It’s admirable to want to help in third world poverty; many Christian organizations do, but to circumvent the Word of God and re-craft hell into your own image and then preach it as scripture is wrong.

Driscoll never slammed Rev. Pearson, only his theology of hell. Jesus spoke of hell more than anyone in the Bible and we need not try to re-form it in our image.

I think your comments here are a bit off base. Sorry.

Moreover to “preach like Jesus” is to preach a strong message concerning judgement as 13% of his teaching is on Hell.

Hell is a place where people nullify the effect of the cross by promulgating a false gospel of feel-good faith. In a loving manner I hope that you will open the Bible, read it, and reconsider your position.

Damn, I hate this debate on hell. We spend so much time talking about a place no one knows about and its implications on. It really spoils things.

We could be doing more important things like playing settlers of catan at our place.

“While it is commendable that Mr. Pearson has become sensitive and
sympathetic toward the plight of Africa’s perennial poor, I find it
interesting that the action he takes does NOTHING to actually help them.
Instead of starting some kind of charity in order to finance the delivery of food and clothing to these people (or something along those lines), all he does is embrace unorthodox theology (that he claims his source of revelation is directly from God is nothing short of disturbing) that completely ignores divine justice by pronouncing these people redeemed regardless of their response to the gospel. In other words, while they may be living in Hell right now, God will take care of them in the afterlife because He’s good and loving (this of course, is based in turn on how WE define “good” and “loving”).

As an aside, tt is nothing less than an intriguing coindence that this man
has thereby rationalized himself out of actually having to DO anything to
help these people. (After all, if God’s going to take care of them in heaven for all eternity, what’s a few years of Hell on Earth?) However, he may actually have something in the works right now so I say this tentatively.

Another interesting point is the double standard held by universalists.
Their theology focuses exclusively on those who they deem “innocent”. What
about people like Stalin who get away with bloody murder? If you suggest
that the supposedly “innocent” will face Hell if they reject Christ, they’ll whine about how that’s “not fair”, but if you retort by stating that it’s equally unfair if people like Stalin get off the hook, they’ll respond by saying, “God is God. Who are you to whine about fairness and answer back to
him?”

Anyway, I think I’ve said enough. Consider that my two cents (less
inflation).

As far as your critique of Driscoll and his numbers go, those numbers are people, souls. If Driscoll continues to point people to Jesus and save them from Hell, we should all support his numbers. And if people like Pearson are going to feed people BS and half truths about God’s love, but not his justice, then we should all pray that the numbers at those churches go down.

Carlton Pearson is a huge name in Pentecostal circles and even larger in the COGIC specifically.

It would be as if John Mcarthur began preaching a false gospel. People all over the range would have to chime in, his influence dictates it.

Beware, all his supporters are likely to try and push universalism in this post.