Back in 2016 Ps. Chris Rosebrough gave a comprehensive talk about women he called the ‘Mysti-Chicks‘ at the 2014 Reformation Montana Conference. Identifying key women in this group, Church Watch Central called them the ‘Mysti-Chicks Uprising’
Move forward to 2018, CWC wrote another article warning about Beth Moore and the trajectory she’s taking:
Moore of Babylon – can we get an amen?
Which brings us to October, 2019 and it seems all the warnings about Beth Moore have been ignored by those who should know better. Now we are seeing the formerly orthodox, biblical Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) ‘retreating from their biblical position on complimentarianism and embracing the very error the SBC repudiated 30 years ago’ (Link)
Beth Moore – unqualified.
“Russell Moore is the head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a political change agent. A former Democratic staff member, Moore has taken his leftist political ideology and transformed the Southern Baptist Convention into a progressive organization wrought with anti-Christian ideologies such as Critical Race Theory. Putting a Christian facade over these progressive ideas and cloaking them in Bible verses, Moore has been able to turn a large portion of the once conservative denomination into a religious organization that now largely elevates social issues such as financial and economic equality over and above biblical issues such as abortion and homosexuality.
Russell Moore has also been an outspoken defender of Beth Moore (no relation) who has, on the other side of the social justice aisle, made her mission in life to advance feminism and abolish biblical complementarianism.
Beth Moore calls herself a complementarian. Of course, she isn’t, as she regularly disobeys the Scriptures and assumes the function of pastor and elder and preaches to mixed audiences — even on Sunday mornings.” (Link)
From Reformation Charlotte – “John MacArthur tells Beth Moore to ‘go home”:
During a recent Q&A session during the Truth Matters Conference at Grace Church, Todd Friel asked the panel members, including John MacArthur about Beth Moore.
Friel reminded John MacArthur of the last time he did a one-word association with a heretic, he wrote a book about it. MacArthur responded with “I was thinking of the same word,” which was in reference to Steven Furtick, “unqualified.”
He then proceeded to say “go home.”
There is no case that can be made biblically for a woman preacher. Period. Paragraph. End of discussion. (Link)
Source: Jeff Maples, ‘Reformation Charlotte’ blog, https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/10/18/john-macarthur-tells-beth-moore-to-go-home-no-biblical-case-for-a-female-preacher/. Published October 18, 2019. (Accessed October 19, 2019.)
Follow-up article from Bible Thumping Wingnut Network:
5 Sins Beth Moore Is Guilty Of.
Regarding the current discussion concerning John MacArthur’s comments at the “Truth Conference” on Beth Moore Pastor Tom Buck points out that we need to decouple the issues. The first question that must be asked to rightly assess this situation is this: Is Beth Moore in sin?
#1 Beth Moore claims Jesus talks to her and she recounts the exact words exchanged between the two of them… including things like Jesus telling her to “come out and play” to “build a snowman” and calling her “honey” and “babe” when they talk.
#2 Beth Moore claims to get revelation, knowledge, and directions from God that she records and speaks: “God began to say to me, ‘I’m gonna say something right now, Beth. And boy you write this one down. And you say it as often as I give you utterance to say it.’”
#3 Beth Moore claims God speaks to her in visions. “… something God showed me sitting out on the back porch…. I’m a very visual person. So he speaks to me very often by putting a picture in my head…”
#4 Beth Moore promotes and partners with known false teachers like Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen (just google it). Claims that God gave her a vision that churches that preach a false gospel (e.g., Roman Catholicism) are part of the true church.
#5 Beth Moore violates God’s created order and usurps the role and function of an elder in violation of 1 Timothy 2:12. She regularly assumes the function of teaching and leading men, including in corporate worship gatherings. These are but a FEW examples.
If you consider Beth Moore’s teachings to be sound, then the criticism leveled at @johnmacarthur isn’t fundamentally about his tone but his wrong rebuke. Just defend her teaching. If you consider her to be in sin, that leads to the question: Was John wrong for his tone?
John MacArthur has made it CLEAR on multiple occasions that he believes Beth Moore is in sin. And her sin is VERY public as every example above is either on video or in print. So this is not a Matthew 18 situation. It is a public rebuke of a public teacher.
I know John genuinely considers, as do I, that Beth Moore is in error and a danger to all who hear her teaching. She’s followed by millions and platformed by influential leaders – including @ERLC, the President of the SBC, @jdgreear, and most books published by @LifeWay.
A commanded responsibility of an elder is to exhort, reprove, silence, and even reprove severely. If Beth Moore is in sin, if she’s misleading many with her false teaching, then John telling her to “go home” is a mild rebuke when you consider Paul’s words to Titus…
Titus 1:9-13 “Holding fast the faithful Word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers…”
Titus 1:9-13 “… who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain… for this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith.”
In light of Paul’s commands, I don’t have a problem with John’s tone regarding someone who is teaching dangerous and errant theology. Just because your tone might be less firm and John’s more so doesn’t mean that yours is the “loving” tone and his is the “unloving.”
If Beth Moore is in sin, is it LOVING for SBC leaders to publicly affirm and validate her as a teacher? It’s one thing to not like John’s tone, but quite another to embrace and promote one who teaches dangerous and errant theology.
This is more than a concern over “public mocking.” Beth Moore often publicly mocks her critics and is praised by many of the same people who now criticize John for his rebuke of her. They either agree with Beth’s teaching or are unwilling to confront her in her sin.
If Beth is teaching error, we should at least be as upset about leaders who platform her as we are about the tone of an elder willing to call her out. Your tone might be less polemic, but don’t sit silent as Beth Moore continues to endanger others with false teaching.
Adapted from the twitter feed comments of Pastor Tom Buck concerning the recent comments by Dr. John MacAurthur concerning Beth Moore.
Source: Tom Buck, @TomBuck, https://biblethumpingwingnut.com/2019/10/21/5-sins-beth-moore-is-guilty-of/?fbclid=IwAR1dP7IQxQahFZobqYB-8Uwve990mDsx-N54wBJ_O50Kx9IufOFN8EqGvrU. Published October 21, 2019. (Accessed October 22, 2019,)
Finally Ps Jordan Hall from ‘Pulpit & Pen’ summed up the very serious problem the body of Christ is facing today – because women are allowed to usurp the pastoral role:
“You cannot get men to take initiative in a church already lead by women. Men will not follow women. It is against our nature. You may not like it, but that is reality. It’s like gender; it’s a fact whether you like it or not. Churches that have women leaders “because of a shortage of men to lead” are perpetuating the problem and leading the church into a death spiral. It is to remove men from the church altogether. Female pastors essentially perpetuate a theological lesbianization of the church, in which men are not needed, not wanted, and not used for their intended purposes.” (Link)
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