So many red flags . . . The word "celebrity" should NEVER be used in the evaluation of any pastoral candidate. Any "pastor" who is not involved in the spiritual care of those he is supposed to be shepherding is not a pastor.
Even when I was listening to Paul Washer several times a week, I stopped at two sermons total, by David Platt, as he made me feel so dreadful about myself. He was legalistic to the point of putting extreme burdens on me. These poor, poor people who sat under his teaching!!!
And Platt drives a Jaguar Range Rover and lives in one of the richest county's in the USA in a million dollar home. There are lots of slums in the area he could live in if he chose to practice what he preaches. Btw Jaguar Range Rover price range ($120,000 to $371,000).
Growing up in independent missionary baptist church start ups, I remember thinking how easy it would be to be infiltrated and taken over by cunning deceit. This is even more despicable than I envisioned many years ago.Bring on part 2!
So sorry you dedicated to God folks went thru that evil take-over. Great that you made such a thorough documentary, exposing these types of take-over. May other churches become fore-warned
Ever since I was asked to read his Radical book by a pastor I served under, I always had a reservation about Platt. I had always hoped I was wrong and I surely hate that I was right.
I had the same experience. After, I read his little book, I ended up throwing it out. His tone was very legalistic, arrogant, and self righteous (based on my own experience), I would even add somewhat Cultic. He lost me when he urged families to no longer go on vacations but mission trips…. And to spend at least ten percent of your time in another cultural context…
And Platt drives a Jaguar range rover and lives in one of the richest county's in the USA in a million dollar home. There are lots of slums in the area he could live in if he chose to practice what he preaches. Btw Jaguar Range Rover price range ($120,000 to $371,000). None of the congregation knows what his total compensation is, even after the lawsuit which only got a fraction of the desired documents.
@@EvidenceandReasons The part about the church being in the dark about the spending and finances of the church is mind boggling to me. I can’t imagine being in such a place. The church where I am a member provides a complete breakdown of all finances each quarter and when we give we can dictate which funds our money is put towards. I couldn’t faithfully contribute where things are so hidden and kept in the dark.
He doesn’t preach salvation by keeping the law. We all know we strive by faith to obey God’s command because we have been eternally saved. Now, I don’t support his view on race relations.
soon - one or two tweaks. We bring out all the evidence en masse in pt 2. We hope this gives some hope to many churches that are in the same plight. GOD Bless
It’s been really sad to see McLean’s descent into liberalism. The old McLean Bible was my first church after God saved me, and I was there through the whole building project and move into the new building.
Where is part 2? I also want to give David Platt a benefit of the doubt but I can’t. It sounds like he intentionally mislead the congregation. This is so heartbreaking.
Platt's voice is so annoying!!!!!! He so reminds me of a former pastor of a church my family and I were members at, and this pastor ruined it. He was so much like Platt. I wonder if he was one of Platt's disciples.
Sadly,.the elders opened the door to the devil by allowing a false teacher to take over the church. And as the devil does, he destroyed the church. But God will restore it through a remnant of faithful believers. In Jesus' name, amen.
I understand church leader abuse. I experienced it physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally from 2011-2013. My hope is that all people who have experienced abuse in any form from church leaders do not despair and stop trusting in God, the Word of God, and true fellow believers in Jesus. 🙏
The moment he inserted CRT into his sermons, he (like so many who prescribe to this ideology in the church) then moved members to focus on their skin color as their identity instead of focusing on Christ as their rightful identity.... regardless of ethnicity. This country isn't JUST "black" and "white", it's practically every culture in between making it the greatest melting pot on earth....I say this in appreciation as a Latino. And Platt's guest pastor is wrong in every assumption and example he gave regarding racism and the Gospel. Racism isn't JUST a white thing or black thing, it's a SIN thing and no one race is immune from it . DEI and CRT are not means to overcome disunity, they are means to keep it alive and Mr. Platt showed extreme lack of discernment (and possibly pandering, white guilt) to implement a man-devised idea for unity when it's ONLY in Christ where unity is ever achieved to advance His Kingdom.
DEI is the most comparable thing to restitution in hiring. It doesn’t even begin to compete with the centuries of white people being given preference for being white. Attempting to make things right after a nation has sinned is a Biblical principle. And since you are not Black, I don’t think you understand how much damage the white American church has done to the Black people who were supposed to be their brothers. Mentioning race doesn’t keep racial tension going, ignoring it does.
There are so very many wolves, false teachers, false prophets and apostles around worlswide. And there is so little of the spirit of discernment. Not meaning as an attack towards mclean bible church and the people who were hurt and abused. I so feel for them. I can sense through the stories of the church members how warm and pure bible based and growing and blooming this church was under there pastor Solomon. As an example how a church can function as a through Body of Christ having an impact on the world around them. And how heartbreaking that David and the other greedy wolves destroyed this. Praying for all these people that were so hurt. I went through so much myself here because of false teachers, teachings in my Nation. One day al these men that caused so much harm to churches worldwide will have to answer befor God. Blessings to you all.❤🙏
The pastor's mission is to promote Truth Gospel not Social Gospel. Sadly many "popular" preachers have followed this pattern, David Platt, Matt Chandler, Rick Warren and the list go on...
Looks like Platt is the SBC’s golden boy. They spotted McLean as a cash cow to funnel money into the SBC and Platt’s personal organizations (from which he also gets paid).
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This shouldn't be a bash of Mr. Platt. Instead, we should pray in tears and ask God to change his heart. Salvation should be the foremost of our Christian minds. It saddened me to read some of these posts and not be in the mind to pray.
“Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.” 2 Timothy 4:14-15 ESV
It should be exactly a bash of Mr. Platt. You don't feed your sheep to a wolf unless you are also a wolf! That church was built on a foundation of non affiliation and Platt was plainly aware that what he was doing was illegal and immoral. I would pray that God would change his employment status!
Bashing and exposing are two different things. Yes, we should pray that God changes Platt's heart. But why are you so concerned about only his situatrion? HE did damamge to a church that was founded and set up to NEVER be in a denomination....then he and his cronies joined the SBC and lied about it. He silenced members of his church. He broke trust and faith with his congregation. He hurt them! So why aren't you concerned with praying for the restoration of those he hurt? Why aren't you praying for the people he willingly betrayed to serve his own interests? Do they not count? Or is it just about praying for the celebrity pastor?
The elders who let this man into the church must have seen something in this man for him to be there. It’s hard to believe that is was blissful ignorance on the part of the elders.
Wow- just on the denomination issue - what a train wreck. $2 million to SBC and had to find out about it from a lawsuit. Not a good day for a pastor. Wonder if he understands.
His definitly a true false prophet. God will surely judge him rightly...no one wants to hear those words from our Saviour..." Depart from Me I never knew you"
[FWIW, I'm in the documentary. ] I was NOT so much upset about the MBC becoming an SBC church, but the fact that a sacred contract was broken and there was false advertising and then a cover up. I actually was almost glad MBC became part of a big denomination and therefore part of a bigger family. FWIW, I'm more Presbyterian than Baptist anyway.... But, in retrospect, after my ordeal, realized the SBC of today is not the SBC of 40 years ago. It is so corrupt and declining (like a lot of churches). And the SBC was involved in a half-billion (BILLION) dollar scam 20 years ago (which is a billion in today's dollars), but that's not talked about enough. Google "Arizona Baptist Foundation" if you are curious... I'm the one who said in the documentary, I felt welcome at MBC because pastor Solomon became a Christian in part because of his study of enzymes (Solomon was a student of chemistry and archaeology as well as the Bible). Lon's study of enzymes showed that I faith to be built on facts rather than celebrity preachers. Many of the older generation at MBC still remembers Lon's sermon on enzymes.
Watch the documentary, spend a bit of time to read up, and invest some work to investigate the issue. You are literally connected to the greatest database of human information ever conceived, which can be searched in seconds.
The baptist Sunday school committees own count puts the estimated freemason membership count at one million one hundred thousand freemasons in the SBC. Now go find the 1970 movie with Glen Ford called " Brotherhood of the Bell". You won't even have to watch the whole move before you see the light.
Trying to create scandal…I don’t think people care as much as you guys think I’ve heard some of Platts sermons, I’ve read some of his books…I found plenty encouragement and was challenged…but that’s about it…he’s not a god to me or to most that have read his stuff…just another guy Not sure what a documentary like this will actually achieve 🤷🏻♂️ and I seriously doubt the motives
So you’re ok with a guy stealing money from a church he is meant to be shepherding, because you like his preaching and books? These people who have been treated so poorly, are just creating a scandal? Are you serious? Just because you couldn’t care less about people, does not mean Platt can do whatever he wants. Many people DO care about this.
This happens all the time. A new Pastor joins the church, changes things to the way he wants it, and then some of the members get upset and leave. Literally happens all the time.
It’s important to call this out because: 1) it warns others about Platt & the SBC and 2) it allows other churches to see patterns of those who seek to come into a church and hijack it.
Yeah, just let the guy violate his word and the written documents of the church. And stop using steering labels like "woke right" as there is no such thing.
I disrepectfully disagree.Churches are built on a set of rules called the bylaws voted on by founding members. This is extremely disturbing. You hear how much money they are syphoning out of that church to the SBC? Millions! Platt and his cohorts should be in jail.
Oh sure, let’s just let it go…let this false and WOKE teacher steal from the church and lie about where it’s going and bring in WOKE ideology into the church. Yeah…people should totally let it go…because you like him.
