This question is in regards to: Prophetic Mandate-- Levels Of Integrity, Truthfulness, and Responsibility, and later on our Rick Joyner In Charisma page.
We have never received any answer from Rick Joyner or Bob Jones or Morningstar, though we have made sufficient efforts to make ourselves available for such an answer (please see the bottom of the open rebuke referred to, sent to Rick Joyner and Morningstar in 1999). In fact, if it weren't for our many acquaintances and friends, it was entirely possible that we might never have known of Joyner's indirect responses. Truthfully, if Joyner or Morningstar had ever shown any reasonable discourse or response, these articles might have been taken down. At the very least, they would have earned an entirely different introduction.
These indirect responses have included:
1) His June
1999 Prophetic Bulletin where he said, "we do intend to answer some
of them at the right time and place. Usually they are just not high enough
on our priority list. We are too busy building to take much time for this."
He also called people "paranoid" in that same publication.
2) His "Response
to Charisma", year 2001, where he claimed (gross) inaccuracies in the
Charisma article, and accused his professed friend Steven Strang of being
"poisoned against the prophetic." As for his mysterious "knights" association,
he stated: "I cannot address this in the way that it deserves here, but
I intend to do so very soon, explaining my association with them completely—I
have only attended three investitures in more than ten years, and no other
meetings" He then follows that statement by making a plug for his book,
Courage
That Changed The World. This book seemed written
in the defensive of the Knights he was connected with at the time and could
even be considered a shameless advertisment for them, and it has been challenged
as being wholly inaccurate (Joyner tends to have no footnotes or references
in his books). However, finally, at that time in his Response to
Charisma, Joyner openingly revealed that this indeed was the 'knights'
group he belongs to. (Note Lee Grady's rebuttal to Joyner's attacks on
Charisma is reproduced below on the "Response
to Charisma" page).
Prior to our rebuke, Joyner had remained either silent, vague, or largely uninformative when it comes to the issue of the knights (See: April 1998 Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin). Excepting of course, for his questionable historical commentary in his book he is still plugging above: Courage That Changed The World.
As for the false prophecies, Joyner has never made an answer other than the answer he gave to people hurt by it, which was reported in the Open Rebuke. In fact, the answer he gave was one which he was rebuked for in our Open Rebuke.
So, other than working into his publications suspicion of people's motives, vague slander on their Christian integrity, or baseless accusations (I consider accusing without specifics or factual backing a baseless accusations), and a plug for his book, Rick Joyner has never given an answer to us. Except for perhaps, this one:
"I'm not going to listen to people I think
aren't legitimate leaders in the body of Christ"
-Rick Joyner
The on-going developments leading up to and
beyond the Charisma magazine article has been very instructive. At
the beginning of this, we personally witnessed Rick Joyner state that he
desires open rebukes and teach that this is okay on a biblical basis at
one of his meetings (see reference to this in the open
rebuke itself). At that same meeting, he also disallowed anyone talking
to "the prophets" at his conferences. If the reader takes nothing
else from this, they should take this bit of wisdom: Practices
must match the stated principles. If they do not, then the stated principles
are made false.