The wildly unbiblical and unique ecclesiastical scheme of Trinity Bible Church is not a peripheral issue to Lawson's downfall. Doubtlessly, the scheme contributed to it.
I, like you, had my spidey senses tingle when I tried to watch a Steve Lawson bible study on YouTube. I stopped watching after five minutes. It's just one of those things, like he was wearing his arrogance like some type of cologne. It was the same reaction I got when I tried to watch James White or Jeff Durbin or Joel Webbon. I didn't care about what they had to say because there is a hidden motivation behind what they are doing, and it is celebrity status, but that's just my speculation. I was always little skeptical that the relationship didn't involve physical intimacy. Why would a 70yo man be having a clandestine relationship with a 20-something yo woman? Because he enjoyed the insights and wisdom she brought to the table with her years of experience? Again, my own personal speculation based of what I learned from the internet mob.
As for Trinity church, they sound like modern women looking for a husband. Modern women bemoan the fact that men aren't interested in dating and blame the men. Yet they don't consider their own standards might be the problem. They may have a 5' 10" average-bodied man with a decent job, good financial sense and would be a good husband and father, interested in them, but they want the 6' 2" chisel-bodied man with a six-figure income, movie star looks, and smooth talks them just enough to get what they want from the woman, and then dumps them for the next bimbo.
The question that should be investigated is who is providing any type of biblical counseling at that church. Steve Lawson wasn't doing it, and it didn't seem like the elders were qualified or interested in doing it.
Well, that's my two cents, which isn't worth much in today's economy.
“It appears that wherever the elders are “fishing” to find a pastor, the pond isn’t the church. It seems bizarre, does it not, that a church with allegedly “the finest expositor in the world” hasn’t a single man in their almost four-digit congregation who could be raised up to pastor? Good preaching doesn’t make disciples, I guess.” - a product of the celebrity speaker. Very good article breaking everything down.
As always, on point analysis.
I, like you, had my spidey senses tingle when I tried to watch a Steve Lawson bible study on YouTube. I stopped watching after five minutes. It's just one of those things, like he was wearing his arrogance like some type of cologne. It was the same reaction I got when I tried to watch James White or Jeff Durbin or Joel Webbon. I didn't care about what they had to say because there is a hidden motivation behind what they are doing, and it is celebrity status, but that's just my speculation. I was always little skeptical that the relationship didn't involve physical intimacy. Why would a 70yo man be having a clandestine relationship with a 20-something yo woman? Because he enjoyed the insights and wisdom she brought to the table with her years of experience? Again, my own personal speculation based of what I learned from the internet mob.
As for Trinity church, they sound like modern women looking for a husband. Modern women bemoan the fact that men aren't interested in dating and blame the men. Yet they don't consider their own standards might be the problem. They may have a 5' 10" average-bodied man with a decent job, good financial sense and would be a good husband and father, interested in them, but they want the 6' 2" chisel-bodied man with a six-figure income, movie star looks, and smooth talks them just enough to get what they want from the woman, and then dumps them for the next bimbo.
The question that should be investigated is who is providing any type of biblical counseling at that church. Steve Lawson wasn't doing it, and it didn't seem like the elders were qualified or interested in doing it.
Well, that's my two cents, which isn't worth much in today's economy.
“It appears that wherever the elders are “fishing” to find a pastor, the pond isn’t the church. It seems bizarre, does it not, that a church with allegedly “the finest expositor in the world” hasn’t a single man in their almost four-digit congregation who could be raised up to pastor? Good preaching doesn’t make disciples, I guess.” - a product of the celebrity speaker. Very good article breaking everything down.