Submitted by: M Mulukin
Hillsong’s False Notes...........
By Jim Fletcher 03 October 2020
In the past few decades, as apostate and heretical thought moved out from seminaries into churches, the mainline was affected first, and most.
Decades of teaching that the Exodus didn’t happen, that Jesus was not physically raised from the dead, and dozens of other falsehoods contributed to a rank-and-file that no longer had a biblical worldview.
In the recent past, the bell cow event has been the compromise of the Evangelical wing of the American Church.
Infiltration has come from a hundred directions, all of them lethal.
Hillsong, an association headquartered in Australia, first infected the [already theologically wonky] Pentecostal churches but has now branched-out to all denominations.
A couple of generations ago, it would have been unthinkable that a Southern Baptist Church would pump-out Hillsong worship music, but that’s exactly where we are. And models have consequences.
Hillsong New York Pastor Carl Lentz, [pictured above] appearing recently on the show Implausible, said this about why Jesus came to Earth: “So the reason why people freaked out with Jesus is cuz he was saying ‘all those rules-all that fancy stuff you do, I’m not interested. All you need is gonna be found in me.’
It’s hard to know if Lentz understands theology well enough to know what he said is false, but the effect is damaging just the same.
At Protestia, they posted this in response:
“Again, promoting theology that would not be out of place at a United Methodists pre-teen girls’ youth group, Lentz goes on to say that he doesn’t even “believe in religion,” which means he would have some explaining to do to Jesus’ brother James who famously said in his epistle”:
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27).”
It’s not the first time Lentz has spouted nonsense. In 2016, Oprah Winfrey asked Lentz an important question:
“Do you believe that only Christians can be in a relationship with God?” Oprah asked.
“No,” Lentz said in the interview. “I believe that when Jesus said ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ – the way I read that, Jesus said He’s the road marker, He’s the map.”
“So I think God loves people so much that whether they accept or reject Him, He’s still gracious and He’s still moving, and He’s still giving you massive red blinking lights for you to take a right turn when you would take a left,” he added.
And notice, Lentz is happy to go under the Oprah spotlight.
Winfrey is one of the most dangerous change-agents in this country in the last 30 years.
Her pagan spirituality, laced with some gentle Christian platitudes serves to rope-in millions of evangelicals—let me say it: women—that either lack the discernment to know heresy, or they don’t care. The vast majority of Christian women I’ve discussed Winfrey with love her. And they don’t change their minds when her paganism is clearly explained. It is in this environment that Lentz thrives.
Hillsong is a prosperity movement for the millennials, in which the polyester and middle-class associations of Oral Roberts have given way to ripped jeans and sophisticated rock music…What has made Hillsong distinctive is a minimization of the actual content of the Gospel, and a far more diffuse presentation of spirituality.
This is but one problem with Hillsong. But chances are, your children and grandchildren have downloaded Hillsong music, podcasts, and “sermons” on their devices, and they believe Hillsong is the way to Jesus.
Hillsong is a way to a “jesus”. Just not the way to Jesus Christ.
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