James McDonald: Ignorance? or Denial?

I went to Starbucks this afternoon with my wife (yes, i love their coffee... for all you starbucks haters) and i came across a blog entry by Dan Phillips. He was speaking about James McDonald and his ignorance or denial (which ever you decide) of T.D. Jakes Oneness (no, not some kind of Buddhist practice or thought... oneness Pentecostalism). The entry triggered some sort of anger inside of me at first. It has to do with this event called the "Elephant Room" where he gathers a bunch of "Christian leaders" together to "talk" about "issues". I don't recommend going to this site or watching any of the videos if you get sick easily..... of garbage.

The interesting thing out of this entire discussion about the upcoming Elephant Room 2 is James McDonald's acceptance of T.D. Jakes as a "brother" in Christ. In one of James' articles he states the following:

In the Elephant Room, we are gathering those who are brothers in the national sense and profess to be brothers in the gospel sense, to act like brothers in the relational sense.

Now, knowing that he has invited T.D. Jakes to the Elephant room, this concludes that he believes that a heretic (yes, straight-up heresy) is his "brother" in Christ. He thinks that Jakes believes the same Gospel that is in Holy Writ. T.D. Jakes believes in Modalism. As was stated by Dan, Jakes' teachings are documented.

I also find that such statements as:

The goal is open conversation between Christian leaders who see and do ministry differently.

Or:

Most importantly, we are attempting to model an ethic of behavior and expression of love that adorns the gospel.

Or:

Gospel belief without Gospel behavior is NOT orthodoxy.

First, if Jakes is a Christian leader then we need to redefine the word Christian. Secondly, modeling "an ethic of behavior and expression of love that adorns the gospel" isn't sitting there arm-in-arm with a rancid heretic stating that he's your brother in Christ. That isn't true love. True love would be to tell him that he is in sin and must repent. Put your faith in Christ and turn away from your sins. Thirdly, this just shows the ignorance and anti-intellectualism of so-called "leaders" in the "Christian" realm. Orthodoxy comes from two Greek words "Orthos" which means right, true or straight, and "doxa" which means opinion or belief. Literally, true belief. He obviously can't understand a distinction between orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

Anyways, I find this whole thing ridiculous and I just wish that "organizations" like the Elephant Room would be consistent and call themselves anything but Christian.