# Steven Furtick **Summary.** Founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated. Flagged in Reformed critique for sermon content that reads as modalist. Featured frequently in critique of the celebrity-pastor model and its accountability deficits. ## Facts - **Role.** Founder and lead pastor, Elevation Church (2006–). - **Education.** Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.). - **Published.** *Sun Stand Still* (2010), *Crash the Chaos* (and others). - **Platform.** YouTube and streaming sermons with high global reach. ## Critique Vectors 1. **Modalism allegation.** Aniol cites Furtick sermon statements that collapse Trinitarian distinction. Furtick supporters argue pastoral rhetoric is being read as formal theological claim. 2. **Spontaneous baptism controversy.** See [[Elevation Church]] for the 2014 coaching document. 3. **Compensation and housing.** Furtick's compensation and 16,000-square-foot house drew public scrutiny and IRS-related questions. Elevation's accountability structure was named as inadequate by critics. ## Tradition Evangelical, celebrity-pastor model, charismatic-adjacent. ## Open Threads - A direct sermon-text ingest from Furtick's library to assess the modalism allegation on its own terms. - Mapping of Furtick's doctrinal affirmations (the Elevation doctrinal statement vs. the sermon rhetoric). ## Related - [[Elevation Church]] - [[NAR Worship Critique Traditions]]