We Found Billy: Jacob Reaume's response to TGC

 


By Jacob Reaume:

Canadian pastors have their litany of excuses for handing their churches and their worship over to Caesar.  Over the last two years, premiers and legislatures have demanded that churches close, cease gathering, move online, etc.  This was the necessary sacrifice as the state heralded the good news of salvation from COVID-19.  Believe on the death of Christian worship, and thou shalt be saved.  The overwhelming majority of pastors have willingly gone along, with many patting themselves on the back for it.  They stopped worshipping Jesus, and they proclaimed that was their service to Jesus.  They have their reasons, and the reasons are manifold.

The Gospel Coalition Canada is the subsidiary of a massive US organization, The Gospel Coalition.  The Gospel Coalition has just over 1 million followers across the four major social media platforms.  Over 1 million followers – keep that number in mind.  It’s a huge US organization, the parent organization of The Gospel Coalition Canada.

The Gospel Coalition Canada recently produced a blog, complaining that US media coverage of Canadian pastors “has hampered the Canadian church.”  To explain, they manufactured a caricature of a hypothetical Canadian Pastor named “Billy.”  In the hypothetical scenario, Billy – a “pastor with a history of divisiveness” who “mocks our Canadian commitment to process” and calls “his fellow pastors cowards” – holds an outdoor worship service and “preaches a jarringly candid sermon” that defies hypothetical newly minted hate speech legislation.  Billy gets arrested.  The US media picks up on the story which amplifies it in Canada, and that then hypothetically troubles The Gospel Coalition Canada pastors because it forces them “to answer questions from their own congregants about why they aren’t taking the approach Billy has taken” while “struggling to navigate their way through a horrible situation.”

It’s a pitiful piece...

* For the rest of the article visit Jacob Reaume's blog here.  It is well worth reading in its entirety.  If you have read this far please do go on and read the rest!

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