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There was confirmation of this shameful practice from one of the churches in Singapore. This is not just in our beloved USA. If this is happening in your country, please speak now so we can gather together in prayer to stop it by the power of His Holy Spirit.
One of the most egregious examples of teaching antinomianism is Billy Graham’s grandchild, Tullian Tchividjian. He lost two ministries by cheating on his wife, committing adultery with a married woman, and trying to cover it all up, then divorcing his first wife and marrying his adultery partner. And now he has started a new church in 2019 that teaches transparency about sinning, but does not teach about repenting from it and seeking holiness according to God’s holy law. This is a travesty. Throughout the whole entire Bible, we read examples about the importance of living a holy life, a consecrated life, a sanctified life. No compromise with sin. We can lead normal lives like everyone else, but not sin like everyone else.
At least two ministers so far, John MacArthur and Gregory Perry, have exposed him for this and for his teaching of Nicolaitan doctrine. MacArthur says that "Tchividjian is a false teacher and accused him of intentionally subscribing to a heresy — antinomianism — in order to accommodate his own sin."
And Tullian is teaching others to do the same. Tullian wrote a book called “One-Way Love,” in which he teaches antinomianism while at the same time he denies the existence of it. He teaches there are no consequences for sin, that God’s threats against bad behaviour ring hollow, that there is no accountability for one’s behaviour, that there is not responsibility for one’s actions, that living holy is legalism, and that one can continue to live in sin and get to heaven. Read the excerpts illustrated by Gregory Perry:
1) NO REQUIREMENT TO CHANGE
2) ABUSE OF THE SCRIPTURES
3) A CALL TO CHRISTIAN HOLINESS IS LEGALISM
4) ANTINOMIANISM IS A MYTH
5) UNBIBLICAL APPLICATIONS
As a rebellious teenager, Tullian, by his own admission, was sinning it up, and as a result was kicked out of the house by his parents. He got his own place and got a job, but kept getting fired because he would not man up to his responsibilities, He then called his father to borrow some money. The father did not probe into why he was always out of money, and would always get fired, and always be unable to pay the rent. The dad wrote him a blank check to cover his debts. After that, Tullian then proceeded, by his own admission, to steal checks and money from his own father on several occasions, and the father did not rebuke him or punish him for it. That was a sheer case of abuse of his father's trust, compassion and generosity.
Gregory Perry states that in the book, “Tullian then uses his own parenting example to illustrate one-way love. He tells how he and his wife (at the time) caught his son doing “some pretty bad stuff. Stuff that we had explicitly and repeatedly told him he was not allowed to do. This was willful defiance, and it was affecting his schoolwork and the rest of the family (sound familiar?)”
“He confiscated his unrepentant son’s cell phone and sold it. He also took his son’s car keys and put him on social lockdown so that he could see the seriousness of what he had done."
When Tullian admonished his son not to give his mother a hard time while he was away on a business trip, his son disobeyed the request; and then his wife called him to tell him about it. He called the son over to talk to him upon his return, the son confessed everything, and Tullian did not punish him for it.
Perry goes further: “Even worse, Tullian gives an example of the one-way love of his friend’s father. When this friend of his was sixteen he wrecked his car. He had been drinking, and in fact, he and his friends were all drunk. After assuring his father that he was fine, he confessed that he was drunk. He was terrified at how his father might respond. Later that night, after [Tullian’s friend] made it home, he wept and wept in his father’s study. He was embarrassed, ashamed, guilty. At the end of the ordeal, his father asked him a question: “How about tomorrow we go and get you a new car?” (164-165).
“Apparently God will not only refuse to punish us when we sin, but He just blesses us all the more. This is a total denial of biblical parenting. Tullian is encouraging parents to deliberately teach their children that their sins have no consequences. We are to give the impression that when we sin God will just give you a hug and say, “It’s alright,” and make room for you to sin more. This is absolute blasphemy.”