Post by Cindy on Jul 27, 2021 9:38:59 GMT -5
By Paul Dubé (Excerpt)
A letter to the churches, especially to those in my home of the SF Bay area, regarding false teaching that is dangerously being taught to thousands of people actively and thousands more passively.
Bill Johnson is guilty of the error of omitting crucial portions in his gospel presentation which is at least very disheartening and troubling, but he is also guilty of outright heresy. The heresy I’m calling us all to evaluate is the heretical teaching that manifestations of [the Holy Spirit’s] power must accompany a believer’s conversion for it to be true². If there is no showing of power, outside of the power of God regenerating a heart, then Bill Johnson deems that gospel to be untrue. That is not the true gospel! The showings of power that I mean here are chiefly, healings, but can, I’m assuming, be other supernatural signs and wonders. I myself am not a cessationist, one who believes the signs and wonders died with the apostles, and I believe God can do everything but sin or do evil. So, while I do take issue with Bill Johnson’s and Bethel’s version of what signs and wonders are, how to pursue them, and how to teach people to use spiritual gifts, I believe in a supernatural God who does supernatural things. Bill Johnson’s and Bethel’s teachings on the supernatural, I believe, are in error and dangerously so, but these are nowhere near as dangerous as the heresy of a false gospel. If Bethel was only guilty of these other errors, I wouldn’t be writing this letter. It is their false gospel that is so very concerning because any hearers of this gospel may not be true converts outside of some special grace of God; the grace that He gives to all for us to believe, that is. The only converts in Bethel would then be to Bill Johnson’s gospel, making them followers of Bill and Bethel and not followers of Christ.
Read the whole article here:
medium.com/@pauljdube/an-open-letter-to-the-churches-concerning-bill-johnson-bethel-56a94604765e
See also:
EXCLUSIVE: Defecting From Bethel
Kari Jobe, Hillsong, Bethel Music Steeped in Pagan Idolatry
Bethel Redding youth leader says Jesus asked him for forgiveness
A letter to the churches, especially to those in my home of the SF Bay area, regarding false teaching that is dangerously being taught to thousands of people actively and thousands more passively.
Bill Johnson is guilty of the error of omitting crucial portions in his gospel presentation which is at least very disheartening and troubling, but he is also guilty of outright heresy. The heresy I’m calling us all to evaluate is the heretical teaching that manifestations of [the Holy Spirit’s] power must accompany a believer’s conversion for it to be true². If there is no showing of power, outside of the power of God regenerating a heart, then Bill Johnson deems that gospel to be untrue. That is not the true gospel! The showings of power that I mean here are chiefly, healings, but can, I’m assuming, be other supernatural signs and wonders. I myself am not a cessationist, one who believes the signs and wonders died with the apostles, and I believe God can do everything but sin or do evil. So, while I do take issue with Bill Johnson’s and Bethel’s version of what signs and wonders are, how to pursue them, and how to teach people to use spiritual gifts, I believe in a supernatural God who does supernatural things. Bill Johnson’s and Bethel’s teachings on the supernatural, I believe, are in error and dangerously so, but these are nowhere near as dangerous as the heresy of a false gospel. If Bethel was only guilty of these other errors, I wouldn’t be writing this letter. It is their false gospel that is so very concerning because any hearers of this gospel may not be true converts outside of some special grace of God; the grace that He gives to all for us to believe, that is. The only converts in Bethel would then be to Bill Johnson’s gospel, making them followers of Bill and Bethel and not followers of Christ.
Read the whole article here:
medium.com/@pauljdube/an-open-letter-to-the-churches-concerning-bill-johnson-bethel-56a94604765e
See also:
EXCLUSIVE: Defecting From Bethel
Kari Jobe, Hillsong, Bethel Music Steeped in Pagan Idolatry
Bethel Redding youth leader says Jesus asked him for forgiveness
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