There Dan’s responsibilities include preaching, casting the vision for the church, oversight of day to day operations, and hiring and placement of all staff members. There he leads music, worship, and the New Members Disciple class.ĭan is the Senior Pastor at his home church in Irving. Randy’s responsibilities include preaching, counseling, leading worship…įor more than 18 years, Shawn has served as Music Pastor at his home church in St. Randy Phillips serves as Pastor at his home church in Austin, Texas. Phillips, Craig & Dean are three full-time church ministers they also happen to sing together… Īll three men have key roles at their respective churches as pastors and teachers: The group’s promoters have been anything but shy about advertising their clients’ ministerial credentials. Finally, among some evangelicals, there appears to be a general lack of concern about the doctrines of God and of salvation, or at least an insufficient understanding of their importance.ĭespite the general confusion about what PCD believes, the three members of Phillips, Craig and Dean certainly cannot claim theological ignorance for themselves. There seems to be genuine confusion about what the members of PCD believe among the “gatekeepers” in the evangelical media. Second, the people who represent Phillips, Craig and Dean to the evangelical press and organizations have been extremely effective at obscuring PCD’s true beliefs and marginalizing their relatively few critics. The reasons for this are probably several: First, as stated above, Phillips, Craig and Dean are enormously popular, and have a long career in contemporary Christian music that has provided them credibility with evangelicals. Their successful career in Contemporary Christian Music and popularity among evangelicals is impressive even more so when it is realized that the members of Phillips, Craig and Dean (PCD) are Oneness Pentecostals who deny essential Christian doctrines, including the doctrines of the Trinity and of justification by faith alone!Īlthough Phillips, Craig and Deans’ Oneness beliefs have been public knowledge for some time, having been disclosed in the pages of Charisma magazine and the Christian Research Journal, there has been very little visible reaction from the evangelical community. They have performed at the conventions of the National Religious Broadcasters and Christian Booksellers Association, appeared at Moody Church, played at Promise Keepers rallies, and recorded music for the National Day of Prayer.
Their music has consistently earned top ratings and frequent airplay, garnering numerous awards and nominations, not to mention album sales in the hundreds of thousands.
They have gained legions of appreciative fans among evangelicals with their well-written lyrics, beautiful harmonies, and high-quality production values.
Their songs have been standards for years in Contemporary Christian Music. Some of the hyperlinks may no longer function, but the information is still correct. This legacy article was written prior to 2006 by Eric Nielsen for Alpha & Omega Ministries.