Click on the microphone to hear the interview.
I’ve linked to an interview of T. Dexter Jakes back before he was quite so careful about answering questions about his view on the Trinity. The interview was conducted by an associate of John Coleman
There are also a couple of articles available. In one, Jakes offeres some comments on his view. Read them for yourself here (he is “defending” his view, vague as it is) and here (CT is giving some of the misgivings about him). Both articles are in Christianity Today. Please notice that he never gives a definitive response one way or the other, nothing that even remotely resembles a simple statement of doctrine such as “I believe that God exists in three distinct persons, the same in character, single in purpose, in a single Godhead. ” He simply repeats the general statements used even by the Oneness crowd. He states the obvious of Scripture but never goes past it.
The Oneness and apostolic crowd is notoriously uncompromising in their oneness stand. If he came across as a Trinitarian, I suspect his income would go way down. On the other hand, if he went Oneness, the people who insist on some doctrinal accuracy (they are growing fewer and fewer by the year) will dump him. I suspect if he holds out just a little longer ( a couple or three years at most) the main part of the Chruch will be so dumbed down that it won’t really matter what he believes. People will follow him just because they like what he says.
Notice that even in the interview he dances around the issue and even uses many of the phrases favored by the Oneness and Apostolic crowd; terms such as “The word Trinity is not in the Bible.” In stead of just sitting around, press him, your pastors, and anyone else you can reach, to have him give a definitive answer. If they support him, sell his books, have him as a speaker or otherwise endorse him, they should be willing to press him on his position. If they are not, then in all probability it all about the Benjamins and nothing else.
As one politician once said, you get the leaders you ask for.
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who that guy giving the intro? he sounds smart!
He’s okay. I’ve known him a couple of years. He even went with me to pass out tracts about Dexter and his oneness views when T. Dexter appeared at the MCI center a couple of years ago.
Melvin