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Steve Lawson

frederick said:
In some YouTube videos about Steve Lawson, I now see there are allegations of him sinning by having a relationship with this woman because of the age gap! Where do these people get their doctrines?? The American religious culture has supplanted the authority of Scripture beyond belief. Those people are liars and false teachers, yet none of the big-name preachers seem to be calling them out for what they are doing.
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I just read in Gen 25 that Isaac was 40 when he married the young woman named Rebekah, and we know that God set that marriage up! He was 60 when she bore him the twins Jacob and Esau. I thik a good case can be made that she was half his age when they got married. This whole lame argument about age gap marriage being sinful needs to get torpedoed.
 
frederick said:
I get the impression it's a belief promoted by the western feminists. It's not a problem I encounter in other cultures.
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Unfortunately, I have to agree. My pastor has uttered suspicion at the intentions of older men as they talk to younger ladies of the church as though they are lecherous pervs. It’s kind of a white knight effect. I think he feels the need to protect the “innocent”.
 
Mojo said:
Unfortunately, I have to agree. My pastor has uttered suspicion at the intentions of older men as they talk to younger ladies of the church as though they are lecherous pervs. It’s kind of a white knight effect. I think he feels the need to protect the “innocent”.
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It seems typical of pastors to suffer from “mission creep” and thus inflict their own views on all and sundry.
It’s not just an age gap issue, in my opinion it’s about authority going to their head resulting in significant overreach in areas not required and by distraction neglect of duty in areas needed.
 
MrB said:
It seems typical of pastors to suffer from “mission creep” and thus inflict their own views on all and sundry.
It’s not just an age gap issue, in my opinion it’s about authority going to their head resulting in significant overreach in areas not required and by distraction neglect of duty in areas needed.
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Plus the possibility of some jealousy.
“If I can’t have it (them), you darn sure can’t!”
 
MrB said:
It seems typical of pastors to suffer from “mission creep” and thus inflict their own views on all and sundry.
It’s not just an age gap issue, in my opinion it’s about authority going to their head resulting in significant overreach in areas not required and by distraction neglect of duty in areas needed.
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I can just imagine 140 year old Abraham going up to one of them and saying, "I want to marry this young lady here, Keturah".
 
I read something else last night. We have always been told that Joseph was Jacob's favorite son because he was the son of his favorite wife, Rachel. That is not what Scripture says though. It says that he loved Joseph more than his brothers, because he was a son born to him in his old age. How old. Jacob goes down to Egypt, two years after the famine. He tells Pharoah that he is 130 years old. Joseph began in the service of Pharoah, when he was only 30 years old. So add 30 plus seven good years and two years of famine, and he was 39 when Jacob was 130.
 
steve said:
Plus the possibility of some jealousy.
“If I can’t have it (them), you darn sure can’t!”
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David's servants are quite a contrast. 1 Kings 1:2-3, Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman, a virgin, be sought for our lord the king, and let her stand before the king, and let her care for him; and let her lie in your bosom, that our lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a lovely young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
 
frederick said:
David's servants are quite a contrast. 1 Kings 1:2-3, Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman, a virgin, be sought for our lord the king, and let her stand before the king, and let her care for him; and let her lie in your bosom, that our lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a lovely young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
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That's a portion of scripture I've never heard a sermon on. I can guess why. It's been my inclination to get interested in things in the Bible that preachers continuously ignore. Ignoring things says a lot about the preacher.
 
Frank S said:
That's a portion of scripture I've never heard a sermon on. I can guess why. It's been my inclination to get interested in things in the Bible that preachers continuously ignore. Ignoring things says a lot about the preacher.
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You also haven't heard sermon about verses regulating polygyny. Looks like socially incovenient are simply "forgotten".
 
Frank S said:
That's a portion of scripture I've never heard a sermon on. I can guess why. It's been my inclination to get interested in things in the Bible that preachers continuously ignore. Ignoring things says a lot about the preacher.
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That’s where I come in. I usually ask to park on difficult verses during bible studies.
 
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