Pentecostalism is of the Devil

Pentecostalism looks and feels good, but is rotten to the core!

Devastating proof that Pentecostals are false teachers!
Allen, AA
Arnott, John
Avanzini, John
Azusa St. Mission
Bakker, Jim
Bickel, Mike
Branham, William
Bright, Bill
Brownsville Blessing
Browne, Rodeny Howard-
Cain, Paul
Campbell, Miss Ivey
Capps, Charles
Cardale, Mrs.
Cerullo, Morris World Evangelism, Inc.
Chevreau, Guy
Cho, Paul Yonggi
Clark, Randy
Coe, Jack
Copeland Kenneth
Crawford, Florence L.
Crouch, Paul
Deere Jack		 Dollar, Creflo: World Changers Ministry
Falwell, Jerry
Farrow, Lucy
Foursquare Gospel Church
Grant, Jr., W. V.
Grace Ministries
Hagee, John: Cornerstone Church
Hagin, Kenneth
Hickey, Marilyn
Hill, Steve
Hinn, Benny
Holy Trinity Brompton (UK)
Howard-Browne, Rodeny
International Charismatic Bible Ministries (ICBM)
Irving, Edward
Jones, Bob
Joyner, Rick
Kansas (Metro) City Fellowship
Kenyon, Essek
Kilpatrick, John
Kinchlow, Ben		 Kuhlman, Kathryn
Latter Rain Doctrines
Lea, Larry
Mainse, David 100 Huntley
McPherson, Aimee Semple
Dortch, Richard
Dowie, John Alexander
Dupont, Marc
Evans, Jennie
Meyer, Joyce
Montanus  Montanism
Ozman, Agnes
Parham, Charles Fox
Paulk, Earl: Chapel Hill Harvester Church
Pensacola Blessing
Popoff, Peter
Price, Fred Crenshaw Christian Center
Promise Keepers
Rex Humbard
Roberts Oral
Robertson, Pat
Ryle, James 		Schambach, Robert William
Schuller, Dr. Robert: Hour Of Power
Scotland, John
Seymour, William
Sharon Bible school
Sizelove, Rachel A.
Smith, Miss Mable
Strader, Karl: Carpenter's Home Church
Strang, Stephen, Charisma Magazine
Swaggart, Jimmy
Tilton, Robert
Toronto Blessing
Vineyard
White, John
Wimber, John
Woodworth-Etter, Maria

 

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 Charisma magazine/New Man magazine, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of 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 Campus Crusade for Christ, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Mainse, David, 100 Huntley St. Anchor of TV show "100 Huntley Street", Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Strader, Karl Carpenter's Home Church, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Meyer, Joyce

 

 TV preacher, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne

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
  1. 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.
  2. The theology of Grace ministries is based upon the manifest sons of God/New Breed theology, as described under the Kansas City Fellowship.
  3. 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."
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 clicking here.
Seymour, William
  1. In the early 1900’s William Seymour had been taught about receiving the baptism with the Holy Ghost, (i.e. the gift of speaking in other tongues) by Charles Fox Parham in Kansas.
  2. Seymour received the baptism at some point while at Bible school under Parham.
  3. Seymour went to Los Angeles and began to preach about the Holy Spirit baptism in a barn/warehouse on Azusa.
  4. April 4, 1906 a revival began and 1,000's of people came to 312 Azusa to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. This revival lasted from 1906 to 1913 and during these nine years 1,000's of Pentecostal missionaries went forth establishing ministries around the world.
Bakker, Jim & Tammy Jim Bakker said nothing of his moral failings until Jessica Haan spilled the beans.

Bakker was convicted on federal fraud charges after bilking 116,000 followers of his PTL ministries out of $158 million in the 1980s. He resigned in 1987 amid a sex and financial scandal, and the PTL empire Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye, built was turned over to Virginia evangelist Jerry Falwell. Bakker was released from prison in 1994 after serving a total of about five years.
Ryle, James Prophet, Boulder Valley Vineyard; Board of Directors of Promise Keepers, Prophetic movement , Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Chevreau, Guy Minister, Toronto Vineyard, Prophetic movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Kinchlow, Ben 700 Club, Prophetic movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
White, John Psychiatrist/Author, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
Dupont, Marc Current associate pastor at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church, Prophetic movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne

Marc Dupont is most well known for his prophecies, in particular one which claims to have predicted the current "laughter movement". The prophecy says that the movement will be known by its great street ministry, consisting of people using music and arts to promote the gospel and to bring thousands of unsaved into the church. It also is very specific about how the movement would spread geographically.

The prophecy claimed that the "revival" would begin in late 1993 or early 1994. In actual fact, the "holy laughter" movement and manifestations can be traced back into the early eighties, and even most of the main leaders of the vineyard say that what is happening now is not a revival, but rather a renewal or refreshing.

The prophecy has proven to be wrong on these, and other accounts.
Falwell, Jerry  Jerry Falwell has personally invited and escorted godless Charismatic reprobate, Benny Hinn, to his Lynchburg, Virginia Bible College as an honored guest.  Falwell has also endorsed cult leader Sun Myung Moon (the "Moonies") by accepting $3,000,000 in donations from him.  This is evil.  No professed Christian, let alone a pastor over thousands of people, should ever accept money from such an evil man is Mr. Moon.  Moon is known for brainwashing women into having sex with him as a "purification" process.   Moon is a sicko, and Falwell is in league with the Devil. 
ICBM

International Charismatic Bible Ministries

 International Charismatic Bible Ministries:

Oral Roberts; Chairman of ICBM; Prophet
Kenneth Copeland; Secretary of ICBM; Prophet, Teacher, televangelist
Charles Green; Exec. Dir of ICBM;  
Billy Daugerty; Vice Chairman of ICBM;  
Carlton Pearson; Member-at-Large of ICBM; Bishop, megachurch pastor, vacillates bet. WOF & Prophetic Movements
John Hagee; Member of ICBM; megachurch pastor, televangelist, TBN regular
Thomas F Reid; Member of ICBM; Latter Rain Proponent, WOF
Marilyn Hickey; Member at Large; Teacher, televangelist, WOF, has her own Bible school
John Avanzini; Trustee of ICBM; Prosperity teacher, WOF, TBN regular
Dick Bernal; Trustee of ICBM; Spiritual Warfare teacher, WOF
Morris Cerullo; Trustee of ICBM; Owns on television network, WOF, televangelist
Happy Caldwell; Trustee of ICBM; pastor of megachurch, WOF
Paul Crouch; Trustee of ICBM; Owns TBN, WOF
Benny Hinn; Trustee of ICBM; Healing Ministry, megachurch pastor, WOF, TBN regular
Howard-Browne, Rodney; Trustee of ICBM; Started Holy Laughter Movement, WOF, pastor
John Mears; Trustee of ICBM; Bishop, Prophetic Movement, pastor
Earl Paulk; Trustee of ICBM; Bishop, Prophetic Movement, megachurch pastor
Myles Munroe; Trustee of ICBM; Apostle, Prophetic Movement, teaches black dominance gospel
Benson Idahosa; Trustee of ICBM; Archbishop, Prophetic Movement
Toronto Blessing Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF)
  1. To see video of antics clicking here.
  2. Formerly, the Toronto Airport Vineyard (Until Jan. 1996). The TAV was expelled from the Vineyard denomination primarily for not being in line with what John Wimber saw as the focus of his ministry, and for failing to recognize his authority. Our perception is that it was primarily a matter or control, and that Wimber was concerned because of the media focus on the TAV and John Arnott, rather than John Wimber and the Vineyard. John Wimber has reiterated his belief that the holy laughter movement is a move from God, and has not condemned or spoken against the movement, nor has he taken any action against any elements of the movement that continue to remain strong within the Vineyard, such as Randy Clark.
Brownsville Blessing More recently, another movement that is said by some to be a separate movement, has originated in the Brownsville Assembly of God Church in Brownsville, near Pensacola Florida.
  1. To see video of antics clicking here.
  2. This movement started after a visiting evangelist, Steve Hill, spoke at the church on June 18, 1995 and the manifestations that we have described as being part of the Toronto Blessing experiences began. Steve Hill had come in contact with the manifestations during a trip to the Holy Trinity Brompton church in the UK, and the last we heard remains at the Brownsville AOG church. The effects of this movement are now being felt within not only the Assemblies of God churches, but also Methodist and Southern Baptist churches. The nearby Pine Forest United Methodist church in Pensacola works with the Brownsville AOG in promoting this movement. Because this movement is originating within the AOG and Methodist churches, it has been able to take ground in these and other churches that "Toronto" version of the movement couldn't. Current information suggests that there is little or no difference between the Brownsville "experiences" and the "Toronto" experiences, and indeed the Brownsville and HTB experiences are both propagated from the Toronto experiences.
Pensacola Blessing  same as Brownsville blessing

To see video of antics clicking here.
Rex Humbard  TV miracle healer

Notorious for wild gimmicks for faith healing like prayer cloths etc! http://www.bible.ca/tongues-photogallery-pentecostal-trinkets.htm
Montanus, Montanism Montanism was a second century heresy started by Montanus a former pagan priest.
  1. See detailed documents on Montanus
  2. He reintroduced alleged charismata back to the Church. He called himself a prophet and two women with him were viewed as prophetesses. They were very ascetic and held that the end of the age was upon them and that the New Jerusalem would descend upon Phrygia. Please go to my section on Montanism and Neo-Montanism. Today's Charismatic and Pentecostal are Montanists in almost every respect.
Parham, Charles Fox
  1. In the early 1900’s Charles Fox Parham had a small Bible school in which he taught the need for a restoration of New Testament Christianity based on the model shown in the book of Acts.
  2. William Seymour received the baptism at some point while at Bible school under Parham.
  3. In 1907, Parham was arrested and charged with sodomy in Texas and lost all credibility with the neo-Pentecostal movement he started!
Azusa St. Mission Birthplace of Modern Pentecostalism
  1. William Seymour went to Los Angeles and began to preach about the Holy Spirit baptism in a barn/warehouse on Azusa.
  2. April 4, 1906 a revival began and 1,000's of people came to 312 Azusa to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. This revival lasted from 1906 to 1913 and during these nine years 1,000's of Pentecostal missionaries went forth establishing ministries around the world.
    Among most Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, Azusa is revered as a genuine move of the God in restoring the Church to true power and authority.
  3. However, it is also true the Azusa street meetings were also filled with spiritualist mediums, hypnotists, and others who had a deep interest in the occult.
  4. In 1907, Parham was arrested and charged with sodomy in Texas and lost all credibility with the neo-Pentecostal movement he started!
  5. For Pentecostals the events of Azusa Street mark the watershed event in modern Pentecostalism, Yet look at what contemporary, orthodox, theologians said about it:
    • G. Campbell Morgan described the Azusa Street activities as "the last vomit of Satan." (Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198)
    • R.A. Torrey declared that this new Pentecostal movement was "emphatically not of God, and founded by a Sodomite." (Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198)
    • H. A. Ironside said both the holiness and Pentecostal movements were "disgusting ... delusions and insanities." In 1912 he said of their meetings "pandemonium's where exhibitions worthy of a madhouse or a collection of howling dervishes," were causing a "heavy toll of lunacy and infidelity." (Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198)
    • W.B. Godbey said of the Azusa Street participants "Satan's preachers, jugglers, necromancers, enchanters, magicians, and all sorts or mendicants," and he claimed the movement was the result of spiritualism.(Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198)
    • Clarence Larkin "But the conduct of those possessed, in which they fall to the ground and writhe in contortions, causing disarrangement's of the clothing and disgraceful scenes, is more a characteristic of demon possession, than a work of the Holy Spirit. From what has been said we see that we are living in "Perilous Times," and that all about us are "Seducing Spirits," and that they will become more active as the Dispensation draws to its close, and that we must exert the greatest care lest we be led astray." (Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198)
  1. It is an indisputable fact that Parham rejected several of the central tenets of the Christian faith and that he was charged with sodomy. It is also a fact according to many eyewitnesses (including Parham) that Azusa was overrun with spiritualist mediums and hypnotists who were attracted to the Azusa manifestations.
  2. By the end of 1913 there were growing factions within the fledgling movement and in the end several independent Pentecostal organizations were formed due to not being able to resolve their leadership and doctrinal differences. Four of these organizations exist today:
    • The Church of God in Christ (black Pentecostal's) formed 1907
    • The Assemblies of God (white Pentecostal's) formed 1914
    • The United Pentecostal Church (both black and white members) formed 1914
    • The Pentecostal Church of God (mostly white members) formed 1919
Sharon Bible school Birthplace of Latter Rain Doctrines
  1. Located in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
  2. In 1948 a woman prophesied a great move of God coming from Sharon.
  3. At the next Sharon camp meeting Latter Rain Doctrines were formalized and disseminated. The result was 1,000's of Pentecostal believers left the 4 major Pentecostal denominations and joined independent Pentecostal organizations teaching these restored truths.
  4. George Hawtin, Percy Hunt and George Warnock took Branham's teachings on Apostolic Restoration of the Church and disseminated these teachings to 1,000's through their Bible School called Sharon in Canada.
Hawtin, George George Hawtin took Branham's teachings on Apostolic Restoration of the Church and disseminated these teachings to 1,000's through their Bible School called Sharon in Canada. Sharon was the birthplace of the Latter Rain Doctrines
Hunt, Percy Percy Hunt took Branham's teachings on Apostolic Restoration of the Church and disseminated these teachings to 1,000's through their Bible School called Sharon in Canada. Sharon was the birthplace of the Latter Rain Doctrines
Warnock, George George Warnock took Branham's teachings on Apostolic Restoration of the Church and disseminated these teachings to 1,000's through their Bible School called Sharon in Canada. Sharon was the birthplace of the Latter Rain Doctrines
Latter Rain Doctrines Doctrinal set that is the foundation of modern Pentecostalism
  1. George Hawtin, Percy Hunt and George Warnock took Branham's teachings on Apostolic Restoration of the Church and disseminated these teachings to 1,000's through their Bible School called Sharon in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
  2. In 1948 a woman prophesied a great move of God coming from Sharon. At the next Sharon camp meeting Latter Rain Doctrines were formalized and disseminated. The result was 1,000's of Pentecostal believers left the 4 major Pentecostal denominations and joined independent Pentecostal organizations teaching these restored truths.
  3. Latter Rain teachings are denounced by the Assemblies of God in 1950, but resurface in the charismatic movement of the early 1960's.
  4. Latter Rain Doctrines include:
    • The restoration of the office of the Apostle and Prophet to head the Church. The Pastor, Teacher and Evangelist all function under them.
    • Restoration of all the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit - with an emphasis on prophets and prophecy. Prophecy meaning a direct revealed word from the heart of God through the mouth of His prophet or prophetess
    • Women given equal roles in authority in the Church
    • Casting out demons from Christians
    • Rebuilding the physical Tabernacle of David, i.e. continual prophetic praise before the Lord
    • The dominion of the world by The Church
    • The defeat of physical death by ascended believers called Manifest Sons of God
    • Unity of the Body, i.e. all churches submitting the Apostolic and Prophetic authority
Allen, A. A.
  1. Allen "scammed" his followers by asserting that he could command God to "turn dollar bills into twenties." (A. A. Allen, The Secret to Scriptural Financial Success (Miracle Valley, AZ: A. A. Allen Publications, 1953); quoted in Harrell, 75)
  2. Allen was also known to have urged his followers to send for his "prayer cloths anointed with the Miracle Oil" (A. A. Allen, "Miracle Oil Flows at Camp Meeting," Miracle Magazine, June 1967, 6-7; quoted in Harrell, 200)
  3. Allen offered "Miracle tent shavings" as points of contact for personal miracles. (Reported in "New Revival Tent Dedicated in Philadelphia," Miracle Magazine, September 1967, 15; quoted in Harrell, 200)
  4. A.A. Allen dogmatically claimed that he could raise people from the dead. He actually launched a "raise the dead" campaign in the mid-sixties. Thankfully it died when his disciples refused to bury their departed, and their departed refused to come back from the dead. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing Michale Moriarity, "The New Charismatics" (grand Rapids, MIC: Zondervan, 1992), 2 and David Edwin Harrell, Jr., "All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975, p199)
  5. Allen told adherents that God had given him "a new anointing and a new power to lay hands on the believers who gave $100.00 towards the support of our missionary outreach and bestow upon each of them power to get wealth." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing David Edwin Harrell, Jr., "All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975, p200)
  6. "Of course some of you do not believe this. Listen, you old skeptic, you don't have to believe it, because it doesn't have to happen to you. But it had to happen to me. I'll tell you why. I decreed a thing ... God said "Thou shall decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee ... " I believe I can command God to perform a miracle for you financially. When you do, God can turn dollar bills into twenties." (David Edwin Harrell, Jr., "All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 75)
  7. What A.A. Allen was doing bothered authorities of the Assemblies of God and were embarrassed by such outlandish claims and outrageous conduct. Thus, when Allen, who is extolled today by Benny Hinn as a "great man of God", was arrested for drunk driving during a Tennessee revival in 1955, the first of many alcohol-related experiences for Allen, the leadership of the Assemblies of God had reached its limit. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing Michale Moriarity, "The New Charismatics" (grand Rapids, MIC: Zondervan, 1992), 35)
  8. At the entrance to Miracle Valley (A. A. Allen's 1,280 acre community) was a huge sign that made it plain just what was going on in that neck of the desert. In red and gold, it proclaimed: A.A. Allen Revivals, Inc., Miracle Valley, Arizona. The Blind to See. The Deaf to Hear. The Lame To Walk. Signs. Gifts. Wonders. ... (A.A. Allen's) Miracle Magazine, a monthly publication with a circulation of 350,000 was produced at Miracle Valley. Allen was very careful to publish a disclaimer concerning the wild claims of healing that appeared in that periodical, sent in by enthusiastic "healees". ... "Utmost care has been taken to assure the accuracy of all testimonies before publication and A.A. Allen Revivals, Inc. and "Miracle Magazine" assume no legal responsibility for the veracity of any such report, nor do they accept responsibility as to the degree or permanence of reported healings, deliverances or miracles ..." (James Randi, The Faith Healers, 1989, p.83-85)
  9. A physician from the nearby town of Sierra Vista, Dr. Kenneth A Dregseth, told an interviewer: "I have seen no miracles. In fact, I've had to run diabetics to the hospital when they've stopped taking their insulin, believing they had been cured in Miracle Valley." (James Randi, The Faith Healers, 1989, p.87)
  10. Allen was eventually kicked out (Actually he resigned before they got a chance to give him the boot) of the Assemblies of God denomination when he jumped bail after being arrested for drunk driving. (Reported in "New Revival Tent Dedicated in Philadelphia," Miracle Magazine, September 1967, 15; quoted in Harrell, 70-71)
  11. On June 14, 1970, listeners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines were hearing a recorded message from A. A. Allen on his radio program saying: "This is Brother Allen in person. Numbers of friends of mine have been inquiring about reports they have heard concerning me that are not true. People as well as some preachers from pulpits are announcing that I am dead. Do I sound like a dead man? My friends, I am not even sick! Only a moment ago I made a reservation to fly into our current campaign. I'll see you there and make the devil a liar." At that moment, at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, police were removing A. A. Allen's body from a room strewn with pills and empty liquor bottles. (Actually, Don Stewart was the first person in the room and he removed all of the bottles and threw them in the dumpster and then called the police.) The man who had once said that "the beer bottle and gin bucket" should have been on his family coat of arms was dead at 59 from what was said to be a heart attack but was in reality liver failure brought about by acute alcoholism. (James Randi, The Faith Healers, 1989, p.88)
  12. In 1970 Allen died from what "news accounts report [as] sclerosis of the liver." (Reported in "New Revival Tent Dedicated in Philadelphia," Miracle Magazine, September 1967, 15; quoted in Harrell, 202) One writer describes Allen's cause of death as "cirrhosis" of the liver (see Gary L. Ward, "Allen, Asa Alonzo," in J. Gordon Melton, Religious Leaders of America [Detroit: Gale Research, 1991], 9)
Arnott, John

 

 Head pastor of the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship where the "Toronto Blessing" originated. Prophetic movement, Proponent of the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
  1. "What happens is, there's a transference of His anointing where, not only do you see it, not only do you experience it for yourself, but you're going to take it home to your people." (John Arnott, Pastor of the Toronto Airport Fellowship, pastor's Meeting, October 19, 1994)
  2. "Another thing that hinders (receiving the Holy Spirit or anointing) is people pray all the time." (John Arnott, at Holy Trinity Brompton, England, February 14, 1995)
  3. "Yes, Lord, we're going to go for it, we're gonna try to do our part to bring the kingdom of God here...and wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord would start to move in power and restore the church to its proper place and make us the head and not the tail?" (John Arnott, TACF, 10/19/94)
  4. John Arnott and his wife gave approval to a woman's report of a divine message from Jesus that she should leave her husband because he was like a stone around her neck. (A Memoir Of "The Vineyard" Cheryl Thomson, 1994)
  5. Don't "even entertain the thought that (you) might get a counterfeit." (John Arnott, TACF, 12/16/94, audiotape)
  6. Controlling emotions does not facilitate the "anointing". This dilemma is solved, Arnott says, if he and the other leaders "break those controls off of people and boom, they'll take it just like that." (John Arnott, Discovery Church, Orlando, FL, 1/29/95, audio tape, commentary from Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaff, 1997)
  7. Jesus said "Go pray for Sarah, your friend, I'm going to heal her." To enthusiastic applause, Arnott continues, "that girl, totally incapacitated, paralyzed and blind, after two and a half hours of soaking prayer, got up seeing." Sadly, however, Arnott's story plays fast and loose with the truth ... Sarah was not totally incapacitated, paralyzed and blind; Sarah Lilliman's doctors had diagnosed significant psychosomatic emotional problems underlying the physical problems; Jesus did not heal Lilliman as He supposedly promised her friend He would do, and when Arnott's associate (who allegedly documented the case) was interviewed, he confessed that he have not done any investigation .. Today, despite the broad circulation of this story by Arnott and his associates as evidence of God's power in the Toronto "Blessing", Sarah Lilliman is still, as before, legally blind. (John Arnott, "Valuing the Anointing", TACF, 10/15/94, audio tape, commentary from Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaff, 1997)
  8. Of the frightening manifestations in evidence in the Toronto "Blessing" John Arnott says the problem is that we have been conditioned to believe "that the Holy Spirit's a gentleman" who would never do anything "rough or impolite". That, says Arnott, is simply "not true!" (John Arnott, Discovery Church, Orlando, FL, 1/29/95, audio tape, commentary from Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaff, 1997)
  9. "If you're going to be concerned about deception, then please be concerned about the greatest deception that there is, and the greatest deception of all, in my opinion, is not to fall for teachings of a false prophet ... in my opinion the greatest deception of all is to have a move of God come through and you not recognize it." (John Arnott, "Catch The Fire," Midland and Wales, UK, 2/2/96, audio tape)
  10. "It's always revealing, the attitudes people have about critical thinking. A common problem with leadership today is their refusal to criticize or judge the false. This is a tragedy for we need that kind of leadership more now than ever! A prime example is John Hinckle's prophecy that on Thursday, June 9th, the Lord would rip all evil off the face of the earth. That "prophecy" was later spiritualized and revised to say that the "spiritual veil of darkness would be torn, allowing people to see the light!" said Arnott. The Kansas City Prophets and others allegedly had received "words from God" to the effect that for New Testament times, the standard for prophets was different than Deut 18. According to them, a "prophet" can be 40% inaccurate and still be considered valid! Unfortunately, thanks to people like John Wimber, their teachings have been widely accepted. You can see this lax view of prophetic standards in this Arnott observation! This quote may well have been said before June 9th. [Arnott] "People get funny when things like this happen...June 9th, there was a prophecy given by a reputable man,...that the Lord would tear open the veil, the shroud of darkness that is over the earth, that is blinding the earth, and as He tore the veil of the temple when Jesus arose, now He's going to tear open the heavens and allow the glory of God to come down...I really hope it comes true...I know that He's up to something...Don't get too excited about dates, sometimes prophetic people are right about the event, but wrong about the date." (Toronto Leaders Speak for Themselves, Bob Hunter, 1997)
  11. "We have had word after word about "get ready, cause you're just on the hors d'oeuvres right now," but, the power is coming. We've had a word that said, you know, "I'm just going easy on you now with this kind of stuff so you can kind of get used to me and acclimatize, because with the real power shows up I don't want you to be terrified!" (John Arnott, Receiving the Spirit's Power)
  12. "I finally start to ask Carol, "Honey, what do you feel?" (Carol), "Oh, it's just wonderful." (Arnott), 'Well, help me," you know, and so she says, "Now, just tune in," and so I'd be tuned in and I'm there, going like this,...and maybe I'd even start weaving a little bit, and I'm thinking "Lord, do I feel something on my hands or am I just making this up? Is there something here or am I so wanting this?"...And Carol would say, "No, no, I can feel Him going in, I can feel Him going in, Just keep focused!" You know and then...she'd say, "Oops, where did you go?" I'd say, "What do you mean?" She'd say, "I feel it coming back on me, where did you go?" And I would realize my mind had drifted off again someplace." (John Arnott, Receiving the Spirit's Power)
  13. Arnott says about manifestation expectations: "People ask us all the time, "What do you feel?" and that's a valid question. At first, it's almost imperceptible, but you think your hands are feeling a little heavier, this is my experience, and as you love Him, and stay tuned to that and say, "Oh, Lord, more of your presence," and it gets heavier and they begin to tingle, kind of, sort of like electricity and it can flow all up and down your arms and all over your face and up and down your legs and when it really increases, it's like you're being electrocuted, almost." (Toronto Leaders Speak for Themselves, Bob Hunter, 1997)
  14. "I spoke Sunday night on the topic A Second Wave is Coming. I gave a call for any who were under the fear of deception by critics, etc., and about 100 responded, repenting for allowing their child-like trust in God to be stolen." (Letter, 2/26/97 from Christchurch, TACF, Road Warriors Archive)
  15. I attended a "revival" meeting last night at Lake Boren Christian Center A/G near Renton, WA (near Seattle) where John Arnott was the featured speaker. At this meeting Arnott introduced a "new anointing" he calls the "Sword of the Lord." With this "anointing" comes a new boldness, a "new power". He also called it the "Warrior Anointing." It promises "to bring deliverance from your enemies." The visible effects of receiving this "anointing" include roaring, shouting and grasping the hands above the head, then swinging them up and down as if one was actually holding a sword and attacking an enemy. Arnott cautioned the crowd not to "take the sword if you have any secret sin because that sword may turn on you." After explaining all this, most of the 600+ people attending lined up to receive this new "anointing" from John Arnott as he grabbed upraised hands and said, "Receive the sword." With this "anointed" touch most of the people fell down and began moving their arms back and forth (as described earlier) while on the floor. Some stood and repeated this same movement. One man I observed actually hit a woman in the side with his "sword." (John Arnott, Lake Boren Christian Center A/G, D.V.H. in an e-mail on 07/24/97 11:42 AM)
Avanzini, John Host of TBN Today "Behind The Scenes".
  1. "Jesus had an expensive ministry. "Jesus was handling big money." (John Avanzini, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/15/88)
  2. "[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).
  3. "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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. Joel's Army/Kingdom Now/Dominion theology: the church is to conquer and subdue the earth in order to bring in the millennium.
  4. 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.
  5. Christians become "gods".
Branham, William Faith healer and stated mentor for many leading Pentecostals today. (deceased)
  1. After World War II, (1945) another healing revival broke out all over America and the world. The original initiator of the revival was William Branham.
  2. Branham considered himself to be a prophet sent from God to the last Church age who was given 7 visions regarding the end times.
  3. Branham's Latter Rain teachings were foundational for the formalization of Neo-Montanism as a dynamic movement within the Church beginning in 1947 in Sharon Bible school in North Battleford, Canada.
  4. Branham taught that gifts of the Holy Spirit could be transmitted through the laying on of hands via a man who possessed such gifts.
  5. He believed in further revelation given by angels, dreams, visions, and prophecy.
  6. He strongly taught that Jesus was returning very soon and would severely judge America
  7. Even though William Branham denied the Trinity and taught it was a demonic doctrine believed only by those of the whore Babylon false church - he was still revered as a true prophet by almost every major Pentecostal and Charismatic ministry (who are Trinitarian). Even though he believed in numerology and taught that God had made the Great Pyramid - he is still accepted as a true prophet. Even though many of his prophecies regarding future events did not come to pass - he is still regarded as a true prophet. Even though the majority of his teachings are totally in error and diametrically opposed to the plain teaching of Scripture, he is still held up as God's true prophet.
  8. Branham was a modalist, anti-trinitarian and believed exactly what the United Pentecostal churches today teach. For refutation of this view see: www.bible.ca/trinity/
  9. William Branham said the doctrine of the Trinity is "a doctrine of demons" (The Toronto Blessing, Stephen Sizer, 1990)
  10. 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)
  11. "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)
  12. "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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. "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/)
  18. "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)
  19. "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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)
  24. "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:
  1. God's Word consists of the zodiac, Egyptian pyramids and scripture.
  2. Doctrine of trinity is considered demonic
  3. The claim that he was Elijah the prophet
  4. Millennium to begin in 1977.
  5. That he was the seventh angelic messenger to the Laodicean Church Age (Footprints, pg. 620).(Using the dispenational theory that each of the churches in Revelations represents an age of the church, the current one being the Laodicean Church Age).
  6. That anyone belonging to any denomination had taken "the mark of the beast" (Footprints, pp. 627, 629, 643, 648).
  7. That he received divinely inspired revelations (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, Branham; Spoken Word Publications, Tucson, Ariz., n.d.; pg.19; Questions and Answers, Book 1, Branham; Spoken Word Publications, Tucson, 1964; pg. 60.)
  8. The fall of man happened when Eve had sexual relations with Satan, that his sexual union produced Cain. (Branham said that "every sin that ever was on the Earth was caused by a woman....the very lowest creature on the Earth" The Spoken Word, Vol. III Nos. 12, 13, 14;, Branham; Spoken Word Publications, Jeffersonville, Ind. 1976; pp. 81-82. Quoted in The Man and His Message, pg. 41).
  9. Branham denied the biblical triune Godhead. He pronounced it a "gross error" (The Spoken Word, pg. 79) and as a prophet with the authority of a "Thus saith the Lord," revealed that "Trinitarianism is of the devil" (Footprints, pg. 606).
  10. Unsaved descended from the serpent.
Cain, Paul Faith healer and prophet, 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:
  1. "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)
  2. "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)
  3. 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.)
  4. 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)
  5. "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)
  6. "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 Held meetings in Ohio is 1906 after her Azusa experience. Part of Azusa Street mission.
Capps, Charles Ordained as a minister in the International Convention of Faith Churches and Ministers by Kenneth Copeland.
  1. 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/)
  2. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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."
  4. 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
  1. 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."
  2. In 1901 he began to build a city of righteousness outside of Chicago which he named Zion.
  3. 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.
  4. He taught that the Church would be fully restored to apostolic authority and power.
  5. 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 Television evangelist on TBN.
  1. bought PTL, a Latter Rain proponent and speaks as a prophet
  2. "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).
  3. 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)
  4. 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.")
  5. 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.)
  6. 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
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. "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.
  5. "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)
  6. 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 Prophet, Revivalist, St. Louis Vineyard, Prophetic movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
  1. Randy Clark is a pastor of a Vineyard church in St. Louis Missouri. In 1993, he was quite depressed and his ministry seemed to be stagnated. He was looking for something to reinvigorate his ministry, and attended a meeting of Rodney Howard-Browne's at Kenneth Hagin's Rhema Bible Church in Tulsa. He received the "laughter", took it back to his church. When word got out, people began coming to the church because of the phenomena. He was later invited by John Arnott, Pastor of the Toronto Airport Vineyard, to come and speak at his church. The same manifestations followed Randy Clark, and the rest is history.
  2. Clark now says that in the midst of his spiritual disillusionment, God rebuked him, saying, "You have a ... denominational spirit if you think you can only drink of the well of your own group." God then asked Clark a very pertinent question: "How badly do you want me?" (Randy Clark, Catch The Fire '94, Test Me Now ... I will Back You Up, TACF, 10/13/94, audiotape)
  3. Randy Clark claims that the "greatest revival of all times" is now a reality. He tells credulous Christians that "people are being raised from the dead and temples are being hit by lightening or fireballs and knocked off their things. It's all over. Germany and Africa. It's everywhere. God's doing it." Of course all these things are UTTERLY FALSE! (Randy Clark, "Catch The Fire: Questions and Answers", TACF, 10/14/94, audiotape, commentary from Counterfiet Revival, Hank Hanegraaff, 1997)
  4. "The theme of this conference is "Equipping Church Leadership With Power". Each Pastor and Worship Leader will participate in three workshops. The workshops are: 1) 5-step Healing Prayer Model, 2) Worship, 3) Small Groups. The workshops have a three-fold purpose. There will be teaching, impartation and practice. The workshops are designed to be interactive and involve the participation of the attendees. We believe this is the most effective way of impartation." This was from a letter to set up the "Catch The Fire" conference in Russia for church leaders. Several things are askew in the above scenario. (1) Only God can equip church leadership to do what He wants done, whether in power or in humble persecution. The "with power" statement is egotistic and false advertising. (2) If the desire was to "equip church leadership" then wouldn't subjects like "authority under Christ", "leadership through humility", and "servant hood" serve this purpose much better than supposedly teaching people a model of how to heal (ie. "the emphasis will be on understanding and using the 1 Cor 12 spiritual gifts in praying for the sick and unsaved. Pastors and Worship Leaders will have the opportunity to practice what they learned both in the workshop and the evening session ministry time"), a legalistic plan of worship to get people ready for the "impartation" (ie."the emphasis will be on understanding the power and presence of God to move on His people during intimate worship"), and how use small groups to get people indoctrinated into techniques of "intercession" and "impartation" (ie."the emphasis will be on imparting the life and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in home group settings. A secondary emphasis will be on identifying, recruiting, training, mentoring, observing and deploying home group leaders"), etc.? (3) Teaching people how to receive the "impartation" (let's get to the bottom line here, folks), giving the "impartation" and practicing by passing it on to others is not a Scriptural model of how to be a leader in church or do evangelism. We are not to preach and spread some sort of "impartation", no matter how holy it makes people feel. We are to preach the gospel and to remain in sound doctrine. (Randy Clark, "Letter Of Invitation" to churches in the former Soviet Union inviting them to the "Catch The Fire" conference in Moscow, 25-27 March 1996, 1/18/96; with commentary by Sandy Simpson)
  5. During the meeting itself on Monday night, we were told by people who "braved it" that David Carr wore black trousers, an open black shirt and a medallion! Later they danced the conga and had an erotic dancer on stage. And David Carr did his "John Travolta" impression. Randy Clark told people "in order to receive the blessing" all they had to do was "not pray", as it "hinders the blessing". (J & Y J. Wallsall, UK, June 1995 in an e-mail from: Tricia Tillin, 21-Aug-1995)
Coe, Jack Assemblies of God minister and faith healer. (deceased)
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. The Assemblies of God were so embarrassed by Coe's exaggerated (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)
  4. (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)
  5. 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 Rodney Howard Browne

Uses detestable tactics like prayer cloths

To see video of antics clicking here.

Nature of God
  1. 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.)
  2. 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)
  3. God and Adam looked exactly alike. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
  4. 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)
  5. 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

  6. 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/]
  7. 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/]
  8. Jesus has not remained the same, he has changed. (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
  9. 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)
  10. 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.)
  11. 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)
  12. Jesus was reborn in the pits of hell.(What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303) and (Classic Redemption, p.13)
  13. Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell (Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition Bible, 1991, p129)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. Jesus had to give up His righteousness (The Incarnation, side 2.)
  17. 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

  18. 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)
  19. Every Christian is a god. (Substitution and Identification)
  20. You don't have a God in you; you are one, (The Force of Love (Fort Worth: 1987, audiotape #02-0028, side 1)
  21. You are not a spiritual schizophrenic -- half-God and half-Satan -- you are all-God (Now We Are in Christ Jesus, 1980, p16-17)
  22. Adam was God manifested in the flesh. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
  23. 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)
  24. All of God's attributes and abilities were invested in Adam. (The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. Adam lost the innate ability to create at the fall. (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
  29. 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)
  30. 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.)
  31. Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God (Now We Are In Christ Jesus, 1980, p24)

    Nature of faith:

  32. Faith is God's source of power (Freedom From Fear, 1983. p12.)
  33. 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.)
  34. God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith. (Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1)
  35. Faith is a Force (like Starwars). (Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1)
  36. The force of faith was controlling His (Jesus') ministry. (The Force of Faith, p9)
  37. Faith is a power force, he claims. It is a tangible force. It is a conductive force. (The Force of Faith, 1989, p10)
  38. Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance. (Forces of the Recreated Human Spirit, 1982, p8)
  39. 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:

  40. 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)
  41. 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:

  42. 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)
  43. 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 Azusa Street mission
Crouch, Paul Head of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne
  1. Christians are little gods. (Praise the Lord (TBN), recorded 7/7/86)
  2. "Do you know what else that's settled then tonight? This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try to bring dissension within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god. I have His name. I am one with Him. I'm in covenant relation. I am a little god. Critics be gone!" (Paul Crouch, "Praise the Lord" program, July 7, 1986).
  3. Anti-intellectual, anti-doctrine: "I think God's given up on a lot of that old rotten Sanhedrin religious crowd, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. I think they're damned and on their way to hell and I don't think there's any redemption for them...the heresy hunters that want to find a little mote of illegal doctrine in some Christian's eye and pluck that little mote out of their eye when they've got the whole forest in their own lives and in their own eyes. I say to hell with you! Oh hallelujah. Get out of God's way, quit blocking God's bridges or God's gonna shoot you if I don't! I refuse to argue any longer with any of you out there. Don't even call me. If you want to argue doctrine, if you want to straighten out somebody over here, if you want to criticize Ken Copeland for his preaching on faith, or Dad Hagin. Get out of my life! I don't even want to talk to you or hear you. I don't want to see your ugly face! Get out of my face in Jesus' name." (Paul Crouch, "Praise-a-thon" broadcast on TBN, recorded 4/2/91)
  4. Paul Crouch said (on the TBN show "Praise The Lord" during their money-raising telethon) "if you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven." (Witnessed by Ed Tarkowski, e-mail Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:34:13 -0600)
  5. "Ah, dear Partners, can you see why God has called this TBN ARMY together in these last days? YOU and I are HIS VOICE to this dying generation! Help Jan and me - all of us - to cry out -HELLO WORLD! There is hope; there is help; there is deliverance; there is SALVATION! ... Please let us hear from you this month! The future of Christian Television, as we have known and loved it, is in the balance!" By "let us hear from your this month" Crouch means "send in your donations quickly" or "Christian television, as we have known it and loved it" will go down the tubes and people will have no way to hear about "salvation". If TBN and the TBN "Joels Army" is the only way for people to hear about salvation, then God help us all. Salvation by signs and wonders is no salvation at all. This kind of appeal for funds is yet another example of the shameful high pressure tactics of this "anointed" television syndicate. (Paul Crouch, Praise The Lord Newsletter, August 1997, emphasis in the original)
  6. "The first evidence to many of us was the great stirring of the Spirit in Toronto, Canada, about two years ago. Then, spontaneous revival broke out in Pensacola, Florida. Hungry souls sometimes wait in line all day just to get into the services at Brownsville Assembly of God Church. Signs, wonders and miracles, just like the Book of Acts, are happening there and many other places at home and abroad!" Here is yet another connection between and endorsement by a Faith Movement guru and the "counterfeit" revivals of Toronto and Pensacola. This should prove yet again that these movements are all connected in one "river". (Paul Crouch, Praise The Lord Newsletter, August 1997)
  7. "God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to You, God. It is Your work, it is Your idea, it is Your property, it is Your airwaves, it is Your world, and we proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the Name of Jesus, and all the people said Amen!" (Paul Crouch, TBN, 11/7/97)
Deere, Jack 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."

  1. "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.)
  2. "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)
  3. 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:
  1. 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).
  2. 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 Rodney Howard Browne
  1. Uses detestable tactics like prayer cloths
  2. To see video of antics clicking here.
  3. We (the church) are Christ. (Kenneth Hagin, As Christ is -- So are we, Tape #44H06)
  4. Christ's physical death on the cross was not enough to save us. (Kenneth Hagin, How Jesus obtained His Name, Tape 44H01)
  5. "Here is a picture of Christ in awful combat with the hosts of darkness. It g