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    Former Megachurch Pastor Renounces Faith on Instagram and Twitter

    Dave Gass — formerly the Lead Pastor at Grace Family Fellowship, Church Planter at Journey the Way, Pastor at First Covenant Church, Pastor at Cedar Point Community Church — has taken to social media to renounce his faith.
    They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
    John 2:19

    “After 40 years of being a devout follower, 20 of those being an evangelical pastor, I am walking away from faith,” Gass says, “Even though this has been a massive bomb drop in my life, it has been decades in the making.”

    Citing Greek mythology books he read as a high school kid, he says it dawned on him how much the “deity” of the Bible sounded like what he’d read, and that “seed of doubt never went away.” Interestingly, though he claims he never truly had a saving faith, he chose to spend his life teaching Scripture, preaching the Word of God, and proclaiming that which he says he does not believe in.

    A man who has led many churches, many congregations throughout his entire ministry has now announced that he has found Christianity elsewhere — in godless people. He says on Twitter,
    During this time I also found something amazing: I found a handful of people who were more Christian than any Christian I had ever met – and they weren’t Christian. I found love in places where love wasn’t supposed to exist. I found acceptance among people who were godless.

    Gass explained that his marriage was a wreck and despite all the marriage counseling, it was never what it was “promised to be,” and that in all 40 years of his entire ministry, he never witnessed anything “supernatural.” Supposedly, his parents who were “devoutly Christian” were abusive. The bottom line, he explains...

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    "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
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    The first church mentioned has a statement of faith that is definitely non-Charismatic :

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3v...p2eG82WGc/view

    Which makes it believable that he never witnessed anything supernatural.

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    Citing Greek mythology books he read as a high school kid, he says it dawned on him how much the “deity” of the Bible sounded like what he’d read, and that “seed of doubt never went away.” Interestingly, though he claims he never truly had a saving faith, he chose to spend his life teaching Scripture, preaching the Word of God, and proclaiming that which he says he does not believe in.
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    He sounds terribly unfulfilled. He has been listening to the Deceiver.

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    Crazy. Maybe.

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    Crazy. Maybe.
    Without a strong marriage, very little else in life has a chance of fulfillment. Like forget the pastoring, no peace at home, no sanctuary of rest (the home) to fall back on when pastoring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Without a strong marriage, very little else in life has a chance of fulfillment. Like forget the pastoring, no peace at home, no sanctuary of rest (the home) to fall back on when pastoring.
    That has probably affected him more than everything else he says

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Dave Gass — formerly the Lead Pastor at Grace Family Fellowship, Church Planter at Journey the Way, Pastor at First Covenant Church, Pastor at Cedar Point Community Church — has taken to social media to renounce his faith.
    They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
    John 2:19

    “After 40 years of being a devout follower, 20 of those being an evangelical pastor, I am walking away from faith,” Gass says, “Even though this has been a massive bomb drop in my life, it has been decades in the making.”

    Citing Greek mythology books he read as a high school kid, he says it dawned on him how much the “deity” of the Bible sounded like what he’d read, and that “seed of doubt never went away.” Interestingly, though he claims he never truly had a saving faith, he chose to spend his life teaching Scripture, preaching the Word of God, and proclaiming that which he says he does not believe in.

    A man who has led many churches, many congregations throughout his entire ministry has now announced that he has found Christianity elsewhere — in godless people. He says on Twitter,
    During this time I also found something amazing: I found a handful of people who were more Christian than any Christian I had ever met – and they weren’t Christian. I found love in places where love wasn’t supposed to exist. I found acceptance among people who were godless.

    Gass explained that his marriage was a wreck and despite all the marriage counseling, it was never what it was “promised to be,” and that in all 40 years of his entire ministry, he never witnessed anything “supernatural.” Supposedly, his parents who were “devoutly Christian” were abusive. The bottom line, he explains...

    https://reformationcharlotte.org/201...m-and-twitter/
    This is part of the problem of the church shying away from teaching what actually happened in Genesis 6. When you study Greek mythology in LIGHT of what the scripture teaches about fallen angels and the daughters of men you can clearly see where they based their "gods" from.

    This is what happens when the church buries their heads in the sand because a teaching from the bible seems "uncomfortable" or "unseemly" for them to digest.

    He probably also never experienced a relationship with and baptism in the Holy Spirit. More than likely his faith was based on cessationist teaching and he didn't have the communion. He knew about God but didn't know Him.

    This is the same reason I believe that we need to get our youth saved and full of the Holy Spirit before they go running off to college. It is not so easy for liberal professors to rob them of an actual relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    This is part of the problem of the church shying away from teaching what actually happened in Genesis 6. When you study Greek mythology in LIGHT of what the scripture teaches about fallen angels and the daughters of men you can clearly see where they based their "gods" from.

    This is what happens when the church buries their heads in the sand because a teaching from the bible seems "uncomfortable" or "unseemly" for them to digest.

    He probably also never experienced a relationship with and baptism in the Holy Spirit. More than likely his faith was based on cessationist teaching and he didn't have the communion. He knew about God but didn't know Him.

    This is the same reason I believe that we need to get our youth saved and full of the Holy Spirit before they go running off to college. It is not so easy for liberal professors to rob them of an actual relationship with the Holy Spirit.
    Our church is now starting a "school of formation" and encouraging young people to enter this before they head off the college. Our pastors are just finishing the first go at this. Besides going through biblical courses, students attend a weekly dinner with all students and pastors and are taught etiquette, how to hold conversations, etc. They are given opportunity before the church to exercise preaching and exhortation, prophecy, etc. They are taught so much that I never received as a teenager. I believe this was years in the making with our pastors, and that it may just help them have a firmer foundation as you say, Zeke, than rushing them from college right after high school.

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