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Charismatic Movement is Church of Laodicea – Is Calvary Chapel a Christian Cult? Vineyard, Neocharismatics
http://churchofphiladelphia.net/CharismaticMovement1.mp3 http://churchofphiladelphia.net/CharismaticMovement2.mp3 http://churchofphiladelphia.net/CharismaticMovement3.mp3 http://churchofphiladelphia.net/CharismaticMovement4.mp3 http://churchofphiladelphia.net/CharismaticMovement5.mp3 Understanding Biblical Old Testament and New Testament Church Structure The Untold Coverup: The George Van Tassel / Lonnie Frisbee Connection – What Jesus on a flying saucer?! What do the Way International Cult and Victor Paul Weirville have to do with Calvary Chapel? How the Kundalini Chakti spirit entered the Charismatic Movement The 2 Branches of the Tree of Laodicea – Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard How to Identify the Antichrist Spirit – Denying the Biblical Jesus Christ Tracking the Antichrist Spirit Down Through the History of the Charismatic Movement Is Calvary Chapel a Christian Cult? Abuse, Authority Structure – Coverup, Lies and Deception The Serpent Seed Heresy – 2 Branches – Return of the Nephilim and Army of Elect Seed Chuck Missler, Conspiracy Theories, and Logical Fallacies The Antichrist Spirit Indentified – Biblical Discernment – The Alien Agenda Practicing the Bible, Spiritual Warfare, and Rapture Preparedness in the End Times Teachings on Rapture and Overcoming to Laodiceans and Warning to Philadelphians The Sky is Falling – Prophesied End of the False Prophets – The Storm of Hailstones *Disclaimer: Please note I do not affirm all information found at all of these links, but provide these as references and/or footnotes and/or simply resources I looked at to consider while doing this study. Some are affirmed, some are not, some are only in part. In some cases only one page on a website is referenced or quoted, while many more pages on the same site were read through – thus this is a starting point for further research. * Textual Study 1 Samuel 8 – Israel Demands a King First Clement: Clement of Rome Clement-I_Clement_b συνευδοκησάσης consensus – Google Search Strong’s Greek: 4909. συνευδοκέω (suneudokeó) — to join in approving Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel, Moses Model, Cults, Sects, and Spiritual Abuse Calvary Chapel Visitor Comments Territorial disputes has 2 California cults feuding Warning Signs Calvary Chapel Wiki / Calvary Chapel Authority Structure typical-church-structure1.jpg (792×612) heirarchy1.jpg (517×337) false-authority-structure.jpg (498×437) Image1.jpg (330×241) Calvary Chapel, Chuck Smith, The Moses Model: Let the Little Dogs Bark! | Spiritual Sounding Board Challenge 4: What about the “Moses Model”? | exploring the faith Chuck Smith’s Creeds: The Calvary Chapel “Distinctives” » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse Dealing with child abuse, spousal abuse, molestation in the church…and a proper Jesus Model of spiritual leadership: “Abuse and Pastors: An Open Letter from a Pastor to Pastors” » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse Calvary Chapel Practices: Narc for Jesus » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse 2010 July » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse Calvary Chapel Affiliation/Fellowship Application/Agreement » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse Calvary Chapel: What’s been your experience? Good, bad or ugly? Part 1 » Calvary Chapel Abuse | Calvary Chapel Abuse Review: “Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership” by Alexander Strauch | exploring the faith Calvary Chapel Visalia Personal Story: Tina’s Story | Spiritual Sounding Board Calvary Chapel Abuse A Guide to Pentecostal Denominations – Yahoo! Voices – voices.yahoo.com Avoid Spiritual Abuse By Avoiding The Moses Syndrome | The Wartburg Watch 2013 Definitions FAQ on Religious Cults, Sects, Alternative Religious Movements, Anti-cult and Countercult groups. Apologetics...
read moreGuide for New Christians – How a Healthy Biblical Church Structure Helps to Prevent Spiritual Abuse and Christian Cults
Guide for New Christians – How a Healthy Biblical Church Structure Helps to Prevent Spiritual Abuse and Christian Cults http://churchofphiladelphia.net/NewChristianChurch4.mp3 We have already covered that the early church model was a democratic/republic system, and not a monarchy/oligarchy – that elders were meant to be elected representatives, representing the congregation and facilitating them functioning in their gifts. In contrast to the present day monarch/oligarch system, the point of elders originally was precisely to keep guard against one person or a small group of people from establishing authority and power over everyone else in the church. The elders were meant to be representatives elected by the people, for the service of the people, who would exercise authority derived from consent of the people, in a limited capacity. Elders were those with the gift of administration, who were set in a limited capacity over the people with their consent in order to administrate them in their operations as directed by the holy Spirit through their individual gifts of the Holy Spirit. And we know they were to be qualified per qualifications in the Bible – which limit qualified elders to monogamous or single men, or women, and do not exclude women. See last Part 1 for more details. In this second part let’s cover how a healthy biblical church structure helps to prevent spiritual abuse and Christian cults. These are signs of spiritually abusive or cultic churches taken from http://www.rickross.com/warningsigns.html Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader: 1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. 2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. 3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. 4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. 5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. 6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances. 7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader. 8. Followers feel they can never be “good enough”. 9. The group/leader is always right. 10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. By Rick Ross, Expert Consultant and Intervention Specialist Spiritual abuse can occur in a church with a healthy structure, if an individual takes abusive actions. However, in a church with a healthy structure there are things like accountability, checks and balances, and Matt 18 principles are applicable in practice to everyone in the church, including leadership ie elders, deacons, or pastors, teachers, counselors, staff etc. No one is above anyone else in rights, so all members of the body of Christ can apply Matt 18, and no one is above correction. Because of this in a healthy church structure, if spiritual abuse takes place, it is less likely to get out of hand or spread because the abused member can tell someone who has the ability to do something about it. In a healthy church structure the principles of Matt 18 are present: first correction in private, 2nd step involves a couple witnesses, 3rd step involves “the church”. Who is “the church”? Everyone. Ideally a matter can be brought...
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The launch of Church of Philadelphia .net! American Ideals vs. Christian Ideals, Resolving the Incongruity http://churchofphiladelphia.net/Churches1.mp3 Guide for New Christians – Early Church Model http://churchofphiladelphia.net/NewChristianChurch1.mp3 Guide for New Christians – 5 Points: Authority Structure, Discipline, Membership, Prejudices, Traditions http://churchofphiladelphia.net/NewChristianChurch2.mp3 It is so easy to brainwash new Christians. Let’s face it, you are probably going to have to fall into, and eventually fall out of, a couple of Christian cults or just plain old bad churches before you start to think for yourself about just what Christianity was really meant to be. Until you see the corruption for yourself, until you experience the Holy Spirit leading you away from something bad yourself, you aren’t going to get it. And let’s face it, it plain old takes time as a new Christian to come to hear Him loud enough that He is louder than the people around you and what they are telling you. The fact is that it’s a world of shades of grey. It’s pretty clear and easy to understand that as a new Christian, a baby, you need the Word of God and the fellowship of other more mature believers. And you need that more than a perfect church model that is free from abuse of authority, incorrect doctrine, prejudice, hypocrisy, or flawed leadership that’s more worldly or monetarily focused than they should be. I think perhaps one of the biggest mistakes that early on gets made by young Christians is to think that when the Holy Spirit leads you on into a church, that it means that church has His seal of perfection stamped to it like some inviolate unchanging eternal commendation. Not so. Similarly, I see young Christians take a word from the Holy Spirit, that goes along with some of their preconceived notions, to be a cart blanche affirmation of everything they already believe tied to or along those lines. Also not so. The Holy Spirit speaks truth and guides us into all truth – but perfection through sanctification is a process happening a piece at a time over a lifetime. Eventually you come to understand to “not add to His Words, nor take away”, afterwards when you understand this, that is when you realize that it’s not so simple. He meets you where you are at in your understanding at the time – and change and growth are expected to be part of the process. Like it or not, but the Holy Spirit might lead you into less than ideal situations, first because it is a less than ideal world, second because in your own stubbornness it may be the only place you will go, and it’s better for you than if He doesn’t lead you there. And where you change, and there’s growth, suddenly new better options may usually be better for you than where you started. Not always, but sometimes. It depends how, when, and where, you started. And it’s sometimes your job to take the place where you started and let it go, having changed and grown in your experience, taking your place and job in the body onto new horizons with His leading. Imagine if when the Holy Spirit told Philip to go into the desert (to, surprise, meet the eunuch) if Philip had imagined he should stay there in the desert from...
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