Todd white preacher8/4/2023 The frequent commenters who championed him that I mentioned earlier began to stick out to me on that subreddit more and more as they often teamed up to promote strange theology and hippy-dippy "love, maaaaan" answers to people's questions instead of carefully worded exegetical responses. Seeing your post helps me realize he's likely not right for anyone. Looking back, I genuinely believe the Holy Spirit was telling me not to let this guy be a mentor, maybe he's right for others but he wasn't right for me. It took 2 or 3 more attempts at checking out his stuff before I had found enough other online channels with genuinely Biblical preaching and teaching that although I still couldn't say what exactly was wrong here I knew I didn't need to spend my time on him anymore. I just knew something was off here, but I became frustrated because I couldn't immediately point to something directly contradictory or evil about him and his online fanbase had such absurdly positive things to say about him. If he had a chapter or just a paragraph that the "sermon" was built around, it took him an hour just to read through it because of all of his tangents and mannerisms. He had verses memorized that he would drop randomly, but without any logical exegesis. He just said to me 'say it Dan' and that's a special thing he says to me and here's a story about that." and worst of all he barely mentioned scripture. I don't wanna say it but God just told me I have to. His presence on the stage felt manic, his mannerisms and speech patterns reminded me of genuinely mentally ill people I've had to be around, every point he tried to make had constant tangents and tack-on comments like "you guys aren't ready for this. There were a number of frequent commenters on the sub that recommended Mohler with such enthusiasm and had these "he changed my life" kind of stories so I tried multiple times to get into his videos. Years ago I was spending a lot of time on the TrueChristian subreddit and I was in a place where I was desperately seeking out online ministries on YouTube to replace all the secular junk I was becoming addicted to as a form of escapism.
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