BOOK WARNING!
The following material was researched and compiled by Bud Press, Director of the Christian Research Service, www.christianresearchservice.com, 7/9/06. This is must reading! THE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE INDUSTRYDeception in the Databases About three years ago, Christian Research Service (hereinafter CRS) began what turned out to be a large-scale, time-consuming project to research,…
Part 3: The Myth of a Laity-Driven Movement
“Central to Rick Warren’s strategy is the involvement of the local church. Pastor Warren understands that the solution to Africa’s plight rests in bottom-up rather than top-down change. Accordingly, Warren calls for the local church to channel and export expertise to African communities to help them set up and operate…
Part 2: The Myth of a Laity-Driven Movement
In last week’s Newsweek feature “15 People Who Make America Great,” Pastor Rick Warren was featured for his work “Mobilizing Christians worldwide to heal the sick and feed the hungry.” Warren said that “Reformation always start with the peasants; they don’t start with the elites.” He is also quoted as…
The Myth of a Laity-Driven Movement
Last week Newsweek magazine featured the “15 People Who Make America Great” and included in this list was Pastor Rick Warren of purpose-driven fame. He was called “The Innovator” and lauded for his work, “Mobilizing Christians worldwide to heal the sick and feed the hungry.” In this article there is…
Fear Not
Recently we heard the story of a Christian man who escaped out of his country where he had been beaten and tortured for the cause of Christ. But when he came to America something different happened to him. He experienced the emotional pain of being misunderstood, gossiped about and treated…
Foundation Imperialism
It seems like an extraordinary coincidence. C. Peter Wagner launched his new “philanthropic apostles” at the same time that Bill Gates, the world’s richest billionaire, retired from running the Microsoft Corporation to spend his time doing philanthropy at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. On the heels of this, Warren…
Voodoo Philanthropics
Despite the claims that there will be a great outpouring of finances to further the New Apostolic Reformation’s dominionist expansion in the near future, there is an immediate crisis now according to head “apostle” C. Peter Wagner in a June 21 Global Harvest letter. He wrote: I’m writing you today…
Wormy Straw Men
Reading the literature of the New Apostolic Reformation requires more than a little bit of discernment. Many of the writers rely upon faulty reasoning in order to make their points. C. Peter Wagner, writing about “Kingdom Philanthropy” and his newly-invented “philanthropic apostles” (see past few Herescope posts on this topic),…
C. Peter Wagner’s Situation Ethics
C. Peter Wagner, commander-in-chief of the rising apostolic army, has recently written a new book entitled The Church in the Workplace: How God’s People Can Transform Society (Regal, 2006). Last week we noted that C. Peter Wagner has timed the introduction of a new type of “philanthropic apostle” with the…