Why This Charismatic Pastor and Filmmaker Believes Embracing the ‘Woke’ Gospel Will Destroy the Church From Within by STEPHEN STRANG for Charisma News
Cary Gordon is a man on a mission, and his mission carries a vital message for today’s church. This pastor (he serves as senior pastor and president of Cornerstone World Outreach in Sioux City, Iowa) and conservative activist is using the medium of film to raise awareness of what he calls “a false gospel”—not the Good News of Jesus Christ but the false doctrine of social justice.
Godon’s new documentary, Enemies Within the Church, shares the story. Gordon explains, “The Scriptures warned us; the apostle Paul warned us in the early church, and certainly in the last days, that wolves would come into the flock, not sparing the sheep. And in the modern times … it’s become more challenging to accept the reality that we have to deal with wolves, and we have to deal with wolves with some verity and some seriousness. Many people are uncomfortable with that, because they don’t think that it appears to be loving when a shepherd takes his cane and notices a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The sheep look at the wolf in sheep’s clothing and say, ‘Hey, that’s just a sheep like us,’ but the shepherd knows better. So he takes his cane that he usually uses to tap the beloved sheep and keep them on the right path, and he whacks this thing over the head, and everyone’s upset at the shepherd.
“That’s my quick analogy of what it’s like trying to deal with wolves that are entering the flock right now in 2020,” Gordon says. “But there are wolves. … This is a New Testament warning that we have to take seriously, and we have a responsibility to deal with wolves. And the primary tool of the wolf, their teeth, allegorically, is false doctrine. They use false doctrine to destroy the sheep of God.
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“And so right now, we have a wild spreading of a particular false doctrine called the social justice gospel,” he says. “And it’s a false gospel. And it’s got its own glossary of terms, words that people over 40 don’t understand what they mean. It’s very confusing, and it’s based in Marxism. And it’s really popular with the Millennial generation. It has infiltrated almost every seminary, almost every Bible college and nearly every denomination in the United States.”
Gordon points to a generational shift where faithful, gospel-focused pastors are retiring or dying. “And the new generation is arising and taking over the pulpit from churches across the United States,” he says. “And we’re finding out that this new generation of pastors are entirely devoid of a solid, absolute biblical worldview. They have been confused in seminary and Bible colleges with what we call liberal theology. They don’t really believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. They think that the God of heaven is sort of like what I would describe as a senile grandpa who just wants to give everybody a hug.”
