(ETH) – Popular women’s author and teacher Beth Moore has just received a sharp rebuke by a prominent women’s ministry leader of 30 years, Susan Heck, who leads a ministry called With the Master.
According to the report from the Christian Post, Heck denounced Moore as a false teacher who will face the “blackness of darkness forever” unless she repents for leading women astray. “The truth is, I’m not trying to condemn her, I feel great sorrow for her because she is the blind leading the blind.
They’re both going to fall in the ditch. And unless she repents, the blackness of darkness is reserved for her forever. That doesn’t make me happy. I pray for Beth Moore every week that she’ll repent. I pray that she’ll consent to wholesome truth. She’s leading so many women astray and it grieves my heart. I’m not happy about it.
It grieves me,” The statement came from a recent interview with Justin Peters of Justin Peters Ministries on Monday. The reference of the “blackness of darkness” is referenced in the Book of Jude as a place reserved for false ministers, according to Jude 1:13 in the New Testament.
The catalyst of this response was likely stemmed from Moore’s, recent announcement of departing from the Southern Baptist denomination and apologizing for her role in elevating complementarian theology to a “matter of 1st importance” to much fanfare. Heck stated in the interview that the first time she heard Moore speak she was disgusted by her teachings.
“The first time I heard her name was through a lady who was disciplining me and she wanted to know what I thought about her. I didn’t even know her. She said if I get you a video, will you watch it? And I said ‘sure.’ It was VHS so that tells you how long ago,” Heck began.
She went on to say that her husband, Doug, was only able to stomach 15 minutes of Moore but she decided to soldier on until the end of the video so she could critique Moore fairly. “Honestly, when I turned the television off, I bowed my head and I said, ‘Lord, that was disgusting,’” Heck said. “My concerns about her Justin are poor hermeneutics. She has terrible rules of interpreting Scripture. She is very narcissistic.
She is very dramatic. She doesn’t exegete Scripture. She doesn’t apply Scripture. The things that I’ve seen, I’ve looked at her Twitter account, Instagram account, other things like that, and I have screenshotted several things and have taken those with me on my journeys.
When people challenge me about Beth Moore, I just hold up my phone and I say, ‘Let me ask you, is this the woman you want to emulate? Is this a godly woman?’ asked Heck, who is a certified counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. Heck even went further to say that Moore has gotten so “bizarre” in the last few years it made her wonder if she was “medicated” or “drinking.”
