Adding context: This clip comes from a longer video walking members through commitment cards for the $225 million Into the Breach campaign. Josh explains the “gifts from my stored resources” section, which includes savings, stocks, and property. Honoring God with our resources is noble. But the implication here is that God may be calling you to “release” those resources by giving them to the church. Why else include this category on the card? And why specifically mention a home unless selling it to give to the church is a possibility they want people to consider? Full video is here for context: intothebreach.lakepointe.chu…

Fueling Josh Howerton’s request for people to possibly sell their houses to fund his church is his false teaching about the tithe. In this message from Feb 2025, he describes what he calls a “greed test” — something he says only mature Christians can get on board with. “Baby Christians” won’t agree with him. Josh teaches that God cannot bless a person unless He is made first in his life. This is the prosperity gospel with a different coat of paint. Instead of the typical “give to get” message, it’s “give or else you won’t get.” He’s saying that tithing unlocks God’s ability to bless you. This undermines God’s character and the doctrine of salvation. God doesn’t require man’s permission, placement as “first,” or hitting a specific dollar amount in order to bless a person. God is first by nature. Josh’s teaching relegates God to reactionary, rather than acknowledging His divine immutability. If God cannot bless a person unless he makes Him first in his life, then how could Christ’s death be efficacious toward sinners? Man did not put God first, and yet Christ still died for his sins. That is the greatest blessing God could ever offer, and it didn’t require man’s consent or prior obedience. Not only is a mandatory tithe not taught for Christian believers today, but Paul completely undermines Josh's entire framework: 2 Corinthians 9:7-8 “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” Give freely as you decide in your heart. God is not restricted by your wallet.

Adding context: This clip comes from a longer video walking members through commitment cards for the $225 million Into the Breach campaign. Josh explains the “gifts from my stored resources” section, which includes savings, stocks, and property. Honoring God with our resources is noble. But the implication here is that God may be calling you to “release” those resources by giving them to the church. Why else include this category on the card? And why specifically mention a home unless selling it to give to the church is a possibility they want people to consider? Full video is here for context: intothebreach.lakepointe.chu…

Josh is taking the mask off for everyone to see. At some point, you have to believe him when he tells you who he is. For those of you who don't know Doug Wilson is a slavery apologist and wrote a novel about sex robots.

Contrast that to today, where Josh Howerton puts up the Kalshi betting odds for the Texas senate race (never thought I’d see a pastor do that), directs people to the church’s voting website, and encourages his followers (Live Free Nation) to “flip an election”.

Biblical or Cultish? Examining the "Anointed Man" Church Leadership Model piped.video/rcFDLuajqjI?is=emgR…

2/3 For example: I believe James Talarico is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, using Christianity for political gain. I believe Paula White is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, using Christianity for political gain. I believe both are dangerous and should be called out.

Ministry leaders or pastors, I’d strongly caution you against making loyalty to you or to your organization a core value. It promotes a sick environment in a myriad of ways. A few: Employees feel like they need to agree with us when actually our idea is not a good idea. Employees whom God is directing elsewhere feel tremendous dread in leaving because we will likely receive it as disloyalty instead of what it really is: a disciple of Jesus doing exactly what a disciple is supposed to do. Why, after all, would we want an employee to stay whom God has called to leave?? Our place is to bless them in their going as well as in their coming. From time to time I see leaders talk about people who started with them not staying with them as if they owed them that. They don’t. It’s not disloyalty. It’s true discipleship. We want our people to follow Jesus. People and organizations where loyalty to leader is a core value also fear burning the bridge when they leave because we are too immature and insecure to not be offended and wounded (or angered!) by their departure. Lastly and perhaps most chilling of all, loyalty to a leader or organization fosters secret-keeping. (“We can’t let that go public because it will destroy the church! Think of the church!” The ultimate spiritual manipulation. No, what will destroy the church is keeping a sick secret.) Nothing will infect and implode a whole organization like a culture of secret-keeping. Sure, we hope employees have integrity to not gossip about things we as their employers or leaders share in earnest from our private lives. I talk openly with my coworkers just as they do about personal challenges and experiences and needs for prayer. But there’s a big difference between hoping for privacy and demanding secrecy. What I hope for and try to encourage in my employees is loyalty to Jesus. I know myself too well. I know my frailties, flaws and faults too intimately. I’ve told them in staff meetings that when their “loyalty” to me is contrary to their loyalty to Jesus, for crying out loud, go with Jesus! Even if it means going with him out the door. Even if I’m sad when they leave, it’s just because I’ll miss them. Not because they’ve done a single wrong. They’ve done exactly the right thing. They’ve gone with Jesus and will have my unqualified blessing. I’m thinking a lot about these kinds of things as we at LPM take active steps toward major downsizing next late Spring. Steps that will include selling the building and cutting back to a skeletal staff of only a few. I’m thinking so much about how blessed I’ve been to work with women who were devoted to Jesus. Who loved him exceedingly more than they loved me, their other coworkers and the organization. Their greatest gift to me has undoubtedly been their deep devotion to Jesus.

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