“These People Kill People”
There has been a recent explosion of online exposure of fraudulent and corrupt “ministries”.
Mike Winger has done take downs of Shaun Bolz, Todd White, Bethel ,and now Chris Reed.
Reed stands out in his wickedness…as our friend Alan Hawkins painfully details in this video.
While this one hits close to home, there is and has been an epidemic of fraud in charismatic and Pentecostal circles…from the beginning.
This website and accompanying videos, documents the trail of deceit from Azusa Street to Redding…and leaves one wondering if there was ever any basis to believe the any of the stories around the sign gifts.
The site has dozens of videos and piles of documentation…and should be a major source of discussion around the revival and healing movements of the last hundred years.
One would think that there is significantly more evidence than needed to take down all these false prophets and liars.
It grieves me to know that this will all blow over…it will be business as usual sooner than later.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…the only people that can truly rid the Body of Christ of these cancers are the ones that support it.
They won’t do it.
They like the show and the message and they’ll pay for it.
Some will pay with their lives…
Oh my. These people are going to collapse. Reckoning has arrived.
Five years ago I gave up my church. Left it. In the evening after the ceremony I told the friend who helped me pass it to another, “I am done with THE SHOW!” I still am.
I had enough over 20 years ago with the “slain in the spirit” schlop.
I have ZERO sympathy for grown adults who allow themselves to be hoodwinked by these jokers.
While this may be an interesting sociological phenomenon, it has nothing to do with Christianity or Christian faith.
Historic Christianity is defined by continuity: apostolic faith carried forward through the creeds, communities shaped by sacramental life, and ministries accountable to a wider Church. The Latter Rain movement, from its inception has rejected that continuity. It did not seek reform within the Church; it insisted that the Church as a whole had lost its way and required a restoration available only through newly recognized apostles and prophets. That claim—however enthusiastically embraced—is not an organic theological development. It is a rupture. Moreover, it is a rupture that places the movement outside the historical grammar of Christian ecclesial life.
The question, then, is not whether the Latter Rain movement uses Christian language. Many similar sectarian and gnostic movements have done so throughout history. The question is whether it participates in the life of the historic Church—creedally, sacramentally, and communally. On those metrics, the answer becomes clear. Its theology is restorationist rather than catholic, its ecclesiology is self-authorizing rather than received, and its understanding of revelation often bypasses Scripture rather than illuminating it.
This is why, despite its Christian vocabulary the Latter Rain and similar movements cannot be considered part of historic Christianity. They stand not within the continuity of the Church’s life, but outside it—offering, at best, a parallel narrative and, at worst, an heretical replacement for the very Body it claims to renew.
In short, this is not the faith once delivered…
Speaking of Slain in the Spirit, I present you with Benny Hinn as a Sith Lord, slaying people in the Spirit with his light saber jacket:
I appreciate you speaking up Dread. There is always a cost. And my heart goes out to you for all you have been through.
I was never attracted to any of this stuff. I don’t know why I wasn’t, except I’m naturally suspicious of things that seem not in line with what Scripture says about miracles. They do happen, but not all the time, and they’re never for show or the personal gain of the “miracle worker.” Simon Magnus comes to mind.
Thanks for being will to share your story, dread.