Didaché Didaché - Jonathan Shuttlesworth's Shocking (And Disqualifying) Gutter Language
A man on X asked prosperity preacher Jonathan Shuttlesworth a simple question — "How's that private jet treating you?" — and Shuttlesworth publicly replied, "Not as well as your mom." A full day later it was still posted, unretracted. The man's answer? "Thanks, my mom's dead. What a great representation of Christ you are."
Justin Peters takes that exchange straight to Scripture. He walks through Ephesians 4:29 and Ephesians 5:3-4, where Paul places filthiness and coarse jesting alongside actual sexual immorality — not as a lesser offence, but as evidence of a heart already given over to it. He then measures Shuttlesworth against the qualifications for an overseer in 1 Timothy 3:1-4 and Titus 1, showing what "above reproach" and "husband of one wife" actually require of a man who calls himself pastor.
From 2 Peter 2 and Jude, Peters lays out the two consistent marks of false teachers: greed and sensuality — hearts trained in greed, eyes full of adultery, exploiting people they do not love. Because false teachers are unregenerate, he argues, there is no indwelling Holy Spirit to restrain the flesh.
Shuttlesworth is scheduled to preach at Kenneth Copeland's Southwest Believers Convention alongside Bill Johnson, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar and Benny Hinn. Justin closes with a direct gospel appeal to Shuttlesworth himself and a plain call to those following him: flee.
This episode matters because God's standards for the pulpit are high, and Scripture tells us exactly how to recognise a wolf.