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‘STRANGE BEDFELLOWS’ ‘Evangelical
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Steve Munsey,Benny
Hinn and R T Kendall: ‘Evangelical
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On the Evangelical
Alliance website there is a section that deals with ‘Relationships Commitment’ and it can
be found by following this link –
http://www.eauk.org/about/the-evangelical-relationships-commitment.cfm
It tells of discussions between the
‘Evangelical
Earlier we read in the article ‘we
seek to promote good Christian practice, as well as true Christian doctrine’.
Later
there is a listing of ‘the eight “general resolutions”
already mentioned and they are
subdivided between ‘Affirmations’ and ‘Actions’.
Point 1 – an ‘Affirmation’
states
We welcome as Christian brothers and sisters all who experience the grace of new birth, bringing them to that fear and knowledge of God which is expressed in a life of obedience to His word.
Point 3 – also an ‘Affirmation’
states
We respect the diversity of culture,
experience and doctrinal understanding that God grants to His people, and
acknowledge that some differences over issues
not essential to salvation may well remain until the end of time.
Point 5 – an ‘Action’ begins with these words
We encourage all Christians earnestly
to contend for biblical truth…
These ideals are
commendable [1] an expectation that true believers will be ‘obedient’ to
God’s word [2] that issues of ‘diversity’
that are not essential to salvation will not hinder fellowship and [3] that
true believers will ‘contend’
for biblical truth.
The problem with Evangelical
Alliance is that they consistently fail to honour or live up to
these self-expressed high ideals and
this article will highlight current examples of these failings – failings
that are giving a false impression of what Evangelicalism is all about. In
these examples cited, the absence of true biblical discernment on the part
of Evangelical Alliance will become all too sadly and
glaringly obvious.
On our ministry
website an article was recently posted entitled –
What God’s
people really need to know.
In that article I identified the ‘ecumenical’
and ‘charismatic’ mix of the local [
‘A 21-day prayer chain of local
churches, prayer networks and praying Christians from all streams (including
Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, Charismatic Catholics, Pentecostals) will
precede the event and be launched on 12 May 2006 at The City Temple, Holborn
Viaduct… The London Prayer Celebration takes place
at Westminster Chapel in central
According to information that was
confirmed to me, other groups involved in one way or another [apart from Evangelical Alliance] in promoting this ‘Global Day of Prayer’, are Holy Trinity Brompton [Home of ‘Alpha’], Westminster [Roman Catholic] Cathedral, Charismatic
Catholics Network, GOD TV [Rory and Wendy Alec] and
sadly Westminster Chapel [formerly pastored
by Dr Martin Lloyd Jones but in more recent times ‘destroyed’ doctrinally
by R T Kendall of whom more later].
In my article I gave website links
to 2 very revealing articles by Sarah Leslie of the USA-based
Discernment-Ministries Inc – the links to those articles are
–
http://www.discernment-ministries.org/NLMayJune_2005.htm
http://www.discernment-ministries.org/NLJulyAugust_2005.htm
and again I
commend them to you as they expose the political influences and agendas that
are clearly manipulating initiatives like the ‘Global Day of Prayer’.
No discernment-exercising and biblically
faithful ‘Evangelical’ ministry should be lending any credence or support
to this event that will, according to the April 2006 newsletter promoting
the event, [see http://www.globaldayofprayer.co.uk/Documents/UK-GDP%20Newsletter%202.pdf], supposedly lead to
a ‘Greater
Pentecost’.
Any bible student with discernment
will know that Pentecost was a unique, never to be repeated action of God. His gift
of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to indwell born-again believers was dependent
upon the Lord Jesus Christ accomplishing His mission to save and redeem His
people at Calvary and His subsequent return to glory in triumph [see John
7:39; Acts 1:5 and Acts
2:33].
Given the stated ‘Action’ quoted earlier, namely
‘We encourage all Christians earnestly to contend for biblical
truth’
– it is
clear that ‘Evangelical
‘Evangelical
Steve Munsey,Benny
Hinn and R T Kendall:
The lead article on the front page
of the
On the homepage [http://www.missiontolondon.com/]
of the ‘
However, on going to the page entitled ‘Speaker line-up’ [http://www.mcwe.com/mtl/speakers.htm] this listing is also found –
R T Kendall
Dr R T Kendall, Minister of
Chapel,
in
Originally from
number of Churches before coming to
the
including the Classic ‘Believing God’.
Don’t miss him as he preaches his
internationally acclaimed message on
Total Forgiveness.
I want now to comment on the particular speakers
named in the heading to this section of the article.
Morris
Cerullo
Part of the article in the British Church Newspaper also
stated –
‘Some ten years after Morris Cerullo’s organisation disaffiliated from
the Evangelical
Prior to the Cerullo organisation ‘disaffiliating’ itself from EA it had been the subject of a 3-year investigation by EA who had as a consequence in 1995 issued a statement saying that they ‘had concerns’ about the organisation but they stopped short of ‘excommunicating’ it – however, not long after, the Morris Cerullo organisation voluntarily resigned from EA.
Just as an example of the type of information that EA might have considered when ‘weighing up’ the Morris Cerullo organisation and coming to their conclusion that they ‘had concerns’ about it let me quote extracts from a short article that appeared in the Evangelical Times of December 1992 –
Cerullo
‘bundled out’ of
A front-page feature
article in The Times of India [India’s largest selling newspaper]
on 17 October 1992 reported that “A so-called miracle healer, Morris Cerullo,
who prefers to call himself a man of God, was declared ‘persona non
gratia’ and bundled out of the country by Calcutta police this morning
after mass healing services on Park Circus Maidan yesterday evening turned
into a fiasco when members of the crowd stormed the dais challenging the
efficacy of his healing power”. The article went on to declare that “For
indulging in undesirable activities Morris Cerullo was put on a plane bound
for the
Perhaps the ‘lament’ in that article
that British crowds were less ready to ‘test the claims of Cerullo’
was based on events earlier that year when Cerullo had held a ‘
http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/newsletterarchive/nlett15.html#miracles
Challenged
in a live television interview to produce his three best cases from the
week for public scrutiny, Cerullo found himself under an intense spotlight
Joan Bakewell's "Heart of the Matter" team presented the cases
in a powerful television documentary, leaving Cerullo protesting that he
needed more time. He consequently appealed to people on his mailing list
to come forward with their stories and set up a medical panel to analyse
them.
Cerullo's posters claimed they had 2,250 cases
from which to choose. A year later, after the medical panel's final meeting,
a public statement from one of the doctors said emphatically that "there is no evidence that anything has occurred that is
outside the realm of normal clinical experience"
One of the most disgraceful and heartbreaking incidents related to a time when Morris Cerullo paraded a very young [4 years old] girl called Natalia Barned around the stage at Earls Court, together with her mum and then asked the audience to give thanks to God for ‘the healing’ of little Natalia’s bone cancer. Within a matter of 2 months Natalia was dead.
You can view Cerullo’s false claim for ‘Natalia’s healing’
by clicking on this link
Please remember that
Morris Cerullo has a full-page advert in IDEA, the magazine of EVANGELICAL
Steve Munsey and Benny Hinn
Listed among the speakers for ‘
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/
Perhaps the name of Steve Munsey is not so well known but he came to our attention as we prepared for Alan Morrison’s ministry visit here in 2005 to talk on the subject assigned to him of ‘GOD TV – Helpful or Harmful?’ Incidentally and just to remind you, ‘GOD TV’, like Evangelical Alliance are promoting the ‘Global day of Prayer’ that we considered earlier.
In 2004 GOD TV held, as usual, one of their major
fund-raising sessions on TV and they ‘drafted in’ Steve Munsey to head
up their ‘appeal’ for funds. Shortly you will be able to see an excerpt
from this ‘appeal’ and I hope you will notice with the same alarm as
I did that all that you will see took place in the presence of the young son
of Wendy and Rory Alec who ‘head up’ GOD TV.
This excerpt was shown
by myself by way of introduction to Alan Morrison’s
talk and I also showed a short clip of Benny Hinn pronouncing ‘a
curse’ upon anyone who would dare to say a word against his ministry. The
DVD of Alan’s talk is still available from us – Price £7.00 [includes p&p].
If you click on the following link's you will be able
to view these clips of both Steve
Munsey and Benny
Hinn.
Please remember that
Steve Munsey and Benny Hinn are ‘inextricably linked’ to the Morris Cerullo
full-page advert in IDEA, the magazine of EVANGELICAL
R T
Just quite how or why R T Kendall was chosen to
succeed Dr Martin Lloyd Jones as Pastor of Westminster Chapel is somewhat
of a mystery to me and I would venture to suggest to quite a few others as
well. In his latter years there Mr Kendall certainly associated himself with
some very questionable people and ‘movements’. The one that
had most impact on me personally related to the so-called ‘
The main originator and dispenser of the so-called ‘Holy
Laughter’ associated with this ‘
In the ‘Christian Herald’ of
‘At
Later that year Rodney Howard-Browne was ‘back
in town’ for a ‘Signs and Wonders ‘95’ being held [4-7 December 1995]
at the Olympia Exhibition Centre National Hall,
To be ‘guileless’ is to be ‘devoid of cunning
and treachery’. Having examined so much of the ‘ministry’
of Rodney Howard-Browne as it unfolded through the so-called ‘
One other equally disturbing endorsement by R T Kendall
was his decision to afford Paul Cain a role at Westminster Chapel.
Paul Cain was for a number of decades a devout disciple of the heretical
William Branham. He then came to the attention of John Wimber,
founder of the Vineyard Movement which in turn ‘birthed’ the so-called
‘
This new era, the post-charismatic new man,
was preached at a Conference in
The title of the Conference - "The Word and The
Spirit" - was explained by the speakers' remarks that they aimed to
combine these two elements, theology and power. Dr.
Kendall said that he had told Paul Cain, "Paul, you need my theology
and I need your power".
Jacob Prasch of Moriel Ministries has issued
an interesting challenge to R T Kendall in the light of his upcoming
involvement with this ‘
http://www.moriel.org/articles/notice_board/invitation_to_rt_kendall.htm
In closing I would once more say -
Please remember that R T
Perhaps Evangelical Alliance
will attempt some disclaiming ‘Pontius Pilate’ act to try and distance
themselves from any criticism about the content of Morris Cerullo’s advert
and the ramifications of it appearing in IDEA –
well, to continue my ‘Pontius Pilate’ analogy – ‘I’m afraid that won’t wash
with me’ – they must shoulder the culpable responsibility for allowing that
advert to be published without any clear ‘spiritual health warning’.
‘Evangelical
On
24
May 2006 -
A CWR [Crusade for World Revivlal
– Selwyn Hughes] one-day workshop for those involved in church leadership.
The workshop will explore the role of the church in contemporary culture and
how we reach people today without assimilating the culture. Hosted
by Philip Greenslade with guest speaker Brian McLaren,
a leading writer in the field of emerging church and founding pastor of
So, on the
website of Evangelical Alliance they are displaying an advert for a meeting involving
Brian McLaren who in language very similar
to his ‘penal-substitution-denying’ friend Steve Chalke, describes
such an idea about that glorious truth of Christ’s atonement for sinners at
Calvary as being ‘divine child abuse’.
For a clear
exposition of the gospel-denying teachings of Brian
McLaren let me recommend the DVD of Pastor Gary Gilley’s talk that
he gave during his recent ministry visit here. Details of the DVD and how
to obtain it are available on this link to our website http://www.takeheed.net/GilleyDVD.htm
CONCLUDING
COMMENTS
Much more
by way of warning could have been said about other names mentioned in this
article, names like Tommy Tenney and John Avanzini, but
a search of ‘the web’ under these names will provide links to much helpful
information on their false teachings. Earlier in this article I quoted how
in an article Evangelical Alliance stated
– ‘we seek to promote good Christian practice, as well as true
Christian doctrine’. Having listed the connections, direct
or indirect between Evangelical Alliance the
‘Global Day of Prayer’, ‘Morris Cerullo, Steve
Munsey, Benny Hinn, R T Kendall’ and the ‘Emerging
church’ I leave it to you the reader to decide whether or not that
stated aim is being achieved. I also hope that the title of this document,
namely ‘Strange Bedfellows’ will now make much clearer sense and also
serve as a matter for serious reconsideration by any who read this document
and who may in any way be supportive of today’s Evangelical
Alliance.
Cecil Andrews
– ‘Take Heed’ Ministries –