“Don’t let the charming tone and disarming smile fool you. Craig Groeschel is not a faithful minister of the gospel. He’s a wolf dressed in khakis and charisma, and his influence is as corrosive as it is colossal.”
(The Dissenter) He walks onto the stage with a flawless smile and a perfectly-timed pause. The lights dim, the audience leans in, and for thirty minutes, the man speaks with the cadence of a TED Talker and the certainty of a Silicon Valley mogul pitching salvation like a subscription service.
This is what passes for preaching. This is what passes for shepherding. Allow me to introduce you to #61 in our False Teacher of the Day series: Craig Groeschel
Groeschel is the CEO pastor, the apostle of analytics, the guru of self-help spirituality masquerading as gospel proclamation. And in the ostentatious halls of Life.Church, nestled beneath a glittering mountain of metrics, multimedia screens, and corporate lingo, Christ has long since been escorted out the side door to make room for another vision-casting strategy session.
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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 Craig Groeschel.