John MacArthur’s Rebuke of Alana Lagares

For some time, I have been collecting resources related to the theological problems of Calvinism as well as the experiences of Christians when leaving such churches. Finally this weekend I started assembling them into a new category called Leaving Calvinism. They are all back-dated to when I started collecting them. 

This video, however, is going up new at the top of my blog. Why? Because it encapsulates in just a few minutes so much of what I’ve been observing about the current Reformed and Calvinistic attitude toward women. It provides an excellent launching pad for the content in that category. 

Here’s the brief video and then my comments continue below it.

Someone might wonder why I’ve started sharing more about these topics. It’s because I can see what is coming. We will shortly be leaving the destructive mess of the Fourth Turning. You can already see glimpses of the First Turning starting to develop if you are paying attention. One of the hallmarks of the First Turning is maximum difference between men and women. So simply from a cultural standpoint, this is happening.

But I’ve also pointed out there is a segment of the church in which the men have a seething contempt for feminists that is spilling over into how they view, speak of, and interact with their sisters in Christ. I wrote of this in The Angry Christian Men. I’m confident enough that it will be an issue that I started tagging posts this weekend with Reformed Patriarchy. 

The contempt John MacArthur showed toward Alana was palpable. He called her a wistful girl. She’s a married homeschooling mother who must be in her mid-thirties. In my post Alana Lagares and Leighton Flowers on John MacArthur Rebuke, Alana and Leighton Flowers have an interesting discussion about MacArthur’s attack on Alana. I agree whole-heartedly with the point Leighton makes at the beginning about what would have happened if the situation had been set up a bit differently in two ways.

Lastly, I find the facial expressions, body language, and vocal inflections during the part about Alana disgusting. Truly disgusting for two men with public ministries to speak about a sister in Christ in such a way. They are setting the example for other Reformed and Calvinist men to treat women with contempt. 

It is the perfect encapsulation of the Reformed and Calvinist movements in America today.