David Platt has sadly been on a downhill trajectory in recent years ever since he left Brook Hills Church and became intertwined with the elite folk of mainstream Evangelicalism. The status quo of Evangelicalism have no real standards of doctrinal fidelity and they don’t really care if those people that they lend credence to preach a false gospel or not.

Yet, Platt has become one of the most outspoken critics of the illusory epidemic of “racism” that supposedly has American Evangelicalism in its death grip and refuses to let go. Platt argues passionately during an interview with Carey Nieuwhof, over and over, about how wicked “racism” and “white supremacy” are and how churches that are “divided among racial lines” are perpetuating a system of Jim Crow. David Platt’s primary ambition and sole mission in life and in his ministry revolves around blending people of different skin shades together while laying aside their “political convictions.”

Platt admits during the interview that part of the reason churches are divided racially is that there is a significant political divide between the two. But then, Platt argues, that these political convictions are “idolatrous.” Following a mass exodus of conservatives from McLean Bible Church, a historically conservative church that he now pastors, due to Platt’s leadership and downplaying of the sinfulness of holding to some political convictions, it’s clear where Platt stands on this issue. For Platt, political idolatry isn’t in the holding of these convictions, it’s in believing that these convictions are moral issues worthy of biblical correction.

Another way to frame David Platt’s position is this: one can hold the political conviction that abortion, the killing of innocent unborn children, should be legal and mothers should be free to choose whether or not to carry out this attack on children, and that is not sinful. In fact, Platt argues that Christians on both sides of this issue should sit around and talk things out, and it’s okay to agree to disagree, so long as everyone is heard. But, where the idolatry comes in is when you believe that someone who believes murdering children should be legal should be corrected and held accountable by the church.

The problem with Platt is that such convictions against these issues far surpass mere “politics”—we’re not talking about which roads tax money should be spent on. Conservatives Christians aren’t dividing over these issues. The “political convictions” that conservative Christians are elevating to a level worthy of dividing over are moral issues—sin. Anyone who believes killing children is morally acceptable and should be legal is in sin, and when pastors, like David Platt, refuse to address the sin in their congregations, conservative, Bible-believing Christians are going to leave.

And that’s what has David Platt all in a tizzy, he believes this shouldn’t be the case, and for him, he believes that holding such convictions is idolatrous. And yes, while we should certainly hold our political leaders accountable for their personal sins, a political leader committing a sin is not the same as voting sinful practices and ideologies into national policy.

Below is a short clip, and the entire interview can be heard (at this link).