Lets don't get too free with words like "leave a church if the Pastors fails to see things your way". We see too much of this these days and I would say stay and be a light to your church and stand up for the truth. Now if your church goes in a hereitcal direction then that is a horse of a different color.
For that, we have no worries. If there is anything our pastor will not stand for is heretical teaching. I asked hubby (another pastor at our church) if our senior pastor knows that Jakes will be there and he said they haven't discussed it yet but they are having their pastor's meeting today so we'll see if it comes up.
Freeatlast - How do you know that my pastor is failing the church in regards to this? Yes, we've had some issues in the past but one thing I can say about my pastor - he stands squarely on Scripture and will not compromise on that. I believe that if we do go through with this, two things will happen:
#1 - The attendees of the Elephant Room (the pastors on the panel) are going to get Jakes into a corner and get him to tell the truth. They will not allow wishy washy answers but will get the issue out in the open for all to see, thus fully exposing a heretic - or else we will see that Jakes has changed his beliefs on this matter.
#2 - If Jakes is a heretic as we believe, we will be staying after the Elephant Room is over to discuss the truth of the Trinity and we will have a teaching on the Biblical stance and why Jakes is 100% wrong in what he believes. That would teach all of our attenders to be discerning and to be able to answer the heresies that they hear in the "church" (mostly on TV).
ETA: I just wanted to say that if my pastor was all excited that Jakes was on the Elephant Room because he thought he was a good teacher, I'd agree that it would be time to leave but I know for a fact that he knows that Jake's past teaching on this subject is heretical. We signed up to become a site to show the Elephant Room before we knew who was going to be on the panel so we cannot falsely accuse my pastor of anything untoward.