God is certainly not saying about us the same thing that is true about Jesus being both God and man. Note that he makes this statement after referring to Jesus as man and God and then saying, “That’s what he’s saying about us now!” On no reasonable construction of Chan’s statements in context is this true. Even if Chan meant “similar to,” what Chan says does appear to cross the line. If the latter, which is possible (Chan did seem to say “like” fairly often), then Rosebrough is right. Well, to be precise, Chan said that there was a sense in which he was “like God and man all at once.” In context it was difficult to tell if like meant “similar to” or if it meant, like, Southern California surfer dude like. He introduced his critique video as follows: “Here is Francis Chan saying that he’s both God and man. It makes no sense then if my life resembles a person who does not have the Holy Spirit in them.Ī Lutheran pastor named Chris Rosebrough did a video criticizing Chan’s message. Somehow God is in me and there is a sense in which I am like God and man all at once! His Spirit dwells inside of me. But don’t you understand? That’s what he’s saying about us now! Like right now you’re looking at a person who is not just a person. Are you kidding me? He was a man and, somehow, he was God all at once. And just like I wouldn’t dare ever refer to Jesus as ‘just an ordinary guy,’ none of us would.
He died so that my soul could be cleansed, so that my body could become completely clean, so that his Holy Spirit would enter into me. Jesus did not die on the cross so that you and I could live ordinary lives. In one of these, dated May 2, 2020, Chan made the following statement (starting about minute 4:00): Early this year he moved to Hong Kong, where he has been doing videos that hundreds of thousands of people watch on YouTube.
He is the author of several influential books, was the pastor of a megachurch in Southern California, and has been featured in all sorts of evangelical media and at major conferences (including some controversial ones).
Francis Chan has been one of the most popular American evangelical figures of the past decade.
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