(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Certain churches thrive on celebrity culture. We see that after the fall of Robert Morris, Gateway Church turned to celebrity pastors to fill the vacancy and stem the reported loss of membership. And so they turned to Max Lucado to lend his credibility to their cause. This is far more common in charismatic megachurch culture than it is in a more Reformed and complementarian tradition. It is seldom to come across a church that trades in celebrity to boost its influence as much as Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville is already a prestigious city in Evangelicalism, with few others able to compete on the same level….
But the level of celebrity influence at Immanuel Church would include Ray Ortlund, Gavin Ortlund, Russell Moore, and Sam Allberry.
Ray Ortlund, the father of Gavin Ortlund might be the most harmless of the quartet. He is listed as a “Pastor to Pastors” in the leadership section of their church website. What sort of wisdom does a man who finds Liz Cheney to be an inspirational politician have to offer pastors?…
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18