Transformation in Mission: Part 3
Inclusive Evangelism – Part 3 In the Video, God’s Fingerprints in Japan, Daniel Kikawa makes use of high towers as worship places for the true God, the Japanese tea ceremony as communion and even shows a Buddha on a cross as being a worship object of Christians (really Catholics). The video is filled with Japanese/Buddhist […]
Transformation in Mission: Part 2
Inclusive Evangelism – Part 2 So how does Daniel Kikawa present God to the Japanese, Korean’s or Chinese, etc.? Speaking of the Korean culture, he says, “but when the protestant missionaries came in decades later and, and used the name of Hananim, all of a sudden there was great excitement, that our God sent his […]
Transformation in Mission: Part 1
Quietly and stealthily over the past several decades mainstream evangelical mission groups have been altering fundamental Christian doctrines to fit a new worldview — an inclusive one that embraces, incorporates, co-mingles and and merges with other world religions. The next three days Herescope will focus on a special report by Mike Oppenheimer of Let Us […]
The “New Deal” Kingdom
“Upon the men of this time is breaking the light of a new social order. The outstanding fact of today is the rediscovery of the kingdom of God. To the world this comes almost as a new revelation from heaven. For eighteen hundred years men have believed in this kingdom and have prayed for its […]
The New Order of the Kingdom
“We believe that we see the goal and we believe that men can get hold of that power to move on to that goal. That goal is the Kingdom of God on earth. The Kingdom of God is a new order standing at the door of the lower order. The higher order, founded on love, […]
Ruining Your Worldview
A brochure describing Dennis Peacocke’s Strategic Life Training, a 2-year intensive course in worldview training, contains these words: “Challenging you. Envisioning you. “And in the end. . . ruining you. “It forever ruins the way you’ve acted, the way you’ve dreamt, the way you’ve thought. . . . “ruin vt (1585) 1 : to reduce […]
Reconstructing the Nations
“It has become popular in Christian circles to discuss the “Christian Worldview.” However, without Biblical law all worldviews end up in some form of moral relativism. We are not called to merely ‘influence’ our world but reconstruct it with the tool of dominion — Biblical law. Come discover the work of reconstruction.” (Promotion for Chalcedon […]
Nation or Nations?
“[M]any of today’s Christian businessmen continue to say that the Word of God does not speak on how to explicitly run a business. They say, ‘The Word of God calls us to preach the gospel, not to take dominion. Don’t you know that the world is going to get worse and worse, then Christ will […]
The Return of the “Kings”!
“Releasing Kings!” is a recurrent theme of marketplace ministries, and it is blatantly proclaimed at http://www.releasing-kings.com/. Releasing Kings for Ministry in the Marketplace by John Garfield and Harold Eberle is a popular new book telling men “how you can be part of the next global revival that is beginning in the marketplace.” This book is […]
“Co-Managing the Earth” Worldview
From Dennis Peacocke’s promotional material on his “Discipling the Nations: A practical path to obedience” seminars can be found the following blurb: “If Martin Luther and the fellow leaders of the Reformation birthed for us ‘the Priesthood of all believers,’ the Holy Spirit’s global focus on the centrality of life and the message of the […]