First, information technology is egregiously man-centered. Although their leader intersperses "celebrity to God" throughout his ramblings, including at odd times, such every bit when he is graphically describing the death of an older man by eye set on while visiting a prostitute (1), First Church building is the farthest thing imaginable from beingness God-centered. I need only visit the forepart page of the cult'south website to notice how glaringly man-centered it is. Beyond from "TruthOfGod.com" we notice the name of a human—Gino Jennings—surrounded by no less than six titles. This is no ordinary pastor. This is "Apostle, Pastor, Leader, Teacher, Guide, and General Overseer", elsewhere  "Prophet"—Gino Jennings. First Church is gathered around—centered around—the personality of an entertaining uber-confident Human.

Second, it judaizes the gospel. It is the Galatian heresy repackaged for 21st Century "blackness" people who are fed up with the abject worldliness they see in many "black" churches (quotation marks because in that location is actually no such thing as "black" and "white" people, allow alone churches, Colossians 3:11). Jennings lambasts "snakes like Jakes" (referring to TD Jakes) and money grabbers like Creflo Dollar on a regular footing. Trouble is…Jennings' path to "holiness" is not the antitoxin to the carnal antinomianism of these megachurch pastors. Information technology is poison of the opposite multifariousness—legalism. Jennings rejects salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ lonely. As if Acts 15 and the book of Galatians were never written, Jennings (2) moves baptism (and not simply baptism, but a certain formula for baptism—only in Jesus' name) out of order in God'due south gild of salvation (Acts ten:44-48). Similarly, he makes speaking in tongues a requirement for salvation, contra Romans 3:21-26, let alone 1 Corinthians 12:10&thirty. The Judaizers added just ane thing, saying "Unless yous are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved" (Acts 15:1). Jennings adds two things—baptism and tongues—and so how much more does he autumn under the Galatians 1 anathema?

Third, Jennings preaches a different god. This is not surprising. 2 Corinthians 11:4 tells u.s.a. to sentinel out for "a dissimilar gospel", which Jennings clearly has, and then why would he not have "another Jesus" and "a unlike spirit", every bit false prophets often exercise? Other cult leaders—Marcion, Sabellius, Arius, Joseph Smith—take done it before. Why not now? Gino Jennings' particular multifariousness of heresy is modalism. He asserts the oneness of God's Beingness, and as far equally that goes, he does well (Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29). Just Jennings would rob God of His ability to be ontologically different from created things (Isaiah 40:25). Jennings disallows iii co-eternal co-equal persons to exist in the 1 Being—the one Essence—of God. As if God need be fashioned after the conceptions of an overconfident manJennings rejects the Biblical presentation of God and collapses all distinctions betwixt the persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, leaving Jesus praying to Himself in the Garden (Luke 22:42) and sending "another Comforter" (John 14:16) who is none other than Himself!Jennings rejects the Biblical presentation of God and collapses all distinctions between the persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, leaving Jesus praying to Himself in the Garden (Luke 22:42) and sending "another Comforter" (John xiv:16) who is none other than Himself!

Jennings probably doesn't understand what the doctrine of the Trinity really is, considering his efforts to abnegate it don't even accost what nosotros teach. But he yet espouses Sabellianism with his characteristic confidence. He preaches a gospel that cannot save, because when you add works to grace, grace is no longer grace (Romans eleven:6). And as so many cults practice, this one centers around the personality of its founder. So, mark Gino Jennings every bit a imitation prophet and First Church as a cult. I challenged the Campaigner, Pastor, Leader, Teacher, Guide, General Overseer, Prophet of this cult to a public moderated debate (Acts xv:2). For the sake of the truth of God, I hope he accepts the challenge.