because, that's right, I'm focused on the Gospel Coalition.
I got the laser-beam eyes here. Some people were thinking it was fake because of the laser-beam eyes, you know, because this is very popular in the Bitcoin community. But I'm appropriating the laser-beam eyes from the Bitcoin community.
As you know, I'm not a Bitcoin guy. But I'm appropriating this Bitcoin culture because I am laser-focused on the Gospel Coalition. Now, I would suggest that you keep your eye on the following page of because I'll just drop a little hint.
I will be following other accounts, and it may or may not, but definitely will have some meaning, and you can figure that out and have a good time for yourself. By the way, I just noticed this. I don't know how I missed this.
Look at how Gospel Coalition... Sorry, guys. I just noticed this. Look at how Gospel Coalition describes itself. The Gospel Coalition supports... Hold on, let me get my voice ready. The Gospel Coalition supports the church.
Winsome and wise, trusted and timely. Now, the first thing to notice about this is the alliteration, trusted and timely. I mean, it's pretty lame, but they're trying to do something cute there. I mean, trusted, yeah, I think some people still trust them.
That trust has been diminishing over time, and we will definitely be exploring that in the great upcoming podcast series, The Rise and Fall of the Gospel Coalition. Oh, man, I'm working on it really hard, guys.
I'm going to get it out there as soon as I can, but I want it to be good. And so it's turning out to be pretty good. Trusted, timely, I guess timely, but it's actually anti-timely when you really think about it.
Like Gospel Coalition, it's like the opposite of timely. So whatever they're writing about, it's already become irrelevant. So if they're talking about QAnon, it's been many, many months since QAnon has been relevant.
If they're writing about how you shouldn't be peer pressured into not getting the vaccine when you really know it's the right thing to do, you know that it's really not the right time for that. In fact, it's time to write the opposite article.
And so timely, I guess if you set your watch in opposite land and you want to tell time by whatever the opposite of the time is, I mean, I guess you could do that. You could tell time by whatever the opposite time is.
I mean, the way we do our clocks here in the United States, it's like 12 a .m. If you want to put your clock at 12 a .m. to know that it's 12 p .m., I mean, it'll be accurate, but you could tell the time.
Anyway, so it's like anti-timely. It is definitely winsome, but I don't know if it's winsome for the right reasons, and wise, definitely not. Winsome and wise, they've got that alliteration going on there.
It's very interesting stuff. In any case, I did want to just comment on, I'm not going to read the whole article, but this article here by Trevin Wax called The Remedy for the Church's Post-COVID Malaise.
And when I saw that title, you know, well, I'm not going to lie. I may have said a bad thing in my mind, you know what I mean, kind of thing, where it's just like these people, they've got some gall. They really do.
Because the reality is that that gospel coalition told everybody that it wasn't loving your neighbor to go to church. And if you did go to church, you had to wear a mask, and you separate the families, and you got the vaccine, and stuff like that.
And for a long time, they said just don't go to church because it's too dangerous to go to church and all of that kind of stuff. And many of these pastors were doing this. They were not holding services, but they were going to Black Lives Matter rallies and things of that nature.
I'm sure they were going to the store to buy food and stuff like that. But definitely too dangerous for church, but not too dangerous to go to Walmart to pick up your groceries. Now, at the time, you know, a lot of churches were doing it, and then it was well past time to go back to church.
I mean, probably it was never appropriate, looking back on it, it was never appropriate to close your church down. And that's something that I got wrong in the beginning and that I've since changed my mind about.
But the truth is that for a very long time, after it was well past time to go back to church for everybody, a lot of gospel coalition people were still not holding services. In fact, they were trying to encourage you not to go back to services.
If you remember when John MacArthur wrote his very good article about how they're not going to, you know, listen to the government anymore and all of that, gospel coalition was encouraging you for years, or months rather, to not go to church.
And it created a culture that, you know, basically it was okay to not go to church anytime you felt the sniffle, right? And so the reality is that if there is post-COVID malaise, these are the guys that did it to you, right?
They're the ones who encourage you to have this kind of post-COVID malaise. So they're the cause of the disease, and now they're trying to heal the disease with a blog post, right? And this article describes, you know, people that are very stressed out post-COVID and church and pastors that are, oh, boy, it's a very low key.
It's, oh, poor me, it's hard to be a pastor, kind of an article. And, you know, it's lamenting the fact that there's a lot of people that are disengaged with church. And it's like, well, no wonder, guys.
You guys are the ones who, when John MacArthur was trying to lead the charge to go back to church, yes, he was wrong. He should have been in church the whole time. We get it. We look back, and we can see our errors.
But when he was trying to lead that charge again, you were like, no way. Hold on, guys. We can't go to church. And it's like, so, you know, now you're lamenting that people are disengaged. You don't have as many volunteers and all of that kind of thing.
And it's like, listen, it reminds me of the government, right? It reminds me of the government. It's like the government will do something and cause a tremendous problem in society, whether it's with the economy, whether it's with, you know, a certain community or whatever.
And then they're like, oh, man, this is a huge problem. And then they're like, vote for me so I can fix the problem. But you're the one who created the problem. But the thing is, a lot of times people will continue to vote for the very people that created the problem.
Like the problems that the economy is facing right now were caused by all the same people that you're going to be voting in to office next time around, and they're going to somehow convince you that they're the ones that know how to fix it when they're the ones who actually caused the problem in the first place.
Gospel Coalition is so similar. Everything that they do, every play that they have, all of the rhetoric that they use, it is so similar to the government. It's unreal. So Trevin Wax's buddies caused this problem of post-COVID malaise, and now they're telling you, well, we can fix it for you.
Don't worry, we can fix it. No, Trevin, we don't fall for this kind of stuff anymore. But the other thing I want to mention is that lots of churches don't have post-COVID malaise. Now, I've mentioned my brother, my biological brother.
His church never closed, not even once. And it's not to say that they didn't think about it. They did think about it. They thought about it, and it came up again and again and again. And God was so merciful to these people, and he put it in their hearts to remain open the entire time.
No mandates, no mask mandates, no nothing. And they are honoring God, and they're thriving. My church, we did close for a little bit, but we saw the light very early on, and we've resolved as a church we're never closing again.
There are no mask mandates, none of that, nothing, and we're thriving. We're thriving, and there's unity, and there's love, and we greet each other with holy kisses and all of that kind of thing, and we're thriving.
So we don't have the post-COVID malaise. And again, this is not surprising. If you encourage people to not go to church when it's inconvenient or a little risky, then they're not going to come when it's inconvenient or a little risky.
You know what I mean? I just don't understand. Guys, don't follow the people that caused the problem in the first place. They don't know what they're talking. They should have known back then. They didn't.
They never learned their lesson, and now they're saying, well, we can teach you these five simple ways to beat post-COVID malaise. Now, I found this paragraph especially interesting. Again, this is one of those poor me, it's hard to be a pastor kind of articles.
Here's what Trevin says. It's been almost two years since COVID altered our lives. I hear pastors and church leaders talk about surviving the pandemic spiritually and emotionally and then enduring the fallout in their congregations.
Wow. Wow.
Pastors, shock. I know this is shocking. You shut down your church, and then people left your church. Wow. I mean, this is shocking news. Some churches are still closed. Well, we lost members. Yeah, because you banned them from coming to worship.
I mean, it hurts me spiritually. Well, what do you mean? Well, because people are leaving. But didn't you shut down for a year? You did it to yourself. I mean, and this is the thing. This is why these poor me, it's hard to be a pastor articles are so poisonous.
It's because what should be happening here is the pastor should be taking a good look in the mirror and then searching those scriptures on his knees, praying to the Lord to show him the truth of the scriptures, and they should be changing their ways, right?
It's your fault that people have left your church when you shut down for a year. That's your fault. Because what should be happening is they should see the error of their ways and be like, Lord, forgive me.
I should not have banned my people from worshiping you the way you've commanded us to do it in the scripture for a year. And now I'm reaping the reward from that. My church is split apart. It's stressful, and there's fallout in the church.
I don't even know if this is sustainable in the long term. God, please forgive me. Please forgive me and be with me and help me to change my ways. That's what should be happening, repentance. That's essentially the shorthand way of saying it, right?
But instead what happens is Gospel Coalition gives them a platform to complain. And by the way, it's not just Gospel Coalition. You know, the pagans are giving a lot of these pastors platforms as well.
We covered that Atlantic article with that Wiener guy and all that. There's a lot of other organizations that will do this. And instead of soul-searching and repentance of what you did wrong, what you're getting is, These people, these sheep that you gave me to shepherd, Jesus, they're more shepherded by Tucker Carlson.
They're just idiots. They're just so stupid. This is so hard to be me. It's stressful. And they complain and whine like little babies. And because they're allowed to do this and they're not called out by people that have more credibility than A .D. Robla's YouTube channel, they are allowed to do this and they never are going to change their ways.
They're never going to see that it's their fault that their churches are worse than they've ever been. It's their fault because they closed worship for a year. When you close worship for a year, you are essentially banning your people from worshiping God according to how the Scripture is said.
You know what? The good people, the righteous that you've banned from worship, you know what they're going to do? They're not going to sit on their hands and be like, Well, I guess I can't worship because pastor said I can't.
It's too dangerous. COVID -19 is worse than the bubonic plague. They're not going to just sit on their hands and do that because they're going to say, Yeah, well, my pastor, he's going to do what he has to do.
I'm going to do what I have to do for me and my family because as for me and my house, we're going to honor and serve the Lord. So they're going to go find a real church that's not going to ban them from worship.
And that's what they've done. They haven't left the faith. They've left your church because you banned them from worship for a reason that was completely inappropriate according to the word of God. And so they write this.
Here's what he says. Listen, listen. Many, many harbor grave concerns about ministry right now and about the long term sustainability of those who have been tasked with leading the church.
Yeah, that's right. You should worry about that because when you're a hireling, you have no job security. You understand when you're a hireling, you have no job security because pastors are employed by the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
Pastors, their provision comes from the Lord Jesus Christ who provides abundantly everything that we need, everything that we need in order to have that sustainability, to have security. We trust in the Lord.
And here's the thing. We show our gratitude and our love to God by obeying what he says. How do you abide in the love of Christ? I love this verse because this is a verse that most evangelicals will get wrong.
How do you abide in the love of Christ? It's not by having a coffee sesh where you're reading your Bible and you post a picture on Instagram, right? It's not by buying a scented candle with a Bible verse on the side and having your study.
You know what I mean? That's not how you do it. You abide in the love of Christ by obeying what he says, right? And so, yes, you should have grave concerns about ministry right now if you shut your church down for more than a couple of weeks.
Now, honestly, we all understand that you shouldn't have shut your church down at all. Again, hindsight is 20 -20. Sometimes we got to learn lessons the hard way. But if you are one of these guys that was like for months and months and months and months and months shut down, and then when you opened back up, you had mask requirements and vaccine requirements and separate sections for people that were clean and unclean depending on if they were wearing a mask and stuff like that.
And if that was you, you never learned your lesson. You have every reason in the world to be concerned with ministry right now because there is no long-term sustainability for hirelings like you. Trevin will speak kindly to you.
Look at Trevin. Here he is. Trevin will see you in sin, in deep sin because you shut down your church, and he will speak kind words to you. He'll speak kindly to you, and he'll pat you on the back and tell you everything will be okay because Trevin doesn't care about you one iota.
Hardly anyone at Gospel Coalition cares about you, pastor, who shut down your church for a year because the government told you to and is now wondering about the long-term sustainability of your church.
He doesn't care, but I do. I would never give you a platform to say, poor me, it's hard to be a pastor. Look at these idiots. They follow Tucker Carlson more than they follow Christ. I would never allow you to do that without challenging you because the reality is you have no sustainability.
You have no long-term outlook on your ministry because you're a slave of the government's propaganda system instead of a slave of Christ. Because if you were a slave of Christ, you would have recognized how you've been duped by the government, and you would have opened your church, no restrictions, basically immediately.
But you didn't, and you still haven't learned your lesson two years later. It's been over almost two years since COVID altered our lives. That's true. You've had two years to figure this out, and you're still whining and complaining like a little baby instead of looking at yourself and figuring out what you did wrong.
Anyway, just a nice, light little podcast today. I mean, the article goes on about how stressful politicization is and debates over health measures and racial injustice and all the social media slander.
Did you know that pastors have to deal with social media slander? Even if they did have to deal with social media slander, like, dude, grow up. Sticks and stones. I mean, kids were making fun of me when I was in kindergarten, and you know what?
We grew up. We grew up. Sticks and stones, man. But the thing is, you don't even have to deal with internet slander. What you have to deal with is someone saying, dude, this church shut down for two years.
Like, that's ridiculous, which is all true. It's not slander if it's true. So, yeah, you have to deal with having to actually answer for your ridiculous words, for your unbiblical teaching. You have to answer for it.
That's not slander. It might be stressful, but it's not slander. You know when it's not stressful? Let me explain something that's not stressful. I had an article written about me that actually did slander me because it lied about me.
But when I read it, you know what my reaction was? No stress at all. In fact, I counted it a joy that people were trying to insult me by saying I believed God's law too much. Now, they don't understand God's law, so they said it said something that it didn't say.
So that was the slander part. They said that I was believing something that I didn't believe because it was God's law. So, yes, they slandered me. But I didn't care too much because what they were really doing was saying, look at this extremist fundamentalist.
He actually believes God's law. And I'm like, praise God. That's a hit piece where you're upset with me for believing God's law? Guilty. Guilty. But, yeah, I'm sure it is very stressful when you have to actually answer for your ridiculous sermons and your plagiarism.
And, you know, you're circling the wagons and the fact that you banned people from worship for years. And the fact that you're still dividing up your congregation according to how clean they are depending on if they're vaccinated or masked or whatever.
Oh, I visited this one church. My goodness, I'm not going to name it. It's a small church. They're like, we're not going to sing because it's too dangerous. Just kind of sing quiet. You know, hum quietly to yourself.
You know, when you're masked. I'll never go back to that church. I'm not going to ever, ever allow my kids to see that pathetic display of just fear. Just absolute fear and not of God. In any case, yeah, if you want to read this article, I'm sure there's some tidbits in there that are some morsels that are probably pretty good.
But I'm not about to dig through a bunch of doo-doo to find some good morsels. I hope you found this podcast helpful. God bless. Don't forget to tune in next week on Thursday for AD on the Fight, Laugh, Feast Network.
