APOSTASY OF "WORLD VISION": ACCEPTS HOMOSEXUALITY, BUT ALREADY HAS EMBRACED ECUMENISM, APOSTATES, LIBERALS, AND DISNEY PERSONALITIES

RICHARD STEARNS

FOR WORLD VISION, APOSTASY IS 

NOTHING NEW; HAS ALWAYS BEEN 

A HOME FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, 

SOCIAL GOSPEL CAUSES & A MAGNET 

FOR BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS:

SEE: 

http://barbwire.com/2014/03/25/apostasy-world-vision/;

EXCERPTS:

"World Vision has decided to embrace homosexual “marriage” among its employees and to recognize practicing homosexual employees who profess faith in Jesus as true Christians."

"In no way does it contribute to “building a better world for children” – one of the fundamental goals of World Vision. In fact, it does the opposite."

World Vision: 

Why We're Hiring Gay Christians in Same-Sex Marriages

(UPDATED) President Richard Stearns says change is a symbol of Christian ‘unity’ not ‘compromise.’

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html;

EXCERPT:

"I hope if it's symbolic of anything, it is symbolic of how we can come together even though we disagree. We—meaning other Christians—are not the enemy. We have to find way to come together around our core beliefs to accomplish the mission that Christ has given the church."

Richard Stearns on Uniting the Church in Rwanda, Africa, 

by Including the Catholic Church

Celebrating 

A CLEARLY ECUMENICAL APOSTATE 

APPROACH TO MINISTRY

ALSO SEE:

http://www.worldvision.org/our-impact/our-faith-in-action?open&campaign=10892975;

Quotes:

We are privileged to be welcomed into many communities where Christianity is a minority faith — or barely present at all. This gives us great opportunities to serve in the name of Christ where He is not known, and to bring credibility to the gospel where it is disregarded or disrespected.

Our calling is to serve those living in poverty, even where cultural, religious, or legal constraints are placed on the expression of Christian faith. We choose to serve wholeheartedly in these places, because the alternative — allowing children to suffer needlessly from hunger, poverty, and disease — is unacceptable. Jesus’ call took Him to the poor; we follow His example.

In our work among people of other world religions, we value our common humanity and common desire to care for and protect vulnerable children. By developing relationships with people of other faiths, we have found that suspicion, mistrust, and fear are replaced with trust, friendship, and mutual support.

We serve all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. We do not proselytize, and we pledge never to exploit vulnerability to obtain a profession of faith. We do not feed the hungry as a means to an end. We feed the hungry because God cares about people who are hungry, and He wants them to be fed (Psalm 145:13-17).

Insisting that people hear a certain message or affirm a specific belief as a prerequisite to receiving our assistance violates codes of conduct established for disaster, relief, and humanitarian groups of which we are a member. However, our hope is that our work and lives would contribute to people becoming followers of Christ.

In all ways appropriate for a local context, we seek to witness to Christ — through our deeds of love and mercy, the character and conduct of our staff, and through our words of testimony. As we demonstrate the unconditional love of God to others, we are ready to give the reason for the hope within us, but expect people to evaluate the truth of our message by our actions.

God created men and women in His image, giving each of us a free will. Therefore, we respect individuals — including their culture, faith, and beliefs. We respect the dignity and the right of all people to maintain and change their religious beliefs. We seek in every instance to be faithful ambassadors of the good news of Jesus through our actions (2 Corinthians 5:20) and hope that our lives will reflect God’s generous love for people, ultimately bringing glory and praise to Him.

Max Lucado in Ethiopia with World Vision:

Apostate, Baptismal Regenerationist, & 

Contemplative Mysticism Proponent:

(SEE OUR POSTS ABOUT MAX LUCADO)

President Clinton and Daughter Chelsea, 

Who Are Liberals, Abortion,  

Women's & Gay Rights Proponents 

Visit World Vision Water Programs:

Jodi Benson (of Disney) visits the Dominican Republic

With World Vision:

The Little Mermaid: Jodi Benson Talks about Her Role 

and How it "Changed Her Life"; 

With Disney for 28 Years;

Finds "Spiritual and Moral Messages" 

in the Songs She Does,
Despite the Mermaid's Skimpy Bra
Covering An Otherwise Bare Torso:

TruthOnCinema.com Interview with Jodi Benson;

She Talks About the "Epcot Candlelight Processional" Christmas Event 

Wherein She Does a Narration of the Gospel of Luke; 

"Blends My Faith With Being A Disney Cast Member All in One"; 

Has Never Turned Down Any Job Disney Has Asked Her to Do.

Jodi Benson (voice of Mermaid Ariel) accepts 

Disney Legends award at the 2011 D23 Expo; No Problem Working for Gay & Occultic Promoting Disney:

The Little Mermaid: Jodi Benson Sings "Part of Your World" 

Live at the Blu-ray Event:

WORLD VISION ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ROCK CONCERTS:

Come to the well tour Matthew West:

Published on Apr 15, 2012

World Vision presents CASTING CROWNS with Matthew West & Royal Tailor. Come to the well tour at Shoreline Church, Austin Texas
April 12, 2012

Casting Crowns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIERRxXTfxM

See Way Of Life review of Casting Crowns here ate their 

Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians

http://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/directory_of_contemporary_worship.php; and

http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/casting_crowns.html

Casting Crowns

Feb/21/12 07:36 Filed in: Music

The following is excerpted from The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, which is available as a free eBook from Way of Life -- www.wayoflife.org.

Casting Crowns is led by Mark Hall, a youth pastor at Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta. the band leads the contemporary worship services with their pop rock music.

The award-winning group has broad influence through songs such as “Come to the Well,” “Who Am I,” “Courageous,” “Glorious Day,” “If We Are the Body,” “Praise You with the Dance.”

Casting Crowns’ radical ecumenism and spiritual carelessness is evident in that they participated in the National Worship Leader Conference in 2011, joining hands with men such as Jack Hayford who says God spoke to him and told him not to judge the Roman Catholic Church. 

Another prominent speaker at the conference was Leonard Sweet who promotes a wide variety of New Age heresies. He calls his universalist-tinged doctrine “New Light” and “quantum spirituality” and “the Christ consciousness” and describes it in terms of “the union of the human with the divine” which is the “center feature of all the world’s religions” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 235). Sweet defines the New Light as “a structure of human becoming, a channeling of Christ energies through mindbody experience” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 70). Sweet says that “New Light pastors” hold the doctrine of “embodiment of God in the very substance of creation” (p. 124). In Carpe Mañana, Sweet says that the earth is as much a part of the body of Christ as humans and that humanity and the earth constitutes “a cosmic body of Christ” (p. 124). Sweet says that some of the “New Light leaders” that have influenced his thinking are Matthew Fox, M. Scott Peck, Willis Harman, and Ken Wilber. These are prominent New Agers who believe in the divinity of man, as we have documented in the book The New Age Tower of Babel. Sweet has endorsed The Shack with its non-judgmental father-mother god, and he promotes Roman Catholic contemplative mysticism and dangerous mystics such as the Catholic-Buddhist Thomas Merton. (For documentation see the book Contemplative Mysticism, which is available in print and eBook editions from Way of Life Literature -- www.wayoflife.org.)

At the National Worship Leader Conference, Casting Crowns also joined hands with Tim Hughes who heads up Worship Central and is on staff at Holy Trinity Brompton, one of the birthplaces of the Laughing Revival in England and the Alpha program which has a close association with the Roman Catholic Church. Worship Central definitely follows “another spirit” (2 Cor. 11:4). (See “Tim Hughes” in this Directory.)

Casting Crowns performed with Sanctus Real in December 2011. Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real participated in the 2003 tour of the !Hero rock opera, which depicts Jesus as a cool black man. In!Hero, the Last Supper is a barbecue party and ‘Jesus’ is crucified on a city street sign. Sanctus Real and Steven Curtis Chapman played a concert in 2003 at St. Mary Seminary sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. (See “Sanctus Real” in this Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians.)

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Casting Crowns is led by Mark Hall, a youth pastor at 

Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta. the 

band leads the contemporary worship services with their rock 

music.

The group has broad influence through songs such as 

“Come to the Well,” “Always Enough,” “Who Am I,” 

“Courageous,” “Glorious Day,” “If We Are the Body,” “Praise 

You with the Dance.”

Casting Crowns’ radical ecumenism and spiritual 

carelessness is evident in that they participated in the 

National Worship Leader Conference in 2011, joining hands 

with men such as Jack Hayford who says God spoke to him 

and told him not to judge the Roman Catholic Church.

Another prominent speaker at the conference was Leonard 

Sweet who promotes a wide variety of New Age heresies. He 

calls his universalist-tinged doctrine “New Light” and 

“quantum spirituality” and “the Christ consciousness” and 

describes it in terms of “the union of the human with the 

divine” which is the “center feature of all the world’s 

religions” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 235). Sweet defines the 

New Light as “a structure of human becoming, a channeling 

of Christ energies through mind body experience” (Quantum 

Spirituality, p. 70). Sweet says that “New Light pastors” hold 

the doctrine of “embodiment of God in the very substance of 

creation” (p. 124). In Carpe Mañana, Sweet says that the earth 

is as much a part of the body of Christ as humans and that 

humanity and the earth constitutes “a cosmic body of 

Christ” (p. 124). Sweet says that some of the “New Light 

leaders” that have influenced his thinking are Matthew Fox, 

M. Scott Peck, Willis Harman, and Ken Wilber. These are 

prominent New Agers who believe in the divinity of man, as 

we have documented in the book The New Age Tower of 

Babel. Sweet has endorsed e Shack with its non-judgmental 

father-mother god, and he promotes Roman Catholic 

contemplative mysticism and dangerous mystics such as the 

Catholic-Buddhist omas Merton. (For documentation see 

the book Contemplative Mysticism, which is available in print 

and eBook editions from Way of Life Literature -- 

www.wayoflife.org.)

At the National Worship Leader Conference, Casting 

Crowns also joined hands with Tim Hughes who heads up 

Worship Central and is on staff at Holy Trinity Brompton, 

one of the birthplaces of the Laughing Revival in England 

and the Alpha program which has a close association with the 

Roman Catholic Church. Worship Central definitely follows 

“another spirit” (2 Cor. 11:4). (See “Tim Hughes” in this 

Directory.)

Casting Crowns performed with Sanctus Real in December 

2011. Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real participated in the 2003 

tour of the !Hero rock opera, which depicts Jesus as a cool 

black man. In !Hero, the Last Supper is a barbecue party and 

‘Jesus’ is crucified on a city street sign. Sanctus Real and 

Steven Curtis Chapman played a concert in 2003 at St. Mary 

Seminary sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of 

Cleveland, Ohio. (See “Sanctus Real” in this Directory.)

In “What This World Needs” Casting Crowns attacks every

Bible-believing “fundamentalist” church. They sing that we 

need to “stop hiding behind our walls,” which is a brash 

denunciation of biblical separatism. On the video of “What 

This World Needs” they say that “this world doesn’t need my 

denomination or my translation of the Bible; they just need 

Jesus.” This is foolish heresy. To say that the world doesn’t 

need “my denomination” is to say that it doesn’t matter what 

a church believes, that any denomination is &ne. And to say 

that the world doesn’t need “my translation of the Bible” is to 

say that it doesn’t matter what translation we use, when it 

most assuredly does matter! 
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AFTAH Condemns World Vision Capitulation on Homosexual ‘Marriage’ – Latest Christian Organization to Unilaterally Surrender in the Culture War

SEE: http://americansfortruth.com/2014/03/25/aftah-condemns-world-vision-capitulation-on-homosexual-marriage-latest-christian-organization-to-unilaterally-surrender-in-the-culture-war/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

"Denying a Sellout: World Vision took a major step away from historic Christianity by allowing employees in homosexual “marriages” to work for it. The organization’s president, Richard Stearns, then compounded the capitulation by tellingChristianity Today that WV’s new policy is not a “an endorsement of same-sex marriage,” nor a “rejection of traditional marriage.”"

Press Release, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality

March 25, 2014

Contact: Peter LaBarbera: 312-324-3787;americansfortruth@gmail.com

Read it on Christian Newswire HERE

TAKE ACTION: CONTACT World Vision at 888-511-6548 or online HERE

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By Peter LaBarbera

CHICAGO—In a stunning capitulation to a powerful Sin Movement, World Vision’sAmerican branch announced yesterday that it will now employ people who are in legal homosexual “marriages”—a distinctly anti-Biblical position for an organization that professes “Jesus is Lord” and “We desire him to be central in our individual and corporate life.”

The cultural cave-in by World Vision was made all the more remarkable by WV PresidentRichard Stearns’ awkward attempts to justify and explain it—even denying that World Vision has caved on its Christian principles. WV had previously fought government attempts to force it and other Christian organizations to follow pro-homosexual mandates. Stearns told Christianity Today that the new policy was “not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. We have decided we are not going to get into that debate. Nor is this a rejection of traditional marriage, which we affirm and support.”

Stearns said, “Changing the employee conduct policy to allow someone in a same-sex marriage who is a professed believer in Jesus Christ to work for us makes our policy more consistent with our practice on other divisive issues,” he said. “It also allows us to treat all of our employees the same way: abstinence outside of marriage, and fidelity within marriage.”

Historically, people embracing sin are not regarded as faithful Christians. Homosexual conduct is clearly proscribed in the Bible as a sin (Romans 1:24-27) but one that can be overcome through Christ (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Many former “gays” and “lesbians” like Anne Paulk have overcome homosexuality through faith in Jesus.

Christ affirmed the Genesis account of marriage as the union of one man and one woman (Mark 10: 6-8). Only in liberal denominations widely regarded as having jettisoned biblical authority does one hear the bizarre concept of two people of the same sex honoring “fidelity within marriage.”

Yet Stearns said, “This is not us compromising. It is us deferring to the authority of churches and denominations on theological issues.” He denied that World Vision is headed down a “slippery slope.”

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) offers the following points about World Vision’s pro-homosexual-“marriage” sellout:

• Stearns’ rationale for the policy change is stunningly dishonest and illogical in its double-speak. Stearns would be more forthright in declaring that World Vision has abandoned the Bible as authoritative and is denying “Jesus as Lord.” The same principle applies to individuals and organizations: one cannot embrace and sanctify sin while professing to honor Jesus Christ, who died and rose again so that believers might have victory OVER sin.
• By recognizing homosexual “marriages” in its hiring practices and treating them like actual marriages, World Vision has not only entered the debate over this issue but greatly advanced the LGBT agenda by lending “Christian” credibility to “gay” activists’ misleading “marriage equality” propaganda. WV also undermines religious liberty by signaling that immoral laws that defy God’s law are more binding than Scripture—unilaterally throwing up the white flag of surrender on freedom of conscience.
• World Vision’s sellout is part of a disturbing trend in evangelicalism to capitulate in the Culture War over homosexuality–while the pro-LGBT lobby only ramps up its advocacy of sexually immoral laws and corporate policies. The WV decision comes just days after Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy chose to censor himself by declaring that his public defense of natural marriage was a business “mistake.” Cathy vowed to stay out of the marriage debate, reportedly after listening to the counsel of friends—including homosexual activist Shane Windmeyer, whose organization, Campus Pride, advocates for homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism on college campuses.

• World Vision now puts hundreds of thousands of biblically faithful and compassionate Christians in a bind: they want to keep supporting poor children through WV sponsorships, but they do not want to give their money to a charity that actively undermines God’s Word through its policies. Many Christians will abandon World Vision and children will suffer.
• Ironically, many of the people in poor countries served by World Vision remain faithful to Scripture and resent, if not despise, the watered-down “Christianity” of decadent Western nations like the United States that seeks to accommodate sexual sin.
• Lastly, World Vision does a great spiritual disservice to its “gay married” employees. By implying that unrepentant, practicing homosexuals can be faithful servants of Jesus Christ while living openly in grave sexual sin and mocking true marriage, WV becomes an impediment to their repentance before God. Salvation requires humblyacknowledging and turning away from sin, just as genuine marriage requires two people of the opposite sex joining to produce a natural family.