Addressing the issues:
Many pages take you to other links about the subject. There are also many select outside links to articles, reports, or books not written by ourselves.
- Bob and Teri Earl
An open rebuke to Rick Joyner and Morningstar Ministries, sent July 1999 and again in August 1999, in conjunction with the European Prophetic College and with much prayer and by the leading of the Lord. We provided ample evidence of public statements or teachings, reproduced in full where-ever possible. Some of our investigative work was later mentioned in the April, 2001 edition of Charisma Magazine. Rick Joyner then gave a response to the Charisma article. (See also our full report of what occurred between Rick Joyner and Charisma magazine.)
The original intent of this section was not meant to merely showcase any sensational prophetic failure, but rather express a multitude of alarms about the character of a public ministry who sought to be an authority on the prophetic. This work remains published as, at the very least, an instructive journey into a self-made ordeal that probably could have been avoided by Joyner himself. James 5:5: "If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you."
Additional help for these types of issues raised:
The Gnostic
heresy by William Barclay
About C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation
This page is a bit informally written and leads to other appropriate internal pages on our website. Although our pages began to be written and published since 1999, these same concerns have been voiced by others in the years since. We have not kept up with every book or conference churned out by this organization of people, so one must keep in mind that the scope of these reports are limited to just a few years of observation.
Oct. 2006 Update:
Authority, Accountability, and the
Apostolic Movement
by Stephen
Crosby
Book description:
There
is a new apostolic movement afoot, and it is leading many from the
simplicity of the pure gospel. To be legitimate, the teaching emphasis
and ministry expression of present-day apostles and prophets must
reflect
a correct gospel foundation:
• spiritual death and resurrection as its method,
• and the indwelling Spirit as its power.
Instead,
the new apostolic reformation movement, with its emphasis on
apostolic authority, “spiritual covering,” loyalty,
honor, submission,
and government, has become the vehicle to build the philosophies and
kingdoms of men.
Dr. Stephen Crosby’s
third book,
Authority, Accountability, and the Apostolic Movement, probes these and
other authority/submission issues from a biblically disciplined,
Christ-centered, New Covenant perspective. Within these
pages, every believer, church leader, apostle, or prophet who may have
wandered from th simplicity of the gospel can find the road to
recovery.
This is the only printed book on this subject that we recommend. See my amazon review of it!
We have been told that this portion of our website has been helpful to those who have experienced 'take overs' in their churches by the teachings of these groups or their fans.
About Rick Warren. Please see our Rick Warren page.
Emerging Church:
Biblical vs. Postmodern
How to Know When the Emerging Church is Emerging In Your Church
commentary by Roger Oakland
As far as Brian McLaren in specific:
From the online book, Reinventing Jesus Christ, by Warren Smith. Read the subtitle, Deceived Christian Leaders, under Chapter 8 Update "The Armageddon Alternative"
The Light House Trails Research website has gathered evidence about how Rick Warren promotes the Emerging Church and Brian McLaren
.
Emerging Chuch: The Emerging Cult a scathing warning by Ken Silva
The Megashift book by Jim Rutz has been reported to be a very positive book that both documents and encourages an important paradigm-shift from our Western "spectator religion" to the more open, participatory fellowships that have been highly successful in other parts of the world. It spotlights hundreds of thousands of house-church teams around the globe who run their own show without buildings, paid pastors, or sermons.
There have been a few concerns expressed about the book and these are presented well in:
James Rutz's MegaShift
A Critical Review
by Steve Muse
See also Otis,
Wagner and the Transformations Revival by prof. J. S. Malan
and Ms. Louisa Coetzee.
Kingdom Theology Highly Recommended. A must read for all concerned Pentecostals!
This article is from Albert James Dager's 1986 Media Spotlight is a thorough and gracious overview of an extremist Pentecostal teaching error. Still very useful today.
The "Latter Rain" Scripture - James 5:7-8 by Teri Lee Earl. Tired of the Latter Rain controversy and the heretical errors of the past? This is a very thorough Bible study regarding James 5:7-8 and the scriptures and facts that are related to that scripture.
Due to numerous
complaints about the Vineyard denomination over the years, we offer this
outside link:
Stop
The
Blight
Also, see the last letter published on our Mail To Author section.
Do
you have
the good sense to wonder whether radical problems
need 'radical'
change and 'radical' solutions?
Take a journey OUT
OF ORGANIZED RELIGION
Related
webpages to this section:
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Apostle/Apostolic
Words, Semantics,
and the 'Equippers' For Yesterday and Today, by
Teri Lee Earl
contains
links to other 'Apostolic'-Related Teachings or Expositories
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Spiritual
Authority
general expositories
about the proper use of authority
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Spiritual
Abuse
Help for those
who are suffering spiritual 'mis'-authority
links to an off-shoot
page: cults
General
Abuse
How 'apostate'
is it for "Christians" to abuse one another?
Links for those
who are suffering from abuse
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This
page
created/maintained by
Teri
Lee Earl.
For
examples of mail written and
answers given, please enjoy the Mail
To Author
section.
