GRACE BRETHREN GNOSTIC "FIGHT CLUB" RIVALS "WILD AT HEART" TO HELP CHRISTIAN MEN FIND THEMSELVES~JUST MORE PSYCHOHERESY

PERFORMANCE BASED CHRISTIANITY FOR MEN

THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT OF THIS ELITE CULT CLUB!

SUCCEED AND YOU GET TO BE 

A TOP DOWN RULER OF LESSER MEN!

    As if John Eldredge's "Wild at Heart" men's "discipling" program to help Christian men discover their "true selves" wasn't enough psychoheresy for churches, (see our post: http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-father-wound-psychoheresy-of-john.html),
we stumbled across yet another men's self-improvement plan structured to help males "man up" facilitated by a type of "boot camp" military basic training course. This so-called "discipling" program, birthed as a ministry of a Grace Brethren church called Grace Community Church, Goshen, Indiana, pastored by Jim Brown, has its own peculiar requirements, standards, and identifying characteristics, including, but not limited to, a "three strikes you're out" hurdle, secrecy, pornography free, community (collectivist) submission to group leaders, feats of strength and endurance, pie eating contests, bonfires, "Adidas" brand pullovers, bracelets with gold stars, and assorted badges of honor, etc.
    Just what every Christian male was hoping for has come true, that is, if you are still an adult adolescent who hasn't reached maturity on different levels. What happens to you if you "strike out"? Do you go to hell? Lose your salvation? See a counselor? Seems like a new form of works based gnosticism to us, besides being psycho-heretical.
    What we have here are the same carnal methods that return Christian men back to their fleshly self-centered former selves as preferable, and a clear repudiation of any Christ likeness they had or could have had by maturing according to Scripture, that we saw in John Eldredge's "Wild at Heart". It shouts that the church has failed men and the Word of God is insufficient to transform lives. This is just one more emerging pastor who arrogantly thinks he can improve on the already sufficient power of God to transform lives.
    What a pity and shame to think that manly self denial, sacrifice and love could be better engendered in a cult-like club governed by the man made rules and regulations of a select few elitist leaders, than by the model of Christ and His followers. The church is not modeled after humanist socialist, communist, or collectivist ideology, but modeled after the body of Christ and its members.
    Therefore, men having been blessed with various gifts and abilities are all different from one another and cannot be made to think, act, or behave alike. In Christ's church, NO ONE STRIKES OUT!
Ephesians 5:30-"For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."

Romans 12:4-"For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function"

1 Corinthians 12:

12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,

25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

See: http://www.gracecommunity-church.com/#/ministries/men-fight-club, described as quote:

"Fight Club is a men's discipleship and leadership development process.
Fight Club is about men fighting for their families, their children, and their integrity. Today's culture makes faithfulness, purity and family values a challenge.  If we are not purposeful about how we live, we can slide into a meaningless life we never aimed for.  And our families suffer for it.
 In Fight Club, assignments and expectations are given—a creed is signed that each person must live by or they will strike out of the group.  The assignments have to do with strengthening relationships, getting in physical shape, and getting right with God.  There is a fight going on every day.  We can choose to ignore it or forfeit. Or we can fight. We can live with purpose.  We can strive to become the men our world needs us to be.  We can be leaders and lovers and fighters for our families."

FIGHT CLUB: http://www.fightclub414.com/, founded by pastor Jim Brown because:
"MEN HAVE BEEN DUMBED DOWN" VIDEO 
(ALSO KNOWN AS A SALESMAN "CREATING THE NEED"):

SO, PASTOR BROWN FIRST LEARNS FROM "WILD AT HEART" GAMES:

THEN PASTOR BROWN DEVELOPS HIS OWN VERSION OF CHRISTIAN MASCULINITY,
BRANDED BY A MALE MANTRA COUPLED WITH THUMPING MALE CHESTS: 

Fight Club 3 Rewind in Pictures:

Update From FC Founder, pastor Jim Brown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaqcgziVuA4.

Earn Your Stars and Have Them Mounted on Your Very Own Leather Bracelet! Cool!

This Shows Your Rank in the Christian Walk! NO IT DOESN'T!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3X9rPCzAm0.

CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOL FREEDOM PROJECT EDUCATION~PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL

FREEDOM PROJECT EDUCATION FOR CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS:

See: https://fpeusa.org/.

Promo videos from YouTube Channel: 
http://www.youtube.com/user/FreedomProjectDotCom/videos:

OVERVIEW OF HUMANIST PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
SEE: 
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16194-new-public-school-policy.
Excerpt:

“The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new ─ the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism.”

— John Dunphy in The Humanist magazine, January-February 1983

STOP COMMON CORE FEDERAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION OVERRIDING STATE CONTROL

What is Common Core? 

See: https://fpeusa.org/index.php/about/defeating-common-core

"The answer to this question has been a carefully guarded secret by those who created the Common Core Standards. The Common Core Standards came about when Bill and Melinda Gates first began funding their vision for national educational standards with a grant to the James B. Hunt Institute. To date, the contribution of the Gates’ to this project is estimated at 27 million dollars and counting. This seed money led to the development of the Common Core Standards State Initiative by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (NCSSO), two Washington, D.C. based trade organizations, working in conjunction with Achieve, Incorporated, a D.C. based contractor, and the James B. Hunt Institute, a private lobbying group. Despite the participation of the NGA and NCSSO, the Common Core standards are NOT state-led initiatives, as proponents of Common Core would have you believe."

Why should Americans be concerned about these standards?

"It would take many pages to lay out all of the dangers to our liberty and educational freedoms contained in the Common Core State Standards Initiative. In brief, each of the fifty states has been bribed by the Federal Government to accept the copyrighted and thus unalterable Common Core standards—even though most Americans have no idea what they entail—by offering those states millions in so-called “Race to the Top” money or exemptions from the failed No Child Left Behind program. To date, forty-six states have accepted Common Core money, ceding curricular control to the Federal government and taking it away from parents, teachers, and local school boards. Beyond the educational mediocrity that Common Core standards will further enshrine in public schools, there are elaborate plans to use the required national assessments within the Common Core Standards as a tool to institute massive data collection about American school children that has nothing to do with education, and everything to do about Government intrusion and control.

We urge you to read FPE’s policy about Common Core, watch our Webcasts on the subject, and commit to joining our efforts to defeat Common Core."

Common Core: 

Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAUnNYUeLT0.

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Stop Common Core has produced five videos to explain Common Core. 
See: http://stopcommoncore.com/.
See: http://truthinamericaneducation.com/.

Part 1 of 5:

Part 2 of 5:
(Won't upload, but here's the link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FJ1U90HIg.
Part 3 of 5:
(Won't upload, but here's the link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnpqT_XirPo.
Part 4 of 5:
(Won't upload, but here's the link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLCamWdblE.

Part 5 of 5:

ROLE OF THE (BILL) GATES FOUNDATION IN COMMON CORE:
SEE: http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/08/07/look-who-funded-and-developed-common-core/:

Excerpt:

"Bill Gates the driving force behind Common Core

Globalist and Eugenics proponent, Bill Gates, is one of the Founding Fathers of the Common Core movement and its copyright holders, NGA/CCSSO. Gates donated about $25 million dollars to promote his version of global education.  Gates has made several donations to CCSSO to promote Common Core. In2009, Gates made two separate donations of $9,961,842 and $3,185,750. In 2010, Gates donated $743,331 and in 2011, he contributed $9,388,911. In 2008, Gates donated $2,259,780 to the National Governor’s Association (NGA) to develop and implement Common Core. The NGA is the conduit into America from the United Nations UNESCO, Education for All Agenda 21 version of globalist education being forced down the throats of our young people.

Gates is listed as partner with UNESCO/UN to fund ”Education For All,” which in turn was transferred to the National Governors Association which changed the name to Common Core. In a key document, The Dakar Framework for Action: Education For All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments’ which identifies the goals for what became Common Core. The document speaks directly to the Agenda 21 educational ideals of collectivism, social justice, environmental justice and the espousing of the beliefs of the pseudoscience known as sustainable development."

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Glenn Beck on Bill Gates and Common Core:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Sxifu63Kc.

Common Core Standards Threaten Our Children's Schools 

by the Heritage Foundation:

OBAMA SUPPORTERS SIGN PETITION CALLING FOR KILLING NEWBORN BABIES UP TO AGE 3 UNDER OBAMACARE

Alex Jones of Info Wars reports Obama supporters in San Diego signing a petition to back making infanticide (post-birth abortion) legal under Obamacare, for at least the following reasons, if not more. See: 
http://www.infowars.com/obama-supporters-sign-petition-calling-for-killing-newborn-babies-under-obamacare/, and
http://www.infowars.com/msnbc-host-says-newborn-infants-dont-count-as-alive/.
1) “relieve the burden to deal with the children themselves”.
2) “help keep the population down”.
3) "is annoying or cries too much".
4) "a basic woman's right to be free of legal restrictions".
5) "a basic woman's right to 'control their reproductive lives'".
6) any other reason because "Obama supports it".

Obama Zombies Sign Petition Supporting Infanticide 

as Part of Obama Care (Post-Birth Abortion):

Students Sign Petition to Legalize 

4th Trimester (After Birth) Abortion:

Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC Enrages Conservatives, Abortion Opponents Calling Fertilized Eggs "This Thing":

When Life Begins Based on Feelings, Not Science, Says MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyF99RVGsFE, and/or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uILZxY7wvo.

"Children belong to the government."- Melissa Harris Perry:

Adolf Hitler's Common Ground with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry:

See our previous posts about Ms. Perry:

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/04/update-challenge-to-melissa-harris.html.

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/05/glenn-beck-on-collectivist-melissa.html.

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD PASTOR SEES "EMERGING" DIRECTION FOR DENOMINATION MIXING PURPOSE DRIVEN, MYSTICAL PRACTICES UNDER GEORGE WOOD

Lighthouse Trails reports having received an e-mail from an Assemblies of God pastor who is concerned about the direction of the denomination. Here is the e-mail reprinted:

Dear Lighthouse Trails:

I just finished reading your latest article on the Ruth Haley Barton fiasco that has infiltrated the A/G.  Once again, the assessment of this situation is very well presented.  Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe that the A/G will make any changes to their schedule with regard to Ms. Barton. 

I just received a copy of an article that was published in the Charisma magazine with Dr. Wood as the cover story.  You might want to get a copy of that issue just for information sake. To say that I was disheartened would be an understatement.  My spirit was grieved at the future direction being articulated by Dr. Wood.  I can assure you that, in my conversations with a few other A/G clergy, this is not going well at all.  True, there is a major effort by our leadership at the General Council level and the District level, to train younger pastors using this new mindset of the A/G.  This Charismamagazine was sent out to every A/G minister and its impact and influence on the up and coming new leaders is going to be substantial.

It is my personal conviction that the A/G will be going in the direction of most mainline denominations by embracing a message and a method of ministry that will bring the A/G to the level of being nothing more than a civic organization.  I base this on current activities such as the embracing of the likes of Ruth Haley Barton as well as emergent leaders like Mark Batterson, Mark Driscoll et al.  Of course Dr. Wood’s personal relationship with Rick Warren has so infiltrated the A/G and its thinking that it’s hard to imagine that ever changing. . . . True, the 16 tenets of faith will probably remain in tact, at least I hope so.  However, the emphasis now is on marketing the church in the same way that corporations market their services.  Having been involved in the corporate world for ____ years, I speak from personal experience.

However, we will continue to pray for our leaders that the conviction of the Holy Spirit will bring them to their senses. 

___________ (Assemblies of God Pastor)
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Our previous posts about Ruth Haley Barton:
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/04/ruth-haley-barton-to-speak-at-assembly.html.
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/05/contemplative-ruth-haley-barton.html.
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/05/lighthouse-trails-refutes-jodi-detrick.html.
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/04/associaacsi-still-promoting.html.
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/05/lighthouse-trails-research-makes-pdf.html.

Our previous posts about Mark Batterson:
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-circle-maker-heresy-witchcraft-in.html.
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/06/nancy-leigh-demoss-hearts-revived-but.html.

Our previous post about Mark Driscoll:
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/06/mark-driscoll-who-sees-thingsnow-avowed.html.

TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE STEVE STOCKMAN FILES DEFUND OBAMACARE RESOLUTION IN HOUSE

From Steve Stockman at:
http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-files-resolution-after-cruz-challenges-house-gop-to-defund:

113TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 333

Expressing the firm conviction of the House of Representatives that any continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase it may approve for the duration of the 113th Congress shall affirmatively include a provision specifically prohibiting the expenditure of any Federal funds in support of or in implementation or effectuation or enforcement of any provision of the Affordable Care Act (‘‘ObamaCare’’).

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

AUGUST 2, 2013

Mr. STOCKMAN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

RESOLUTION

Expressing the firm conviction of the House of Representatives that any continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase it may approve for the duration of the 113th Congress shall affirmatively include a provision specifically prohibiting the expenditure of any Federal funds in support of or in implementation or effectuation or enforcement of any provision of the Affordable Care Act (‘‘ObamaCare’’).

Whereas every Representative solemnly swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all domestic enemies, and bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and freely took said obligation before God;

Whereas a majority of Representatives believes the Affordable Care Act (‘‘ObamaCare’’) violates the Constitution in sundry ways, and its implementation and enforcement would deprive American citizens of cherished fundamental constitutional rights;

Whereas in addition to its organic constitutional infirmities, at least one Administrative Rule promulgated pursuant to ObamaCare has further harmed the constitutional rights of citizens by attacking religious liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment to our constitution for over two centuries, said liberties being once held sacrosanct by this body;

Whereas the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution already passed by this House of Representatives wisely and appropriately presumed the defunding of ObamaCare subsequent to and pursuant to a more sober consideration of its rash and sweeping provisions, free from the hysteria and parochial politics of the moment of its passing, which sober consideration revealed ObamaCare’s many and now manifest kinks, flaws, deficiencies, and inadequacies, both constitutional and logistical;

Whereas a bipartisan majority of Representatives voted to repeal ObamaCare on May 16, 2013;

Whereas a majority of Representatives supports the provision of the House Republicans’ 2010 ‘‘Pledge to America’’ that promises, in no uncertain terms, ‘‘We will repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care’’;

Whereas a majority of Representatives remains committed to the ‘‘Repealing Obamacare’’ Plank of the 2012 Republican Party Platform, which states, in pertinent part: ‘‘We agree with the four dissenting justices of the Supreme Court: ‘In our view the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.’ . . . Obamacare has been struck down in the court of public opinion and is falling by the weight of its own confusing, unworkable, budget-busting, and conflicting provisions. . . . If fully implemented, it could not function; . . . Congressional Republicans are committed to its repeal’’; Whereas a majority of Representatives shares the Speaker’s view that ObamaCare is a ‘‘monstrosity’’ that will ‘‘ruin the best health care system in the world and bankrupt this country’’, that it is ‘‘driving up the cost of health insurance, denying people access to quality care, and killing  jobs in America’’, and asks, as the Speaker has asked, ‘‘How can you provide subsidies through these health exchanges without verifying people’s income? I mean our job is to protect the American people, is to spend their taxpayer money wisely. I think it’s wide open for abuse’’;

Whereas a majority of Representatives supports the pledge twice expressed by the Speaker in July 2013 regarding the funding of ObamaCare: ‘‘We’re going to do everything we can to make sure it never happens, and further’’, ‘‘[We will] do everything we can to make sure this doesn’t really go into effect. We will continue to do everything we can to defund it . . . and to make sure that the American people aren’t put through this horrific experience’’;

Whereas notwithstanding the oft-repeated ‘‘guarantee’’ previously expressed by President Obama that citizens will definitely be able to keep their present doctors after the implementation of ObamaCare, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently announced ‘‘you MAY be able to keep your current doctor’’ (emphasis supplied), thereby conceding that the President’s promise to the citizenry has not been kept, and that the legislation contains no such guarantee;

Whereas the Presidential Administration’s recent decision to delay ObamaCare’s employer mandate and eligibility verification for individual exchanges constitutes a tacit admission that ObamaCare is, in the words of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, at best, a ‘‘train wreck’’ not yet ready for prime time, and more likely, an imminent disaster;

Whereas the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports (1) the Federal Government will spend $48 billion in 2014— and nearly $1.8 trillion through 2023—on ObamaCare’s new entitlement programs, (2) the Presidential Administration has requested more than $400 million in funding and nearly 2,000 bureaucrats for the IRS to implement the individual mandate and 46 other statutory provisions in the law, (3) executive branch agencies’ bureaucrats have already written more than 20,000 pages of ObamaCare-related rules and notices published in the Federal Register, and (4) CBO estimates ObamaCare will raise individual health insurance premiums by $2,100 per year;

Whereas the current ObamaCare statute is no longer the legitimate product of the legislative voice of the American people, having been rewritten by the two branches of government least accountable to those people, inasmuch as the President has used and continues to use myriad waivers and delays to alter various sections of the legislation to suit his own policy and political objectives, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court having flagrantly disregarded the position of the people that ObamaCare is not a product of the taxing power;

Whereas the House of the people should not force the American citizenry to fund ObamaCare if the Presidential Administration will not enforce the law as written;

Whereas inasmuch as the House of Representatives cannot control the actions of the United States Senate or the President, and has no power to prevent the Senate or the President from shutting down the government if either chooses to do so by refusing to approve or sign a Continuing Resolution, passed by the House of Representatives, that will fund the government’s operations and satisfy its obligations to it citizenry and others;

Whereas the Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate has had sixty (60) or more Members for only four months of the last 34 years, and Congressional Democrats exploited that anomalous window in the 111th Congress to pass ObamaCare;

Whereas the Republican Conference of the United States Senate has not had sixty (60) or more Members since the 61st Congress adjourned sine die in the year of our Lord 1911 and therefore the ‘‘outright repeal’’ of ObamaCare must be presumed to be nigh unto an electoral impossibility, irrespective of how favorable the next election is to Republican Senate candidates;

Whereas the only means by which ObamaCare can be halted is for the Congress to exercise its ‘‘power of the purse’’ to defund it, and thereby effect constructive repeal; and

Whereas defunding ObamaCare will become more complicated and difficult to achieve after October 1, 2013 (the date enrollment for the Medicaid expansion and exchange subsidies begins) and especially after January 1, 2014 (the date those new entitlement programs are scheduled to take effect, and Americans will be forced either to buy a product or pay tax penalties administered by the IRS)

Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That for the balance of the 113th Congress,

the House of Representatives shall pass no bill or resolution that continues appropriations in the event of a lapse in appropriations or increases the borrowing authority relating to the public debt limit (or suspends or terminates the debt ceiling) unless said resolution contains a provision affirmatively and specifically prohibiting the expenditure of any Federal funds (whether such expenditure be discretionary or mandatory) to implement or enforce any provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148) or title I or subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of  2010 (Public Law 111–152).

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Ben Carson, retired pediatric neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland calls for the "decoupling" of Obamacare from the federal budget, and that the Republicans need to go on the offensive with legislation. Carson has called Obama a "kill joy" for doctors.