The winner of the Democrat Senate primary in Kansas, the founder of the largest United Methodist Church in the nation and one of the largest in the entire world, received swift blowback after a sermon of his, despite him being a Christian leader and pastor, denied the exclusivity of Jesus Christ and welcomed the idea that members of any faith tradition would find their way to their own heaven in the afterlife.
As background, Reverend Adam Hamilton was just 26 years old when he founded the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in a suburb of Kansas City in 1990. Today, his megachurch boasts an average of more than 25,000 members attending weekly services to one of nine campuses in the area, making it the largest of its denomination in the entire United States. He has authored over 30 books and was appointed by Barack Obama in 2013 to a faith group.
And now, after winning the Senate primary among Kansas voters for the Democrat nomination, a trove of sermons are available online to see what this supposed Christian actually believes. One video was released that appallingly showed the Christian leader denouncing the unique role Jesus Christ plays in the salvation of mankind. “Adam Hamilton, the Democrat nominee in Kansas’s Senate race has publicly denied the exclusivity of Jesus during his sermon,” The Calvin Coolidge Project wrote on X alongside a video of a clipped message.
“I’ve spent a lot of my life studying different world religions, and you find some get you a little closer. The image begins to become clear, like this picture on the screen, and then you study another one, you find it gets even clearer. You you suddenly see that that the image becomes even more in focus, and so for me, as I’ve studied different world religions, I sit in the chair and I’m I’m looking through these different lenses, and when I finally got to that last one, when I finally got to Jesus and Christianity, it was like I I could see clearly the clearest that I had seen,” he can be seen saying in the video.
“And so I think about how Paul says he talks about Jesus. He says the Son is the image of the invisible God, right? And Jesus elsewhere says if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father. And and so in Christianity we believe that God actually came and walked among us in the flesh. He didn’t give us a book; he came in person. And when we look at Jesus, we have the clearest picture we have of God,” he continues.
“And so, when I began to look through the lens of Jesus, my eyesight, spiritual eyesight, I felt became the most clear it could be, like you see in this image here. Now, the truth is that a Muslim would say through Islam they see the most clearly, and a Hindu through Hinduism, and a Jew through Judaism, and so so I recognize we all are you know we all have a different lens that we’re seeing through, and sometimes we think you know depending how we were raised and how we think one lens is you know clearly a better lens for me,” he goes on.
“And when it comes to other faiths, I believe as a Christian that they are going to when they get to heaven they’re going to see Jesus and they’re going to say Ah, it was you all the all along that I was searching for, but I don’t fear that those folks will spend eternity in hell,” he finishes.
Reacting to the idea that a Christian pastor and church founder would reject the exclusivity of Christ, many commenters cited specific Bible passages to call him out. “The Bible/Jesus CLEARLY states “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through ME.” John 14:6. If you belong to a church that preaches a different message, that is NOT a Bible-believing, Christian church,” one person wrote.
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” — Acts 4:12 (ESV),” said another. Watch Hamilton give the shocking sermon below:
Featured image: Screen shot from embedded video