“And I don’t want a pastor that has a larger wardrobe budget than a book budget,” Kirk said. “It’s obvious you’re just being a pastor to be popular. You don’t believe this stuff. They don’t even know very much. They can’t quote Scripture. They can’t go deep.”
Kirk went on to allege that pastors who disagree with him are “afraid” to speak with him, which he said is evidence that they “are false prophets and they’re ministers of a pagan agenda.”
“But a lot of them went to seminary, which is one of the reasons why they’re so weak,” Kirk said. “The seminaries, AKA cemeteries, are one of the most destructive influences on American Christian life.”
“They are infiltrated with wokeism, social justice nonsense, and they are raising a generation of these weak, beta-male, kind of overly feminine ‘pastor men’ that are coming to these churches,” Kirk continued. “And they’re all emotion and no truth, and they bring, quite honestly, this unclean spirit to destroy the church from within.”
Kirk cited no evidence to support his accusations.
“[Seminary] needs to be excommunicated immediately from the American church,” Kirk added to the sound of applause.
Hotsenpiller, who according to his Linkedin profile earned a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, responded to Kirk by joking, “We probably shouldn’t go on very much longer, ‘cause we could really get in trouble here tonight.”
Kirk went on to attack the late Timothy Keller, who he said “did not finish well,” as well as Rick Warren, who Kirk said is “being used as an instrument of a secular, new age, pagan agenda.”
“Like, stop calling yourself a pastor,” Kirk remarked. Hotsenpiller responded by saying that he’d like “to go a little deeper” on that topic. The crowd laughed and applauded.
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ChurchLeaders has reached out to Phil Hotsenpiller and will update this article in the event of his response.
