Then after talking about preachers throughout history being burned at the stake, Lee says: “As we all know, in January of 2021 … we witnessed a stunning example of cancel culture flexing its muscles in digital censorship when Big Tech decided to cancel and permanently suspend President Trump from reaching his 150 million followers and subscribers. “If Jesus were alive today, the world would be seeking to cancel him too,” Lee claims. In one Q&A video he predicts it might be as soon as “five, 10 years down the road.”Ĭancel culture and social media companies To Lee, the doomsday of losing access to fundamentalist sermons on the internet may be right around the corner. We take things like this for granted until we don’t have it due to an ice storm or other interruption and we realize just how vulnerable we are.” Lee believes Sermon Audio sermons are “a bit like electricity or running water. Well, imagine a day when your church’s sermons go off the air or get purged from the internet. I want you to imagine a day when the stream of three million sermons per month being pushed out all over the world and that stream dries up, a day when Sermon Audio itself goes off the air. “I want you to imagine a day when those two million sermons are wiped off the face of the digital earth. And platforms are not neutral.”Īccording to Lee, the world might have battle plans for Sermon Audio. “We must remember that in this world there are two opposing sides: The kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. Lee believes he is participating in a war. Some of the popular men featured at Sermon Audio include Al Mohler, Voddie Baucham, Paul Washer, John MacArthur, Todd Friel and many more extreme fundamentalist Baptists who would consider those men to be too liberal. While there are many nondenominational, Bible and Presbyterian churches that utilize Sermon Audio, the overwhelming majority of broadcasters that list their denominational affiliation are Baptist churches.Īccording to Sermon Audio’s Statement of Faith, churches that wish to broadcast their sermons on the site must affirm penal substitutionary atonement, as well as be against “women pastors/preachers/elders, etc.” And churches are able to livestream their services with Sermon Audio, while embedding them on the website. Users can search for sermons based on Bible reference, category, topic, speaker, language or date. It is a website “dedicated to the preservation and propagation of sound biblical preaching all over the world.”ĭuring the past 23 years, Sermon Audio has become home to more than 2 million sermons with more than 430 million downloads, at a rate of around 3 million new downloads per month, easily making it the largest digital library of fundamentalist and conservative evangelical sermons in the world.įrom a technological perspective, the platform is impressive. Sermon Audio was launched in January 2000 by Lee, who graduated with a computer science degree from BJU in 1995. The largest digital library for fundamentalist sermons ever It officially opened during the 2022 Foundations Conference held on campus last week. That vault is located on the second floor of the Mack Library on the Bob Jones University campus in Greenville, S.C. Except in this vault, we would be housing the good seed, the good seed of the preached word in the event of a catastrophic breakdown in relations with cloud providers and platforms.” “We would like to build a Doomsday Vault of our own. Likewise, evangelical Christians need to store their gospel seed, he said. “Its purpose is to house all of the world’s seeds securely so that in the event of an apocalyptic situation or a global catastrophe, the seeds will be preserved to allow nations to grow various foods again.” Sermon Audio founder Steven Lee explained at the 2021 Foundations Conference hosted by Bob Jones University that a day could come when “sound teaching” is wiped from digital access and all the sermons broadcast on Sermon Audio no longer are allowed to stream online.īut there is a way to prepare for such a doomsday, he said, a way inspired by the so-called “Doomsday Vault,” a long-term secure storage facility located above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole. The two organizations have joined forces to build a doomsday vault filled with fundamentalist and conservative evangelical sermons in order to try to survive the apocalypse where future Christians might be required to listen to sermons without the internet due to “cancel culture.” In a world where peer-reviewed evolutionists are taken seriously and LGBTQ people are treated as peers, Bob Jones University and Sermon Audio have come up with a conservative evangelical counter-offensive known as The Vault.
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