“Australia, brace yourself. Bethel isn’t bringing the light of Christ to your shores—they’re bringing the smoke and mirrors of a counterfeit gospel. And if their track record is any indication, Sydney is in for a flood of glitter clouds, grave-sucking theology, and emotional manipulation masquerading as the work of the Holy Spirit.”
(The Dissenter) Bethel Church in Redding, California, pastored by Bill Johnson and co-pastored by Kris Vallotton—men who arrogantly believe themselves to be “prophets” and “Apostles”—has earned its reputation as a factory of spiritual fraudulence. This is the same Bethel that gave us “glory clouds,” the thoroughly debunked stunt involving stage smoke and glitter coming from the air ducts while selling it as the “presence of God.”
It’s the same Bethel that introduced the world to blasphemies like “grave sucking,” where people attempt to absorb the anointing of dead saints. What Bethel doesn’t give us, of course, is anything that remotely resembles biblical truth. Instead, it has built its empire on emotional manipulation, manufactured miracles, and a complete disregard for sound doctrine.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Kris Vallotton.