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Showing posts with label Missional. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

RICK WARREN TO CO-PREACH KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT POPE'S USA VISIT IN SEPTEMBER

AND RICK WARREN TOO!
NEITHER PREACH BIBLICAL TRUTH

Rick Warren to Co-Preach Keynote Address at Pope’s U.S.A. Visit in September

From Lighthouse Trails Research at: 
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2015/newsletter20150714.htmrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Dear Lighthouse Trails:
I thought you might want to know that Rick Warren is going to co-preach the Keynote Address with a priest for Pope Francis’ visit in September 2015. Here is the link to the documentation on that meeting:http://www.worldmeeting2015.org/about-the-event/adult-congress-sessions-thursday-friday/
Thank you for continuing to warn about Rick Warren’s ecumenism, particularly with his joining hands with the current Pope and Catholicism. Thank you for informing your readers that on Nov.19, 2014, “a delegation of Catholic bishops sought ‘wisdom’ from Saddleback on how to use Purpose-Driven methods to propagate their ‘new evangelization,’ which is really no true biblical evangelization at all!” (See link:http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=16405).
In your Nov.19, 2014 blog post, it asked: “Did Rick Warren play a role in getting the Pope to the US, and will Rick Warren play a role in the Pope’s visit to the US. in 2015?”
The answer apparently is: “Yes!” as to whether Rick Warren is going to play a role in the Pope’s visit to the U.S. in September 2015.
Also in your same Nov.2014 blog post, it said that earlier in 2014, a “delegation of Catholic bishops visited Rick Warren and Saddleback to gain some ‘wisdom’ on how to accelerate the Catholic New Evangelization program using Purpose Driven methods.” That same blog also stated: “Perhaps the Pope will make a stop at Saddleback”…
Considering how most hyper-charismatics and heretical groups seem to be convinced a “global revival” will start in California, maybe the Pope might just stop by Saddleback . . . Perhaps a Papal visit to California might deceive more Christians into jumping on the spiritual bandwagon of this “revival” that supposedly will begin in California, as Bethel Church, Jesus Culture, the Sacramento pastors, etc. all have been pushing this false, ecumenical revival idea for quite a while already…
In Christ,
CONCERNED IN CALIFORNIA
LTRP Note: To understand more about Rick Warren’s global P.E.A.C.E. Plan, read Faith Undone by Roger Oakland and A “Wonderful” Deception by Warren B. Smith
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RICK WARREN "IMPRESSED" WITH POPE FRANCIS

JAMES WHITE, REFORMED BAPTIST:

"Our Pope" According to Rick Warren
Published on Jul 4, 2015
Rick Warren has been used in a Roman Catholic promotional video to white-wash the fundamental differences between Christianity and Romanism. Here is a brief response, shot in Irpin, Ukraine, challenging Warren's capitulation to Rome's claims. Presented by Dr. James White, Alpha & Omega Ministries


Rick Warren Preaches Address for Pope’s USA Visit
Published on Jun 23, 2015 by Keith Thompson
www.reformedapologeticsministries.com


Tuesday, February 24, 2015

THE 'MISSIONAL' EMERGING CHURCH: "LOVING THEM STRAIGHT TO HELL"



EMERGING CHURCH: 
"LOVING THEM STRAIGHT TO HELL" 
By Donna Wasson
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 (KJV)
The vast majority of pastors and elders today are flat out refusing to speak out against the blatant sin present in their congregations. Why? Because it’s not politically correct. Because they don’t want to be viewed as ‘judging.’ They want everyone to feel loved and accepted.  
Truth is, they’re terrified they’ll hurt someone’s feelings, causing some to leave the church. After all, we can’t be too controversial. There are buildings to pay for and salaries and bonuses for the staff to cover. If people leave, they take their money with them, so we can’t go around making people feel bad about themselves!
Many churches today literally hire marketing experts, intent on fomenting a false model of ‘success.’ It’s all predicated on attracting as many people as possible which brings in mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money! Money to build bigger buildings and basketball courts and coffee bars and game rooms for the ‘youth.’
Success is no longer measured in souls saved. Are you kidding?! Nope, unless the pastor can pack the auditorium full of pew warmers with fat wallets using his sparkling wit, engaging stories, and encouraging doctrine about how Jesus-loves-you-and-has-a-wonderful-plan-for-your-life, he’s usually considered to be a real loser.
It’s as if all these marketing people tell pastors and board members the same thing: the people want to be entertained! They want loud, upbeat music with eye-catching graphics on the overhead screen, and don’t be afraid to throw in some special effects like lasers or fog! Doesn’t matter what the songs are about. There’s plenty of Emergent Church meaningless nonsense out there to choose from. Just make sure people are energized by the time they sit down.
Get some big-name Christian recording artist to appear in concert, and sell tickets to give the whole thing a feel of professionalism and importance. Maybe even a Christian comedian. Yeah, folks love that stuff! The youth group also needs plenty of options to keep them busy. Dispense with the boring Sunday school lessons of yesterday, or at least keep them to a minimum.
Kids are tired of sitting in class by the time the weekend rolls around. They’re ready to have some fun, so get some pinball machines, some air-hockey tables and maybe even a karaoke machine. Build a full size gym and a coffee bar. Oh, you gotta have a coffee bar along with high tables and stools to hang out on! Serve soda and snacks too. You know how kids are--they’re always hungry!
Now, during the main service, for heaven’s sake, do NOT wear a suit! You’ve got to look approachable and relevant; like you can identify with the people’s struggles, and yet you completely approve of them as they are. Wear high-end jeans and a button-up dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Get some Doc Martens or Air Jordan shoes. Very popular with the ‘in’ crowd! Get your teeth whitened too.
Be silly. Don’t be afraid to joke around. Engage your audience. Yeah, you can use the Bible, but most people don’t bring one, so post the scripture above your head on the big screen. However, you really have to use some other translation or paraphrase than that old-fashioned King James Version.
And for God’s sake—oops! Pardon the pun. Whatever you do NEVER, and we mean NEVER talk about the following: the Cross of Jesus, His death and resurrection (unless it’s Easter time) or His blood. Turns people right off! Don’t preach about the need for repentance or salvation or any of that stuff.
Now, the biggest faux pas would be to preach about sin! You don’t want anyone feeling uncomfortable or guilty. And don’t be stupid enough to get into anything political or you’re liable to lose that tax-exempt status.
You want to make those people walk out of that service feeling better than they did when they came in. They’re looking for reassurance that no matter what kind of lifestyle they’re living, God sanctions their behavior and so do you. They must never, EVER get the sense that anyone is judging them.
Drug addicts, gays, couples living together, serial adulterers, alcoholics, marijuana smokers, white-collar thieves, you name it—it doesn’t matter. Just remember that Jesus loves everybody, right? You wanna be successful, pastor? You want a multi-million dollar, mega-church with your face in the newspapers and on billboards? Does your wife expect a mega-church preacher’s lifestyle? Stick with us and do what we say, and you’ll get there within 5 years, tops!
Any of this sound familiar? No matter what the denomination happens to be, this is mostly what our God sees when He looks down at America. If it makes me want to gag, how must He feel? When is the last time YOUR pastor preached against sin? Or the need for repentance and holy, righteous living?
When’s the last time he held an altar call for the lost or needy? Can you remember when he stood before the congregation broken and in tears over the sins of his flock, his country and this world? Has he pleaded for the lost souls in the audience to accept Jesus as their Savior?
Or, is your church a lukewarm, Laodicean country club, beautiful on the outside but full of dead men’s bones? Do the elders anoint the sick with oil and petition God for healing? Do they, along with the pastor, prayerfully, lovingly and privately confront those in the congregation who are living in willful, blatant sin? Have they declared that, until that person turns from their evil ways, they are no longer welcome?
Those actions are terribly uncomfortable and not for the faint of heart. They are the actions of a strong, Godly shepherd who loves and cares for his flock. This kind of shepherd is unfortunately, very rare these days. It seems that most pastors are caught up in the bigger-better rat race and have abandoned their first love.
Are you attending a church where the Word of God is cherry-picked for subjects that aren’t offensive? Does your pastor talk about repenting of sin and striving to be holy as God is holy? Have you ever heard him speak about the reality of hell?
Does he ever marvel over the power and promise of the Cross of Jesus? About the power of His blood? Does he warn you that the Age of Grace is about to conclude, and that Christ is on the verge of snatching His Bride home any second now? Does he explain what it takes to be ready to go, and what will befall those left behind?
If you aren’t hearing these things from your preacher or Bible teachers, you need to get out of that worthless, dead church and seek one that’s alive with the Holy Spirit. Yes, I know that they’re extremely hard to find but they still exist. Pray the Lord will lead you to one and He will guide you.  
It’s true that we need to welcome everyone into the church, no matter how tattered or torn or filthy with sin they happen to be. But, we don’t leave them that way just because we don’t want to offend them or hurt their feelings! We’re called to point them to the Cross so they can be made into a new creature in Christ. A mature believer needs to disciple them and hold them accountable in their walk.
The prevailing attitude within the Christian community today is that confronting sin is not ‘loving.’ We shouldn’t ‘judge’ because Jesus loved everyone. Where are you people getting this?! What a load of unmitigated garbage! Refusing to gently confront sin in a person’s life and pointing them to the Savior, is the single most hateful, vile thing you could ever do to another human being!
We don’t have much time left to spread the good news of the Gospel. For heaven’s sake, don’t even bother being associated with a wuss church that ‘loves’ people straight to hell.
Maranatha!

Saturday, August 30, 2014

"BRIDGING FROM THE WORLD TO THE KINGDOM"~AN UNBIBLICAL TWO WAY THOROFARE ~BUILT WITH TITHES & OFFERINGS ALONE, OR GOVERNMENT MONEY TOO?~POSSIBLE USE AS FEMA "COMMUNITY" DETENTION FACILITY?

"THE BRIDGE" TO WHOSE KINGDOM?

AN UNGODLY FUSION OF CHURCH & STATE
LOOK WHAT TITHES, OFFERINGS 
& GOVERNMENT GRANTS 
(YOUR TAX MONEY) 
CAN BUY!!!

Alabama Megachurch Builds $26 Million 

Entertainment Center 

With Bowling Alley, Night Club, Etc.

EXCERPTS:
“We believe we can really meet the needs of the community,” leader Michael Moore, author of the book Rich is Not a Bad Word, told AL.com. “It will bridge people from the world to the Kingdom.”
According to reports, the facility features—among other amenities—a 12-lane bowling alley, a basketball court, a fitness center, a banquet hall and cafe, a teen dance club, and an adult alcohol and smoke-free night club. He said that the open house held in July served in part to announce the six-dome structure, called “The Bridge,” to the community, and to “inspire” other churches nationwide to build similar facilities. “Now we want the world to know,” Moore explained. “Our church wants to be an inspiration.”

Revelation 3:16-"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, 
I will spue thee out of my mouth."
IN WYLAM (BIRMINGHAM) ALABAMA 
LIES THE ULTIMATE IN CHURCH CAMPUSES;
DESPITE HAVING AN 
"ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED" POPULACE:
6,400 PASTORED BY DR. MICHAEL D. MOORE
THE WORLD'S "DISADVANTAGED" PLAY HERE 
AT THE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX 
AND GET "INTRODUCED TO CHURCH":
CAMPUS PICTURES:


68,000 SQUARE FOOT MAIN CHURCH BUILDING;
THE OTHER 5 DOME BUILDINGS ARE ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS:


FEMA BUILDING PRICEY DOMES… ‘FOR YOUR SAFETY’
WELCOME TO THE FEMA DOME:
ALLEGED "FINE ARTS THEATER, AUDITORIUM,
CONVENTION CENTER, CHURCH, 
OR DETENTION FACILITY"???:


ABOVE PICTURE BY MLMARCH.COM
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/fema-building-pricey-domes-for-your-safety/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
by ADAN SALAZAR | INFOWARS.COM AUGUST 27, 2014:

“Officials have started construction on one of their safe rooms,” reports KRGV. “They’re expected to be completed in a year.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is offering partial funding for construction of “safe domes” across Texas’ southern coastal region that will purportedly serve to shelter area emergency first responders and citizens “that are very difficult to evacuate in hazardous weather events.”

FEMA is supposedly footing a majority of the bill for the Texas Safe Shelter Initiative, an ambitious program started in 2010 which sought to erect about 35 expensive, domed structures in communities along the state’s coastline.

Many of the domes, which can cost small towns anywhere from just under a million dollars to more than $10 million, will ideally be outfitted with generators, trucks and emergency supplies, and can hold anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 people depending on the circumstances. They will also double as community centers and gymnasiums while they’re not being used for emergencies.

The largely federally-funded igloo-like buildings have already cropped up in Central Texas towns like Edna, with a population of under 6,000, and North Texas towns such as Kountze and Lumberton, where the project already proved to be a boondoggle for the local economy.
Earlier this year in March, Lumberton ISD Superintendent John Valastro revealed the district had only secured partial funding to begin construction on the town’s Performing Arts Center dome, located near Lumberton High School.
In a stunning admission, Valastro told the Beaumont Enterprise the district opted to go ahead with the $9 million project, knowing full well they would be $4 million short before construction was completed.
FEMA had enticed Lumberton school officials by offering a $3 million grant towards the dome’s construction.
“When people say, ‘Why did you start something you can’t finish,’ well, I can give you three million reasons,” Valastro told the Enterprise. “$3 million from a grant is something we weren’t going to get again.”
While the auditorium did eventually get built (it’s touted on contractor ABCDomes.com‘s website), the FEMA money was only applied to construction costs and materials, leaving the town on the hook for $6.5 million to complete the project.
What’s worse is FEMA funds are “reimbursement grants,” meaning local municipalities have to “weather” the costs until the federal government decides to loosen its purse strings.
There are also questions regarding the domes’ costs compared to their efficiency. In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, for instance, the nine domes being built, using tax payer funds, would only have the capacity to shelter 2.8 percent of the area’s population (about 36,000 people, according to census data). The rest would have to hunker down or endure heavily-trafficked evacuation routes.
Moreover, during emergencies the domes will only be used to house special populations: mainly city officials and first responders, and lastly displaced citizens.
For many, FEMA and “domes” will forever be inextricably linked ever since the agency’s bungled response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans, where for several days thousands of people crammed into the ill-equipped Louisiana Superdome.
During that debacle, between 15 and 20,000 evacuees packed the stadium previously used to house sporting events, suffering through unsanitary conditions and rampant violence and criminality. The structure lacked basic necessities like food, water and electricity, and several people died.
In the aftermath of the catastrophic event, FEMA leaders admitted in federal testimony that calls for help regarding the dire circumstances inside the dome were ignored, even when officials were told that several people inside were “near death.”
In light of its shoddy-at-best track record, FEMA’s move to match funds for “safe domes” is seemingly a further attempt by the federal government to dig its talons into small, rural communities under the guise of providing “safe” structures.
Despite that many will perceive the domes to be cleverly-disguised “FEMA camps” – which could potentially be used to shelter destitute populations during emergencies, such as a financial collapse they also provide ample opportunities for the feds to weasel into Smalltown, USA and squander its pocketbooks.
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Former Navy Aviator Confirms 

FEMA Camps Existence:


Published on Aug 23, 2014

Agency quietly constructing new facilities as Latin America's collapse into US accelerates.http://www.infowars.com/fema-sets-up-...
http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-gov...








Friday, May 30, 2014

HOCKESSIN BAPTIST CHURCH DELAWARE AGONIZING OVER NAME CHANGE~PUTTING OFF THE OLD, ON WITH THE NEW~BUT THIS SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH BECOMES EVEN MORE IRRELEVANT




UNIVERSALIST SURVEY INDOCTRINATES YOU INTO THE DECEPTION THAT CHURCH 
IS FOR UNBELIEVERS TOO!
(CONTRARY TO THE BIBLE)

SUPERCHARGING YOUR CHURCH
THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS FOR BELIEVERS ONLY! 
(YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT SO?)
(TIME TO PRIORITIZE YOUR PRIORITIES)
EVERYONE MUST SUBMERGE THEIR OWN DESIRES 
"FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY" WITH THOSE OUTSIDE
(SHUT UP AND JUST TAKE THE SURVEY)
AND SUBMIT TO THE WILL OF LEADERSHIP
(YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO BE GUILTY OF CAUSING DIVISION?)

HOCKESSIN BAPTIST CHURCH WANTS TO DUMP THEIR NAME 
TO ATTRACT THE WORLD'S APPROVAL; 
SURVEYS OWN CONGREGATION AND THE SURROUNDING UNREGENERATE COMMUNITY FOR INPUT

A SHORT LIST OF NAMES WITHOUT MEANING 
TO THE UNREGENERATE AS WELL AS BELIEVERS
(NAMES REQUIRE INTERPRETATION)
THAT WILL NOT HONOR CHRIST AND HIS SAVING GRACE
BUT POINT TO AN APOSTATE DIRECTION
When you are Southern Baptist, ecumenical, emerging, purpose driven by Warren, non-doctrinal, non-judgmental, communitarian, and Catholic sympathizing, you are looking to have multiple campuses, appeal to the unrepentant masses, soften the gospel, avoid sin and other offensive talk, and continuously re-define everything. So here, like a lot of other emergents, deceived and deceiving, they see the need to scrap "outworn" names that are too narrow and restrictive geograhically and denominationally, don't accurately portray their gnostic "noble" goals and aspirations, and which limit growth of numbers. Compare this new paradigm of young and cool ministry to the Bible.
Acts 4:12-"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." 

Church Name Survey 2.0 (May 2014)

A few months ago, we canvased you and our community with a short list of potential names for our church.

Following the survey, we gathered the thoughts, responses, and insights from both members of the church community and friends and neighbors in the community, and shared the results at a recent members meeting.

We have narrowed the search down to a shorter list, and need your input again.

We ask that you take a few moments to share your thoughts on a few name possibilities. Please forward this survey to friends, family, co-workers and others in your circle, we want to gather as many responses as possible.

Click on the image below to take the survey:

From: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/IvBWlI
We now have four possible names to consider:

Sanctuary

Sanctuary Church

- Sanctuary is defined as a holy place where sinners may seek refuge. A simple and elegant way to reflect our Christian heritage and vision. A comforting reminder of God's saving grace for all, and a way to represent the welcoming and friendly nature of our church.

Sycamore Hill Church

- Sycamore reflects our heritage and past, the tree represents our future: grow, spread, and mature. The hill reminds us of Christ's crucifixion and the salvation that comes from it.

Redemption Hill Church

- Redemption is a central message to the Christian faith, with the hill reminding us of Christ's crucifixion and the salvation that comes from it. This is a powerful way to build the vision for what the church represents.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

PINDER OF FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH WILMINGTON, DE INVITES GNOSTIC "MASTER MARKETING STRATEGIST" SCOTT N. SMITH FOR PALM SUNDAY

UPDATE APRIL 14, 2014:
PALM SUNDAY AT FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH 
WITH SCOTT NEWTON SMITH

"What Will Happen At the End of Time?"

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2 Corinthians 4:2-"But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God."
2 Corinthians 4:7-"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us."
GNOSTIC VISUALIZATION
VEILED AS AID TO BRINGING IN 
CHURCH VISITORS 
USING THE INTERNET & SOCIAL MEDIA
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
INVITES GNOSTIC, SELF STYLED 
CHURCH GROWTH  EXPERT
SCOTT NEWTON SMITH
GEORGIA SOUTHERN BAPTIST
"Two decades a Road Warrior even living with his family 
on a luxury RV for 8 years straight"
"World’s greatest communicator."
NOW
MASTER MARKETING STRATEGIST & MENTOR
Visionary, Motivator and Serial Entrepreneur
"I love connecting with passion-based, purpose-driven entrepreneurs 
and helping them succeed."

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottnewtonsmith:

Excerpts:

"Executive Breakthrough Leader & Mentor, 25+Year Speaker, Serial Entrepreneur, Master Marketing Strategist"

  • "CEO & Chief Results Generator at WorldTouch, Inc." 
  • http://www.netconnectsolution.com/
  • "WorldTouch, Inc. creates lead funnels for small business owners, solopreneurs and churches that leverage automatic follow up systems and Social Media tools to grow their organization quickly. WorldTouch also provides intense one-to-one coaching through the Lifestyle Machine Program."
  • "President at Scott Newton Smith Ministries, Inc." 
  • http://snsministries.org
  • "Our organization exists as a vehicle for the teaching and speaking ministry of Scott Newton Smith in church-based organizations. We also partner with other organizations to combat human trafficking in the US and around the world. SNS Ministries also supports indigenous missionaries on the foreign field."

EXCERPTS:
"Minimum Coaching Agreement: 14 hours (approximately 3 months), $15,000.
"All compensation is paid prior to the first coaching session and is non-refundable. If you choose to quit for any reason, all unused compensation will be donated to the International Justice Mission, or a charity of our choice."
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Justice_Mission;
EXCERPT:
IJM’s financial goal is to use its resources to provide the most relief possible for victims of oppression. IJM has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. The annual financial reports and the independent auditor’s reports for the previous four years can be found on IJM’s website.
Only 20% of IJM’s funding comes from government grants. The rest is donated by individuals, churches, and foundations, including $5m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. IJM is the leader of three coalition groups that collectively received an $11.5m grant from the Google Foundation in 2011 to fight slavery in India and develop advocacy programs in the United States.
EXCERPT:
Minimum Speaking Agreement:  $7500

ALLEGED PRINCIPAL WITH JOHN MAXWELL TEAM (?):
http://scottnewtonsmith.com/principal-john-maxwell-team/; although there is no evidence that he is and/or ever was a principal or team member in our research;
See current Maxwell team here: http://www.johnmaxwell.com/about/team/
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Scott Newman Smith Preaches the "Victorious Christian Life" Heresy of Keswick Perfectionism, and Watchman Nee as we described in our previous post:
Excerpts:

May 17, 2013: Pinder is thinking of inviting Scott Newton Smith to preach about "The Victorious Christian Life" (Watchman Nee & Keswick).

See: http://snsministries.org/about/.
Evangelist Scott Newton Smith promotes the "Victorious Christian Life" (a/k/a "Exchanged Life") heresies of Wesleyan perfectionism, Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life", and Keswick perfectionism. Yet Pinder mentions him early in this sermon and says he is thinking about inviting him to Faith Baptist Church.
See R.C. Sproul on Perfectionism: 
http://www.ligonier.org/blog/heresy-perfectionism/.
YouTube videos of Scott Smith preaching 

"POSITIVE CONFESSION", DENYING THE SIN NATURE; NO MENTION OF THE NEED FOR REPENTANCE HERE; "JUST THINK OF YOURSELF AS A SAINT, NOT A SINNER":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQIQvhlfRA4:

"APPLIED POWER OF NEW IDENTITY":



Uploaded on Apr 29, 2010
There are 3 stages in getting to "victory" in the Christian life. Too many Christians bail at the earlier stages and default to nominal Christianity. Scott Newton Smith teaches practical application of the "Exchanged Life." Find out more at http://snsministries.org;
wherein Smith describes the so-called "Three Stages to Victory in the Christian Life"He says there are 3 stages in getting to "victory" in the Christian life. He claims too many Christians bail at the earlier stages and default to nominal Christianity. Scott Newton Smith teaches practical application of the "Exchanged Life."



Faith Baptist Church itself also has its ties to the Keswick camp:
http://www.americaskeswick.org/, in Whiting, New Jersey, where addicts are taught the heresy of the "victorious Christian life" (of Watchman Nee & others) in the hope that they will be saved and/or healed through a regimen that produces "sinless perfectionism" or something akin to it. All while being treated to "Christian rock" concerts as in:
http://www.americaskeswick.org/704880.ihtml, featuring the groups "Building 429 and The Afters", and their show in October, 2013 called "United We Stand Tour", with Hawk Nelson.
References:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Life_movement.
See: http://www.logos.com/product/6490/let-go-and-let-god-a-survey-and-analysis-of-keswick-theology.
See: http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/why-let-go-and-let-god-bad-idea/. (Andrew Naselli, expert on Keswick heresies).
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2010/06/30/pietistic-goofiness-how-keswick-theology-nearly-destroyed-j-i-packer/.
See: http://www.dbts.edu/journals/2008/Naselli.pdf. (Naselli at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary).
See: http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2006/11/not-yet-quite-perfect.html.
See: http://www.lcoggt.org/Articles/an_appraisal_of_the_keswick_and_.htm.
See: http://pneumafoundation.org/article.jsp?article=/Keswick-PAlthouse.xml.
See: http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/tag/keswick/.
See: http://issuu.com/asburytheologicalseminary/docs/a_biblographic_introduction.
See: http://www.theologyforgirls.com/2010/07/let-go-and-let-god.html.
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MASTER MARKETING MENTOR:
  • SCOTT N. SMITH'S "MIND MACHINE/LIFESTYLE MACHINE":
  • SEE VIMEO VIDEO HERE:
  • http://vimeo.com/75436655
  • FOR HIS PSYCHOHERETICAL 
  • "LAW OF ATTRACTION/POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS" HERESIES

This is Smith's gnostic hybrid version of the Word of Faith "Name It & Claim It" or "Speaking Things Into Existence" heresies of many popular pentecostal, charismatic, dominionist preachers, as well as a number of Southern Baptist preacher/teachers like Beth Moore, Paula White, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyers, etc., presented as a "scientific" formula that you pay for.

EXAMPLES ARE NUMEROUS OF SIMILAR QUESTIONABLE 
SELF HELP SCHEMES FOR A PRICE:

LOUISE HAY OF HAY HOUSE PUBLISHERS, a contemplative even occult organization. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hay;
EXCERPTS:
"Louise Hay (born October 8, 1926) is an American motivational author, and the founder of Hay House. She has authored several New Thought self-help books, and is best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.
Hay often releases albums of droning music and monotone affirmations.
Hay said that about this time she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught her the transformative power of thought. Hay revealed that here she studied the New Thought works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn, who claimed that positive thinking could change people’s material circumstances, and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, who taught that positive thinking could heal the body.
By Hay's account, in the early 1970s she became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believes would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. She also recalled how she had studied Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.
In 1976, Hay wrote her first book Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet containing a list of different bodily ailments and their “probable” metaphysical causes.
In 1984, Louise Hay established Hay House Publishing Firm. In 1988 Reid Tracy joined the company as an accountant and would eventually become its CEO. The business flourished and attracted various writers. Now Hay House is the primary publisher of books and audio books by Deepak Chopra and Doreen Virtue, as well as many books by Wayne DyerHay House also publishes the teachings of Abraham, channeled through Esther Hicks. Hay House Inc. now publishes over 130 authors.
In September 2011, Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson released their book "You Can Create An Exceptional Life"."
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EXCERPT:
Visualization   
A number of years ago Karen Mains pretty much torpedoed the ministry of Chapel of the Air, her own ministry, and that of David, her husband, when she wrote Lonely No More. In that book she chronicled her journey into Jungian psychology, visualization and the occult. She of course denied any involvement with the occult, but judge for yourself. Mains describes dreams about her “male-self,” a man she called Eddie Bishop. “He was tall … well formed and trim, somewhere in his early thirties … His fine, dark hair fell in a thick lock across his forehead … his blue-gray eyes looking earnestly into mine.” The details of his communication are specific: “‘You are everything I have ever wanted spiritually,’ he said before I [in the dream] started to drive away.” Mains claims that this experience has taken place “six or eight times a year for the last four or five years.”[7] and has had a “positively profound effect” on her, compelling her to seek psychospiritual counsel. A later session with her “spiritual director” at Cenacle, a Catholic contemplative retreat center, Mains tells of a drastic change in the entity which has been appearing in her mind. She describes an “idiot-child sitting at a table with other people. Its head totally bald and lolled to one side. It was drooling and seemed to be six, seven or eight years of age…. It was so emaciated and malnourished…. He turned his sad, huge eyes on me and smiled sweetly…. This is my idiot-child, the idiot-self of my self.”[8] Her “spiritual director” has her close her eyes and see the child again. She does so and begins to communicate with the image who surprises them both by revealing that it is the “Christ child.” Mrs. Mains ponders the thought that the young man and the idiot-child are both Jesus Christ who has “been attempting to woo me because an essential part of my identity in Him has been expelled from my adult development.”[9] We find that this “Christ child,” whom she is instructed to always take with her, is her “spiritual authority” which she is “afraid of having” and has “rejected not only [as] a part of myself, but a part of myself that is Christ.[10] While she admits that the psychological concept of the male-within-the-female (and visa versa) was developed by Carl Jung, she has always seen it as scriptural.[11] In her self-analysis of her visualized experiences Mains writes, “Through my hardships I discover there’s a small part of myself that hasn’t grown whole along with the rest of me. It’s been maimed by neglect during years of married life. I call it my “idiot-self.” I’m discovering that this malnourished orphan needs to be nursed and nurtured. I must find the idiot-self creeping about in the infrastructure of my soul….Self of my self, this abandoned child is very much a part of me….I understand that in some way, I, the intuitive, introverted, feeling-proficient female, have become the substitute for [my husband] David’s own female self, his anima, to use the Jungian terminology. He…functions for me as my animus….I have abdicated to my husband my own maleness.”[12]   
The spiritual path that Karen Mains describes in Lonely No More can easily be found in most occult spiritual transformation books.   
An uproar ensued following the publication of Lonely No More and it was immediately removed from the bookshelves and taken out of print, but not before irreparable damage was done. The people of God were just not ready for a heavy dose of visualization and occultic practices at the time. Fast forward a dozen years and the spiritual landscape is different today, and apparently more primed for such techniques. David Seamand, a frequent guest on such programs as “Focus on the Family” has written a number of books advocating “Christian” visualization including, Healing for Damaged Emotions and Healing of Memories.   
Recently, popular author and theologian Gregory Boyd has written a similar book entitledSeeing Is Believing. Seeing Is Believing is a good example of how occultic visualization practices are creeping into evangelicalism. Boyd’s thesis is that “It’s not what we believe intellectually that impacts us; it’s what we experience as real”.[13] Experience is the key word, used literally hundreds of times in this small volume (57 times in the 8 page introduction alone). How does one go about experiencing Jesus? Using 2 Corinthians 3:17-4:6 as his main text, Boyd tells us that imagination, when guided by the Holy Spirit and submitted to the authority of Scripture, is our main receptor to the spiritual world.[14] The problem is that our Western mindset rejects imagination as make believe (pp. 72, 86, 95, 127-128, 134, 205). So it is necessary to reject this worldview and adopt an Eastern, mystical understanding. When this happens we begin to use our imagination to discover the real Jesus.[15]   
The most disturbing part of Boyd’s imaginative prayer methodology is that it evolves into New Age visualization. Boyd does not deny this; his caveat is that his program should not be condemned through guilt by association.[16] By visualization what we mean is that at some point in this process the image imagined (the spirit-guide in New Age mysticism) actually comes alive and begins to act independently of the person (such as happened with Karen Mains). At that point contact has been made with the spirit world in ways clearly condemned by Scripture. For example Boyd gives numerous examples such as this one, “Sometimes as I rest with the Lord he will say something unexpected like, ‘Are you ready for more of my freedom?’” Then Jesus leads him to some memory from his past and reconstructs it. This is not wholesome imagination but the altering of reality and contact with the spirit world (he naively assumes the spirit speaking to him is really Jesus). Boyd maintains that only in this manner can a person grow in his knowledge of Christ and/or have his memories healed.[17]   
John Weldon and John Ankerberg tell us, “Visualization is the use of mental concentration and directed imagery in the attempt to secure particular goals, whether physical, psychological, vocational, educational, or spiritual. Visualization attempts to program the mind to discover inner power and guidance. It is often used as a means to, or in conjunction with, altered states of consciousness (e.g., as produced by meditation), and is frequently used to develop psychic abilities or make contact with spirits.”[18]   
Visualization is being used today not only in the occult but also in New Age medicine in an attempt to manipulate mystical life energies; education to tap the “higher self” and its powers; psychotherapy and the church, to bring about inner healing.   
Visualization must be distinguished from imagination. Healthy imagination is a good and wonderful gift from God, but visualization is something very different. In visualization a person is attempting to either directly alter reality or make contact with the spirit world. Both of these practices are condemned in Scripture. David Hunt distinguishes visualization proper from the nonoccult use of the imagination. He observes:   
The visualization we are concerned with is an ancient witchcraft technique that has been at the heart of shamanism for thousands of years, yet is gaining increasing acceptance in today’s secular world and now more and more within the church. It attempts to use vivid images held in the mind as a means of healing diseases, creating wealth, and otherwise manipulating reality. Strangely enough, a number of Christian leaders teach and practice these same techniques in the name of Christ, without recognizing them for what they are.[19]   
A practitioner of visualization describes it in this manner:   
Programmed visualization…is the deliberate use of the power of your own mind to create your own reality….there is nothing too insignificant or too grand for you to visualize. Our lives are limited by what we see as possible….A basic rule of visualization is: you can use visualization to have whatever you want, but YOU MUST REALLY, REALLY WANT WHAT YOU VISUALIZE (emphases in original).[20]   
Visualization has gained popularity in the Western culture as Eastern mystical thought has invaded and been increasingly accepted. This is true because visualization fits best with a pantheistic worldview that sees humans as divine and creators of their own reality. Visualization is an important technique that supposedly taps the higher self and initiates contact with the ultimate cosmic reality.   
By contrast, the Scriptures do not teach or encourage visualization for the healing of memories, healing of body or soul, or spiritual growth. Rather we are called to be renewed daily by the Holy Spirit, prayer and the Word of God.   
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RICK WARREN GUILTY FOR ENDORSING THE CULT OF GURU RICHARD FOSTER AND HIS REIMAGINED GNOSTIC MYSTICISM:

EXCERPT:
The Mystical Door To the Emergent Penetration Of The SBC
This endorsement from America’s Megapastor Rick Warren, a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary as is Foster and Emerging Church icon Rob Bell, would be a great assist in holding open the door for the Southern Baptist Convention to hop back on the road home to Rome accepting apostate Roman Catholicism as a viable expression of the Christian Church. It would also usher in an open attack on the Reformation from post evangelicalism, which was to be launched as a result of practicing the serpentine and spurious spirituality of men like Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster

RICHARD FOSTER—CELEBRATION OF DECEPTION:

EXCERPTS:

Mental Alchemy

"Foster’s approach to prayer is laced with mysticism as well. He claims that prayer needs to be learned from people who have the right experiences and are “masters” who know what they are doing."

Spiritual Directors

Once mysticism and the supposed need to gain personal revelations from God are embraced, there arises a need for new “masters” who are better at navigating the spirit world. Pagan societies have always had such persons. They are called “shamans.” Eastern religion calls them “gurus.” Deceived Christians call them “spiritual directors.” 

IMAGINE THAT: THE PROBLEM WITH “SANCTIFIED IMAGINATIONS”:


EXCERPTS:
"And now we see the State Convention of the Southern Baptist Convention for the state of Georgia (Online source), has followed the egregious decision of Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of theSouthern Baptist Convention and in Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC) Now Promoting The Cult Of Richard Foster you’ll see it’s not even attempting to hide its open embrace of the dubious doctrines of the spurious Spiritual Formation promulgated by Foster and Willard et al as a viable approach to Protestant spirituality."

EXCERPTS:
"Paul Yonggi Cho, pastor of the world’s largest church in South Korea , borrowing from the occult, has developed what he calls the “Law of Incubation.”  Here is how it works:  “First make a clear-cut goal, then draw a mental picture, vivid and graphic, to visualize success.  Then incubate it into reality, and finally speak it into existence through the creative power of the spoken word.”"
"As you might guess, the teachings of the “Word of Faith” movement are very attractive to some.  If we can produce whatever our hearts desire by simply demanding what we want by faith, if we can manipulate the universe and perhaps even God, then we have our own personal genie just waiting to fulfill our wishes.  The similarities between Word of Faith teachings and The Secret are unmistakable."
VISUALIZATION: The initial step in Osteen’s program is visualization: “The first step to living at your full potential is to enlarge your vision.  To live your best life now, you must start looking at life through eyes of faith, seeing yourself rising to new levels.  See your business taking off.  See your marriage restored.  See your family prospering.  See your dreams coming to pass.  You must conceive it and believe it is possible if you ever hope to experience it” (p. 4, emphasis his).
The reason why visualization is necessary is because it has the power to bring about what you envision. “You will produce what you’re continually seeing in your mind… If you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you… Start anticipating promotions and supernatural increase.  You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it… You must make room for increase in your own thinking, and then God will bring those things to pass” (pp. 5-6).
Apparently even God is at the mercy of that which we visualize; after all, “Thoughts [not God] determine destiny” (p. 101).  “If you don’t think your body can be healed, it never will be… When you think positive, excellent thoughts, you will be propelled toward greatness, inevitably bound for increase, promotion, and God’s supernatural blessings” (p. 104).

WHAT IS DOMINIONISM?

EXCERPTS:
8. Perfection/Unity
  • The teaching that the Church is evolving into little gods, a “new breed,” or an “elect seed” for a transformed endtime “Joel’s Army.”
  • The belief that this generation has a unique DNA or extraordinary special gifting from God.
  • Or, worse, the idea that man can create a “new man” either mystically and/or through a better DNA. The idea that man can be perfected to pre-Fall conditions.
  • The belief that it is harmless to associate with any heretic, even if they are caught in flagrant acts of immorality, illegal behavior, or openly teach heretical doctrines (Todd Bentley, e.g.).
  • The idea that you are impervious to leaven, that it cannot adversely affect you, that you can be around it without any bad consequences to your faith.
  • An insistence on unity at all costs, especially ecumenical unity among Christians, but also including extreme unity with other faiths.
  • Looking for “elect Seeds” to raise up the kingdom government.
“For they are the best of all the generations that have ever been upon the face of the earth. And best of all generations are those elected seeds that will glorify Christ in the last days…. “They will move into things of the supernatural that no one has ever moved in before…. They’ll move in the power that Christ did. Every sign and wonder that’s ever been will be many times in the last days.
They themselves will be that generation that’s raised up to put death itself underneath their feet and to glorify Christ in every way.… the Lord Jesus is worthy to be lifted up by a Church that has reached the full maturity of the God-man!” (p. 146, Vengeance Is Ours, quoting Bob Jones, Visions and Revelations, 1988, audio tape with Mike Bickle.)
 Networking and Collaborative Models

  • The church networking and forming common ground with business, secular and governmental agencies, organizations, institutions, etc. in order to further the “kingdom of God” on earth.
  • The church merging its interests and identity with those of Corporate business organizations and Government.
  • Building the 7 Mountains (or the neo-Kuyperian “spheres”)—cultural centers that must be overtaken and ruled by head apostles in the church.
  • The idea of RECONCILIATION rather than repentance – forging common ground with any group that appears to further kingdom goals, building an international community on earth.
DAVID CLOUD'S WAY OF LIFE:
http://www.wayoflife.org/database/richardfoster.html;
EXCERPT:
Visualization
Foster encourages the exceedingly dangerous practice of guided imagery and visualization:
“The inner world of meditation is most easily entered through the door of the imagination. We fail to today to appreciate its tremendous power. The imagination is stronger that the conceptual thought and stronger than the will. ... In his autobiography C. G. Jung describes how difficult it was for him to humble himself and once again play imagination games of a child, and the value of that experience. Just as children need to learn to think logically, adults need to REDISCOVER THE MAGICAL REALITY OF THE IMAGINATION. ... 

“Ignatius of Loyola in his 
Spiritual Exercises constantly encouraged his readers to VISUALIZE THE GOSPEL STORIES. Every contemplation he gave was designed to open the imagination. He even included a meditation entitled ‘application of the senses,’ which is an attempt to help us utilize all five senses as we picture the Gospel events. His thin volume of meditation exercises with its stress on the imagination had tremendous impact for good upon the sixteenth century.’ ...

“Take a single event like the resurrection, or a parable, or a few verses, or even a single word and allow it to take root in you. Seek to live the experience, remembering the encouragement of Ignatius of Loyola to apply all our senses to our task. ... As you enter the story, not as a passive observer but as an active participant, remember that since Jesus lives in the Eternal Now and is not bound by time, this event in the past is a living present-tense experience for Him. Hence, YOU CAN ACTUALLY ENCOUNTER THE LIVING CHRIST IN THE EVENT, BE ADDRESSED BY HIS VOICE AND BE TOUCHED BY HIS HEALING POWER. It can be more than an exercise of the imagination; IT CAN BE A GENUINE CONFRONTATION” (
Celebration of Discipline, 1978, pp. 22, 23, 26).
Note that Foster recommends Carl Jung, who followed a demonic spirit guide, as well as Ignatius of Loyola, who founded an organization dedicated to blind obedience to the pope at the very height of the murderous Inquisition. The “spirit realm” to which these men connected through meditative practices was the realm of darkness. 

Foster recommends Loyola’s practice of visualizing a personal encounter with Jesus, which is presumptuous foolishness. We don’t even know what Jesus looks like and we are not supposed to. Faith is simply believing God’s Word (Romans 10:17). Faith is not putting oneself into the biblical account and letting one’s imagination run wild. 

(For more about visualization and the Ignatian 
Spiritual Exercises see “Ignatius of Loyola” in the chapter “A Biographical Catalog of Contemplative Mystics.”)

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EXCERPTS:
What is Visualization?
 of using your thoughts and emotions to imagine and then attract the people, circumstances and golden opportunities you most desire, into your life.
Napoleon Hill has been talking about it for nearly a hundred years and it has been regularly used for decades by people from all walks of life, to achieve their goals in a much faster and easier way.

Even professional athletes, including Olympic Gold medalists, have been using visualization for years to help increase performance. A Harvard Medical School study found that subjects who visualized themselves practicing the piano had the same structural changes in the brain as those who participated in the intense practical piano training sessions - proof that consistent visualization can help people learn new skills and reach goals faster!
Visualization Made Easy
 is two-fold. You must first create a clear mental picture of what you want, and you must then visualize yourself achieving these results with feeling and emotion. Tying emotion to your visualizations is the absolute key to reprogramming your RAS to bring into your reality everything you desire. However, being able to successfully visualize your goals in your mind with complete emotion, can feel impossible for some people.
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