Caleb Hammer’s Financial Audit YouTube channel has amassed over 2 million subs in a short period of time with several clips going viral, shaping discourses on gender, veteran benefits, and personal responsibility. The show features people who are in financial ruin, some of them earnestly wanting to get out of the hole they’ve made. The vast majority of guests are liberal (or liberal coded), so it is rare to see any sort of gospel presentation on there.
A husband (28) and wife (38) duo are on the show and are immediately open about Christian rap music and doing street evangelism in ghetto neighborhoods. But their witness was a domineering born again baby mama and a husband fighting on too many occasions to count to get a word in.
There are a couple of standout clips Evangelical Dark Web highlighted on X. In expounding upon the wife’s Christian rap skills, she alludes to her beef with someone at a previous church, contemplating a dis track as well as suing them. Caleb Hammer, not a Christian, points out that Jesus does not endorse taking revenge on people, to which the wife powers through it, while the husband says “all have fallen short” to argue that their future sins are atoned for. Caleb Hammer calls out their antinomian mentality, stating that they are setting themselves up to make further bad decisions.
The conversation pivots to the couple being asked if religion is important in their life, to which they argue that Christianity is not a religion. Again Caleb Hammer calls out the absurdity of Chrsitianity not being a religion, perhaps unfamiliar with the relationship vs religion parlance in the church.
Indeed, many Christians are taught that Christianity is a relationship, not a religion, but Christianity is both relationship and religion. Jesus established ordinances, gave commandments, and created a process for church discipline. Humans are made to worship, and so Christianity is the truest end of this inclination. The couple claims to be nondenominational, despite clearly being Pentecostal.
The couple would soon after claim that the Roman Catholic Church crucified Christ, making Protestants look bad in a viral moment.
The idea of Religionless Christianity was coined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who wanted to make Christianity palatable in an increasingly secular world. This approach had major ramifications in Evangelicalism, where many churches adopted seeker sensitive approaches to ministry and watered down sound doctrine.
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