“What looks from the outside like the charismatic movement holding itself accountable is, on examination, the movement identifying figures who have become liabilities and executing them publicly before their scandals contaminate the broader institution. The theology survives every time.”
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) JD Hall, of Insight To Incite, one of the largest Christian substacks, recently called out Mike Winger, one of the largest Christian YouTubers. In a recent article titled, “Mike Winger, Controlled Polemics, and PR in a Discernment Mask,” Hall characterizes some of Winger’s seminal work as “an entertaining post-mortem on an already-cooked career[s].
Winger has gone after Benny Hinn, Shawn Bolz, Michael Brown, Todd White, Mike Bickle, Brian Simmons and his The Passion Translation, Che Ahn, and Rick Joyner. That’s quite a list, and they’re all scoundrels, every last one of them. God knows – and so do you – I’ve written about all of them (I hyperlinked them above with articles I’ve written about them), and most of them, more than 15 years ago and long before the scandals that Winger has used to do the same. But Hebrews 5:14 tells us that mature believers have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. The keyword is “trained,” and it implies a willingness to engage with the hard cases before they become easy ones.
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 those mentioned in the article.
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