PCA Pastor Preaches Sermon Claiming God Demands the Church Embrace DEI
In the small town of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Pastor JP Sibley of New City Fellowship has carved out a platform for himself not as a diehard exegete of the Scriptures, but as a drooling mouthpiece for progressive social dogma. With a Bible in one hand and a DEI manual in the other, Sibley recently proclaimed from the pulpit that diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just corporate buzzwords—they’re, and I quote, "God's demands."
That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s a theological train wreck, broadcast with confidence.
It all started in 2015 when Sibley launched New City Fellowship, a self-styled "cross-cultural mission church" nestled within the increasingly compromised Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Its mission statement may sound benign—“to make disciples who believe the gospel, grow in love, and serve the kingdom”—but once you peel back the veneer, it’s clear the kingdom Sibley is preaching looks a lot more like a sociology department than the New Jerusalem.
In his sermon, he laments, "We live in an increasingly segregated world... it is more important now than ever that God's kingdom pursues diversity and equity and inclusion." But the question that never gets asked is: by whose standard?
Who defines what diversity and equity look like?
If it’s the Word of God, that’s one thing. But if it’s the same DEI playbook used to shame employees, elevate identity over character, and silence dissent, then we’ve got a wolf dressed in multi-ethnic vestments, and he’s howling from the pulpit.
Sibley’s declares during the sermon—"Maybe the government shouldn't demand it... but God demands it." That isn’t just bad theology, it’s rank heresy. He conflates the righteousness of God with the righteousness of man, as though heaven’s throne has taken on interns from the HR department of your local state university.
It’s a grotesque marriage of divine authority with secular moralism, and the offspring is a gospel that looks nothing like the one Christ preached. Of course, if he actually believed what he was preaching, he’d step down from the pulpit and hand the mic over to Jemar Tisby or Mike Kelsey.
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