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Glenn Becks Gets Support From Evangelical Megachurch Pastor
by Joseph Ernest August 27, 2010
Newscast Media -- Television and radio personality Glenn Beck will be joined by approximately 2,000 ministers and religious leaders are expected to attend Beck’s "Divine Destiny" event Friday night ahead of the television and radio personality's more publicized "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday.
"Whether we care to believe it or not, our country is in our danger’s hour," says Beck. "And there’s only one answer."
Beck spent the past year trying to forge relationships with some of the biggest names in the Christian community an effort he admits has been extraordinary because of his faith and who he is. Raised in a Catholic home, Beck has become increasingly popular among social conservatives for his political commentaries but has not been so easily embraced by Christian theological conservatives who regard Mormonism as heresy or, at best, non-Christian.
Before deciding to stand by Beck, evangelical megachurch pastor Jim Garlow said he had to do a lot sorting and watched Beck as closely as he could.
"I have listened and watched very carefully regarding clues to Glenn’s spiritual condition," said the lead pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, Calif.
"I have interviewed several people who have been with him and have talked very specifically with him regarding his own personal salvation," he added.
And according to Garlow, Beck has said “unequivocally” that that he relies on the atonement of Jesus on the cross for forgiveness for his sins.
“[A]nd those are almost the exact words,” Garlow recalled in a five-page memo released this past Tuesday. “Few people use the term atonement. Glenn did. “
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land was reportedly surprised to hear the Gospel so clearly on secular television.
"I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation – persons extremely well known in Christianity – and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), ‘Glenn is saved,’" Garlow reported. "He understands receiving Christ as savior."
Still, Garlow made it clear that he doesn’t see eye-to-eye with Beck on a number of things, including theology. But the megachurch pastor noted that everyone’s theological understanding is off and that only the most arrogant would say that its 100 percent perfect.
“Here is my question: if your theology is off slightly, but you still trust exclusively in Jesus Christ’s death on the cross for your salvation, and in his resurrection, are you still saved? Going to heaven? Yes,” Garlow argued. Add Comments>>
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