I use to run in some of the same circles as Jay Bakker, son of former scandalized televangelist Jim Bakker and then wife Tammy Faye. We didn’t know each other personally, though we had a few conversations. There’s much about Jay’s story that is worthy of repeating. The fact that he was able to overcome the tragic fall of his family in national news and come out with even some affinity for God is pretty stellar. One can hardly blame him, too, for the many aversions to conservative theology and ecclesiology that he now has. Nonetheless from a distance I have watched Jay both with fondness and sadness as he moved further and further from true Christian theology. The most recent evidence of this shift is apparently his book Fall to Grace, which Sojourn Community Church pastor Daniel Montgomery reviews over at The Gospel Coalition.
Jay is, as best I can tell, a good guy with a big heart. He’d give you the shirt off his back, and he, seemingly, has a real desire to welcome people into the grace of God. The problem is that he distorts what our sin, God’s justice, and ultimately God’s grace are according to Scripture and therefore does us all a disservice…this saddens me greatly, both for truth’s sake and for Jay’s.
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