![]() ![]() Saving faith is not something that comes from us. "Part of what Furtick seems to have wrong is his understanding of saving faith itself. He added that faith, not doubt, is what is virtuous, and that people do not place their faith in uncertainty and in despair, but in God's love. He warned that Furtick has "confused the nature of the conversation," insisting that Christians should not be encouraged to mingle their faith with doubt. There is no perfect Christian out there who exercises maximum faith at all times in the promises of God. God is not honored by doubt doubting is not obedience to God. "Let me say as this plainly as I know how: there is nothing of doubt in faith. "If Jesus wanted to make room for doubt - for disbelief - in the confession of the Christian, he would have said the opposite of this - 'Do not believe only, but also disbelieve, for that is authentically human.' But Jesus nowhere says that, and nowhere comes close to saying that," the author argued. Strachan defended the unnamed campus pastor, however, stating that he was right to encourage Christians to pray without doubt. And if you can, hang on, you haven't had teenagers yet," Furtick said. Because there's not one of you in the room - even with tabs in your pink Bible - that you can honestly say without a doubt. In fact, don't put them in a position to pray something that you can't honestly pray. "That one parenthetical insert 'without a doubt,' I told him never again when you stand in the pulpit at Elevation do I want you to put people into a position to pray something that they can't honestly pray. The North Carolina megachurch pastor shared of one instance where he felt he needed to correct a campus pastor for saying that faith is believing "without a doubt" as he led people in the Sinner's Prayer. Maybe He can forgive the past stuff but what about the present stuff. That I'm forgiven, that He forgives me not only before I accepted Him but for what I still do. The closer I get, the more questions I have. See my doubt is the evidence of my growth. If you don't doubt it, you're not reading it or you're reading it with no intent to live it. "I don't believe this (Bible) because I don't doubt it. Is that alright? Do you need to find another church now that you know that the dude with the mic has some doubts?" said Furtick, whose fast-growing church meets in over a dozen locations. I read that whom the Son sets free is free indeed but sometimes I feel bound by stuff. Strachan's comments were in response to Furtick, who in a recent sermon admitted that he has doubts about some things in the Bible. Jesus rebuked doubting Thomas (John 20:24-29)." Jesus demands total repentance and total trust in him, and he is right to do so. Jesus presented himself as the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Coming to faith in Christ means that you believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. "Coming to faith in Christ necessarily means that you do not doubt the gospel of grace. Doubt is not part of faith," Owen Strachan, director of the Center for Theological and Cultural Engagement at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote last week. Founded in 2006 by Senior Pastor Furtick, his wife, Holly, and seven other families, the North Carolina-based assembly currently has 14 locations and a congregation total of more than 15,000 parishioners.Pastor Steven Furtick and Charlamagne tha God | (Screenshot: YouTube)Īn author and associate professor of Christian theology has hit back against Elevation Church pastor Steven Furtick's recent message that it's not wrong for Christians to have doubts. from 2007 to 2010, according to Outreach Magazine. If you get your life going in the direction of God - I declare increase over your life, in Jesus name."Įlevation Church was one of the top 100 fastest-growing churches in the U.S. "My God will meet all your needs, too … all your needs, every need. It's the most spiritual thing I do."įurtick also advises listeners that God will reward their giving. "To bring back to God the first fruits of all that He's entrusted to me. "It expresses my faith, it expresses my love, it expresses my obedience to do what He said to do." Furtick encouraged listeners to tithe and says that doing so is an act of worship. The pastor explains that tithing is a demonstration of trust. ![]() ![]() The tithe is the place where God gets your grip right, and opens your hands so that you don't hold on to stuff to the point that stuff ultimately has a hold on you." "If you sit down after I preach today and do what you need to do in your life to put God first in the flow of your finances, it will change things. "I want you to understand today that God has a solution for every shortage in your life."įurtick tells viewers that putting God first when it comes to money can change their circumstances. There is a broken flow and the solution is faith," the Pastor says.
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