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Valiant Woman
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"Hillsong is seen as this hip, progressive church that's drawn huge millennial crowds, but it's still evangelical," co-host Sara Haines stated to Lentz during the Oct. 30 broadcast. "So, where do you stand on social issues that young people are particularly passionate about, like gay marriage [and] abortion? Like, how do you address those types of things?"
"I think our job is still to help people—not necessarily change how they think—but try to point them to what God has said, what we believe the Bible [has] to say," Lentz replied. "We believe that God is good, that God loves everybody, that Jesus was here to set people free, and that's still the good news of the gospel."
He is completely WRONG! ON the contrary every minister of God is supposed to change how people think. If he is not trying to change how people think then he is NOT preaching the gospel. The word "repentance" means to change how you THINK and ACT! The Word of God is meant to transform the minds of people (Rom. 12:1-2). That is the whole idea behind (the often misquoted) Isaiah 55:6-9. Verses 7 and 8 say:
Isa 55:7* Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.*
Isa 55:8* For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.*
2 Cor. 4:4 says that Satan BLINDS THE MINDS of men. Ephesians 4:18 says that the unregenerate man's thinking is DARKENED!!! For this man to claim that we are NOT to change people's thinking goes directly against the teaching of God's Word. This man either needs to get before God and get revelation of His Word or he needs to stop pastoring and misleading people.