“NewSpring boasts over 10,000 members and thirteen campuses. Thirteen stages. Thirteen giving kiosks. Thirteen live-streamed sermons dressed up in leather jackets and emotional manipulation. That kind of operation pays dues. That kind of machine oils the SBC gears. When they leave, it’s not theology that’s threatened—it’s funding. It’s influence. It’s access. It’s market share.”
(The Dissenter) Good riddance! There, I said it. NewSpring Church has officially joined the ranks of spiritual circus tents that have packed up and left the Southern Baptist Convention, and frankly, the SBC should be sending them a thank-you note, not a love letter.
Cue the anguished howls of the woke elite within the denomination. From the slick-haired denominational strategists to the limp-wristed Twitter theologians, they’ve all suddenly discovered their passion for institutional unity—but only, it seems, when liberal megachurches start walking out the back door.
Research: Purpose Driven, Seeker Sensitive, Market Driven
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 such as those mentioned in the article.