Recently John and I watched a YouTube video by Pastor Jeff Short of Christian Answers, in which he very rightly commended Summer White of Sheologians for calling out Jen Hatmaker for supporting LBGTQ causes. If you want to watch the video before reading my comments, here it is:

I heartily agree with Pastor Short that women should be rebuking false teaching and warning other women against people like Ms. Hatmaker who distort Scripture. Women must speak out when popular “Christian” celebrities make statements that violate the truth, precisely because these celebrities have such a high degree of influence over evangelical women. When someone like Jen Hatmaker condones same sex marriage, calling it holy, discerning Christian women have an obligation to cry “Wolf!”

But Jeff Short is terribly mistaken in asserting that Summer White is the only woman brave enough to speak out against false teachers! Maybe I should be thankful that he’s not reading women’s blogs (it’s hard convincing men that my blog is exclusively for women), but it troubles me that he strongly implied that none of us has confronted false teachers.

Ironically, several women known as discernment bloggers have, in the past few years, felt convicted that we were calling false teachers out too much when we should have been discipling women so that they could recognize false teaching for themselves. Our blog posts on Beth Moore guaranteed us more hits, certainly, but we noticed our blogs becoming more like tabloid journalism than vehicles to disciple women. If anything, we spent more time than necessary telling our readers who the wolves are than drawing their attention to the Lord Jesus Christ.

But yes, we have denounced Jen Hatmaker. I have featured several blog posts about her acquiescence to the LBGTQ community in my Saturday Samplers. Most of these articles were written by women (including Summer White).

Pastor Short, we most assuredly have been on the front lines for years, pleading with false teachers to repent and warning our sisters about a wide number of “Christian” celebrities who lead women into doctrinal error. Summer White has merely joined our ranks, and we welcome her! But we’ve been here, and we definitely have the battle scars to prove that we’ve spoken just as courageously as Summer White has. We don’t want medals, but we do want people to know we’re here.

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