How can we know what he is teaching without watching or reading what he is teaching? And if we do that, and he is also a deceiver, how can we be certain that we ourselves will not be deceived by what we watch or read?
This is why I encourage the reader to be a Berean (Acts 17:10-11) and read their Bibles.
1Th 5:21, Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I think that you are irresponsible to identify someone as a false teacher when you cannot identify what in their teachings is truly false.
Here. I will share brief excerpts along with their links. Again we all need to study these matters four ourselves.
His net worth is approximately 55 Million--that ought to tell you something right there
"Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God."--2nd Corinthians 2:17
Steven Furtick is the Most Dangerous Kind of False Teacher
In a recent sermon by Steven Furtick, he proclaims:
“The power of God was in Jesus, the healing power of God, the restoring power of God, the same power that made demons flee was in Nazareth, but Jesus could not release it. Because it was trapped in their unbelief. And there’s one thing that even Jesus can’t do. One thing that even the son of God can’t do. Even Jesus cannot override your unbelief. I see y’all looking at me like, ‘Is that true? I thought He could do anything.’ It said, ‘He could not.’ He wanted to. He was prepared to. He was able to. The power of God was in Nazareth, but it was trapped in their perspective.”
So why do I find this so particularly dangerous? Why write an entire blog post for 111 little words? He’s a winsome speaker. He has a means of captivating the undiscerning through his inflection, repetition, and word-choice, meaning he’s a good orator. This wouldn’t be an issue in the slightest if the content of what he preached was adequate, but given the fact that heresy has escaped his lips without him batting an eye, it makes him particularly dangerous. Yet the other manner in which he is particularly dangerous is due to his inability to draw out the basic meaning of a text.....
...Secondly, another concern is simply that his interpretation is not in concord with other passages of Scripture. There are several notable examples within the Scriptures that demonstrate faith had no bearing upon the recipient of Christ’s miracles. It should obviously be stated that a corpse cannot retain faith (Luke 7:1-16). Pretend the aforementioned objection of a corpse’s faith is a strawman and that Christ must simply have the faith of
someone in order to perform the miraculous.
John 11 utterly refutes this notion as well, for both Mary and Martha conceived of His ability in proximity (vv. 21, 32). Martha confuses Christ’s promise to raise Lazarus as an eschatological promise (v. 24) and still objected to Him rolling the stone away after He corrects her (v. 39). Combine this with other instances of healing the multitudes and demoniacs who were restored without even the prior ability to ask, and we see faith is not a prerequisite for Christ’s miracles.
Furthermore, we know that the Lord does as He pleases – and people throughout the span of the Scripture acknowledge this without hesitancy (Psalm 115:3, 135:6; Daniel 4:35; Jonah 1:14). It is God who will specifically violate one’s unbelief; if this were not so, why would any individual cry out to the Lord, “Help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). Furthermore, there would be no hope for any sinner if Christ could not override unbelief, for we know that Satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the glorious gospel (2 Cor. 4:4). Are we so foolish to assume a puny God, bested by Satan and humanity? As a general, hermeneutical rule of thumb, if your interpretation of a passage contradicts other passages in Scripture, and basic lines of philosophical reasoning, you’ve yet to reach the proper conclusion.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chorusinthechaos/steven-furtick-false-teacher/
Fake Baptisms
But a new report from
NBC Charlotte suggests that Elevation’s supposedly spontaneous baptisms are carefully planned ahead of time, with people planted in the congregation to start the walk down the aisle....
.“This is one of the byproducts of an evangelical movement that favors emotionalism and personal experience over doctrine, theology and biblical teaching,” Smith said.
https://religionnews.com/2014/02/24...en-furticks-spontaneous-baptisms-spontaneous/
It's Time to walk away from Steven Furtick
..."I’ve often tried to give Furtick charitable interpretations, but I think it’s finally time for me advocate and truly encourage those who like him and are regular listeners that it’s time to move on. The clip that is circulating on social media right now is pretty hard to ignore.
In the clip, Furtick seems to be teaching a heresy known as modalism. Modalism essentially denies the Trinity and claims that there is one God who takes on three different forms—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
Modalism: the doctrine that the persons of the Trinity represent only three modes or aspects of the divine revelation, not distinct and coexisting persons in the divine nature.
https://camlhyde.com/blog/2020/3/5/its-time-to-walk-away-from-steven-furtick
