Max Lucado’s Tattoo Uncovered a Churchwide Crisis

In this insightful 26-minute video, the host explores the controversy beloved pastor and author Max Lucado sparked by getting a tattoo reading “Tetelestai” (“It is finished”), which commemorates 50 years of experiencing God’s grace. Lucado’s tattoo ignited passionate online debates among Christians, revealing deeper churchwide divisions over freedom, legalism, and biblical interpretation.

This video from Bible Nerd Ministries emphasizes that disputes like this — over tattoos — are secondary matters, urging Christians to prioritize unity, love, and grace while maintaining core doctrines. Ultimately, the presenter calls believers to approach disagreements humbly — allowing Scripture, not emotional reactions, to guide their responses.

Editor’s Note: The transcript that follows was automatically generated and lightly edited, so please be aware there could be typos or other small errors. The Stream is working toward a transcription service that does fast, accurate, and reliable work; thank you in advance for your patience!

(00:00) Max Lucado just got a tattoo. And the first thing I did was run to the comments. And boy, did Christians have opinions. Is this compromise? Is this freedom? Is this something in between? It’s easy for us when things like this happen to get so caught up in the debates and the conversations and the hate and the grace and the freedom.
(00:20) It becomes like this um battle or war. It’s honestly a great mirror to show us how his tattoo really uncovered a churchwide crisis. Let’s begin. Hey Bible nerds, welcome back to the channel. Now y’all know, as with everything here on my channel, this is no takedown of Max Lucado. This is also not to start debates in the comments.
(00:44) I have the personal conviction that we need to study a whole lot more and debate a whole lot less. I think a lot of our debates would be solved if we had more of a student mentality and we went back to the word and we said, “Hey, what does the Bible say about this? How can I study the issue, not try and win culture wars? And so that’s really my heart for this video.
(01:02) And as always, you guys know I aim to be very ecumenical, as broadly evangelical as possible. I’m not going to shove down your throat what I think on the topic. I really want to turn to scripture and talk about how this affects our hermeneutic, how this affects our worship, and how this affects living with other believers who we might disagree with.
(01:18) Now, on that note, Max Lucado got a tattoo, and it popped up on my Instagram. If you don’t know who he is, he is a very popular Christian author and longtime pastor. I grew up watching his Hermie and Friends show as a child and was ministered to through that ministry. He also pastored like longtime Oak Hills church in San Antonio, Texas.
(01:39) So, as a native Texan, I grew up hearing about his ministry and his work often. He was originally more affiliated with Churches of Christ and has gone more broadly evangelical in recent years. And he’s known for really like warm, grace filled messages. He sold over 145 million books. Crazy. You might have heard of him.
(01:57) Just like Jesus, you are special. He chose the nails and Anxious for Nothing. For many people, his words and pastoring have shaped their day-to-day walk with the Lord. And they’ve been encouraged and ministered to by his writing and teaching. So for me it was very shocking to see this post on my Instagram feed and then even more disappointing to see the conversations that followed.
(02:18) So let’s just look at the post itself. Max Lucado posted to his 392,000 followers. Oh, his bio says pastor and New York Times bestselling author. That would have been a shorter bio than what I gave, but he posted it’s two photos. One of him getting the tattoo and then the second of the close-up of the tattoo. And it got 46.4,000 likes.
(02:38) Not that like numbers are a big deal, but it also got close to 2,000 comments and 9,000 shares. So immediately I’m thinking, what are the conversations going on around this? And why was this shared so many times? And the caption reads this. I’m celebrating the golden anniversary of God’s great grace in my life.
(02:57) 50 years ago this spring, grace found me. My testimony is interwoven with my favorite word in the Bible. On the cross, Christ proclaimed, “It is finished.” in John 19:30 and in Greek that is to tell us die. Among the meanings of this word is paid in full. This was the message that changed my life. I was 20-year-old scoundrel, a bum, a train off the tracks.
(03:14) My priority was six-packs. Not the kind that came from crunches, but from cores. Friends, I was a mess. Not only was I drunk, I was a racist, a misogynist, a brawler, and a schemer. Worst of all, I was a hypocrite. What a testimony. I wondered, honestly wondered, could Christ forgive a jerk like me? Do you not hear like his pastoral tone? I think he’s got like a really you can you can tell he’s pastoral here.
(03:35) Anyway, on a spring evening in 1975, I heard a preacher describe a grace that is greater than sin. On the cross, Christ paid my debt is paid paid in full. I said yes. That was 50 years ago. In the intervening half century, I have failed Jesus many times, but he has never failed me. To commemorate this anniversary, I got a tattoo to tell us it is finished.
(03:51) Not everyone likes the idea of a 70-year-old pastor getting a tattoo. That’s okay. I didn’t do it for people. I did it to say thank you to Jesus who paid a debt. I could not pay. Do you know this, Grace? So, basically what he does is he shares a testimony as a piece of the reason why he got this tattoo and then publicly shows the tattoo and what it looks like.
(04:09) It’s like, “Love you. Love you, Max.” But I got to say, that’s pretty Pinterest girl of you. I love it. Like the white girl Pinterest millennial in me loves that you got like a cursive font. I had to chuckle a little bit because I wouldn’t have pictured you to get that font, but rock on, buddy.
(04:28) So, as you guys can probably tell, I’m not bothered by this. I, however, do understand how many Christians are bothered by it. Let’s look at some of the comments. Dr. Coffee says, “So, you had a tattoo to say thank you to God by doing exactly what he encourages us not to do.
(04:41) Don’t you realize that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, and ye are that temple.” Oh, she quotes the KJV, too, man. She’s a KJV only and she’s against anybody getting a tattoo.
(04:58) Some responses to this are like, “Girl, you have your ears pierced. Are we not supposed to put holes in our body according to the Old Testament?” Somebody else responded to her and agreed with her and said, “Some people are just trying to please themselves. You can give a testimony to bring others to Christ, not a tattoo.
(05:10) I find it ridiculous.” Other people are like, “It’s between him and God.” Other people say her comment is of hate and judgment. Some people call this out as a holier than thou kind of comment. She defends herself by saying it’s her responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning, quoting 1 Corinthians 5:11-12.
(05:28) Other people say that it’s very disappointing to see someone as influential as Max Lucado get a tattoo. Then she quotes James 3:1 and says, “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged greater strictness.” So she’s basically saying he shouldn’t be a teacher because he got a tattoo. It’s coming somewhere, guys.
(05:45) And then other people like Priscilla Shire are praising the Lord and Boss Camp. Other people are saying, “I wish you didn’t celebrate with a tattoo.” Somebody said, “Lost respect. Wish I had not seen this.” Other people say that he’s desecrating his temple. Cody KS and Levi Lusko are cheering it on and the arguments are abounding in the comments, guys.
(06:05) Now, friends, I think it is important for us to extend grace when we disagree with our brothers and sisters in the faith with issues like this that are not of core doctrine and orthodoxy, meaning like a lowercase O orthodoxy. So, as long as it’s not about the Trinity, as long as it’s not about Christ’s 100% divinity and 100% humanity, his substitutionary atonement, as long as it’s not about core doctrines of the faith of is the Bible reliable, infallibility, as long as this isn’t core lowercase o orthodoxy doctrine
(06:31) debates, most of these debates like tattoos, for example, or secondary or tertiary issues, meaning we’re not dealing with heresy when we debate these topics. We’re dealing with the out workings of hermeneutics and theology. So what do those two words means? Theology is thinking about God. Y’all know that any kind of forming thoughts around God is theology.
(06:52) So all of us are theologians. We all form thoughts around God. But secondly, hermeneutics is how you read and interpret the Bible. So as you can see, there are some here that read and interpret the Bible to be clearly against tattoos. And there are others who do not think so. Hence all the preachers and teachers in the comments affirming and cheering him on.
(07:08) So let’s talk really quickly. This is video is not about ultimately the debate of tattoos, but I know y’all will wonder about this. So a quick review of the different views around tattoos. So firstly, there are those who are very opposed to tattoos and they use passages like Leviticus 19:28 to reflect that this is a pagan practice that was condemned.
(07:28) And you typically find this around the fundamentalist circles, conservative circles. They’ll also cite Romans 12:es 1-2, do not change yourself to be like people of this world, but be changed within my new way of thinking. And 1 Corinthians 6 19-20, which reads, “Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit? You are not your own. You were bought with a price.
(07:45) Therefore, honor God with your bodies. Now, as you might imagine, there are a lot of push back against those. Firstly, to say that one Bible verse and to say that therefore all tattoos are bad is an interesting take because Leviticus 19:28 is speaking about cutting yourself for the dead, not outright about tattoos.
(08:01) There’s also the debate of how is that dishonoring your body when temples are covered in art and carvings and paintings and stuff. And so, from there, you tend to get the less opposed view, but they’re still cautiously opposed to it. They associate tattoos with like rebellion, frankly, like too much grace, like like abusing grace and abusing freedom.
(08:19) And this comes along in like Pentecostal, traditional Baptist circles, those kinds of more conservative theologically circles, especially like the holiness groups as well, which is where Max Lucado kind of came out of. And they take passages like Romans 14 referring to the weaker brother. 1 Thessalonians 5:22, which talks about like avoiding evil.
(08:36) And they say while tattoos themselves may not be inherently condemned, they do seem to lead to sin or to sinful patterns, pagan patterns even. And from there you get the argument that just because it’s perceived as evil doesn’t mean it has to be evil and God is redeeming all things. And so you get more of the cautious, but they do endorse tattoos or approve of tattoos, I would say.
(08:59) And so these are where you get Christians that do get tattoos for godly intentions. It’s many of the more younger generation, evangelicals, reformed folk, church planters, hip new pastor, you you get it. They talk about tattoos as not just permissible, but even a great way to evangelize and reach people. They talk about it as a matter of like their liberty and freedom in Christ and really emphasize how it’s not prohibited in the New Testament.
(09:24) Again, returning back to the same passage, Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 10:31, glorifying God with everything in their everything. even taking passages like 1st Samuel 16:7 talking about how God looks at the heart not at the outer appearances and Galatians 5:1 talking about the freedom that we have in Christ and so as you can see there’s a spectrum to those who embrace fully tattoos to those who condemn tattoos and many of them use the same Bible passages to make their argument so let’s flip to the most common which is Romans 14 in the book of
(09:52) Romans Paul’s writing to the church at Rome and he’s giving them so much theology not that Romans is a systematic theology but it is a theological rich book and many people miss this but throughout the book he’s constantly dealing with most of the epistles are dealing with the Jew gentile issue.
(10:07) So the early church was made up of not just Jews but also Gentiles. In fact Gentiles were more receptive to Jesus Christ being the Messiah than Jews ever were. And so what you deal with then whenever you’re combining Jews and Gentiles in the early church is like well then how do we live together? How do we even eat a meal together? Like take communion together because we have a different cleanliness laws.
(10:25) We have different culture. You think you can’t eat pork. I’ve been eating pork all my life and I think it’s just fine. You think you can’t eat meat sacrificed to idols and I think it is just fine. It’s cheaper meat. It’s available meat. I’m hungry. I’m starving. Let’s just eat our meal. Why does because it was offered to a false god that doesn’t actually exist.
(10:42) Why does that matter? And so we get to Romans 14. This is just like broad overview of context. But Paul’s entering into like a second hortatory section. Basically a second section all about how to live therefore because of the cross because of the grace we’ve extended. He’s really laid out salvation.
(10:59) Think of like Romans 3:23, Romans 6, do we abuse grace? There’s so much great rich theology around salvation, which we often call our soteriology. And then he gets to chapter 14 and he says, “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything while the weak person eats only vegetables.
(11:20) Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains. And let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats. for God has welcomed him. So he says, “We’re not going to sit there and judge each other whether you do or you do not partake in things that could possibly be permissible according to the grace and freedom of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(11:35) ” He says, “Don’t sit here and judge and condemn, but rather it’s all about God has welcomed them into the faith. Not they’ve earned their way into the faith. Not they’ve followed all your rules on how you think that they need to live into the faith. God has welcomed them.” So his emphasis is on God’s salvific work.
(11:50) Right? Verse four, who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? Verse 5, each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats eats in honor of the Lord. Verse 7, for none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
(12:05) For if we live, we live to the Lord. And if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or we die, we are the Lord’s. What is his focus here? Is his focus on our individual ways of being able to discern on whether or not we get tattoos or eat the meat or don’t eat the meat or do it right or don’t do it right? No, the emphasis is not on our judgment, our figuring out all the right, perfect answers.
(12:26) It is on where our faith is placed. Are we the Lord’s or our own? And I think that’s where the church really falls into this crisis that I saw in the comments of people were acting like their judgment is the end all be all on Max Lucado. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s keep reading verse 10.
(12:40) Why do you pass judgment on your brother? And then he repeats it again. Therefore, let us not pass judgment on one another again. He’s repeated it again. but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. So now, not only is he saying we’re not going to judge, but we’re also not going to try and make our brother or sister stumble.
(12:57) I know and I’m persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it’s unclean. For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love by what you eat. So let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. Don’t for the sake of food destroy the work of God.
(13:16) I love that in verse 20. Everything is indeed clean. But it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
(13:34) But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats because the eating is not from faith. For whoever does not proceed from faith is sin. I think it’s so incredibly clear. I think I’m doing a very like literal hermeneutic here. I think it’s so incredibly obvious here. Scripture is screaming at us. It is about where our faith is placed.
(13:51) Is our faith placed in Jesus Christ being more than enough for us? Or is our faith placed in, well, maybe this is okay. I think I want it to be okay, so maybe I’ll go get a tattoo with my friends. No. In 1 Corinthians 8, a very similar discussion is going on again. It’s a Pauline epistle, Pauline letter to the church, the early church, and he specifically speaks about just the food offered to idols.
(14:11) Now, you have to remember the contextually food offered to idols was part of the pagan worship world. So, in the church, you had those strong in their faith that were like, “Eat it. We’re Christ. It doesn’t matter. They’re fake gods. It’s at a discount. This this meat is cheaper because it’s already been processed or offered to idols.
(14:31) ” But there was what he refers to as the weak here in this passage that said, “No, this was part of pagan worship. I don’t want to have anything to do with And Paul’s focus is not on whether it’s okay or not okay. That is not his focus. His focus is on the love of the brotherhood. He’s essentially working towards 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter all about loving your fellow brother or sister in the faith, dying to yourself to love them well.
(14:55) So he says in verse one of chapter 8, “Now concerning food offered to idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no God but one. For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is one God the Father.
(15:16) However, not all possess this knowledge, but some through former association with idols eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscious being weak is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
(15:36) Friends, his whole focus here in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8 is not making his fellow brother or sister in the faith stumble based on whatever theological stance they have for this meat offered to idols. And that is my personal stance on the tattoo thing as well. I can’t help that in the way that I talk about this topic, I’m probably a bit more gracious than how some of you guys may feel on the topic.
(15:55) I can’t help that. like that’s interwoven in so much of my speech and inflection and things like that. But I will never just flaunt my stance on tattoos, especially publicly on the internet because I don’t want to make y’all stumble. Now, do I think Max Lucado is wrong for posting this on his Instagram? I am sure he has prayed about it.
(16:13) I would be shocked if he didn’t have some serious prayer time about whether or not he should post it, whether or not he would make his weaker brother stumble. And I want to trust that he probably posted it with good conviction, especially sharing his testimony and things like that. Like I said, this is not to evaluate Max Lucado.
(16:28) It’s more so to evaluate the comments in the comment section. We had people rubbing freedom in each other’s faces and we had people rubbing legalism in each other’s faces. And friends, no matter what your stance is on tattoos, whether or not you think he’s defiling his temple, whether or not you feel like he is abusing grace and freedom or being a bad example as a teacher and therefore should not be a teacher, I think this whole conversation is not honoring the weaker brother who was a young believer
(16:54) just trying to seek biblical teaching. The whole condemning him and cancelling him or just being like he could do whatever he wants to. He’s Max Lucado and yeah, you know, like either way, we’re not taking into consideration that there are young believers following Max Lucado who grew up on his Hermie and Friends just like me and wondering, well, is it okay to get a tattoo or not? And us being so divisive in the comments and tearing him down and and jumping to conclusions like he’s all of a sudden a false teacher
(17:22) because he has ink in his arm is just so lacking of what I tend to call nuance. Now, this is something that I’ve been talking about with my fellow creator friends on the internet because it is crazy. I know most of you guys in my audience do not lack nuance, but so many Christians online in general lack a sense of nuance.
(17:42) Not everything is black and white. There are for sure things that are black and white. Again, that when we come back to the lowercase O, orthodoxy, basic doctrines of the faith, but not everything is black and white. Just because Max Lucado gets a tattoo and you don’t agree with his hermeneutic, the way that he reads and interprets those passages, does not mean that he’s a false teacher, it just means that you differ on your hermeneutic of those passages, on your interpretation of those biblical passages.
(18:05) And because those biblical passages are not core doctrines of the faith, it’s not a salvation issue. It doesn’t super matter. Like, it really doesn’t super matter. Not everything around faith culture has to be a culture war, has to be black and white, hate-filled judgment. I would actually lean on the side of more grace.
(18:29) I would lean I tend to lean more on the side of you can’t extend enough grace on most issues. Again, I hold by trinitarian theology. I’m not going to share grace on that. I hold by Christ 100% humanity and Christ 100% divinity. I’m not going to share grace on that. I hold by biblical infallibility.
(18:44) I believe the Bible’s true and trustworthy. I’m going to stand by that. I’m not wishy washy on that. I believe in the resurrection and the very real bodily death and ascension of Jesus Christ. That’s something that is again lowercase o orthodox doctrine that I’m not going to be wishy washy on. Those kinds of things are black and white and we can have culture wars over that if somebody comes into our church and starts to preach against those things.
(19:03) But tattoos really not a big issue. Like really doesn’t take away somebody’s salvation truly. And if you think it does, then it becomes a salvation issue because you’re not honoring Christ’s death on the cross. You’re saying somebody’s saved by Christ’s death on the cross, plus not getting tattoos.
(19:16) And that’s not biblical. So, do you see how actually elevating these tertiary issues to be something so important and so black and white and so like I’m dogmatic about my stance when they’re not actually that big of a deal. Elevating them to something that they’re not is actually more heretical than the issue itself.
(19:33) Sometimes sitting there and saying he’s a false teacher because he has ink in his arm is more heretical. Let me check myself. Yeah, it is more heretical to say, “Oh, he’s a false teacher because he has ink in his arm.” than it is to say, I don’t love his stance on tattoos. It doesn’t really matter because that’s not what salvation depends on.
(19:49) It is more heretical to say, “Oh, he’s a false teacher. He’s heretical for having you. You got what I’m saying? People love to throw out these things.” I mean, people do it to me all the time. I’m not surprised by that. Like when they do it to other people like Max, I’m like, “Hold on a second.
(20:03) ” Brother is literally getting the gospel message essentially tattooed on his arm. I know it’s not entirely the gospel message. Okay, someone’s going to get mad at me for calling it that, but in simple terms, it is his attempt. That is his heart. I think we’re more heretical to condemn him for it. Now, now I know some people are going to have push back for me on this topic and they’re going to say I’m being too gracious.
(20:21) So quickly, let’s walk through other legitimate opinions that could possibly stand in disagreement to me and my response to them. First of all, some people are going to say grace cannot become a license. They’re going to say if we’re too gracious, this starts to lead to compromising sin, moral relativism, or just excusing sin.
(20:38) And ultimately, this is a fear that grace will blur the lines for people between orthodoxy and sin or or heresy. And so they want very clear-cut black and white lines. Again, this is where we get to nuance. My push back to this would be life is nuanced. Life is gray. Life has blurred lines.
(20:57) But what we know to be clear would be that lowercase orthodoxy that I’ve talked about numerous times. Infallibility, trinitarian theology, 100% man, 100% God, death, resurrection, and ascension, salvation by faith through grace or by grace through faith, being a gift to God, not something that we can earn.
(21:14) Those are the primary issues. Getting a tattoo that says “Tetelestai” does not save you, but it also doesn’t take away your salvation. And whether we like it or not, that is a gray area. That we get to have the spiritual privilege of living amongst other believers that we don’t agree with on it. That we get to live in the tension of looking forward to heaven, man, when everything will be black and white and sin will be washed away.
(21:35) Now, some people will say, “Faith, how do I really know tattoos are tertiary and not primary?” People have asked me like because of my conversations around Roman in the church online, they’ll be like, “Well, how do you know it’s secondary or tertiary and not primary?” Again, it comes back to that lowercase o orthodox stuff that really the seven ecumenical councils, the nine creed like the Westminster shorter.
(21:54) That’s why these creeds and statements exist to nail down what is important. Is it important to that faith war blue shirt? No. You can literally Google this stuff and I think a lot more Christians needed to be discipled on what is primary so that they can then so easily discern what is secondary and tertiary.
(22:09) But if you don’t know the difference between those things, you have been failed. And I’m sorry for that as a pastor’s wife. Like this is something I’m so passionate about is that we do disciple people and the important tenants of our faith. But unfortunately, you have to do the work to say, “Am I heretical?” Other people will push back and be like, “This is too soft.
(22:28) The church needs to be hard and firm in these culture wars or else we’re losing ground.” A lot of people will make that argument around women in the church. They say, “The moment we ordain women, then we’re just going to embrace transgay whatever.” like they they act like it’s like we’re falling down a mountain.
(22:41) First of all, that’s just like so smallminded on these issues, but second of all, you could use that argument for anything to add to the gospel. Essentially, we need to be very, very careful to not tack on to the gospel of Jesus Christ to say as long as you’re a Christian and you’re Baptist that dresses a certain way, that never gets tattoos, that never braids their hair, like you get what I’m saying? Like, we can quickly add on to the cross if we don’t allow the cross to be more than enough for us.
(23:07) I would also keep in mind that’s how cults are formed when you’re able to add things onto the gospels. That’s why the Christian offshoot cults are always like you have to wear this kind of underwear. You cannot do this. You cannot do that. They’re always like very legalistic, works-based, rules-based kind of things because they’re adding to the cross.
(23:23) That’s why they’re a cult. And the final one, probably strongest criticism that some people will hold against me is to say, “Well, I think you’re being too gracious with Max because he is a teacher, a pastor. He’s a public figure of sorts and what he does should be held at a higher standard than most Christians.
(23:38) And in some ways, I totally agree. He does have a very important role of influence in the Christian walk. Hence why we’re even talking about him right now and watching a video about him, right? But with that kind of view, I also am highly aware of how we quickly tiptoe into this like worship of Max Lucado.
(23:53) He’s so much better, he’s so much higher, he has a higher, you get what I’m saying? Like if we constantly are nailing down that idea, it just quickly becomes like this Max Lucado exception. But he’s still a broken sinner that’s saved by grace through faith. He’s not saved by being a perfect leader. God doesn’t work through him because he’s perfect.
(24:15) God works in through and despite him just like God works in through and definitely despite me and you. And we could easily make this argument about everybody cuz everybody has a level of influence. Whether you’re in a old folks home, whether you’re a mother or a father, a sister, a brother, a daughter, a son, everybody has influence to those around them.
(24:35) Again, quickly you face nuance of, okay, well then where do you draw the line on who can’t get tattoos because they’re just too influential, who can’t wear that outfit because they’re just too influential. You get what I’m saying? We as Christians need to learn nuance and charitability and grace.
(24:49) We need to learn how to disagree with each other with love. And most importantly, when our blood starts to boil, when we start to get angry and and frustrated, oh, this Christian did this thing that I don’t like or agree with, we need to ask, why am I so emotionally charged over this? If my salvation is secured by Christ’s blood on the cross, and if their salvation is secured by Christ’s blood on the cross, why am I so emotionally charged by this? And guys, this is something I have to deal with all the time. Totally, if I’m being
(25:16) honest with you guys, this is something I ask myself a lot. Why do I get so emotionally charged by things when it’s not a salvation issue? When both of our salvation is secured by Christ on the cross? Like I say in all of these videos, I don’t want us to debate. I want us to study these issues.
(25:32) So if you feel any of that emotional charge, heart beating, frustrated around this topic, I really highly encourage you to go to scripture. The scriptures that I cited, even read with you guys, wrestle with scripture. Don’t wrestle with somebody else in the comments. Don’t try and wrestle with me in the comments.
(25:46) I’m not a debater. I’m just a Bible study girl. But it’s at this point that you might wonder, okay, Faith, so he may not be a false teacher, but I still don’t agree with him. How do I spot when I should no longer listen to a pastor anymore? When they’ve crossed the line out of orthodoxy for that, I would send you to this video here.
(26:02) We’ll talk all about different styles of preaching that I see. They tend to be preaching hype and less of truth. And we really want to be learning from those pastors that are preaching truth, right? So check out this video here. We talk more about the orthodoxy thing and all different types of preaching styles.
(26:15) It’ll definitely change the way you view preaching. and I’ll see you guys right here. Bye, guys.