Hillsong Conference: Strange Bedfellows

I learned a long time ago that if you want to lose followers, just talk about their favorite singers/bands.  I might lose a few after this, but so be it.

Hillsong has been on the slippery slope of false doctrine for a while, but many still love to listen to their music.  But when a band/singer/group, etc., forms an unholy alliance (as Stand Up for the Truth so aptly put it), there comes a point when you should turn your back on them.

Hillsong’s 2013/2014 Conference is going to have a mix of speakers from some of the most apostate veins of the modern church.

This is from Stand Up for the Truth’s website:

The diversity is certainly represented in the speaker docket, uniting and melding Word of Faith (T.D. Jakes, the Osteens, Hillsong Church), Purpose Driven/Drucker-designed big business (Rick Warren), Craig Groeschel and Judah Smith.  (Online source.)

The author of the article asks a pertinent question:  “…at some point you just have to wonder how teachers of different “gospels” can find unity?”  The key words there are “different gospels.”

Hillsong does not represent Biblical Christianity, but a false gospel which has no power to save.  This is from the Hillsong Conference website:

“Our prayer is that our magnificent 2013 guests will again unleash and water the potential within our collective lives.”

Not to nitpick, but there is only One who is magnificent, and the ones who are speaking at this conference are not Him.  Our magnificent Lord has spoken the true gospel, and that truth is that if we don’t repent, we shall all perish.  (Luke 13:3)  Instead of teaching purpose-driven prosperity potential and navel gazing, they should teach death to self and repentance.  But they won’t.

What Hillsong is effectively praying for is that these self-titled magnificent speakers will show unrepentant sinners how to be happy unrepentant sinners.  Let’s pray they don’t make them two-fold the child of Hell that they potentially may be.  (Matthew 23:15)

Please take time to read the rest of the article after the hop.  You can find it by clicking here.

Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker Sensitive, Church Growth, and New World Order

If you haven’t seen this video, you really should make time in your schedule to watch it.  It’s almost two-hours long, but is well worth it!

Strange Fire

Listen Up Prosperity Gospel: Jesus is Enough

In four minutes, Matt Chandler blows the prosperity gospel out of the water in this passionate sermon jam.

Here, here!

I’d like to hear the proponents of the prosperity gospel refute this.

Video dead ahead.

Juanita Bynum Jailed in Dallas

Self-proclaimed prophetess Juanita Bynum was recently jailed in Dallas for failure to appear at a civil proceeding against her, this according to The Dallas News.  

Bynum, who in recent years has courted controversy over her failed marriage and domestic violence scandal, was jailed earlier Thursday evening, but was released earlier today after answering questions in the case brought against her.  Also of note is a “2007 judgment ordering her to pay $140,000 to ALW Entertainment.”  (Online Source)

In my years of research into the movers and shakers of the Word of Faith movement, one thing always stood out more than any other; their love of money.  If there is ever any controversy with any of their names tagged to it, money almost always is part of the equation.

In the real world, it isn’t just us little folk who must honor our contracts and pay our bills – and Word of Faith celebs are not exempt.

Welcome to the real world!

Read the whole story after the hop.

(HT:  Apostasy Watch)

Rick Warren: Prayer in Time of Tragedy

While we go about our day and tend to all of the things the make up our daily lives, let us stop for a moment and remember Rick and Kay Warren in prayer.  His son, Matthew, has reportedly ended his own life, and in times of unthinkable tragedy this great, the kindest and most honorable thing we can do for the Warrens is to uplift them and their family in prayer.

Click here for more on this situation.

Wretched: Most Blasphemous Harlem Shake Ever

After posting C3 Church’s Harlem Shake video here, it sparked a bit of a conversation in the comments section.  For some reason, people believe that kids will be kids and they should be left alone so they can act like kids and not like adults.  Even if that means flooding the church with pop culture.

Instead of giving way to the whims of our youth, we are responsible for leading them in the way that they should go…the way of truth.  It isn’t unkind to teach them church discipline and sound doctrine.  It isn’t stifling their spirit to suggest, or even demand, that they show respect to, for, and in the church.  The church is where believers come together as a body to worship the Lord and learn His Word.  In this modern age, it has turned into a culturally-driven mosh pit.

In the video below, Todd Friel has more to say about this video.