Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers
Encyclopedia of Pentecostal Ministries and Preachers
Charismatic leaders, organizations and false doctrines EXPOSED!
Pentecostalism looks and feels good, but is rotten to the core!
Devastating proof that Pentecostals are false teachers!
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Sometimes Truth makes Love hurt
"You are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40
Dollar, Creflo: World Changers Ministry
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Bakker associate, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Promise Keepers
A Statement of our Doctrine:
The Lord Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God.
We believe in His substitutionary death for all men, His resurrection, and His eventual return to judge the world.
Salvation
We believe all men are born with a sinful nature and that the work of the Cross was to redeem man from the power of sin.
We believe that this salvation is available to all who will receive it.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the existence of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity and in His interaction with man.
We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as manifested by the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit.
The Sacred Scripture
We believe in the scripture as the inspired Word of God and that it is the complete revelation of God's will for mankind.
We believe in the absolute authority of the scripture to govern the affairs of man.
Stewardship
We believe that every man is the steward of his life and resources which ultimately belong to God.
We believe that tithing is a measure of obedience to the scriptural principles of stewardship.
The Church
We believe in the Church as the eternal and universal Body of Christ consisting of all those who have accepted the work of the atonement.
We believe in the need for a local assembly of believers for the purposes of evangelization and edification.
Home Ministry
Our Church is divided into small groups that meet in individual homes throughout the week for ministry and fellowship.
We believe that maximum spiritual growth and development come through membership in these groups.
Prayer and Praise
We believe in the worship of the Lord through singing, clapping, and the lifting of hands.
We believe in the authority of the believer to as freely of the Lord for his needs.
Body Ministry
We believe in the ministry of the Holy Spirit to the Church body through the anointing of oil by the elders of the church.
We make this ministry available to all at each worship service.
Evangelism
We believe that evangelism is the obligation of every follower of Jesus Christ.
The Lord commands us to go out and make disciples in all of the Earth.
We believe that each person is first responsible to evangelism in their own family as the Holy Spirit leads them and gives them the ability.
Water Baptism
We believe in the ordinance of water baptism by immersion in obedience to the word of God.
All those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior should be baptized in water as a public profession of their faith in Christ and to experience what the Bible calls the "circumcision of the Spirit."
Baptisms are conducted each Sunday in the evening service.
Our Commitment to Israel
We believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 regarding the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.
We believe that this is an eternal covenant between God and the seed of Abraham to which God is faithful.
Our Church sponsors non-conversionary activities to express our love and support for the descendants of Abraham.
The Priesthood of the Believer
We believe that every believer has a unique relationship to the Lord.
As His children, every Christian has immediate access to the throne of Grace and the ability to manifest the power of the Lord Jesus Christ in ministry.
Members of the Cornerstone Church are encouraged to fing a place of ministry in the Body of Christ and utilize the gifts the Holy Spirit has placed within them.
Holy Communion
All believers are encouraged to participate in the Holy Communion which is held the first Sunday of each month.
Lea's, Larry
Larry Lea's most embarrassing moment may have been when ABC ran videotape of the televangelist persuading viewers that when his house burned to the ground he was left virtually homeless, losing everything he and his family had but the clothes on their backs. When Prime Time cut to Lea's other, unmentioned home - a mansion filled with furniture and other valuables - his fate was sealed. Donations dropped off, churches canceled his appearances, and for many Lea became persona non grata. His ministry crippled and floundering in up to $800,000 in debt, Lea left Tulsa and in February assumed the pastorate of friend Jerry Barnard's Christian Faith Centre in La Mesa, California. According to staffers at Barnard's office, Lea's organization -- now called "The Prayer Ministry" -- is on the rebound and looking like "the old Larry Lea."(Christian Research Institute)
Strang, Stephen, Charisma Magazine
Howard Rodney Browne
Swaggart, Jimmy
Jimmy Swaggart, who once assailed the Bakkers and their gospel resort with gusto, continues to pay dearly for his sexual scandals of 1988 and 1991. At its peak, his Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based ministry reportedly brought in $150 million per year and reached eight million viewers a week in the U.S. alone, its programs translated into 13 languages and aired in 145 countries. But by 1991 his ministry was already $4.5 million in the red, and in April of this year Swaggart's insurance companies paid $1.85 million to settle his six-year lawsuit with rival minister Marvin Gorman, who originally released the photos of Swaggart with a prostitute. Also in April, a state court ordered Swaggart's ministry to pay more than $1.4 million to Heritage Worldwide, Inc. of Dallas for Bibles and other materials that were delivered and not paid for, along with court costs and other expenses. A computer firm has sued Swaggart for payment of more than $80,000 in software and services. Enrollment at the Bible college on Swaggart's $100 million complex has hit bottom, and last year the Washington Times described an unfinished dormitory there as "abandoned, its windows void of glass, weeds crowding its entryway." While Swaggart maintains a comparatively tiny presence in the U.S., he is quietly expanding his influence in television markets as far away as Africa and the former Soviet Union. And, unlike Jim Bakker and Robert Tilton, Swaggart's marriage has survived his tragic fall. (Christian Research Institute)
Bright, Bill
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Mainse, David, 100 Huntley St.
Anchor of TV show "100 Huntley Street", Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of
Rejects the Bible verse that forbids any woman from teaching or exercising authority over a man in church: 1 Tim 2:12
Grace Ministries
Grace Ministries
Grace ministries is a separate organization set up under the auspices of the Kansas City fellowship. When the KCF was integrated into the Vineyard, Grace ministries became a separate organization from the KCF, within the Vineyard.
The theology of Grace ministries is based upon the manifest sons of God/New Breed theology, as described under the Kansas City Fellowship.
Shiloh Ministries - this is a term used to designate the prophetic ministry that GM is offering to the church at large. "Ultimately, Shiloh will include a piece of property where a number of prophetically gifted ministries will live together as they share revelation with one another releasing a 'roundtable of the prophets' effect. This will release a greater prophetic understanding of God's purposes as they submit one to another."
City churches - There shall be one single church in each city. Churches other than the KCF are to join the KCF, then be shut down, and membership integrated into the KCF.
The list of those associated with Grace Ministries and Kansas City Fellowship is continually growing. Bickel is the team leader. Others that hold leadership positions are: David Parker, Noel Alexander, Michael Sullivant, and Don Steadman.
Other teaching and prophetic ministers who travel extensively are: Francis Frangipane, John Paul Jackson, Kevin Porsche, Reuven Doron, Charles Lynn, Larry Randolph, David Ravenhill, Jim Goll and Harry Schroeder. Rick Joyner, a minister with Morning Star Ministries in North Carolina is also heavily involved.
Grant, Jr., W. V.
A Prime Time expose was done on W. V. Grant, Jr., a second-generation revival preacher. Grant gained fame and fortune in the 1970s and 1980s as one of America's leading faith healers, commanding packed auditoriums and a ministry worth millions. His
standard miracles included the lengthening of "short" legs and calling out the names, addresses, and ailments of those attending his old-time revival meetings -- often with "word of knowledge" revelations of how much the individual was to give to his ministry. ABC's hidden cameras, however, caught Grant and his staff informally circulating among audience members before services, virtually hand-picking those who were to be called forth that night and asking them questions about their personal lives, their finances, their illnesses, and their hopes -- all along making careful note of what Grant would later claim was revealed to him by the anointing of God's Holy Spirit. After Prime Time, attendance at both Grant's revival rallies and his Eagle's Nest Family Church in southwest Dallas plummeted. The Dawn of a New Day TV ministry, which had brought in at least enough money to buy him such trappings of wealth as a fleet of expensive autos and a million-dollar mansion in southwest Dallas, disappeared for several months as his support evaporated. Thanks to direct mail, Grant's fortunes are improving. His appeal letters now include "disaster-grams" featuring simulated certified mail stickers. A recent letter offers recipients "one of my neckties that I have worn while the anointing of the Holy Ghost was on me" for a $91 donation. Grant claims that one such tie healed a Dallas man who was in intensive care, and that another man landed the greatest job of his life after wearing a Grant tie.(Christian Research Institute)
Scotland, John
John Scotland is a pastor in England who spoke at the Toronto Blessing (TACF). He claims to have the "gift of offending people" with his "spiritual drunkenness". He reads the Bible, crows like rooster, then announces, "this is a wake up call from God" You can see the full documentation in video by
Host of TBN Today "Behind The Scenes".
"Jesus had an
expensive ministry. "Jesus was handling big money." (John Avanzini, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/15/88)
"[The Spirit of God]...declared in the earth today what the eternal purpose of God has been through the ages...that He is duplicating Himself in the earth" (John Avanzini, "The End Time Manifestation of the Sons of God,"
Morris Cerullo World Evangelism tape).
"Jesus had a nice
big house", "Jesus wore designer clothes" "Paul had the kind of money that could stop up justice." (John Avanzini, "Believer's Voice of Victory" broadcast on TBN, recorded 1/20/91)
Bickel, Mike
Mike Bickel, pastor ,of the Kansas City Fellowship appears to have been a key spark, along with Paul Cain in the formation of the Kansas City Fellowship/Kansas City Prophets.
Mike Bickel has indicated belief in the following doctrines:
A New Form and Standard for Christianity is emerging. It will change our entire understanding of what Christianity is. In 20 years it will be entirely different.
City Churches: One church per city. Other churches are to join the KCF, transfer membership to them (or associated churches in other cities), and close down their churches).
Joel's Army/Kingdom Now/Dominion theology: the church is to conquer and subdue the earth in order to bring in the millennium.
New Breed/manifest Son's of God: We will be perfected into our glorified bodies prior to Christ's return. This will allow us to subdue the earth.
Christians become "gods".
William Branham said the doctrine of the
Trinity is "a doctrine of demons" (The Toronto Blessing, Stephen Sizer, 1990)
William Branham said that
Eve's sin involved sexual relations with the serpent, but the "seed of God" were Branham's followers, otherwise known as "the Bride" or "the New Breed" (The Toronto Blessing, Stephen Sizer, 1990)
"Now my precious brothers - I know this is a tape also. Now don't get excited. Let me say this with Godly love. The hours approached where I can't hold still on these things no more...
Trinitarianism is of the devil. I tell you that - Thus saith the Lord." (William Branham, Footprints on the Sands of Time: The autobiography of William Marrion Branham, Part Two (Jeffersonville, IN: Spoken Word Publications, 1975, p606-7)
"Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
and that false 'trinity' it's so-called..." (William Braham, "Revelation Chapter Four #3 (Throne of Mercy and Judgment)" (Voice of God Recordings, Inc., 1961, audio tape #61-0108, side 2)
The
angel spoke to William Branham saying: "Fear not. I am sent from the presence of Almighty God to tell you that your particular life and your misunderstood ways have been to indicate that God has sent you to take a gift of divine healing to the people of the world. If you will be sincere, and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer." (Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 28) (The angel Mornoni appeared to Joseph Smith who founded Mormonism)
William Branham
falsely prophesied: "that by 1977 all denominations would be consumed by the World Council of Churches under the control of the Roman Catholics, that the rapture would take place, and that the world would be destroyed." (Burgess and McGee, Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 96)
William Branham insisted that "
believers baptized by a Trinitarian formula must be rebaptized in the name of Jesus only." (Burgess and McGee, Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 95-96)
Branham explained, "...
not one place in the Bible is trinity ever mentioned...It's Catholic error and you Protestants bow to it" (William Branham, Conduct, Order, Doctrine Q and A, p. 182)
"Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is offices of one God.
He was the Father; He was the Son; He is the Holy Ghost. It's three offices or three dispensations,..." (William Branham, Conduct, Order, Doctrine Q and A, p. 392). (This view of the Godhead is called Modalism and has been held to be heretical by both Catholic and Protestant churches. For refutation of this view see: www.bible.ca/trinity/ )
"Here is what actually happened in the Garden of Eden. The Word says that Eve was beguiled by the serpent.
She was actually seduced by the serpent. He was as close to being a human that his seed could, and did mingle with that of the woman and cause her to conceive" (William Branham, The Original Sin, pp. 2, 3)
"Now, I'm just your brother, by the grace of God. But when the Angel of the Lord moves down, it becomes then a Voice of God to you...
But I am God's Voice to you... Now, see, I can say nothing in myself. But what He shows me" (William Branham, Footprints On The Sands Of Time, p. 214)
When Branham was baptizing 130 converts in the Ohio River, (allegedly) a
heavenly light, like a blazing star, appeared above him just as he was about to baptize the seventeenth person ... it has also been reported that a voice spoke from within the light, saying, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord, so you are sent to forerun His second coming..." (The Enigma Of William Branham, Andrew Strom)
It was (later in his ministry) that Branham began to gradually withdraw into his own little circle, where he had an adoring and loyal following. (Essentially this circle was made up of "Oneness" or 'Jesus-Only' Pentecostals). And instead of his previous unwillingness to speak about contentious or divisive 'minor' issues, he now gradually began to emphasize such things more and more in his preaching. Slowly, these teachings became ever-more alarming and extreme. (The Enigma Of William Branham, Andrew Strom)
Branham taught that
the Word of God was given in three forms, the zodiac, the Egyptian pyramids, and the written scripture. (Al Dager, Vengeance is Ours, Sword, Page 59)
Years ago (William Branham) told his interpreter, Pastor Ruff, "
If my angel does not give the sign, I cannot heal." Ruff noticed several features of spiritism in the work of Branham, and therefore stopped working with him. These "angels" of whom (Harry) Edwards and Branham spoke are evil spirits masquerading as angels of light. As in many areas of the occult, we are here reminded again that the devil appears as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14) Another evidence is the fact that neither Edwards nor Branham were able to perform cures when faced with born-again Christians who had committed themselves to the protection of Christ. In the case of Branham, I have experienced this myself. When he spoke in Karlsruhe and Lausanne, there were several believers among the audience -- including myself -- who prayed along these lines: "Lord, if this man's powers are from You, then bless and use him, but if the healing gifts are not from You, then hinder him." The result? On both occasions Branham said from the platform, "There are disturbing powers here. I can do nothing." (Kurt Koch, Occult ABC, 1978, p. 235)
"The most remarkable "messiah" at (the time of the writing of this book) ... is to be found at camp Manujothi Ashram in the desert in South India. It is the extreme American evangelist, William Branham, whom Christians have to thank for this false messiah. His name is Paluser Lawrie Mathukrishna. When Branham was on (a) tour of India,
Brother Lawrie became a disciple of his, and Branham described him as the "Son of God" and "Christ returned". This is a very curious situation. Why would the "Son of God" and "Christ returned" be the disciple of a man like Branham? Shouldn't it have been the other way around? Or maybe it was. Perhaps this is an important connection between Hinduism and Kundalini Pentecostalism. Perhaps this is where Branham, one of the fathers of the Third Wave movement, picked up the ability to pass along Kundalini-type manifestations. Perhaps this is where he picked up a demonic spirit, because it is "reported that towards the end, some of his teachings almost bordered on the occult." (Kurt Koch, Occult ABC, 1978, p. 66; comments by Sandy Simpson, 1997; The Enigma Of William Branham, Andrew Strom)
William Branham's heretical theology:
Latter Rain teacher, Prophetic movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Paul Cain started out as part of the Latter Rain movement, following the teachings of William Branham. Paul Cain still tends to follow Branham theology, with the possible exception of acceptance of doctrine of the trinity. Paul Cain is well known for his creation of the term "New Breed", which is a new term describing the Manifest Sons of God theology taught by Branham.
Quotes:
"For quite a while I have been embarrassed to say anything about the
latter rain , because you are associated and identified with something that people don't seem to appreciate in certain evangelical circles. So I have played it cool and haven't said much about it. But I don't care what they think any more... I believe we are going to have the latter rain and I am looking forward to it." (Paul Cain, Toronto church on May 28, 1995)
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Though Branham denied the historic, orthodox view of the Trinity, William Branham was the greatest prophet in the 20th century. This was due not to Branham's doctrines but to "his gifting in the word of knowledge." (Paul Cain, Armstrong in Michael Horton ed. Power Religion, 1992, p.67)
Paul Cain even advised his audience to wait until they get to heaven to examine his exposition of the 'Manchild Company,' which would never stand the test of Scripture: "...I know some of you are going to disagree with this. Don't you even stop to disagree. Revelation 12:5. If you disagree, just file it in 'miscellaneous' and check it out. And don't bother with it; when we get to heaven we'll check it out and you'll find out I'm right..." (Paul Cain, Prophetic Power and Passion Conference, Christ Chapel, Florence, Alabama, August, 1995.)
Paul Cain promises credulous Christians that in the fullness of end time restorationism "
all the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a day." (Bob Jones and Paul Cain, "Selections from the Kansas City Prophets," audiotape)
"No prophet or apostle who ever lived equaled the power of these individuals in this great army of the Lord in these last days.
No one ever had it, not even Elijah or Peter or Paul, or anyone else enjoyed the power that is gong to rest on this great army." (Bob Jones and Paul Cain. "Selections from the Kansas City Prophets," audiotape (tape: 155C)
"God's raising up a new standard, a new banner, if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation...God has invited us to have a role in establishing a new order of Christianity...God is offering to this generation something He has never offered to any other generation...
beware lest old order brethren rob you and steal this hope from you." Whatever happened to remaining in the truths that we were taught? Tit 1:9 "He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it." (Paul Cain, "You Can Become the Word!", 1989, Vineyard Prophetic Conference, with comment from Sandy Simpson, 1997)
Campbell, Miss Ivey
Kenneth Copeland .
Capps has gone so far as to teach that Jesus was the product of God's positive confession: "
This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her....The embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God....She conceived the Word of God." (Charles Capps, Dynamics of Faith and Confession (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 1987), 86-87; cf. Charles Capps, Authority in Three Worlds (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 1982, p76-85) (Note: this is the Arian view of the Godhead taught by Christadelphians: see www.bible.ca/trinity/ )
Capps claims that if someone says, "I'm just dying to do that" or "That just tickled me to death," their statements may literally come true (i.e., they may die).
According to Capps, this is precisely why the human race now lives only about seventy years instead of 900 years, as was the case with Adam. (Charles Capps, The Tongue -- A Creative Force (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 1976), 91)
Cardale, Mrs.
She was a member of
Edward Irving's congregation in England and on April 30, 1831 she began to speak in other tongues and prophesy.
Irving was impressed and did not exercise any restraint towards this member's activity.
Soon Mrs. Cardale's sister Emily also began to speak in tongues and prophesy, and others followed them.
The end result was that Rev. Irving was eventually excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church and he formed his own organization. He was defrocked
not so much for the charismatic extremism but for his heterodox view of the nature of Christ, his Christology was aberrant. Irving's organization later began to promote to concept of restored prophets and apostles. Irving also believed that tongues and prophecy had divine origin and were truly revelatory in nature. As with Montanus (Montanism heresy , the role of the two women prophetesses became pronounced and set a pattern destined to be repeated over the coming years.
Irving, Edward
18th century Father of Modern Pentecostalism
In the western world Pentecostalism generally traces its roots back to the teachings and experiences of Edward Irving, a Presbyterian Minister in Scotland in the early 1800's. After studying the Book of Acts he began to teach that what the early church experienced was to be normative for the church in his day.
He was excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church over his heretical Christological doctrines.
On March 28th 1830, a
Miss Mary Campbell began to speak in other tongues and claimed she was divinely healed. The following year on October 30th 1831 her sister, Mrs. Cardale also began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.
Edward Irving formed his own church called the Catholic Apostolic Church and he soon ordained its first twelve apostles on November 7th, 1832. "He also expounded a detailed teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and gave the whole of his theology an immediacy by his expectation of the immanent second coming of the Lord. He died shortly thereafter, but the movement he started, became known as "Irvingites."
Edward Irving is to be considered among the first true Neo-
Montanists due to his beliefs in:
In the restoration of the charismatic gifts, including prophecy
His unwillingness to submit to recognized Church authority regarding his beliefs
His approval of women in ministry (coincidentally, women were the first to prophesy in his movement)
His belief in the also immediate return of Christ, i.e. a strong eschatological emphasis.
Dowie, John Alexander
Like
Irving , Dowie was a minister from the same area. He was originally a Congregational Pastor, who subsequently left his denomination and formed his own called the "Christian Catholic Church."
In 1901 he began to build a city of righteousness outside of Chicago which he named Zion.
He believed that
he was the first restored apostle to The Church, and later came to believe he was the prophet Elijah, the restorer, sent to pave the way for the return of Christ which he too believed was imminent.
He taught that the Church would be fully restored to apostolic authority and power.
His beliefs coupled with those of Edward Irving formed the initial platform for the rapid spread of Neo-
Montanist beliefs which were to soon be launched globally.
Cerullo, Morris
bought PTL, a
Latter Rain proponent and speaks as a prophet
"Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself?...And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus" (Morris Cerullo, "The End Time Manifestation of the Sons of God," Morris Cerullo World Evangelism tape 1).
Morris Cerullo said "You represent all that God is and all that God has...Jesus was the visible expression of God. Jesus was the Son of the Living God. Now, who are you? Sons of God...everyone say it. What is working inside of us is the manifestation. When you look at me, you are looking at Jesus...To see Jesus was to see God. To see me is to see Jesus. Jesus knew who He was. Don't you think it is about time we know who we are?" ("Joel's Army," Jewel van der Merwe, Discernment Ministries)
Morris Cerullo claims he was led out of a Jewish orphanage by two angelic beings; transported to heaven for a face-to-face meeting with God; and told he would be capable of revealing the future. (Cerullo, The Miracle Book, ix; and 7 Point Outreach -- World Evangelism and You (pamphlet), 4.; Cerullo, The Miracle Book, xi.; "God's Faithful, Anointed Servant, Morris Cerullo.")
Claiming that God was directly speaking through him, Cerullo uttered, "Would you surrender your pocketbooks unto Me, saith God, and let me be the Lord of your pocketbooks....Yea, so be thou obedient unto my voice." (Morris Cerullo, "A Word from God at the Deeper Life World Conference," Deeper Life, March 1982, 15.)
Morris Cerullo is now offering through his television show and web site "God's Victorious Army Financial Breakthrough Spiritual Warfare Bible". Here is the description of how to attain financial freedom and wealth as Cerullo contends Christians should: "This Bible is the definitive word on finances, with special icons designed to lead you throughout God's Word, teaching you about Biblical finances. This beautiful, genuine bonded-leather Bible has more than 2,000 pages, chock full of financial breakthrough principles and spiritual commentaries honed from Morris Cerullo's fifty years of experience serving the Savior ... THIS INCREDIBLE BIBLE CAN BE YOURS FOR A LOVE GIFT OF ONLY $89 OR MORE."
Cho, Paul Yonggi (David Cho)
Pastor of the world's largest church, located in Seoul, South Korea
Cho claims to have
received his call to preach from Jesus Christ Himself, who supposedly appeared to him dressed like a fireman. (Dwight J. Wilson, "Cho, Paul Yonggi," Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 161)
Cho is well aware of
his link to occultism, arguing that if Buddhists and Yoga practitioners can accomplish their objectives through fourth dimensional powers, then Christians should be able to accomplish much more by using the same means. (Paul Yonggi Cho, The Fourth Dimension, vol. 1 (South Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, 1979), 37, 41)
As Cho tells the story of his name change, God showed him that Paul Cho had to die and David Cho was to be resurrected in his place. According to Cho, God Himself came up with his new name. (Paul Yonggi Cho interviewed by C. Peter Wagner, "Yonggi Cho Changes His Name," Charisma & Christian Life, November 1992, 80)
"In 1993, Dr. Cho, pastor of the world's largest church in Seoul, Korea was conducting a meeting in Seattle, Washington. He was praying for revival in America. "God are you going to send revival to America, or is she destined for judgment?"
While he was praying the Lord told him to get a map of America. He did so and the Holy Spirit told him to point his finger at the map. As he did, he felt his finger drawn to the Florida panhandle and to the city of Pensacola. "I am going to send revival to the seaside city of Pensacola and it will spread like a fire until all of America has been consumed by it," said the Lord to Dr. Cho. Dr. Cho shared his experience with others and the word predictably spread to many of the pastors in the Pensacola area." Since this prophesy came true, in a certain sense, Cho is not a false prophet. However, if this revival is not of God, then Cho must be receiving messages from another source.
"You create the presence of Jesus with your mouth ... He is bound by your lips and by your words ... Remember that Christ is depending upon you and your spoken word to release His presence." (Paul Yonggi Cho, The Fourth Dimension, Volume One (So. Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, 1979), 83)
Cho's concept of fourth-dimensional thinking is nothing short of occultism.
In his bestselling book "The Fourth Dimension", Cho unveils his departure from historic Christian theology and his entry into the world of the occult. Cho lists four steps in his incubation formula: 1) Visualize a clear-cut goal or idea in your mind; 2) have a burning desire for your objective; 3) pray until you get the guarantee or assurance from God that what you desire is already yours; 4) speak or confess the end result into existence. ((Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis, 1993 citing Paul Yonggi Cho, The Fourth Dimension, Volume One (So. Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, 1979), 9-35; vol. 2, 18-33)
Clark, Randy
Assemblies of God minister and faith healer. (deceased)
Jack Coe on occasion would actually
"pick people up out of the wheelchairs. If they fell, he'd say you didn't have faith." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 59)
Like modern faith healers, (Coe) suggested that
those who opposed him were in danger of being "struck dead by God." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 59)
The Assemblies of God were so embarrassed by Coe's e
xaggerated (healing) claims that they finally expelled him in 1953 on the grounds the he was "misleading the public". (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 111)
(Coe) warned followers
"that the day would come when those who consulted physicians would have to take the mark of the beast." Coe (subsequently) became critically ill with bulbar polio ... (and) took the "mark of the beast" and was admitted to the hospital. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 101)
While
Oral Roberts considered Jack Coe "a man of great faith", many other well-known religious leaders considered Coe a master of gimmicks and fabrications. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137) Not much wonder! Roberts is a master of gimmicks himself! http://www.bible.ca/tongues-photogallery-pentecostal-trinkets.htm
Copeland, Kenneth
Self proclaimed Apostle, Prophet, Pastor, Teacher, TV evangelist owner of Kenneth Copeland Ministries seen on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of
clicking here .
Nature of God
God is a spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet
. (Kenneth Copeland ministry letter, 21 July 1977.)
The Bible said He measured the heavens with a 9 inch span. Now the span is the difference, distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little Finger. And, and that Bible said, in fact the amplified translation translates the Hebrew text that way. That He measured out the heavens with a 9 inch span. Well, I got a ruler and measured mine, and my span's 8 3/4 inches long. So now
God's span is a quarter of an inch, a quarter inch longer than mine. So you see, that faith didn't come billowing out of some giant monster somewhere. It came out of the heart of a being that is very uncanny the way He's very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6' 2 , 6' 3, that weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, has a span of 8 and, I mean nine inches across - stood up and said Light be [Let it be?], and this universe situated itself and went into motion. Glory to God. (Spirit, Soul, and a Body 1 1985, audio tape #01-0601, side 1)
God and Adam looked exactly alike
. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
God could not intervene since He had made Adam the god of the earth. God was left on the outside looking in
. (Following the Faith of Abraham; Tape #01-3001)
I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is. Everybody ask you ask Who's the biggest failure? They say Judas, somebody else will say No, I believe it was Adam, well how about the devil. He's the most consistent failure. But he's not the biggest in terms of material failure and so forth.
The biggest one in all the Bible is God. What, what, what - don't you turn that set off - you listen to what. I told you - now you sit still a minute. You know me well enough to know I wouldn't, I wouldn't tell something I can't prove from the Bible. (Praise-a-thon program - TBN, April 1988)
Nature of Jesus
Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies
. (Spirit, Soul, and Body; Tape #01-0601) [Note: This is one of the key belief of the false doctrine known as Modalism: www.bible.ca/trinity/ ]
Jesus has a beginning and an end
. (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303) [Note: This is one of the key belief of the false doctrine known as Modalism: www.bible.ca/trinity/ ]
Jesus has not remained the same, he has changed
. (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
He [Jesus]
allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell....He allowed Himself to come under Satan's control...every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him....They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer. (The Price of It All, p3)
That Word of the living God went down into that pit of destruction and charged the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power!
Suddenly His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life....Jesus was born again -- the firstborn from the dead the Word calls Him -- and He whipped the devil in his own backyard. (The Price of It All, p4-6.)
Jesus was dragged down into the bowels of Hell where He was beaten and bruised by Satan and his demons until Jesus could finally fight His way out of Hell 3 days later.
(Classic Redemption, p.13) and (Believer's Voice of Victory, September 11, 1991)
Jesus was reborn in the pits of hell
.(What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303) and (Classic Redemption, p.13)
Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell
(Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition Bible, 1991, p129)
Jesus took on the nature of Satan when He was on the cross
. (Jesus lost His divine nature). (Doctrinal Statement dated March 12, 1979) and (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
The day that Jesus was crucified, God's life,
that eternal energy that was His from birth, moved out of Him and He accepted the very nature of death itself. (The Price of It All, Believer's Voice of Victory, September 1991, p3)
Jesus had to give up His righteousness
(The Incarnation, side 2.)
Jesus had to go through that same spiritual death in order to pay the price.
Now it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin, because if it had of been any prophet of God that had died for the last couple of thousand years before that could have paid that price. It wasn't physical death anybody could do that. (What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost audio tape #020022)
Nature of man
I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says,
'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too!' (Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast on TBN, recorded 7/9/87)
Every Christian is a god
. (Substitution and Identification)
You don't have a God in you; you are one
, (The Force of Love (Fort Worth: 1987, audiotape #02-0028, side 1)
You are not a spiritual schizophrenic -- half-God and half-Satan --
you are all-God (Now We Are in Christ Jesus, 1980, p16-17)
Adam was God manifested in the flesh
. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
When we use the spiritual laws that God has set up,
God must obey what we request. (Praise the Lord broadcast, TBN, recorded 2/5/86)
All of God's attributes and abilities were invested in Adam
. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
If you stood
Adam upside God, they look just exactly alike....If you stood Jesus and Adam side-by-side, they would look and act and sound exactly alike....The image is that they look just alike, but the likeness is that they act alike and they are alike....All of God's attributes, all of God's authority, all of God's faith, all of God's ability was invested in that man. (Authority of the Believer IV, 1987, audiotape #01-0304, side 1)
The Spirit of God spoke to me
, and He said Son, realize this Now follow me in this, don't let your tradition trip you up. He said Think this way. A twice-born man whipped Satan in his own domain. And I threw my Bible... I said What? He said A born-again man defeated Satan - the first-born of many brethren defeated him. He said You are the very image, and the very copy of that one. I said Goodness Gracious, saints alive. I began to see what had gone on in there, and I said Well you don? mean - You couldn't dare mean that I could have done the same thing? He said Oh yeah. If you'd had the knowledge of the Word of God that He did you could've done the same thing cause you're a re-born man too. (Substitution and Identification 1989, audio tape #00-0202, side 2)
God's reason for creating Adam was
His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself. And in the garden of Eden He did that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even. And Adam was as much like God as you can get, Just the same as Jesus when He came into the earth, He said If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father. He wasn't a lot like God - He's God manifested in the flesh. And I want you to know something - Adam in the garden of Eden was God manifested in the flesh. (Following the Faith of Abraham 1, 1989, audio tape #01-3001, side 1)
Adam lost the innate ability to create at the fall
. (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
Don't be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you're God.
The more you get to be like Me, the more they're going to think that way of you. They crucified Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn't claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with Him and that He was in Me. Hallelujah. That's what you're doing. (Voice of Victory Vol. 15, No. 2, 2/87)
You have the
same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when he created the heavens and the earth. (Inner Image of the Covenant, side 2.)
Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God
(Now We Are In Christ Jesus, 1980, p24)
Nature of faith
Faith is God's source of power
(Freedom From Fear, 1983. p12.)
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe
. (Authority of the Believer II (1987, audiotape #01-0302, side 1.)
God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith
. (Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1)
Faith is a Force
(like Starwars). (Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1)
The
force of faith was controlling His (Jesus') ministry. (The Force of Faith, p9)
Faith is a power force, he claims. It is a tangible force. It is a conductive force
. (The Force of Faith, 1989, p10)
Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance
. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance. (Forces of the Recreated Human Spirit, 1982, p8)
The force of gravity...makes the law of gravity work...
this force of faith...makes the laws of the spirit world function. (The Laws of Prosperity (Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1974, 18-19.)
Nature of heaven
:
Earth is a copy of the mother planet
(Heaven). Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet. (Spirit, Soul, and a Body 1 1985, audio tape #01-0601, side 1)
It's all a copy. It's a copy of home. It's a copy of the mother planet. Where God lives, He made a little one just like His and put us on it.
(Following the Faith of Abraham 1 1989, audio tape #01-3001, side 1)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine
Believers are not to be led by logic, he writes
. We are not even to be led by good sense (The Force of Faith, 7)
I don't preach doctrine
, I preach faith. (Following the Faith of Abraham I, side 2)
Crawford, Florence L.
Spread the Pentecostal message in 1906 around the California area. She became very prominent due to her revival meetings. Part of
Former co-pastor with
John Wimber at the Vineyard Church; author of "Surprised by the Voice of God".
Jack Deere was, until recently, the primary theologian in the Vineyard churches. John Wimber depended upon Jack Deere for advice on matters of theology. Jack Deere later left to join the First Presbyterian Church in Whitefish, Montana.
After some problems arose at this church, Jack Deere resigned from the Pastorship on June 20, 1996. On March 11, 1997, his association with the Presbyterian church was ended when he renounced jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Glacier.
Jack Deere is now the director of Grace Training Center and an instructor in Biblical studies at the Metro Christian Fellowship (formally Kansas City Vineyard). One of his goals is to "change the understanding and expression of Christianity in the whole earth in one generation."
"You see why we're excited about someone like
Paul Cain or Bob Jones coming on the scene? Or others that we've met...you know those two powerful witnesses in Revelation 11:3? You know what they are, first and foremost? They are prophets. He said they will prophesy for 1,260 days. He's going to end the last days just before His Son returns with a prophetic movement that will sweep the entire face of the earth and will eclipse anything we have ever seen before...the significance of these signs and wonders...But they don't just happen on the earth. They come because they are prayed for and they are predicted by God's people." ("Joel's Army," op. cit., Jewel van der Merwe.)
"But you know what? God is in the process of offending our minds in order to reveal our hearts. And I don't know any place where it's going to be 100% right. There's going to be stumbling blocks in every ministry
that the Holy Spirit is really responsible for." (Jack Deere, TACF, 11/20/94, audiotape)
Jack Deere says that end time apostles and prophets who would
"do greater works than the apostles, than Jesus, or any other Old Testament prophets." (Jack Deere, "Intimacy With God and the End Time Church," Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Denver, 1989, audiotape, session 2A)
Theology:
Stated that he does not believe that he or the church know what the true gospel really is. Maybe in 5 or 10 years (statement made in 1991).
Scripture not sufficient for Christian living.
Evans, Jennie
She went on to marry
William Seymour , she was one of seven people who received the "Pentecostal blessing" at a home on Asberry Street prior to moving to the Azusa location.
Farrow, Lucy
"became a key figure in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at
Azusa Street. The leader of a black Holiness mission in Houston, she has received the baptism of the Holy Spirit under Parham's ministry... Lucy Farrow had already been quite successful in leading other people into the baptism with the laying on of her hands." (Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Stanley Burgess, Zondervan Publishing House, 1995, pg. 894)
Hagin, Kenneth
 
Head of Kenneth Hagin Ministries and RHEMA Bible Training Center, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of
clicking here .
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
Steve Hill said "Don't leave me now ... just hang in there ... we'll get to the good stuff soon" (stopping to speak of the "anointing" every so often while teaching from Scripture.) (Revival ... or Satanic Counterfeit?, Jimmy Robbins, 1996)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
Steve Hill said "If you must analyze, then look at me, look at the musicians and singers, look at the congregation, look at the person to the left of you and to the right of you, and just analyze, analyze, analyze get it out of your system. Now let yourselves go: don't even think about what you are doing, forget about those around you and what they are doing. Release your mind release your spirit and let the mighty river of the "Holy Ghost" take you wherever He wants you to go." (Revival ... or Satanic Counterfeit?, Jimmy Robbins, 1996)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
Steve Hill said "Don't analyze this "move of God", and you had better receive it if you don't want a stamp of disapproval from Jesus." (Neal & Darlenn H visit to Brownsville AOG., 2/19/97)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
Steve Hill said "In these latter days preaching and simply teaching the word is no longer sufficient, the Spirit has to get involved, through signs and wonders due to much sin that abounds." (What We Saw, Robert C. Gray, 12/14/96)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
Steve Hill was very upset when he came to the pulpit to preach that night. He said that he had to get something said before he could preach. Then he talked about the "FBI," which he defined as the "Fault-finding Brothers International." He spoke so arrogantly about anyone questioning this "move of God". (The End Times and Victorious Living, March/April 1997, Vol. 11 No. 2, page 14.)
"
When you ridicule those whose bodies are twitching or shaking under the influence of God's glory, beware! Have you forgotten that God's Word and the annals of Church history are filled with the supernatural dealings of our supernatural God?"(Stephen Hill, The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997)
"The second mark of a God mocker is a fear of confrontation and change. They are so stuck in religious tradition that they are
closed to new revelation. The pastor who mocked God as he left the Brownsville Revival was steeped in religious legalism. He was in bondage and totally closed to the moving of the Holy Ghost. (How anyone can come into a revival meeting in Brownsville and fail to feel Jesus is beyond me! I can't imagine it.)" (The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997)
"
These God mockers are writing "position papers" about external physical manifestations while totally ignoring the deeper work of God that is saving hundreds of thousands of souls and permanently changing lives." (Stephen Hill, The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997)
"God mockers have disturbed and confused this country. Most unsaved folks are trying their best to find somebody who really lives for God. If they could just find one person who lives holy and practices what they preach, they would have a standard, and they would get on fire for God too! However, all they find is a mockery." (Stephen Hill, The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997)
John Kilpatrick falsely prophesied and cursed Hank Hanegraaff to death from the Brownsville pulpit while Steve Hill stood by and agreed with everything he was saying, even calling anyone who disagrees with them "devils". (Stephen Hill, The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997)
Hinn, Benny
TV evangelist for Benny Hinn Ministries on TBN; author of "Good Morning, Holy Spirit" Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of
Holy Ghost machine gun to kill Heresy Hunters. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), 11/8/90)
What does God the Father look like
? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. (Benny Hinn, Good Morning Holy Spirit, Word, 1991, p.87)
What was the
appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face. (Good Morning Holy Spirit, (Benny Hinn, Word, 1991) p. 82)
When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature
. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), recorded 4/21/91)
You are a little god on earth running around
. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon broadcast on TBN, November, 1990)
You have so much today that is pure flesh, yet people have labeled it as the Spirit. It's not the Spirit, because it's not centered on Christ.
It's pure emotionalism. Some of what is happening today, some of these manifestations where people are barking, making sounds of animals - I can tell you, that is not the Holy Spirit. It is purely demonic. The Holy Ghost does not bark. Only a devil barks. If somebody barks in my meeting, I'll cast the devil out of that man." (Benny Hinn Condemns Toronto Blessing/Pensacola Phenomena Praise The Lord July 4, 1997 videotape transcript)
You watching TBN here. If you're doing such nonsense,
get back to the Bible. And don't you dare experiment with what is not Scriptural, checking out if God is in it. My brother, if it's not in the Bible, He's not in it!! If it's not in the Word of God, He is not in it. (Benny Hinn Condemns Toronto Blessing/Pensacola Phenomena Praise The Lord July 4, 1997 videotape transcript)
Benny Hinn was not kicked out of the A/G. He had to resign because he was seen, photographed , and filmed with Paul & Jan Crouch sipping wine at a seaside restaurant in CA. In fact, the A/G allowed Him in knowing how he is and were in hopes of providing oversight, help, and accountability to straighten out some of the theological and ethical problems. J. Don George of Calvary Temple A/G in Irving serves on his board along with a lawyer from his church.
In late 1994, Hinn was introduced into the A/G by Brother George Wood. I received this report from Keith Craft of Strike Force who claimed to be Wood's son-n-law. I was encouraged by Craft to embrace the Hinn experience, that Hinn's acceptance by the A/G would be positive. Hinn was seeking 'cover' after stumbling over his understanding of the number of Persons in the Godhead and the number of the Gifts. The excesses (antics) of his crusades were also brought into question by Charisma editor in August 1993. Hinn needed cover and teaching, yet He continues as always. The excuse for departure I received was that Hinn felt restricted within the A/G, that he wasn't free to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, so he left of his own volition. The current trends promoted by Thomas Trask and John Kilpatrick are more shocking than those of Hinn.. In the Public Health field, the carrier of a disease is called a 'vector'. If anything, Hinn seems to be a vector of the delusion that God is pouring out so that people who refuse to believe the Truth will continue to believe the counter or lie and so condemn themselves (2 Thess. 2).
Dave Hunt's CIB Bulletin for February 1992: Benny Hinn
Give no less than $100, he exhorts an audience, and promises to lay hands on all the envelopes and ask God for financial miracles for the givers. Praying at Kuhlman's grave: The secret to Hinn's power is his peculiar anointing, which he connects with Kathryn Kuhlman and Aimee McPherson, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church. He first felt the full power of the Holy Spirit on him at a Kuhlman healing service in 1973 -- and her mantle has presumably fallen upon Hinn. He conducts his meetings almost exactly like hers -- though it takes Hinn much longer to get his audience into the expectant mood that seems to generate psychosomatic miracles. In an April 7, 1991 sermon, Hinn revealed that he periodically visits Kuhlman's grave and that he is one of the few with a key to gain access to it. He also visits Aimee's grave, where he says: I felt a terrific anointing ... I was shaking all over ... trembling under the power of God ... `Dear God,' I said, `I feel the anointing.' ... I believe the anointing has lingered over Aimee's body.
Winded catchers try to keep up with the toppling bodies. He rears back and with a pitching motion slays the entire choir with one toss. That's power, yells Benny. POWER! ... Hinn takes off his custom tailored jacket and rubs it briskly on his body. He is rubbing the Power into the jacket. Then he starts swinging it wildly, like the biblical David swinging his sling. He decks his followers left and right. Bam! Bam! Bam! The stage vibrates with their landings. Then he throws it [the anointed jacket]. Another bam. As a catcher moves to pick up a woman, Hinn slays him ... then he slays the catcher who caught the catcher. When Benny Hinn is moved, nobody is safe from the Power ... [H]e blows loudly into the microphone ... Hundreds fall backward ... a woman collapses in the aisle and begins to babble. And then, suddenly, Benny is gone. The power vanishes from the room, and the people stare in stunned silence.
This aspect alone of Hinn's meetings is enough to condemn him. He capriciously throws the Holy Spirit around in most irreverent fashion, using the third Person of the Trinity as his servant to attract attention to himself. Hinn acts as though the anointing is some metaphysical power at his disposal, to be rubbed off onto objects. It looks impressive, works largely by the power of suggestion, but has no purpose except to make people stand in awe of Hinn. It's scary, says Bill James, a former church member. The people are mesmerized. ...When he comes out, he's like God. (Mike Thomas reported in Florida Magazine, Nov. 24, 1991)
He looks like a Ralph Lauren advertisement, a true gentleman of leisure. As always, his hair is sprayed solidly in place. I don't know if you'll ever [again] see a reverend without socks, he says proudly. [He's wearing no socks.] That's the way I am. I'm more down to earth than most people. This comes from a man who just turned in his Mercedes for a Jaguar and recently moved from the exclusive Heathrow development to the even more exclusive Alaqua, where he now lives in a $685,000 home. His suits are tailored, his shoes are Italian leather, and his wrists and finger glitter with gold and diamonds ... what he considers a modest lifestyle, as if everyone lives like this. He wears his diamond Rolex, diamond rings, gold bracelet and custom suits for all to see. ...What's the big deal, for goodness sake? he says. What am I supposed to do, drive a Honda? ...That's not in the Bible. ... I'm sick and tired about hearing about streets of gold [in heaven]. I don't need gold in heaven. I got to have it now. (Mike Thomas's impression of a visit with Hinn, Florida Magazine, Nov. 24, 1991)
Benny declares: I have received a new mandate from heaven -- bring the message of the miraculous, healing power of God back to America! Invade our nation with the miracle-working power of God in the '90s! He claims that about 1,000 people are healed at each miracle service. But as Thomas reported, Despite all the thousands of miracles claimed by Hinn, the church seems hard pressed to come up with any that would convince a serious skeptic. ... When pressed for truly convincing miracles, [Hinn spokesperson] Susan Smith cited a woman in Orlando who was cured of blindness caused by diabetes. But she would not give the woman's name. She later admitted that the woman's vision may still be cloudy. `She still has diabetes, strangely ... [and] was just re-hospitalized.
People of God, shouts Benny, we must never speak such faith-destroying words as these: `If it be thy will, Lord.' ... I am Him [Jesus]! The Word has become flesh in Meee! ...You are a little god on earth! His other heresies include the teaching that God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit each has a body, soul and spirit. There's nine of them! he told his congregation by revelation knowledge, but probably got the idea from Dake's Annotated Reference Bible, where this ancient heresy was revived on page 55. Hinn taught the same heresy as Hagin and Copeland, that when Jesus died on the cross He sank into hell and took upon him the nature of Satan and was tortured by Satan for our redemption. Then early in 1991 he repudiated this teaching along with other Word- Faith peculiar doctrines. Yet he had taught it as revelation knowledge. God's revelations don't change.
You know, I've looked for one verse in the Bible -- I just can't seem to find it -- one verse that says, `If you don't like 'em, kill 'em.'' I really wish I could find it! ...Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off! The TBN studio audience loudly applauded those gracious words from the man of God. (directed at his critics) (Dave Hunt, Signs of the Times, CIB Bulletin, Jan. 1992)
Christian Research Institute review:
According to the monthly newsletter Religion Watch (RW), "since 1991 a new generation of televangelist preachers has clearly come into the ascendancy, suggesting where electronic media ministry will be headed....The new generation of televangelists [is] achieving prominence largely through the highly aggressive leadership of Trinity Broadcasting Network." At the top of RW's list: Benny Hinn. To his credit, Hinn has seemingly avoided the seamier temptations of stardom that have brought earlier televangelists to ruin. And despite his wild popularity, there is evidence that Hinn is on a quest for credibility -- one that he himself repeatedly frustrates by his inconsistencies. Again and again, Hinn's speculative, sometimes baffling theology and flamboyant crusade performances have drawn sharp attacks from evangelical leaders; repeatedly, Hinn has recanted, attempted to clarify his views, or sought to justify his actions. At least three times in as many years, Hinn has abandoned some aspect of the Faith doctrine -- once calling it "cultic" and "wrong" -- only to wander back. (Though he sometimes ridicules positive confession with remarks like, "It's faith, faith, faith, and no Jesus anywhere!" Hinn now promotes an aspect of prosperity teaching known as "seed-faith giving" -- a give-to-get doctrine patented by faith-preaching patriarch Oral Roberts.) Such flip-flops and seemingly short-lived attempts to seek the counsel and accountability of high-profile leaders like Campus Crusade's Bill Bright have left many observers of Hinn's ministry skeptical. Christian Research Institute president Hank Hanegraaff concludes that the only persuasive proof of Hinn's repentance would be his withdrawal of such doctrinally problematic books as Good Morning, Holy Spirit and Lord, I Need a Miracle. As of August, however, Hinn's ministry magazine still advertised the books -- including best-selling Spanish-language print and audio versions. Now Hinn is seeking ordination by the Assemblies of God (AG), the largest Pentecostal body in the U.S. and formerly home to both Bakker and Swaggart. In June he was interviewed by the 20-man Peninsular Florida district presbytery, a step required for the application to proceed to AG headquarters. The closed-door session was described in a public talk given on June 15 by Pastor Dan Betzer of Ft. Myers, Florida, a member of the district presbytery and the voice of the Revivaltime radio broadcast. Though apprehensive and skeptical at first, Betzer described being caught off guard when, "to my shock, I heard Benny Hinn say, 'My theology has been miserable.'" After grilling Hinn on his doctrinal views, Betzer concluded that the evangelist had answered the panel's theological queries "brilliantly -- and, I believe, sincerely." Betzer told of Hinn's intention to bring his 7,000-member Orlando Christian Center into the AG, one reason being that "he felt it's the movement that God was going to use in the last days." Even more importantly, said Betzer, Hinn sought AG ordination "to be under godly authority, and to have someone who will love me enough to tell me when I'm off the track." Hinn's application was approved by an overwhelming majority, its ultimate acceptance seeming all but certain. ("It would be a very unusual thing," said Betzer, "for a district presbytery to put their approval on a candidate and not have it approved on the national level.") But the application aroused the concern of a number of AG ministers. According to W.E. Nunnally, a professor at the denomination's Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, at least two AG college presidents strenuously objected to Hinn's potential ordination through direct correspondence with headquarters, as did district officials, missionaries, pastors, academics, and lay members. The Assemblies' executive presbytery met on July 26--27. But on the 27th, the syndicated television program Inside Edition ran a follow-up to its March 1993 investigation of Hinn. The new report highlighted apparent contradictions -- including a reversal of Hinn's promises not to preach about money, pronounce crusade-goers healed without full medical verification, or blow on them to make them fall under the Holy Spirit's power. (According to Betzer, Hinn confessed that "God has convicted me of blowing on people, 'cause it's theatrical, and it has no biblical basis whatsoever.") The next day, a spokesman at AG headquarters stated tersely that "Benny Hinn's application for [ministry] credentials has been put on hold." Hinn made headlines in June when, at his Philadelphia crusade, he declared former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield healed of the heart problems that cost him his title. Holyfield later told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he believed his heart was totally healed and that he would return to the ring to seek an unprecedented third title. According to a volunteer helping Hinn with security on-stage, Hinn asked crusade-goers for $1,000 to help with costs. When Holyfield raised his hand, Hinn reportedly asked him for $100,000 -- and when the boxer agreed, Hinn pressed him further, asking him to underwrite the entire crusade, to the tune of $250,000. Holyfield acquiesced, and Hinn reportedly prayed that God would enable the pugilist to earn $200 million because of his donation. (Christian Research Institute)
Holy Trinity Brompton (UK)
The Holy Trinity Brompton church in the UK has been the central source of most of the "Toronto Blessing" activity in the UK . One of the key promoters of the movement in HTB appears to be the Rt. Rev David Pytches. He and his wife were among the first from the church to visit Toronto and now all the familiar manifestations are seen at HTB, and have been spread throughout the UK.
Howard-Browne, Rodney
Evangelist with Revival Ministries International, the man who laid hands on practically everybody in the laughing revival.
To see video of antics
clicking here .
Rodney Howard-Browne said "
Stop praying now and let the joy bubble out your belly. Joy. Joy. Joy. Don't pray! Laugh!" (Holy Laughter, Albert James Dager, 1996)
"I remember one service where I just went and sat down for an hour and a half. I just went and sat down. Well, there was nothing else I could do.
Total pandemonium--people falling off of their chairs, people crying, people laughing and some were wailing--some were shaking. So, I just said to the people, I said, 'Look, just come up when you're ready and lift your hands and God will touch you.' I was sitting on the platform--just sat there and watched them for about an hour and a half. People came right up, got to the front, lifted their hands--BAM!--on the floor. I just sat there. I didn't even pray. You say, 'What'd you do?' I just sat there and twiddled my thumbs. I thought, 'Lord, I wish every meeting was as easy as this.' Now I had preached the word already and taught the word of God, and then I went and sat down. And they came walking up, got to the front, lifted their hands--BAM!--under the power of God." (Rodney Howard-Browne, TBN video-taped service which was broadcasted on May 1994, p.23-24.)
Rodney Howard-Browne said "
Take another drink...the bar is open....Be filled! We loose the power! Have another drink!" (Ed Tarkowski quoting Howard-Browne, 1994)
"You can't have revival without stirring up the flesh....When revival comes you will see manifestations of these three things in meetings: (1) the Holy Spirit; (2) the flesh, and (3) the devil. But,
I'd rather be in a church where the devil and the flesh are manifesting than in a church where nothing is happening because people are too afraid to manifest anything...Don't worry about it. And if a devil manifests, don't worry about that, either. Rejoice, because at least something is happening!" (Bill Randles quoting Rodney Howard-Browne, op. cit., p.162.) and (Rodney Howard-Browne, The Coming Revival. 1991, p.6)
"
Fill, fill, fill, come to me, fill, fill" (Howard Browne shouts at the Holy Spirit to fill Randy Clark ) (Rodney Howard-Browne, Taken from a Toronto Vineyard video and included in "A Plague in the Land" a video recording of a talk by Alan Morrison (1995)
Rodney Howard-Browne said "
Drink and get drunk on the "new wine of the Spirit."" (The Toronto Curse, Sydney Allen Hunter, 1996)
"'One night I was preaching on hell,' Howard-Browne says, 'and [laughter] just hit the whole place.
The more I told people what hell was like, the more they laughed'" (Rodney Howard-Browne, Charisma, August 1994, pg. 24).
(Rodney Howard-Browne) names numerous people, calling them "great men of God". Among them is
William Branham - an anti-Trinitarian. ("The Coming Revival", written by Howard-Browne, page 13)
Rodney Howard-Browne: "I'm telling your right now," he hissed, "you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!"
Dramatically he gestured toward the crowd and warned them that those like me, who would dare to question that what he was doing was of God, had committed the unpardonable sin and would not be forgiven in this world or the next." (Rodeny Boward-Browne, Melodyland Christian Center, Anaheim, CA, 1/17/95 - Comment from Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaf, 1997, pg. 22)
"
It felt like my fingertips came off. I felt a full volume of the anointing flow out of my hand. The only way I can explain it is to liken it to a fireman holding a fire hose with a full volume of water flowing out of it. The anointing went right into her. It looked like someone had hit her in the head with an invisible baseball bat and she fell to the floor." (Rodney Howard-Browne, Touch Of God, 76)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine
: "I tell them never to preach salvation, because they're suggesting people get saved," he said. "I'll guarantee anybody, I'll give them a congregation of 1,000 people and tell them to get up and suggest all they want and see what will happen." One of the other pastors cut in on the interview to say he read the story of Ananias and Sapphira to his church the other night and everyone ended up on the floor laughing. "One night I was preaching on hell," Howard-Browne said, continuing, "and it just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like, the more they laughed, and when I gave an altar call, they came forward by the hundreds to get saved." "Then," I replied, "as to what you're preaching on, it's almost irrelevant what you're saying." He nodded. (An Evening with Rodney Howard-Browne, 1995 by the Christian Research Institute, from the Newswatch column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1995, page 43) by Julia Duin.)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
"You really cannot understand what God is doing in these meetings with an analytical mind," he said. "It's not a move of man, it's a move of God. The mind is never going to understand what God's doing....The only way you're going to understand what God's doing is with your heart." ("An Evening with Rodney Howard-Browne" (from the Newswatch column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1995, page 43, by Julia Duin) and (Holy Laughter, Albert James Dager, 1996)
"
I'm just the Holy Ghost bartender," he informed us. "I just serve the new wine and tell them to come drink." ("An Evening with Rodney Howard-Browne" (from the Newswatch column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1995, page 43, by Julia Duin) and (Joel C. Gerlach, "Holy Laughter Is No Laughing Matter," Christian News (April 17, 1994, Vol. 33, No. 16), p.4; Dager, op. cit., p.10.)
Howard-Browne then began pumping us up to do just that. He led us in a song with these words: "
I am drunk, I am drunk. Every day of my life I am drunk. I've been drinking down at Joel's place every night and every day. I am drunk on the new wine." Then he asked us all to lift our hands and "let that river of joy come out of your belly." ("An Evening with Rodney Howard-Browne" (from the Newswatch column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1995, page 43) by Julia Duin)
Though (
A.A. Allen ) was excommunicated by Pentecostal leaders in his day, he is extolled by endtime restorationists in ours. Rodney Howard-Browne, for one, urges devotees: "Read the life stories of some of the great men of God, men like A.A. Allen ." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing Rodney Howard-Browne, "Fresh Oil From Heaven" (Louisville, KY: RHBEA Publications, 1992, 23)
Jones, Bob
Was one of the main "prophets" of the Kansas City Fellowship (The other being Mike Bickel). Despite being discredited in a sexual misconduct scandal in 1991 (Minister removed after confession of sexual misconduct, Olathe Daily News, 11/31/91), Bob Jones remains a "prophet" within the Vineyard.
His theology appears to consist of:
He claims that God revealed to him that prophets are to be only 66% accurate, and that he would be providing false prophecies so that they would not become more accurate. This was to prevent too many Ananias' and Saphira's.
Manifest Sons of God/Dominion Theology
City Churches. All other churches are to be incorporated into the Kansas City Fellowship, then closed and membership transferred to the the one city church under KCF leadership. Those pastors and elders who resist will be removed.
Shepherd's Rod Revelation: On the day of atonement each year, the prophet (Bob Jones) is to hold out his rod for all congregation to walk under (Note: This was said to be a revelation from God).
When he was in a mental institution, he claims that he was told by God that to regain his sanity, he must either forgive or kill 12 people.
Joel's Army/Kingdom Now/Dominion Theology
Christians are to take control of and dominate the world, in order for the millennium to begin.
Joyner, Rick
Prophet, Editor of Morning Star Magazine
One East Coast minister who is heavily involved with Grace Ministries (A ministry started under the
Kansas City Fellowship ) is Rick Joyner of Morning Star Ministries in North Carolina.
Prophetic accuracy must be only 66% (per Bob Jones "revelation"). - Manifest sons of God/New Breed.
Creation of "superapostles" from the manifested sons of God. (i.e. 35 "Pauls" will be created)
Developed strategy to infiltrate and gain control of Christian Community throughout the U.S. and Canada on behalf of the Kansas City Fellowship.
Quotes:
"What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening; it is a veritable revolution.
The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity. The dismantling of organizations and disbanding of some works will be a positive and exhilarating experience for the Lord's faithful servants. A great company of prophets, teachers, pastors and apostles will be raised up with the spirit of Phineas..." (Rick Joyner, The Harvest, op. cit. "Joel's Army.")
Rick Joyner reports visions of "
a bloody civil war" in the Church. (Latter Rain Revival, 1996)
Rick Joyner has identified
"Antichrist" as the orthodox church. (Weighed and Found Wanting, Bill Randles, p. 64.)
"In the near future we will
not be looking back at the early church with envy because of the great exploits of those days, but all will be saying that He certainly did save His best wine for last. The most glorious times in all of history have not come upon us. You, who have dreamed of one day being able to talk with Peter, John and Paul, are going to be surprised to find that they have all been waiting to talk to you." (Rick Joyner, The Harvest (Pineville, NC, MorningStar, 1990, 9)
"Like the American Civil War, the coming
spiritual civil war will also be between the Blue and the Gray. In dreams and visions blue often represents heavenly mindedness - the sky is blue - and gray speaks of those who live by the power of their own minds - the brain is often called gray matter - this will be a conflict between those who may be genuine Christians, but who live mostly according to their natural minds and human wisdom, and those who follow the Holy Spirit." (Rick Joyner, The Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin, May 1996, 2)
"There will also be some new wonders coming to the church. We had some of these just recently where Bob Jones and I heard angels singing twice in a meeting. This didn't even take any faith, it was so loud and so clear, it was like a choir singing.
Another time, we had the odor of incense fill a meeting for about 15 minutes. It was so intense that you couldn't help but smell it...He gave it as a witness that He was receiving the intercession from these people, the prayers and their intercession. He had said He would come with a sign that we would smell the incense. It came so powerfully faith was hardly needed. And we saw the wind of the Spirit blow so hard at a meeting you could see people's hair blowing! So He is coming a whole lot more dramatically. As one brother said, 'This hardly takes any faith, it is so obvious.' But when He comes in ways like that, it is always to give a message. He is not just trying to tickle our curiosity or our interest in supernatural things, He is trying to say something to us."(Rick Joyner, Faith Hardly Needed From Fullness, Jan/Feb 1990 "The Unfolding of a Prophet." Page 13, with commentary by Bill Randles, Weighed And Found Wanting, 1994, appendix)
"At the height of the
Azusa Street revival Seymour prophesied, "We are on the verge of the greatest miracle the world has ever seen." The miracle he was referring to was a true love and unity between races and creeds that he considered to be fundamental Christianity. When it does, William J. Seymour must be considered as one who sowed the seeds for this greatest miracle of all. Possibly more than any other man in church history, he promoted that which alone can bring it to pass, seeking the fullness of the Holy Spirit in our midst." (Rick Joyner, "Azusa Street - The Fire That Could Not Die", The Morning Star Journal, Volume 7, Number 1)
"We must be vigilant and able to quickly recognize the enemy, but not be too quick to call someone the enemy until we are sure of what we see. A friend of mine who was a close associate of
Jack Coe , one of the greatest of the healing evangelists, told me how he died quickly and unexpectedly at the age of just 39 after publicly referring to Kathryn Kuhlman as a witch. Years later, Kuhlman died quickly and unexpectedly after publicly calling Bob Mumford a false teacher. Were these the judgments of God? I believe both of these died because of the mercy of the Lord, to keep them from crossing the line to becoming a stumbling block, something the Lord Himself warned should be the last thing we ever want to become." (Rick Joyner, "False Prophets and False Prophecy", The Morning Star Journal, Volume 6, Number 4)
Kansas (Metro) City Fellowship
Formed by Mike Bickel and Paul Cain. In 1991, after a great deal of concern regarding cultic/occultic/heretical beliefs and practices, the Vineyard took control of the church, arranged for an independent investigation of the church to be suspended. The Vineyard, under John Wimber investigated themselves, declared the KCF to be sound, and incorporated them into the Vineyard as the Kansas City Metro Vineyard Fellowship. The church split with the Vineyard in 1996 after the Vineyard and the TACF parted ways. The church is now know as the Metro City Fellowship.Most leaders in the KCF have now become the most prominent leaders in the Vineyard.
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The true father of the modern-day Faith movement. (deceased)
Essek William Kenyon's life and ministry were
enormously impacted by such cults as Science of Mind, the Unity School of Christianity, Christian Science, and New Thought metaphysics. (E. W. Kenyon, The Father and His Family, 17th ed. (Lynnwood, WA: Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1964), 100; cf. Kenneth E. Hagin, "The Incarnation," The Word of Faith, December 1980, 14)
Many of the phrases popularized by present-day prosperity preachers, such as
"What I confess, I possess," were originally coined by Kenyon. Kenneth Hagin ... plagiarized much of Kenyon's work, including the statement, "Every man who has been 'born again' is an Incarnation, and Christianity is a miracle. The believer is as much an Incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth." (E. W. Kenyon, The Father and His Family, 17th ed. (Lynnwood, WA: Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1964)
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If Jesus' physical death could pay the penalty for Sin as some contend, then why is it necessary that a Christian die? If a Christian dies physically, does he not pay the penalty of his own sin? If physical death is the penalty for sin, then why do not the whole human race pay their own penalty, and save themselves, for all die? But we hold that the physical death of Jesus did not touch the sin issue at all." (Daniel R. McConnell, A Different Gospel, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988, 23, 28 note 23)
Kilpatrick, John
Head pastor at "Brownsville Outpouring" Assembly Of God Church in Pensacola, FL
anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
John Kilpatrick said "Let (yourselves) go" ... "do not think about what you are doing" ... "just give yourselves completely to the Spirit'". (Revival ... or Satanic Counterfeit?, Jimmy Robbins, 1996)
Kilpatrick stood on the platform praying with
Hill and another man when he suddenly heard a sound like a "rushing mighty wind" sweep over his right shoulder. As Kilpatrick looked over his shoulder, he said his ankles slipped, his knees bowed out, and a sudden "river of the glory of God" moved between his legs. "It felt like a telephone pole," he said. "An endless telephone pole was coming through my legs and it was coming in the church." With some help from another man on the platform, Kilpatrick stepped back and listened to the sound of the "rushing mighty wind" and what he described as the "river of the glory of God" as it swept into the church. He suddenly jumped to the pulpit and screamed, "My God, church, get in! This is it! This is what we've been praying for! Get in!" (The Brownsville/Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?, Matt Costella, Foundation Magazine, March-April 1997) - Note: I saw the video tape of this very night and there was no sound of a rushing wind, no 1000 people at the altar. There were only a couple hundred or so people who slowly came forward who had been coerced to come and receive the "anointing" Steve Hill had received from Sandy Millar at the Holy Trinity Brompton, England.
"
My God, church, get in! This is it! Revival's come! This is what we've been praying for! Get in!"(John Kilpatrick, Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaff, audiotape version, 1997)
"
God sent pandemonium in the church," he said. "I think it's time that we have grand pandemonium in the Baptists, in the Lutheran, the Episcopal, the Assembly of God [churches]. God send pandemonium!" Kilpatrick exclaimed. (The Brownsville/Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?, Matt Costella, Foundation Magazine, March-April 1997)
anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
"Let me tell you something else about this revival," Kilpatrick said. "This move of God is not about preaching." He said that while he and evangelist Steve Hill do preach sermons that are simple and easy to understand, the signs and miracles are what actually turn people to Christ, not the Word of God. "We've heard so many sermons and so much of the Word of God that we've grown fat," he said, "but there's been no power and no anointing and no miracles. So, I just want to tell you, that's why tonight I don't feel bad about not coming up here and preaching a great sermon." (The Brownsville/Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?, Matt Costella, Foundation Magazine, March-April 1997)
"
See, we've become so used to the abnormal that now that the normal has come it seems abnormal." (The Brownsville-Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?, Matt Costella, Foundation Magazine, March-April 1997)
Kilpatrick himself seems unsure at times what these supernatural powers are, but he concludes that they must be the "glory of the Lord." He oftentimes describes a phenomenon that occurred either to him personally or to the entire congregation and prefaces it by saying, "
I don't know what it was." He then continues by either saying, "I believe it was God," or "I think it was the glory of God." He has no basis for this assumption, but, for some reason, he concludes that these manifestations and feelings are of God even though they can be found nowhere in God's written Word. (The Brownsville/Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?, Matt Costella, Foundation Magazine, March-April 1997)
Prophesies against Hank Hanegraaff, the "apology" letter of 6/17/97 and the original message of 4/6/97:
(Kilpatrick Letter 6/17/97:) "When I said, "I'm going to prophesy as a man of God that the
Lord bring you down in 90 days," I was not speaking that as a prophet but as a shepherd putting something in the ears of God. I did not say, "Thus saith the Lord"; it was a "Thus saith John Kilpatrick," putting these words into God's ears in the context of the message I was bringing. Let me reemphasize again that was me speaking."
(Kilpatrick Message 4/6/97:) "You're all gonna have to pardon me for being beside myself,
but I got a word from the Lord last night."
(Kilpatrick Letter 6/17/97:) "This is by no means to be interpreted as an attempt to
wiggle out of a prophecy. I would like to grant you the right to continue to count down the days and continue to comment about the 90 days. It's ammunition that I gave you in April. I only want you to know -- it was me speaking that and not a "thus saith the Lord."
(Kilpatrick Message 4/6/97:)"If you want to keep any kind of a semblance of a ministry, you better back off from this revival and what God is doing. You better back off, because I'm going to prophesy to you that if you don't, and you continue to put your tongue in your mouth on this move of God,
within 90 days the Holy Ghost will bring you down. I said, within 90 days the Holy Ghost will bring you down."
(Kilpatrick Letter 6/17/97:) "I want to emphasize also that I did not wish you any harm personally. I was talking about your ministry, I was saying, "God bring down your platform for crying out and associating us with a cult." I did not nor do I wish you any harm. I ask your forgiveness if you thought I meant any harm to you personally.
Honestly, before the Lord, I had your platform in mind, not the person Hank Hanegraaff."
(Kilpatrick Message 4/6/97:) "And I want to tell you something else. If you don't want your head to start shaking - you make fun of somebody in the choir shaking [Note: Hank Hanegraaff has never made fun of her, but has repeatedly expressed concern due to the physical and mental problems that can come out of shaking one's head so vigorously for hours at a time for over a year and a half] - come here a minute, girl. Come down here a minute. Hurry up. Hurry up. [Note: Would you want to be spoken to in that way?] If you don't want your head to do like this, you better lay your mouth off of her. I know this girl. She's a godly girl. She's a school teacher, and she lives a godly life."
After John Kilpatrick completed his anecdotal stories about manifestations, things went from bad to worse. His "speaking in tongues" for a long period without an interpretation was a red flag. I guess that what he was doing would have been labeled "speaking in tongues," but it sounded more like an Indian chant "Oo-ee-ah-oo-ee" (with occasional "whoosh" and "shew . . . Holy Ghost" sounds made into the microphone etc.). This "chanting" went on for a period of over twenty minutes. (I Experienced the "Pensacola Outpouring" and Came Home Crying Tears and Praying, Shawn Paul Sauve, 1997)
anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine:
In John Kilpatrick's entire sermon not a single Scripture was referenced, the Gospel was not preached, and the bizarre manifestations appeared to be the point of the whole evening. John Kilpatrick's description of the beginning of the Brownsville revival seemed very similar to the service that I attended. The gospel was not preached (a message was not given according to Kilpatrick), and the evidence that revival had come was not that people were saved, but because people fell down on the floor out of control. (I Experienced the "Pensacola Outpouring" and Came Home Crying Tears and Praying, Shawn Paul Sauve, 1997)
Kuhlman, Kathryn
Aimee Semple McPherson, nationally known healing evangelist in the 1920's - 1930's. Founded and headed the Foursquare Gospel Church, led a controversial life and
died of a drug overdose in 1944.
She thought that her organization was in fact restoring true Christianity which had been lost over the years. All of these groups initially believed in a restoration of the gifts of the Holy Spirit including prophecy.
She is without doubt the most controversial of all the Pentecostal women. She got the baptism in 1907 and soon went with her husband to China, where he died. She came back to the United States and traveled as an evangelist. In 1919 she settled in Los Angeles where she built the Angelus Temple. She served as the pastor of the temple until her death in 1944.
She is controversial because she faked her own kidnapping in order to carry on an adulterous affair in 1926. During the outcry against her over this affair she incorporated The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, which later grew into a large Pentecostal denomination. The Foursquare denomination exists today. Sister Aimee died of a barbiturate overdose in 1944.
While the Dictionary of Pentacostal and Charismatic Movements deals with the controversial aspects of "Sister Aimee's" life -- her mysterious disappearances and alleged affairs, multiple marriages (two of which ended in divorce), and death from an apparent drug overdose -- it is strangely silent about her theatrical preoccupation with the slain in the spirit phenomenon. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, 168)
(Benny) Hinn revealed that he periodically visits (Kathryn) Kuhlman's grave (click here for a photo of her grave site) and that he is one of the few with a key to gain access to it. He also visits Aimee McPherson's grave (pictured below) where he says: "I felt a terrific anointing ... I was shaking all over ... trembling under the power of God ... `Dear God,' I said, `I feel the anointing.' ... I believe the anointing has lingered over Aimee's body." (Benny Hinn, April 7, 1991 sermon)
"The Voice of the Lord spoke tenderly: "Now, child, cease your strivings and your begging; just begin to praise Me ..." All at once my hands and arms began to tremble gently at first, then more and more,
until my whole body was a tremble with the power ... Almost without my notice my body slipped gently to the floor, and I was lying under the power of God, but felt as thought caught up and floating." (Aimee Semple McPherson, This Is That, Los Angeles: Echo Park Evangelistic Associaton, 1923, p90-91)
Ozman, Agnes
You can have what you say
. (Fred Price, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/21/90)
You can't glorify God if you are sick
. (Fred Price, Is God Glorified Through Sickness?, Tape #FP605)
Man has made God violate His own word. Have a "Rolls Royce" Faith. (Fred Price, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/21/90)
God has displeasure in poverty
. (Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, recorded 11/16/90)
Jesus and the disciples were rich, only rich people could take off for 3.5 years.
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, recorded 11/23/90)
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Yes! You are in control! So, if man has control, who no longer has it? God" (Fred Price, "Prayer: Do You Know What Prayer Is...and How to Pray?," The Word Study Bible, 1990. p. 1178).
"Jesus was rich and that He left us with an example to follow.
That is why Fred drives a Rolls Royce; he is following Jesus' example!" (Fred Price, An Examination Of The Word-Faith Movement, Richard J. Vincent, 1991)
"
how can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right? How can you glorify God? How can He get glory when your body doesn't even work? ... What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside a body where He can't see out through the windows and He can't hear with the ears? What makes you think the Holy Spirit wants to live inside of a physical body where the limbs and the organs and the cells do not function right? ... And what makes you think He wants to live in a temple where He can't see out of the eyes, and He can't walk with the feet, and He can't move with the hand? ... The only eyes that he has that are in the earth realm are the eyes that are in the body. If He can't see out of them then God's gonna be limited" (Frederick K.C. Price, "Is God Glorified Through Sickness?" Los Angeles: Crenshaw Christian Center, N.D., audiotape #FP605)
Roberts, Oral & Richard
TV preacher, Faith healer , founder of Oral Roberts University, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of
Being poor is a sin
. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/2/90)
The only time people were
poor in the Bible is when they were under a curse. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/2/90)
Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine
: Forget your church. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 3/4/91)
Do not say "Lord if it be thy will".
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/14/91)
When ABC profiled Tilton his Success-N-Life broadcast was in all 235 U.S. markets, buying 5,000 hours per month of airtime, and pulling in at least $84 million per year. Tilton's distinctive pitch was the $1,000 "vow of faith," for which he promised innumerable miracles and blessings from God. He also sent mountains of sanctified trinkets to his mailing list, promising to personally touch and pray over such items if they were returned with a donation. Then Prime Time revealed that thousands of Tilton-bound prayer requests had been dumped in the trash behind his Tulsa bank -- with the money gone and no sign that he had ever laid a finger on them. His ministry collapsed. Now, nearly three years later, Tilton is completely off the air. He divorced his wife, Marte, and sold both his waterfront mansion in Florida and his 12,000 square-foot Dallas "parsonage." Sunday attendance at his once-thriving Word of Faith Family Church has dropped from some 5,000 members to an average of 320. Tilton laid off 70 percent of his Dallas staff, leaving 32 at a ministry that once employed over 800. Prime Time unleashed a legal storm, and Tilton has been on the receiving end of more than 10 lawsuits and assorted government investigations. On March 16 a judge dismissed Tilton's civil-rights suit against ABC-TV, Diane Sawyer, and other perceived Tilton enemies (he later refiled, repositioning it as a federal racketeering suit). On April 21 a Dallas jury ordered Tilton to pay $1.5 million to former supporters Vivian and Mike Elliott of Tampa, Florida for fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and conspiracy. Tilton is desperately attempting a comeback from the bottom up as an itinerant evangelist, visiting small, obscure churches that still support him. (Christian Research Institute)
Vineyard
In 1991, the Vineyard investigated an organization then known as the
Kansas City Fellowship , which was receiving a questionable reputation for some of its doctrines and activity throughout the Christian community.
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