John Piper (right) and Jason Meyer (left) speak about pastoral succession at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. | The Gospel Coalition via The Christian Post
The lead pastor of the church founded by Desiring God teacher and author John Piper has resigned from his position, becoming the latest church leader to leave the congregation in recent years.
Bethlehem Baptist Church, a multisite church based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, recently confirmed the resignation of Pastor Jason Meyer, who succeeded Piper as senior pastor.
âThis is another painful and confusing moment for us. Itâs confusing and painful corporately because Jason took the mantle from Pastor John Piper and helped lead us to this point of campus-specific preaching. It feels jarring,â Zuleger wrote Thursday.
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About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered.
For decades, John MacArthur has railed on prosperity preachers, likening them to “greed mongerers” who led First Century cults.
Recently, he’s also taken aim at scandal-plagued evangelical leaders, like the late apologist Ravi Zacharias and former Hillsong Pastor Carl Lentz, saying these celebrities were in ministry only for the money. That’s why “liars and frauds and false teachers” are in business, MacArthur said in a recent sermon. “False teachers always do it for the same reason filthy lucre, money.”
Yet according to financial statements and tax forms obtained by
The Roys Report, John MacArthur and his family preside over a religious media and educational empire that has over $130 million in assets and generates more than $70 million a year in tax-free revenue.
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