Category: Hyper-Grace
THE ATTACK AGAINST AMERICA BY OBAMA, SOROS, ANTIFA, ET AL
WMI TV Program titled: “Rev. Martin Luther King, Mohammed Ali, Sen. Tim Scott, George Soros, Barack Hussein Obama” on the 10th Anniversary program of OmegaManRadio.com with Shannon Davis 6/23/20
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A List of Prominent New Spirituality Proponents to Avoid
The New Spirituality is a paradigm for devotion and spiritual formation that utilizes unorthodox forms, liturgical rites and rituals, para-religious paraphernalia, and philosophical approaches originating from corruptions of Bible concepts and from so-called “ancient” traditions and extrabiblical sources. It emphasizes individualistic spiritual autonomy and focuses on personal ostensible “spiritual” experience rather than on proven and accepted, i.e., orthodox, scriptural doctrine. It is rooted in Dark Ages mysticism, particularly early-Catholic mysticism paganism, and the occult though insidiously cloaked in common Christian terminology. The fundamental premise of The New Spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). It advocates and actively promotes an all-inclusive ecumenicism achieved through wildly liberal doctrinal syncretism.
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Mystic Heretics Christians Must Avoid
…the following is a list of Mystic writers, authors, expositors and commentators of the past and present that are frequently quoted, cited, or referenced in favorable terms by contemplative, spiritual formation, and Emergent writers, authors, expositors, and commentators. Consequently, both the sources and those who reference them and their teachings must be rejected and renounced by genuine believers in Christ.
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The Consequences of Spiritual Barrenness
Sadly, so many believers today hold the view that because they identify as Christians they are and will be subject to virtually or literally no kind of judgment whatsover. It has been disturbing and disappointing to me to learn over time that many in the Pentecostal and Charismatic streams have adopted this mindset as well. They have been indoctrinated with these utterly false, unscriptural, and demonically-inspired notions. In the case of some of these purporting believers, these “doctrines of demons” that are invented and promulgated by “deceiving spirits,” as Scripture foretells, have been seared into their conscience as with a branding iron (1 Tim. 4:1-2), meaning that without miraculous intervention from God (i.e., deliverance), these victims of deception will ultimately, upon their physical death, receive “the shock of their lives” as they are instantaneously confronted with “the One who has been appointed by God as the judge of the living and the dead,” (Acts 10:42), namely the Lord Jesus Christ!
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Michael Brown’s Open Letter to Tony Campolo
You are wrong, dear sir, and unless you were absolutely 100% sure of the scriptural truth of your position, you would have done far more good to keep silent than to speak. That would have been the least we could have asked for a leader of your stature.
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Ten Marks of False Religious Systems
Every church and/or organization has a corporate culture with norms, rules and expectations that pressure participants to conform. Some cultures are good and some bad. That being said, there are particular attributes that characterize false religions or become the norm during religious decline in a true faith such as Christianity. For example, “Every religious system in the world is centered upon a temple (or a sacred place) and has rites and ceremonies, has hierarchies and titles distinguishing men from one another, and has holy days and holy celebrations.” The Old Testament prophets such as Isaiah, Micah and Amos decried religious ritual that was without true righteousness, humility and love for neighbor (Isaiah 1:10-17; 58; Amos 5:21-24; Micah 6:8). The line of prophets arose starting in the eighth century B.C. primarily because Israel had a tendency to focus more on adhering to the temple ritual worship of the Levitical system than the ethical lifestyle required by the Law of Moses as found in the Ten Commandments. For this, the prophets pronounced judgment upon the nation, and God dispersed the people and, on two occasions, destroyed their temple.
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Dr. Michael Brown Poses Some Questions to Joseph Prince
On a regular basis, I hear reports about believers who have been transformed through the ministry of Joseph Prince, and I thank God for every one of those good reports. Without a doubt, his message of grace is liberating many from legalism, performance-based religion and a spiritual inferiority complex, and for all of this, I am grateful. In 1992, God spoke to me to do a fresh study of grace, and the results of that study were eye-opening, to the point that one of the chapters in my 1997 book Go and Sin No More is called “It’s All Grace” while another is called “The Letter Kills.”
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How Long Will Shallow, Spiritless Revivals Suffice?
In a time when repentance is needed the most, we have teachings sweeping the land that tell Christians they don’t need to repent. In a day when there is a deplorable lack of holiness in the church, we are being told that we are already holy enough through Christ’s sacrifice (2 Cor. 7:1). In an hour when we sadly lack God’s power, we are oversaturated with church conferences that focus on numbers. Whatever it takes to grow numbers seems to be the cry of every powerless pastor.
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25 Reasons Hyper-Authoritarian Church Leadership IS Disqualifying
In the previous post I indicated my strong disagreement with the conclusions of the group of elders and an overseer who identified themselves as the “investigators” who conducted an investigation into the long train of abuses, misdeeds, and other allegations against the founding senior leader of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Mark Driscoll. Those men concluded that “While we believe Mark needs to continue to address these areas in his life, we do not believe him to be disqualified from pastoral ministry.” I ended that post by saying that abuse of spiritual authority is one of the most, possibly THE most, egregious affronts in existence to the One who is the Source of all legitimate authority, and that in a follow-up post I would offer 25 reasons why that is so that immediately come to my mind. This post consists of those 25 Reasons.
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Conviction Vs. Condemnation
Unfortunately, some believers confuse conviction with condemnation, and the moment the Spirit speaks to them about something wrong in their lives, they feel hopeless and condemned, which only drives them further from the Lord. This is a lie from the enemy that must be exposed, and I stand with my colleagues in the hyper-grace camp when they seek to expose this destructive notion. Let the truth be shouted from the rooftops: the Holy Spirit never speaks condemnation to a son or daughter of God.
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Exposing the Dangers of Hyper-Grace
There is no doubt in my mind, then, that the notion of a “grace reformation” (or “grace revolution”) is highly exaggerated, that some of this new grace teaching is unbalanced, overstated, at times unbiblical, and sometimes downright dangerous – and I mean dangerous to the well-being of the Body of Christ.
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Four Hyper-Grace Fallacies
The bottom line is that Jesus said that the truth sets us free (John 8:32), and if the message of hypergrace is not true, as I and many others contend, then it is by rejecting that error and embracing the full testimony of God’s Word—thereby embracing God’s true grace—that freedom and liberty will come.
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