False Teacher of the Day #63: Delman Coates

Delman Coates, the senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, recently delivered a sermon that could only be described as theological arson. Coates didn't just bend the truth—he violently assaulted it, dragged it into a dark alley, and left it bleeding. He essentially raped the text of Scripture to accommodate his progressive ideology.

Imagine sitting in a church, expecting to hear the Word of God faithfully proclaimed, only to be blindsided by a brazen wrecking ball to biblical morality. Coates, with the smooth assurance of a con man, declared:

“Teaching Christians that sex before or outside of marriage is a sin may be tradition...but it is not something supported by the word of God.”

Just let that sink in for a second. According to Coates, every preacher, every theologian, every saint throughout Christian history—just misguided sheep, peddling baseless moralism.

He even had the nerve to insist, “There is no biblical basis for that teaching... It may sound sacrilegious to others, but I am obligated as a preacher of the word of God to preach the truth of the Bible and not to further myths, superstitions, and lies.”