“The Reformed community is not a big fan of you,” Chandler told Furtick last year during The Elephant Room, which featured blunt conversations and debates among influential pastors. Chandler had expressed concern that Furtick was rejecting doctrine in the name of outreach

A young evangelical pastor urged Elevation Church attendees to get past their church and their popular pastor, Steven Furtick, and “get underneath” to what God is doing.

“If we can’t get there, we’re going to be at a superficial plane,” Matt Chandler, lead pastor of the Village Church in Highland Village, Texas, told over 2,500 people at the Code Orange Revival in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.

As the third speaker at the 12-night revival, Chandler went into the event to “proclaim the majesty of Jesus” to thousands at Elevation Church and thousands more watching on the Web and TV.

He told crowds that many evangelicals have misconceptions about God, believing that He is really about them, that everything God does is because of them, and that “God looks at all His massive creation and is in awe of our greatness.”

But, he said, that’s where they go wrong.

“Yes, Jesus loves you; yes, Jesus is for you … but ultimately God’s motivation in all of that isn’t so you and Him can be boys.” Rather, he said, God’s real motivation is for His glory and renown.

Chandler went on to explain through various scriptures that “from Genesis to Revelation” God is all about reconciling and reclaiming all things for His glory. “The Bible is not about you, it’s about Jesus,” he preached.

Unfortunately, many people look at the Bible from the wrong perspective, viewing it as a roadmap for their life, the Village pastor lamented. And that leads them to infuse themselves into the Bible as if they are the hero.

Once people realize that “God is about God, and [they] are not the center of the universe” then they will know the root of their problems, he asserted. People have conflict in their marriages, at work, or in various situations because they think the world is about them.

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