SoCal Megachurch Associate Pastor Commits Suicide Anonymous 09/11/2019 (Wed) 17:05:46 No.179 del
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>Jarrid Wilson, a Southern California megachurch pastor and mental health advocate, died by suicide Monday.
>Wilson, 30, was associate pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, under Pastor Greg Laurie. He co-founded Anthem of Hope, a mental health nonprofit helping people dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/september/pastor-mental-health-advocate-jarrid-wilson-dies-suicide.html

Suicide is terrible and we are not able to know all the contributing factors to his tragic and selfish decision.

That being said, we can point a finger squarely at the seeker sensitive, charismatic, megachurch movement of evangelical Christianity. It is entirely emotion based and manipulative with no sense of tradition, rather than based on a careful systematic theology directly exposited from the text

Harvest church is founded by Greg Laurie, a (literal) boomer "Jesus movement" hippie. He's essentially a motivational speaker who placed himself as the successor to Billy Graham, except he walks around stage in blue jeans at NFL stadiums and gives a pep talk after rap and whiny rock worship music.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhgGMkRMxZo [Embed]

This kind of megachurch is found in every metro area in the US and Canada.
-Weak on theology
-Weak on church history
-Weak on tradition
-No liturgy
-Charismatic (theologically, and in preaching style)

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