Francis Chan Puts Out New Movie Promoting Unity Between Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox

For years now, I’ve been warning people about Francis Chan. Not because I enjoy watching men slide into rank apostasy. I don’t. Frankly, it’s depressing. Francis Chan once occupied a space in evangelicalism where many Christians trusted him instinctively.

A graduate of Master’s Seminary, Francis Chan came out of John MacArthur’s orbit. He spoke passionately about holiness, about radical Christianity, about taking God seriously in an age drunk on entertainment and celebrity fluff. A lot of people assumed that because he sounded intense, because he cried on stage, because he talked about surrender and prayer and sacrifice, he must therefore be doctrinally solid.

But passion is not discernment. Tears are not theology. Sincerity is not truth.

And over the years, what I and many others have watched unfold with Francis Chan has been one long, slow-motion theological collapse into ecumenical mysticism and functional Roman Catholicism.

Now we have this new documentary—That They May Be One—and honestly, it feels like the culmination of everything many of us have been warning about for years.

No more ambiguity. No more pretending. The cards are on the table now.

The film openly celebrates the tearing down of the theological walls between Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy. It frames the divisions of the Reformation as tragic misunderstandings instead of necessary acts of obedience to the Gospel.