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'Shepherds for Sale; How Evangelical Leaders Traded The Truth For A Leftist Agenda" by Megan Basham

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I just finished reading this book, and would recommend it. I especially recommend it for your more mainstream "normie" Evangelical friends and family. It may help wake them up to a lot of evil trends.

I was already familiar with many of the subjects she addressed (since I listen to Jon Harris and other based podcasts 😉).

I can especially heartily recommend this book to Evangelical friends who a little behind the curve.

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Quick summary Mr B?
Church leaders are teaching leftist ideology while claiming this is correct docttrine.

I would expect sfuff Lord loves us all,so women pastors are OK. Trans gender children are special needy children, so we have to help them. Etc...
 
Quick summary Mr B?

The book details how outside subversive forces have used money and other means to infiltrate and corrupt churches, colleges, seminaries, and various parachurch ministries with their leftist ideology.

Many church leaders have gone along with or been influenced by this.
1. Some have been bought off.
2. Others are well intentioned, but naive and have been deceived.
3. Still others (the largest segment in my opinion) being in love with this present world seek societal approval instead of walking in the reverent fear of God.

There are chapters on each of these following topics.

Climate change scam

Mass immigration scam

Undermining the pro life movement, and promoting abortion

Corruption of Christian media outlets such as Christianity Today

COVID propaganda (with emphasis on the corruptive role played by Francis Collins and certain influential Christian leaders)

Critical Race Theory, CRT, DEI, promoting actual racism, strife, false guilt, and division in Church

#MeToo, sexual assault accusations and the lack of due process for those accused, with emphasis on the harmful role played by Rachel Denhollender

LGBTQ normalization, discussion included roles played by Andy Stanley, and Rick Warren. Both "Side A" and "Side B" "Revoice" type perversion are covered.

Her own testimony, and how God used true Christian teaching to turn her life around while the corrupt left leaning victim mindset shown above would have left her in her sin

Megan Basham is a reformed leaning Southern Baptist, so many of those she criticizes are popular in those sorts of circles, such as: JD Greer, David Platt, Matt Chandler, Gavin Ortlund, Ed Stetzer, Danny Akin, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and the Southern Baptist ERLC.
 
Church leaders are teaching leftist ideology while claiming this is correct docttrine.

I would expect sfuff Lord loves us all,so women pastors are OK. Trans gender children are special needy children, so we have to help them. Etc...
I don't think she really got into the issue of women pastors. I assume she is against them, but don't think the book dealt with that topic.

Basham is generally on the right side of things, but she is a bit more mainstream than we are. She is probably more of a complementarian conservative than a patriarchal one.
 
The book details how outside subversive forces have used money and other means to infiltrate and corrupt churches, colleges, seminaries, and various parachurch ministries with their leftist ideology.

Many church leaders have gone along with or been influenced by this.
1. Some have been bought off.
2. Others are well intentioned, but naive and have been deceived.
3. Still others (the largest segment in my opinion) being in love with this present world seek societal approval instead of walking in the reverent fear of God.

There are chapters on each of these following topics.

Climate change scam

Mass immigration scam

Undermining the pro life movement, and promoting abortion

Corruption of Christian media outlets such as Christianity Today

COVID propaganda (with emphasis on the corruptive role played by Francis Collins and certain influential Christian leaders)

Critical Race Theory, CRT, DEI, promoting actual racism, strife, false guilt, and division in Church

#MeToo, sexual assault accusations and the lack of due process for those accused, with emphasis on the harmful role played by Rachel Denhollender

LGBTQ normalization, discussion included roles played by Andy Stanley, and Rick Warren. Both "Side A" and "Side B" "Revoice" type perversion are covered.

Her own testimony, and how God used true Christian teaching to turn her life around while the corrupt left leaning victim mindset shown above would have left her in her sin

Megan Basham is a reformed leaning Southern Baptist, so many of those she criticizes are popular in those sorts of circles, such as: JD Greer, David Platt, Matt Chandler, Gavin Ortlund, Ed Stetzer, Danny Akin, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and the Southern Baptist ERLC.
Most of my formal education is in ministry and know a large number of currently serving pastors. When the whole of evangelical churches are surveyed, I would guess that the broad brush as labeled above might be true however, from my independent fundamentalist baptist background I would strenuously disagree. The men I know would disagree with the popular dogma of the left or left leaning pastors. As a whole, these are not the megachurch leaders but instead smaller congregations. There is a logical reason that churches grow so very large- fudging the line of doctrinal truth so as to not offend women lead families and churches. As a rule, Isaiah 3 stands true in that a woman lead(and youth lead) society is not a positive development. I would like a better qualification of the results that might disprove my bias toward former classmates. IMHO. -M
 
I don't think she really got into the issue of women pastors. I assume she is against them, but don't think the book dealt with that topic.

Basham is generally on the right side of things, but she is a bit more mainstream than we are. She is probably more of a complementarian conservative than a patriarchal one.
Material to write isn't lacking.
 
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