Steven Furtick Compares Romans Killing Jesus to Billboard Removing Gay Rapper’s Song from Charts
Definitely "Unqualified."
Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church, a Southern Baptist-associated, 25,000-member multisite campus with 17 locations. He is known for having the term “narcegesis” (narcissistic exegesis) named after him based on his inability to exegete scripture in a way that doesn’t make every story revolve around him, as well as his penchant to wear outfits that cost more than most mortgages and buddying up to Trinity-Denier T.D Jakes.
Ten months ago he replaced Kenneth Copeland at the always-heretical TBN, filling the role of the Innkeeper Monsieur Thénardier from the musical Les Miserables (TBN being the Inn), with these “Masters of the house” doing whatever is the theological equivalent of “Charge ’em for the lice/Extra for the mice/Two percent for looking in the mirror twice” in his efforts to promote his brand of prosperity preaching.
He also recently said that ‘God is a Molecular Structure’, laughed at the notion of ‘Twerking for the Lord?’, went on a Wild, Wild, Willllldd Rant about Betas and Blessings, went on another Rant About Angels that got Weird Quick and screamed ‘I Am God Almighty!’ in a sermon. All that while saying that God Doesn’t Make You into a New Creation
Now, from a recent sermon, Furtick explains that in the same way that the Billboard charts canned Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road on account of it being too different, so too did the Romans kill Jesus. He was just so “different”- you know?
That’s why they had to take the old town road off of the Billboard charts on country music because it was too different. They couldn’t find a category for it. And they said ‘it’s not country enough, but it’s not rap enough and we don’t know what it is. It’s different. “
That’s why they crucified Jesus.
