Shortly after learning that David Jeremiah would no longer be speaking at Ken Blanchard's Lead Like Jesus conference, we learned that the conference in San Antonio had been cancelled. A statement on the Lead Like Jesus website says the cancellation came due to the recent hurricane.

As many of you know, there has been a growing controversy over the last few months with regard to Ken Blanchard of Lead Like Jesus and his involvement with the New Age. The situation intensified when David Jeremiah, popular pastor on Turning Point radio program, became a featured speaker for the upcoming Lead Like Jesus conference to be held at Max Lucado's church in San Antonio, Texas this coming November.

Yesterday, we spoke with Lead Like Jesus spokesperson, Lisa Leclair, and asked if David Jeremiah had pulled out of the conference. She told us that they knew nothing of David Jeremiah dropping out but rather said Ken Blanchard contacted Jeremiah on Friday and told him that he was canceling the conference in San Antonio because of the recent hurricane disaster. According to Lisa, David Jeremiah allegedly told Blanchard that he would work with him again on future projects.

In light of the fact that in David Jeremiah's 2003 book, Life Wide Open, he favorably quotes feminine spiritualist Sue Monk Kidd ( When the Heart Waits), contemplative Calvin Miller (Into the Depths of God), Buddhist sympathizer Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), emerging church leader, Erwin McManus, contemplative Brother Lawrence (Practicing the Presence of God), and mystic sympathizer Jim Collins, it may not be any wonder that he has partnered up with Ken Blanchard who is a board member of the Hoffman Quadrinity Process Institute and a participant in the interspiritual, New Age organization, Heartland Circle.

Is David Jeremiah disassociating himself with Ken Blanchard and the Lead Like Jesus organization? If so, then we support him and hope he will make this decision public. And once again, we beseech Christian leaders to defend the faith and the gospel of Jesus Christ, to stop confusing believers about that to which they really adhere and to break their yokes with the New Age. If David Jeremiah has indeed made a step in this direction by dropping out of the Lead Like Jesus conference, we ask him to make this public and to tell his readers and listeners that quoting several New Agers in his book (which was released in a new edition this year), Life Wide Open, was misleading and wrong.

Helpful Contact Information

Dr. David Jeremiah
info@turningpointonline.org
10007 Riverford Rd
Lakeside, CA 92040
619-258-3600 phone
619-258-3636 fax

Lead Like Jesus:
706-863-8494 phone
706-863-9372 fax
Wayne.Bridges@leadlikejesus.com (Business office)

Oak Hills Church: (Max Lucado's church)
phone - 210-698-6868