Social Gospel and Kingdom Now teachings

Link to GotQuestions.org: What is the social gospel?

The following link is to Understand The Times with Jan Markell discussing the topic Why the Church Won't Reign On Earth.
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/listen/why-the-church-wont-reign-on-earth-237193.html

This link is to The Berean Call The Shameful Social Gospel

Red-letter Bibles—what’s the problem?: Volume 101 - Answers in Genesis

Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel - Links

The following are links to different articles along with the first few sentences of each article. If you wish to read more click on the red title of each link.


Is there power in positive confession? - From gotquestions.org - Positive confession is the practice of saying aloud what you want to happen with the expectation that God will make it a reality. 


Is "name it claim it" teaching Biblical? From Gotquestions.org - Answer: The “name it and claim it” or “prosperity gospel” is not biblical and is in many ways antithetical to the true gospel message and the clear teaching of Scripture. While there are many different versions of the name it and claim it philosophy preached today, they all have similar characteristics. At its best, this teaching comes from the misinterpretation and misunderstanding of some Scriptures and, at its worst, it is a completely heretical teaching that has the characteristics of a cult.

How to tell a prosperity teacher.
From heprayed.com - A prosperity preacher is one who claims to be a Christian, but whose teaching focuses on man’s happiness and prosperity in this life. He is a humanist. It’s amazing… the only time in scripture where Jesus got furious was when men used God’s temple to make money (Luke 19:45-46). These were money-grubbers setting up shop in the Lord’s house of prayer. It happened in Jesus’ day and it’s happening in our day. This is exactly what hundreds and thousands of prosperity preachers are doing today.

Joel Osteen - Links

If you care to read more of each of the following articles please click on the links, which are the titles in red.

'Oprah's Next Chapter' Pastor Joel Osteen talks Homosexuality and Degrees of Sin From huffingtonpost.com - "Osteen did confirm that he sees homosexualty as a sin, based on what he's read in scripture. But his point is, that it isn't necessarily a bigger sin than so many others, and therefore perhaps it shouldn't be emphasized and sensationalized as such.

He also said that he believes homosexuals can get into Heaven, just as other people with sin in them can. "

Is "name it claim it" teaching Biblical? from gotquestions.org - "In his book Your Best Life Now, prosperity teacher Joel Osteen says that the key to a more rewarding life, a better home, a stronger marriage and a better job is found in a “simple yet profound process to change the way you think about your life and help you accomplish what is truly important.” How different that is from the biblical truth that this life now is nothing compared to the life to come."

YOGA UNCOILED: From East to West (1 of 2)

Click on the red titles of the following links if you are interested in reading the rest of the article.


"Christian" yoga? ~ Sola Sisters from solasisters.blogspot.com - "Yoga is the salvific practice of Hinduism; in other words, it is the Hindu form of "salvation." But Hindus have no concept of sin against a holy God....instead, it teaches that man's greatest problem is his ignorance that he is "God" (or Brahman). Obviously, this is very different from the Christian understanding of what salvation is: Jesus's atoning death for the forgiveness of sins, and being made right with a holy God."


Yoga Today's Lifestyle For Health   from letusreason.org - "As Christians who are in relationship with the God who created the universe, we should not be among those who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worship and serve created things rather than the Creator (Romans 1:25). While many Christians rationalize the exercises as neutral they only need to ask a professional Yoga instructor what it is really about to find that it is in fact religious. As a Christian we need to ask ourselves would Jesus or the apostles be doing yoga? If not why not. Would they promote another religions way to be united with a different gods? According to the BibleYoga is an idolatrous practice which leads one away from the one true God and into the spiritual realm of false gods and demonic spirits, and there are consequences? If we sin ignorantly God understands, He is merciful, giving us grace on the one hand, but not to continue after we receive knowledge of the truth. On the other He cares of our sin, not willing to leave us to our deception. “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” In Hosea’s time people had a lack of knowledge concerning God. As a result, they turned to other gods, and their idolatrous practices became a snare to them and a delusion. They became the prey of false gods-even while thinking that their lifestyle was pleasing to the true God."

"Why we don't need women's ministry" or do we? by Dr. Georgia Purdom

A friend sent me an article entitled, “Why We Don’t Need ‘Women’s’ Ministry.” Of course the title intrigued me since I direct the Answers for Women ministry at AiG! As I read the article, I realized the point the author was trying to make was not that we don’t need women’s ministry but that we don’t need the type of women’s ministry that is common in our churches and larger Christian community today. Read these excerpts from her article:

We’re choking on cutesy things and crafty bits, safe lady topics, . . . . We are hungry for authenticity and vulnerability, not churchified life hacks from lady magazines. Some of us are drowning, suffocating, dying of thirst for want of the cold water of real community. We’re trying really hard–after all, we keep showing up to your lady events, and we leave feeling just a bit empty. It’s just more of the same every time.

I would love to wrestle with some questions that don’t have a one-paragraph answer in your study guide. I would like to do a Bible study that does not have pink or flowers on the cover.

So here is my suggestion: Please stop treating women’s ministry like a Safe Club for the Little Ladies to Play Church.

We are smart. We are brave. We want to change the world.

We want to give and serve and make a difference. We want to be challenged. We want to read books and talk politics, theology, and current events. We want to wrestle through our theology. 

Read the rest at the link: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/georgia-purdom/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-need-womens-ministry-or-do-we/

An obituary for the Emerging Church?

An obituary for the Emerging Church?

Reposted from Stand Up For the Truth

Is the shelf life of the Emergent Church past the date?  Not by any means! In fact, we’re going to make the case today that it is morphing into something very dangerous.

Today many Christian leaders are trying to convince us that the Emerging Church movement is dead–and that we should simply stop talking about it. But when you hear our special guest today, Mary Danielsen, you’ll understand why some leaders want you to believe that there is nothing to worry about–nothing to see here.

You’ll want to make sure you pay particular attention to the name Philip Clayton, one of the top post-modern intellectuals today and a driving force behind Big Tent Christianity. He is also the chief guru of Emergence Theology, part of a new field of emergent sciences, and the underlying force of the ever-evolving Emergent Church.

Mary is a teacher and writer who has studied prophesy for 3 decades. Check out her site,thethings2com.org, and read her “Contender’s Series.”

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