Not the other way around

Me too! Loving holy tears.

Absolutely correct. Blessings to you.

I would strongly disagree about Texas. In the last ten years of my walk, I actually haven't met anyone in any of the churches that I've been to that have the idea of "sin all the more". I do have a ton of experience with people adding things to the gospel constantly.

@@Huero87 I haven't heard a message against sin in Texas since Bible College. My grandfather is from Texas, my dad was born in Texas, I've spent more time in Texas than anywhere else. I really believe that most people in Churches here believe that living in sin is the opposite of legalism. Texas used to be the big, cowboy buckle in the Bible belt. If the Bible belt is lukewarm, this country is going to hell unless a 'not fake' revival takes place.

I think we were listening to two different sermons, brother. I don’t hear anything that makes the gate wide, I hear scripturally accurate admission that stumbling in your faith does not mean you have to agonize over whether you’re saved. Context matters. The gate Christ refers to is those few that would actually love and follow him. His scope in that statement is the entire population, or one could argue maybe for Israel specifically. The context here of Chandler’s sermon AND the verses he uses are WITHIN those that claim to be believers. Meaning the scope is those that are already claiming to have walked through that narrow gate. If anything, he’s made the gate narrower because of sharing the scary truth that just because you show up Sunday and check all the boxes, you can do all of that and STILL have missed the gate and not even have a relationship with Christ. That’s not a wide gate. It’s a wide view of God’s mercy on his children, who fall on their need for Christ.

@@aetherwise2159 I didn't see any conviction from his pulpit. No blazing light that's for sure. I heard maybe 3 weeks of his sermons. Nothing expository. Nothing 🥩 beefy. Nothing about the dangers of sin. I think there was more jokes than straight up Word. Nothing to make me sober minded or anything that made me look at my life or relationships. I think the pastor is aiming for a Mega Church. If i had to guess, id say the Pastor had like a 10 to 15 min. prayer life, and maybe the same in the Word.... but probably less. You're probable in the same ballpark.The last time I was at His church, was like the week before it came out that he was texting somebody else's wife. It's been my experience that people don't usually go from being the Apostle John to Bingo the Clown overnight. So I extrapolated a little, weighed it on the balance, and considered it wanting. ( I kinda saw the same thing in Ravi Zacharias, too ) Guess we have different goals man. We all are gonna have to stand before God and give an account. And you and he won't be able to have your buddies there with you. Wood, hay and stubble? Anyway, thanks for calling me out.

@@charlespackwood2055 So, let’s take a quick second to realign here. We both love Christ and are pursuing a life of obedience and submission to God’s Word, correct? We both believe that our only hope in life and death is clinging to Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and that there is NO salvation outside of Christ? If those assumptions are correct, then we are at least brothers in the faith to those crucial points. So we have a problem to examine in that you’ve made an unkind assumption about both my prayer life and my need for ‘buddies’ before the throne of judgement, and something in my initial comment was clearly insulting or rude for you to feel provoked toward that. So inasmuch as I don’t want to stir up quarreling amongst believers, I apologize for my way of speaking. The response to your experiences are logical, and I would even agree to your thoughts on expository style. In the context of your other experiences, your original comment makes more sense, but the specifics of what you called out didn’t seem to me to be at play in this sermon standing on its own. And honestly, the text thing was disappointing, but I was impressed to see a church and high profile pastor actually follow the biblical model for church discipline instead of trying to hide it, not something I think compares fairly to Ravi’s failings and deception.

@@charlespackwood2055 I don’t want to appear like I think Chandler is infallible or that I swear by his every word, I just hold the belief that if we, as believers are going to draw battle lines against each other, they must be for biblically specific and biblically potent reasons. Not liking someone’s style or finding it lacking is one thing, but accusations of false teaching are another level that seemed unwarranted from this sermon.

@@aetherwise2159 didn't say he was false. Said it was "fluff". I thought he was funny. Think he is either consciously or subconsciously looking to build a Mega Church. Look man, my mommy doesn't swear by that Church & I like my Scriptural sermons, scriptural & 🔥 hot. I think if what I heard of his sermons was typical, there will be people going to hell as a result.

Micah 6:8

@@bookerrealtor Yes, correct, that verse is part of the complete, infallible word of God.

@@patrickc3419 Amen

I don’t caught up in that crap anymore. Look for the truth of the gospel he gives.

@@Bluelightcheaphotel That is absolutely crap that he espouses. He preaches elements of the Gospel message, but tainted with his social justice, “please forgive me for being white”, anti-police garbage which is a sin, and I hope he repents of. There are far, FAR more doctrinally sound, Reformed pastors than him. (MacArthur, Washer, Voddie, Lawson, Conrad Mbewe, Tom Ascol, Alistair Begg, Sinclair Ferguson, Justin Peters, Jeff Durbin)