Apprising Ministries now brings you the last seminar of this highly informative session on this cult, which is gaining ground within mainstream evangelicalism with an assist from the Seeker Driven movement.
Straightening Out Mickey Maudlin’s Lessons From Publishing Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”
Only One Gospel, Part 9
3 So also we, when we were children, we had been enslaved under the fundamental principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law 5 that he might redeem the ones born under law that we might receive adoption as sons. Gal. 4:3-5, Possessing the Treasure New Testament v1
As I shared in our last post, Only One Gospel Part 8, my own pilgrimage or sojourn from my justification to this stage of my sanctification has not been a smooth upward line on a chart. No, in fact, one of the reasons I think I have such a clear understanding of Romans 7 is that I have lived it especially during those dark periods of those fiery trials that seemed to last forever during the 1990’s right up to through 2009 when my seizure disorder, which had been dormant since 1976 reappeared. However, the main element that comes through all of these “elemental principles of the world” is that even though those of us who are in Christ are indeed saved by grace and are new creations all according to the will of God all by his work, we are still in this temporal state in these bodies of flesh in this lost and dying world that neither knows our Lord nor what true joy is. However, even in the midst of a our tests and trials, we can rejoice in our Lord and be full of the joy of the Lord for we know that God is 100% in control and our time to meet him face to face is fixed and our time in our Lord’s presence will be for eternity.
Evangelical Contemplative Mystic Peter Scazzero Leading Charge For Women Pastors
Apprising Ministries alerts you to Scazzero’s Women In Ministry, which begins to tomorrow. You’ll see the evidence from his website showing he’ll be using it to promote antibiblical women pastors.
If you don’t think this is important, then consider that Peter Scazzero is already partnered with the highly influential Willow Creek Association and comes recommended by both Rick Warren and Tim Keller.
Rob Bell, He’s Back…Well, Almost
Is The Harbinger Fact Or Fiction?
John MacArthur: What Is Sin?
Seeker Driven Hirelings Of Today Vs Godly Men Of Old
Prophet-Führer Craig Groeschel At The Movies
(Ken Silva – Apprising Ministries) Well…when you don’t really believe in the all-suffiency of God’s infallible, inerrant, Word in the Bible, then you’ll send out tweets about “sermon” series like what follows.
Apprising Ministries has told you, e.g. in ER Curator James MacDonald Points Us To Conferences of Interest, that Steven Furtick considers Groeschel his “pastor.”
The fact is Craig Groeschel, approached by apostate Doug Pagitt concerning what would become the Emerging Church, is a Lieutenant General in the Seeker driven camp.
Just a bit ago Groeschel would tweet:
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Following that hash tag we eventually find the latest bait and switch technique employed by Groeschel and his LifeChurch.tv megachurch gathering :
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Ah yes, what better way to bring people closer to God than to read your own meanings into secular movies and practicing narcigesis while reading yourself into Scripture:
Doug Pagitt, Emerging False Prophets & Original Sin
Who Progressive Christians Work For
Women Pastors, Just Say No
Paul Washer: False Prophets Will Pay
Jesus Was A Muslim Says Head Of Religion At Luther College
Apprising Ministries Exclusive: Rick Warren Parodies Himself!
Justin Peters on Mangled Manifestations Of The Word Faith Movement
Steven Furtick and many other Seeker Driven pastors dabbling now with Word Faith mythology essentially were coming of age during the 90’s.
As such, they’re preaching similar to the way WF preachers were in that time period, which is just after evangelical apologists like Walter Martin had thoroughly exposed WF heresies. This would cause WF perpetrators to hide their more pernicious doctrines underground.
My point being, these quasi-WF preacher wannabes and their fickle followers really have little to no idea about what Word Faith theology is. That’s why Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you this session from Justin Peters.
Homoppression Is As Bad As Homophobia
Only One Gospel, Part 8
And if you are Christ’s then you are of Abraham’s seed and according to promise, heirs. Gal. 3:29, Possessing the Treasure New Testament v1
I mentioned many times on this blog that I grew up going to church. Some of my first memories were as a small child in church in 1950’s Oklahoma. I doubt if many today would feel real comfortable in the “church environment” I remember from that period. Of course, I did not come to faith until I was in my mid-thirties so I saw most of what went on during that period as a child, a pre-teen, and a teen in the youth group then as a College and Career young adult as an exercise in religiosity that seemed to have something to do with getting better and better at being righteous. When I went into the military in 1973 I left church until the mid-1980’s, married and with a family of my own. What was so interesting was that it was little different than I remembered. I still couldn’t wait for that last verse of the never-ending invitation hymn to get over with so we could get home.
Safe Ways
Review Of Prophet-Führer Steven Furtick’s Sun Stand Still
Word Faith Prosperity Preacher Joseph Prince
Only One Gospel, Part 7
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; 15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation. 16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 (as it is written, “A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Romans 4:13-17, NASB
One of the comments from yesterday’s post, Only One Gospel Part 6, stated succinctly that as I presented the message of this series, “Mike – you are swimming up stream in the self-centered culture.” My friend who stated that is right. However, isn’t that what Jesus told us would be the case? If we are his disciples and prove it by following him, obeying him, living by faith, not conforming to this world, et cetera then this world would hate us just as it hated him. However, it wasn’t until I got quite deep into this teaching and discernment ministry that I discovered the shocking truth that most of the push-back to the truth from God’s Word, getting Doctrine right, not compromising for the sake of unity, et cetera was coming from professing Christians. Some of those professing Christians had quite well known ministries and their apologists were quite brutal, underhanded, and played dirty. What am I saying? The self-centered culture that is in darkness that these truths expose is actually most of the visible church.
We Need Balance Today
Rift Forms in Movement as Belief in Gay ‘Cure’ Is Renounced
Many in the ex-gay world would disagree with what Mr. Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, stated in the following report from The New York Times:
The ex-gay movement has been convulsed as the leader of Exodus, in a series of public statements and a speech to the group’s annual meeting last week, renounced some of the movement’s core beliefs. Alan Chambers, 40, the president, declared that there was no cure for homosexuality and that “reparative therapy” offered false hopes to gays and could even be harmful. His statements have led to charges of heresy and a growing schism within the network.
Has God Called You? The Calling of the Christian Minister
Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, reminds us that “Only God can call a true minister, and only He can grant the minister the gifts necessary for service. Dr. Mohler begins his piece:
Has God called you to ministry? Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. Writing to young Timothy, the Apostle Paul confirmed that if a man aspires to be a pastor, “it is a fine work he aspires to do.” [I Timothy 3:1, NASB] Likewise, it is a high honor to be called of God into the ministry of the Church. How do you know if God is calling you?