List of Pastors with Strangely False Salvation Doctrines

This is a list of pastors from https://www.cypresschapel.com/about-us.html, retrieved on July 21, 2021.

I suppose they are mainly trustworthy, except their salvation doctrines are weirdly off.  Check them out with the Bible.  No pastor is perfect, but make sure they are sincere and repentant in what they say and do, and don't be judges of their thoughts (like Paul negatively asserts about respecters of persons).  Judge what they say and do, though, like 1 Corinthians 5:12-13a says: Christians judge those inside the Church and God judges those outside it.

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I looked at the Calvary Chapel website, https://www.calvarychapel.com/know-god, on July 21, 2021.

It adds a necessity of asking Jesus to forgive you, which Paul's gospel doesn't explicitly include as a necessity, but is implied by salvation.  The problem is that it pulls into a prerequisite for salvation what is really the outcome of and a part of the definition of salvation, and it lightly but definitely pushes for a total separation of sin, which Paul didn't have, as a necessary step in gaining salvation.  Christ separates us totally from sin in the way that Paul found - when he sinned, it wasn't him but his body following the law of sin to death, but he still served God with his mind.  If we try to not sin as even one of many pieces in order to gain salvation, then we fall into a false idea of salvation by our life-long work of fighting sin instead of Christ's finished work of death for our sins.

The website mentions the death for our sins and the Resurrection, and the sample prayer asserts belief of those necessary beliefs (there's no mention of the burial, length of time dead or the subsequent witness by so many witnesses after the Resurrection, like the Bible asserts we must believe, which Paul learned and then taught).

Notice that it mentions the necessity of confessing, but misplaces that confession from confessing Master Jesus to be "confessing your faith in Him".  It quotes Romans 10:9, but in the prayer it doesn't actually call Jesus "Master" (or "Lord").  This is of particular concern, not only due to the absence of the verbal confession of Master Jesus, but because it does purposefully use the word "confess" and then obfuscates its object, which takes away the true object and adds a burden that wasn't there, because nothing in Scripture says we must confess with the mouth that we believe Christ died for our sins, was buried, Resurrected on the third day by God and seen by many witnesses, but it only says that we must believe those things.

Here's the detailed salvation doctrine:

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The Bible says that experiencing forgiveness and beginning a relationship with God is as simple as trusting in Jesus Christ, and confessing your faith in Him. God’s promise to you is that, “if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9 NKJV)

If you are ready to know God and receive His forgiveness, here is a suggested prayer you can use to express your heart to Him:

Father, I understand that I am guilty and broken. I believe that Your Son, Jesus, died for my sins and that He rose again and is alive today. I am putting my trust in Him for forgiveness of my sins and restoration of my broken relationship with You. Forgive my sins. Fill me with Your strength to begin living a new life for you. Based on my faith in the life, death and resurrection Jesus accomplished for me, I believe that You have accepted me as Your child forever. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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Jim Kempner - "A hurting world needs a loving God! Jesus His Son came to earth to heal us of our spiritual disease that has been destroying us. (SIN). He loves us so much and He created us and thus knows how to fix the things that have gone wrong in our lives." - This sounds like the spiritual disease Jesus came to "heal" are individual sins (which are "things that have gone wrong in our lives") instead of the sin that kills the human spirit the first time we commit one from which we need to be born again through belief in the tenets of the gospel that Paul learned and wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and the verbal confession of Master Jesus that Paul said in Romans 10:9, 10 and 13.  If Jim is saying that (and it seems almost certain from this one statement, taken from his website "http://www.jimmykempner.com/" on July 21, 2021), then he's fallen victim to another gospel.  It depends on whether he meant to tie the first line to the second and to equate healing our spiritual disease (by salvation) to fixing the wrong things in our lives (which is really soul-healing and not salvation; remember that Christians become more righteous by believing the Resurrection, like Romans 10:9b and 10:10a says).  Maybe he doesn't mean this primary statement of his ministry in that way, but the antichrist religion that does say that soul-healing is salvation is subtle and insidious.  Listen to his sermons with a yellow alert in mind.

Don Mcclure - From his website at https://www.calvarybi.com/doctrinal-statement, retrieved on July 21, 2021, I found the following:

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We believe that all people are sinners by nature and choice, falling short of God’s standard and breaking His commandments – and therefore are under God’s righteous judgment. Yet, God saves and gives new life to all who come to Him in repentance and faith, trusting in the Person and work of Jesus Christ. At the cross, Jesus Christ died in our place as our substitute, absorbing God’s wrath that should have come upon us. Because Jesus died for the sins of the world, the invitation to believe is open to all, and whoever desires may come unto Jesus for new life and the forgiveness of sins (Matthew 11:28; John 3:16; Acts 3:19, 20:21; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 8-9; I John 2:2; Revelation 22:17).

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Notice that it says salvation comes to those who come to Jesus in "repentance and faith", which is true but it mixes the general "repentance" with the specific "faith" (though it doesn't specify just what to believe, yet it does reference Christ's death for our sins), and the phrase lacks "confess with your mouth Master Jesus" or any reference to it for salvation.  Just how we "come to Jesus" is the point.  Notice that the phrase "whoever desires may come unto Jesus" is also true, but it seems like salvation is a force of will or choice to simply be saved instead of believing and confessing, according to the gospel that Paul both learned and taught (1 Corinthians 15:1-3a).

Mike Macintosh - There's a video that Mike's website (https://mikemacintosh.net/) links to where "what to do" after learning "who or what is God" (https://hcf.org/know-god/what-to-do/, retrieved July 21, 2021).  The video says things like: confess we are sinners, come into my heart, heal my sin, wash me clean, thanks for grace, mercy and newness of life. Then it goes on to say that if you prayed that prayer, you are now a child of God.  Then it says the first thing to do is to tell someone else (does this seem to fulfill confessing Master Jesus?).  This is simply not the gospel.  It is a willful act to desire salvation but without the need to believe all the tenets of the gospel that Paul learned and then taught (1 Corinthians 15:1-3a) and verbally confessing Master Jesus.

Greg Laurie - From his website (https://harvest.org/know-god/how-to-know-god/, retrieved July 21, 2021), Greg has this old half-gospel that leaves out parts and adds repenting from all sin as a necessary prerequisite to salvation (Acts 3:19a is quoted with the phrase "of your sins" added after "repent", while the actual verse does not say that, but has a causal relationship between repentance and the blotting out of sin.  This addition is evidence of an awareness of pushing a works-based salvation.  Belief and confession, according to the gospel Paul learned and taught, is the repentance).  Notice the reduction of believing a specific set of things in the fourth step ("Becoming a Christian is not merely believing some creed..").:

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Realize that you are a sinner.

No matter how good a life we try to live, we still fall miserably short of being a good person. That is because we are all sinners. The Bible says, “No one is good—not even one.” We cannot become who we are supposed to be without Jesus Christ.

Recognize that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.

The Bible tells us that “God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” This is the Good News, that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place when we least deserved it.

Repent of your sin.

The Bible tells us, “Repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.” The word repent means to change our direction in life. Instead of running from God, we can run toward Him.

Receive Jesus Christ into your life.

Becoming a Christian is not merely believing some creed or going to church. It is having Christ Himself take residence in your life and heart. Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in . . .” If you would like to have a relationship with Christ, simply pray this prayer and mean it in your heart:

“Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I believe You died for my sins. Right now, I turn from my sins and open the door of my heart and life. I confess You as my personal Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me. Amen.”

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Malcolm Wild - The church he pastored has an identical salvation doctrine as Don Mcclure (https://www.calvarychapeldeepsouth.com/statement-of-faith/, retrieved July 21, 2021).

Damian Kyle - "We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential and that repentance from sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the only way to come into a relationship with God."

This has the repentance from sin problem, the generic acceptation of Jesus (though it specifies acceptance of Jesus as Lord, yet it doesn't mention confession of Jesus as Lord), and it leaves out belief in the full tenets of the gospel that Paul learned and preached (1 Corinthians 15:1-3a).

Steve Mays - The website (https://ccsouthbay.org/beliefs, retrieved on July 21, 2021) of the church he pastored (he's dead now, so maybe this is from the new pastor) says very little about salvation on their beliefs page.

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Salvation is through Jesus Christ alone and by faith alone.

Nothing can be added to the finished work of Christ on the cross.

Salvation is through faith in Christ and NOTHING else.

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This is not as seeker-friendly as actual salvation doctrine, which is pretty quick all told and doesn't need this shredding brevity.  Let's take it line by line.

Faith in what, exactly?

The other tenets of salvation, like the Resurrection, are a part of what we must believe and continue to believe to be saved (1 Corinthians 15:2).

Again, faith in what about Christ?  Verbally confessing Master Jesus is also needed, and that's SOMETHING else.  Really.

John Spencer - The church he pastors has an identical salvation doctrine as Don Mcclure (https://www.coastlinegulfbreeze.com/about-2/, retrieved July 21, 2021).

Gary Johnson - This one is a little different (https://cchemet.org/statement-of-faith/, retrieved on July 21, 2021).

Faith in what, exactly?  It does mention the requirement of verbally confessing Master Jesus.  It add repentance from sin.

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We believe that all people are sinners by nature and, therefore, are under condemnation; that God regenerates based upon faith by the Holy Spirit, those who repent of their sins and confess Jesus Christ as Lord. (Acts 8:15-17; Titus 3:5)

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Jeff Johnson - Identical to Gary Johnson, except it adds "saves and " before "regenerates" and it adds more Scripture references (Romans 3:23 and 5:8; Ephesians 2:1-3 and 8-9).  https://www.ccdowney.com/whatwebelieve, retrieved on July 21, 2021.  

David Guzik - From his website (https://calvarysb.com/statement-of-faith, retrieved on July 21, 2021), we find a classic but wrong salvation doctrine.  It's misleading, with a requirement to repent of sin (which is impossible to do in the colloquial way that is understood by anyone casually hearing the claim, though technically a Christian axe-murdering is at that moment not committing sin, even though his body is, like Paul said in Romans 7:20 and 7:25).  He repairs this subtly toward the end by saying that all the saved persons sins are forgiven when he is born again, so that repentance of sins takes on a definition that must include our future willful sins.

He has us accepting Jesus as Lord instead of confessing Him with our mouth as Lord.

He has us trusting Jesus to save us, which is, of course, a part of it, but it makes it seem like an act of our will to simply trust that Jesus will save us even without believing the tenets of the gospel.  There's no mention of believing the Resurrection.

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We believe that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God.
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Why, oh why, doesn't any of the ones I did check actually preach the simple tenets of continual belief which are necessary for salvation that Paul first learned and then taught?  And these I have checked have differences among themselves, even though they all stem from Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel Cosa Mesa.  It is vitally important that the whole worldwide Church gets together on salvation doctrine, according to the Scriptures!  The addition of repenting of all sins in order to be saved in the first place is also of particular concern, and we confess Master Jesus, not sin (that's the opposite!).  Once we are saved (justified, if you want), then we can confess sin during a process of soul-cleaning (James 5:16), but not to accept salvation.  Consider the man in the Corinthian congregation who had sex with his father's wife.  Paul spoke about him as someone they should have shunned, and shunning is done to brothers, not to enemies, giving their bodies over to Satan for its destruction and the healing of the unrepentant sibling in Christ (1 Corinthians 5:1, 5:5, 5:11; cross-reference 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15).  Therefore, repenting of individual sins is not a prerequisite of salvation (but we repent of sin in general by turning to Christ in salvation, and that repentance is automatic and absolute in the salvation)!
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Here are the other pastors from the website, but I haven't explicitly checked them.

Chuck Smith
L. E. Romaine
Richard Cimino
Joey Buran

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