The Village Church, pastored by Matt Chandler, currently has a multisite model that consists of five satellite campuses in addition to their main campus. Just recently, Chandler announced that they would be shifting away from the multisite model. By 2022, the Village Church plans for each Church to be autonomous and have their own names, … Read more
Matt Chandler is a curious figure. As a well-known and popular pastor with a charming personality and enough charisma to attract a massive following, his words and opinions never go unnoticed. Opinions are like…well, let’s just say like everyone else, he has one–and he has one on everything. In a recent tweet which appears to … Read more
I am a tad bit late to the game on the Matt Slick, JD Hall debate on the charismatic gifts. To be honest, I had no idea that Matt Slick believed that the gifts were still in operation in the church today. At any rate, during the debate Matt had with JD, Matt seemed to … Read more
Pastor Peter, you said in your very rude and arrogant open letter to Pastor Franklin Graham recently, “As I am sure you know, God does not consult with us small church pastors on weighty issues of that kind. So, it was kind of you to leak this classified intelligence to all of us who are evidently … Read more
Evangelical hipster, and the go-to boy when it comes to building the bridge between pop-culture and mainstream evangelicalism, Matt Chandler, is at it once again.Recently, Village Church was exposed for building partnerships with radical Islamic groups for the promotion of the social gospel. While he is well known for dabbling in questionable theology, and promoting mysticism … Read more
Did you know that the Oscars should matter to Christians? So says Samuel James and the cultural commentators over at The Gospel Coalition. Now, you may not realize it because you’re not savvy enough at impacting the culture for the sake of human flourishing (or however they talk over at the Intelligentsia water cooler), but … Read more
One of the prevailing erroneous criticisms plaguing polemics and discernment ministries is the improper application of Matthew 18 also known as church discipline. Church discipline, when rightly understood, does not apply to public figures acting in a public manner. In other words, when false teachers teach falsely and publicly, not only is a public refutation … Read more
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. – Proverbs 19:21 Joyce Meyer, the baritone throated false prophetess and Word of Faith pastrix hurls heresy from every angle in her bamboozling ministry and worldwide conference appearances. But there is one country who, by … Read more
In January 2013 I was informed of a conference that simply everyone who’s anyone was going to. I was even invited to bring our youth along with a local church to the conference. My own children were informed by their friends that all the local church youth groups were going to this conference. … Read more
The Passion Conference just wrapped up its 20th anniversary with a massive crowd of millennials in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The event, running from January 2 –4, saw over 50,000 eighteen to twenty-five-year-olds * packing the venue in order to, according to the Passion 2017 website, “see a generation leverage their lives for what … Read more
Simple Pursuit: A Heart After Jesus A Daily Passion Devotional Copyright 2016 Published by Thomas Nelson, a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 9780718087623 Simple Pursuit is a daily devotional book that comes out of Louis Giglio’s Passion Movement. Merely containing an introduction by Giglio, with brief commentaries by “Christian celebrities” Chris … Read more
Recently, Pulpit & Pen came across a list of insightful “discernment rules” authored by Chad Bailey at doctrinematters.org. These rules are republished below with permission: 1. Know the Truth. The only way discernment can be a sustainable practice is to first know what what the Bible teaches.The very meaning of the word discernment (to judge/decide accurately) … Read more
**Editor’s note: This story was originally published at The Author of My Faith blog, and sent to us by Steven Langella, a former deacon at Brooklyn Tabernacle, and brother of the spiritually abused victim. “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” – (Ephesians 5:11) My name is Steven Langella. I … Read more
Unity. Within the church – and I mean the self-proclaimed “church”, one distinguished by the remarkable volume of tares among the wheat in pews, in pulpits, and, frequently, in the spotlight – the word unity has become nothing less than a discernment-free appeal for moral and social tolerance. When you hear someone plead for unity, … Read more
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