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Saturday, January 5, 2013

FRIENDS OF BETHEL CHURCH, HOME OF JESUS CULTURE


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Apprising Ministries is among those online apologetics and discernment ministries (OADM) who’ve been covering Louie Giglio, Passion 2013, And Jesus Culture this week.
In Jesus Culture—Of Bethel Church—And Practicing Raising The Dead I also reminded you that Jesus Culture (JC) bills itself as not “just a band, but…a ministry of Bethel Church.”1
Why is this important? I’ll tell you; because we have some 60,000 college age youth people who’ve filled the Georgia Dome and now had JC lead them in worship at Louie Giglio’s annual Passion conference.2
In addition these same young people have now seen and heard Southern Baptist quasi-elder Beth Mooreand New Calvinist mentor3 John Piper at this very same event along with JC.
Now, as I pointed out before, I’m not saying that by appearing at Passion 2013 Moore and Piper personally ascribe to all JC and BC is about spiritually. However, their appearance at Passion will have an effect.
There are many of these young people drawn in by the “worship” music of JC who will be under the impression that JC must be okay if Beth Moore and John Piper are at an event where JC leads worship.
So, this is why I’m drilling down on JC, and their spiritual train wreck of a church, where pastor Bill Johnson and his wife pastrix Brenda (Beni) hold court with e.g. BC Associate Pastor and “prophet” Kris Vallotton.
I’ve also clearly documented for you before that BC pastor Bill Johnson aligns himself, and the BC ministry JC, with a wild assortment of spiritual wingnuts like NAR “Apostle” Lou Engle and “respected prophet” Cindy Jacobs.
Consider the speaking lineup for JC’s The Jesus Culture Awakening 2011:
This is not guilt-by-association; this is guilt by endorsement, period. No way around it. It isn’t like I’m saying, for example, that supposed “apostle” Cindy Jacobs once rode by Bill Johnson’s house so they’re “connected.”
Jacobs regularly speaks at JC events. If your spiritual discernment is so far off that you can’t see this woman is absolutely a false prophet, and you think she’s speaking for God, you best question your own relationship to Jesus.
Yet here below you’ll see Banning Liebscher from JC’s Revival Chats with “one of our dear friends,” New Apostolic Reformation apostlette Cindy Jacobs. By the way, Liebsher is:
BC pastor Liebscher tells us below that Cindy Jacobs has “become a real mom to our movement” and has “spoken a ton [of prophetic word] into what we’re doing.” It’s important here to note that he calls JC a “movement.”
A movement, I might add, which now has gained increased credibility within mainstream evangelicalism through being featured by Louie Giglio at his Passion 2013 conference. Here’s Liebscher and Jacobs:
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Now you have another clear depiction of just how extremely off-target the JC Movement is, which extends from Bill johnson’s BC. I’ll leave you now with some of the more notable Friends of bethel from the BC website itself.4
Friends they recommend and link to such as:
Yes, it is this Benny Hinn:
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If you’re familiar with the Fighting for the Faith program of Chris Rosebrough then you’ll know that he regularly features updates from a spiritual looney tune named Patricia King. Yep, BC considers her as a friend as well:
Here is Patricia King teaching about a “breaker anointing,” where supposedly God makes your faith stronger; but before she can inform us that the breaker anointing is Jesus, she allegedly ah, experiences, er…something:
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Finally, while there are plenty of other highly questionable friends of Bethel, this one tells you all you need to know about just how far out into spiritual outer space this BC gathering truly is:
You may pick your jaw up off your computer desk now; sadly, it is indeed that Todd Bentley:
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Just more reasons to be very wary of this Jesus Culture “Movement.” And it looks to me that with Passion 2013 Louie Giglio has now aligned his 268 Generation aka the Passion Movement to the Jesus Culture Movement.5
With this in mind then, let’s think back to another of JC’s mentors, the aforementioned NAR “Apostle” Lou Engle, and what he prophesied6 Jesus Culture will be a part of:
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Filling stadiums like, say, the Georgia Dome with 60,000? It makes me wonder; IHOP coming to Passion 2014…

Further reading

Endnotes

  1. http://www.facebook.com/jesusculture, accessed 1-4-13. 
  2. http://bit.ly/WlEQY0, accessed 1-4-13. 
  3. http://ti.me/qhU5V, accessed 1-4-13. 
  4. The link is near the bottom of the page here: http://www.ibethel.org/links, accessed 1-4-13. 
  5. http://www.268generation.com/3.0/#!about/story, accessed 1-4-13. 
  6. It’s part of the scrolling messages at the very bottom of the page here: http://bit.ly/WjjnyA, accessed 1-4-13. 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

LOUIE GIGLIO, PASSION 2013, AND JESUS CULTURE

(reprinted in full from Apprising Ministries)
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I told you here at Apprising Ministries in Beth Moore And John Piper Set For Passion 2013 With Louie Giglio that once again those two well-respected mainstream evangelicals would be appearing at Giglio’s Passion conference which, as of this writing, is in full swing.
Here’s some notables in the lineup for this year:
Giglio, Chan, Moore and Piper return to Passion from last year and now we have sinfully ecumenical emerging musician David Crowder1 added to the mix. Another couple of special guests are:
I covered ecumenical evangelical magisterium candidate Judah Smith previously in Judah Smith With Justin Bieber’s Swag Coach Ryan Good and Charismatic Quasi-Prosperity Preacher Judah Smith; seen below in a skateboarding contest with pop singer Justin Bieber:
The focus here is upon a group called Jesus Culture, which had previously been flying under the radar. Not anymore. In Jesus Culture And Judah Smith To Join Piper, Moore, Chan And Others At Giglio’s Passion 2013 by Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger she tells us:
The group’s website tells us that it was spawned out of the youth group at Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding, California.
For those who are unfamiliar with Johnson and Bethel, the following video shares some of the “signs and wonders” shenanigans that take place there, and also demonstrates some classic Bill Johnson Scripture-twisting:
Since Bill Johnson isn’t the focal point, here I’ll just let you know that:
Bill and Brenda Johnson are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Church in Redding, California. Bethel Church is firmly aligned with the Word-Faith movement and identifies with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), or the Third Wave Movement with its “prophets,” “apostles,” and alleged manifestions. Bill Johnson is called an “apostle” by C. Peter Wagner (See  TBC  5/97, 2/07). His theology has amounted to what some call a “ de facto  denial of the deity of Christ.” (source)
Obviously, we’re dealing with an absolute theological train wreck at Bethel Church (BC). However, as Benziger points out, this is the pastor and pastrix and church from which the Jesus Culture (JC) phenomenon has come.
This isn’t guilt-by-association; it is a fact. JC tells us so right on their Facebook page, as you see below:
So, JC itself is quick to point out that they’re not “just a band, but…a ministry of Bethel Church.” Therefore, now that Louie Giglio has made the decision to bring JC to his Passion 2013, JC itself witnesses for BC.
As such, we have every right to examine the theology taught to JC by pastor Bill and pastrix Brenda at their BC since they are an extension of that church. This all goes to the credibility of JC and their ministry.
In closing this out. for now, we return to Erin Benziger’s earlier post under the subheading The “Teaching” of Jesus Culture where she informs us:
Jesus Culture does more than simply play music, however. It seems that, at times, various members of the group also may preach or teach. Below is [a video of] Jesus Culture member Kim Walker-Smith preaching to a large crowd at the Awakening 2011 event, and offering a rather detailed account of her own personal encounter with “Jesus.” (source)
Walker-Smith’s JC bio contains confirmation that for her and husband Skyler, “Bethel Church in Redding, CA is our home church,” and this peculiar phrase that sounds like a Jehovah’s Witness: “Holy Spirit is my friend.”
As Benziger pointed out, the video clip below comes from a longer video entitled Preaching Kim Walker-Awakening 2011, which is 47:36 minutes of a rambling hyper-charismatic message of seeking “God’s presence.”
The clip comes about two-thirds of the way in. I caution you that what you’re about to hear quickly goes from mildly annoying to blasphemous. It also become quite clear that Kim Walker-Smith is spiritually clueless.
Before we get to that, it’s important that I give you the proper context from which to view the over-arching mission of JC. We get a clearer picture as to just how nefarious this group is spiritually looking atAwakening 2011 (A2011).
You need to understand that A2011 was put on by the JC ministry itself, as in The Jesus Culture Awakening 2011 and was:
Now here was the lineup for this JC A2011 followed by an exclusive Apprising Ministries video clip of the main event promo combined with those of JC’s pastor Bill Johnson, Reinhard Bonnke, NAR apostlette Cindy Jacobs2 and NAR apostle Lou Engle3:
Here’s what “apostle” Lou Engle prophesied for Jesus Culture to be a part of and what Louie Giglio’s now brought to Passion 2013 for his Jesus Generation:
Against this Erin Benziger gives you a little preview of the fables you’re about to hear from Jesus Culture preachette Kim Walker-Smith. Benziger’s actually uses a very understated tone as she tells us:
Kim Walker-Smith claims that she spoke with Jesus, that He cuddled her, and that she saw God the Father. And while she acknowledges that such visions are not regular occurrences, she nevertheless indicates that she’s had multiple encounters with Him.
One wonders how many people sitting amongst that large crowd left disappointed that night that they had not “encountered” Jesus as Kim Walker-Smith claimed that she had. Walker-Smith’s recollection of the vision is natural, and seems to presume that everyone should experience such a thing. (source)
Here’s the bottom line: All of this kind of WF/NAR skubalon is what Louie Giglio, John Piper and Beth Moore have now just helped expose your youth to at Passion 2013. Are we really ok with that?
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Further reading

Endnotes

  1. http://defendingcontending.com/2010/02/28/david-crowders-crowded-theology/, accessed 1-2-13. 
  2. http://www.narwatch.com/2012/03/01/new-apostolic-prayer-guide-attacks-california-labor-unions-prepares-for-election-2012/, accessed 1-2-13. 
  3. http://www.narwatch.com/2010/10/17/lou-engle-only-one-of-many-of-sen-brownbacks-nar-apostle-problems/, accessed 1-2-13. 

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

JESUS CULTURE AND JUDAH SMITH TO JOIN PIPER, MOORE, CHAN AND OTHERS AT GIGLIO’S PASSION 2013


By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised…
This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised…
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A new year means a fresh batch of conferences. And a fresh batch of conferences means a whole new crop of questionable decisions being made by the leaders and organizers of those gatherings.
To start off the 2013 conference season is Louie Giglio’s Passion 2013. Held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, it will run from 1–4 January. Giglio aims this gathering specifically at young people, and according to the event’s website, last year saw “more than 40,000 students and leaders from around the world” at the US event.

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Passion targets the younger generation with such high-profile names as Beth Moore, John Piper, Francis Chan, rapper Lecrae and this year, pastor Judah Smith of The City Church in Seattle and popular Christian band, Jesus Culture.
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