Sermon Review, “Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence” by Beth Moore.
Rosebrough reviews Beth Moore, beginning a little over have the way into this program. BM (oh so appropriate) is one of the myriads of false teachers around today. She is a darling of the SBC pop-cult circuit. She is simply a prosperity charlatan. Chris begins with an interesting dilemma, what do you call her? She can’t be a teacher with authority in the church, she is not a pastor, she can’t be an elder, and for a non-denominational denomination that ostensibly holds to male headship in the church, it begs the question as to why this changeling is allowed to thrill in the entertainment industry called the SBC. And true to its form, the SBC Cabaret sports all sorts from traveling buffoons and women masquerading as men.
Chris asks why she is so popular. How can such ignorant prosperity teaching have such a pop-cult following and not be identified as such? I think there is an answer.
It is because of the latitudinarianism that is central to the modern SBC’s big-tent ecumenism. You can believe what you want, teach as falsely as you want, make the bible say anything you want, while pretending you’re not telling others what to believe. What a man teaches is what he is the telling others to believe, but not for those in the SBC. Sad, self-defeating compromisers cannot see that the freedom that they think they are extending to others to hold personal opinions and naming it truth is really the enslavement to the opinions of men regardless of how much truth there might be mixed with it. Are there no competent teachers in the SBC? Well, they’re few. But fewer still are those who venture to criticize their own even when they know the truth is not being presented. And why is that? It is all for the sake of the great ethos of the SBC’s very own Erasmus, E. Y. Mullins, that has controlled the SBC for over a century:
“Can’t we all just get along?”
How fortunate Protestants are that Luther wrote his response to the Erasmus’ Diatribe. And how unfortunate for the SBC that it, by and large, rejects that response. One of the issues that Luther addressed was the shallowness of Erasmus’ beliefs and by extension that of the Roman Church if it was willing to say that its own doctrines were mere trifling with opinion.
There is another Moore Whoring example found here. There is much more that could be said about this sithsda, her travels to the dark side, and how it affects others she has lured into it. But what is mortally important is the fact that this stuff is so ubiquitous even among the so-called conservative resurgents and the emergents within evangelicalism. The SBC is chock full of it, but their disease is not well contained. Instead, it serves as an example to others not even affiliated with it. It is such an acceptable form of blasphemy, and so lucrative, that no one wants to challenge it except the politically incorrect. Element Church in Cheyenne in only the out working of the very thing that was given room to grow in the SBC. It is not surprising that many of the local SBC’ers here in Cheyenne end up there.
People like Joel Osteen are not anomalies among this crowd. Indeed, he was the hero of my fellows in at Sunnyside Baptist in Cheyenne where was a member for fifteen years. Joel is the son of a former Southern Baptist. The apple of false teaching doesn’t fall far from the tree. His dad followed in the footsteps of a long line of prosperity teachers who promoted methods as king, promised blessing through pragmatic means. Leaders like Elmer Towns and the Blackabys, and even the American Pope, Rick Warren, flow from this self-improvement tradition. The reality is that manipulation of God by means is the pornographic centerfold of the SBC ideology today, and has a long pedigree in it. The fruit of the big tent revivalism is Beth Moore, and as she puts it, the same-o same-o that has been around for nearly a century and a half, produces heresy. No doubt, as we know, the SBC has had wide influence among evangelical churches and individuals, pro-baby-killing presidents and redistributionists have been produced by her loose canons. And that’s the problem. For its part, the SBC is as guilty as any secular influence of letting the yeast of apostasy ferment and the moral indifference of the nation become what it is.
Even those outside the SBC are affected. Methods and means have become either more therapeutic or more product oriented, both providing the “needs” of the serial narcissist, the addictive ecclesial shopper, or simply the lust-filled spiritual thrill seeker with any kind of lascivious licentious leaning. The attractions of the SBC rarely are any different than those offered by secular providers. And why? Because those businesses and attractions are owned by those who belong to the largest protestant denomination. The world surely is less and less likely to believe in the means of sanctification which found in the word and more and more likely to invest in the imaginations of entrepreneurs in pastoral clothing, like Moore or “reformed” perverts like Driscoll. Instead of finding of those who should be dealing with it, we more often than not find more solid teachers supporting these slithers. Like Beth Moore, who should have long ago been caged and disinfected by the watchmen, the passive acceptance of her, continues the spread of the disease of pragmatism.
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