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LTRJ Note<\/strong>: Marie (a widow) wrote a letter to the editors at Lighthouse Trails in April of this year (printed in the Summer issue of the Journal), warning about Life Church\u2019s highly popular YouVersion Bible app<\/a>. At the time, she was still an integral part of Craig Groeschel\u2019s Life Church (one of the largest churches in the U.S.). We post her story below because we know many others are going through similar type heart-breaking situations in their own churches. We hope Marie\u2019s story will exhort and edify other believers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Lighthouse Trails editors and readers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was so happy with Life Church in the beginning and was so for years after my husband and I joined. I served on multiple platforms\u2014online and at my local campus. I was in leadership positions and knee deep into Life Church culture. I was invited to multiple Global Leadership Conferences, to Life Church \u201cAll Staff\u201d meetings, and campus LC leadership meetings. I was \u201call in\u201d for Life Church as a respected attendee, volunteer, and leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What changed for me? About four years ago when Pastor Craig was out of town, he invited Joakim, the founding pastor at the largest church in Sweden to take the Life Church pulpit. He was a funny guy who told lots of stories and was very entertaining. But he was light on the Gospel and included few Scriptures. While sitting in the audience, I began to research this new speaker to see what he believed and who he was connected with. His website said he was part of the Bethel network of churches. Bethel and Hillsong are connected with the New Apostolic Reformation. Why was our pastor inviting this guy to take his pulpit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, when Pastor invited his friends to take the pulpit for a four-week series titled \u201cBook Club,\u201d I began to research each one of these authors. His great friend was Steven Furtick from Elevation Church. He believes the Trinity is three different presences or forms. This teaching is a heresy known as modalism.<\/em> So that meant that Jesus when He went into the clouds, didn\u2019t leave, He just changed into the Holy Spirit. Then, our pastor had Robert Morris [the now fallen mega pastor] give a sermon on his new book, The Blessed Life. <\/em>Morris teaches that if you don\u2019t tithe, you allow demons into your life. The New Testament doesn\u2019t teach tithing; it was instituted in the days after Israel was in the promised land to support the tribe of Levi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, The Bible Project was inserted into the Life Group Leadership training. I was required to view their videos, and we discussed them at our leadership gatherings. As I watched the videos, while I saw the cartoons of the Bible Project as mostly OK, I saw theology that was not correct. Among other errors, Tim Mackie [the Bible Project\u2019s co-creator] thinks penal substitutionary atonement stems from pagan sacrifice rituals. I filed that in my now-growing list of questionable things Life Church was supporting. Then Life Church began inviting Christine Caine to speak, and we were giving her non-profit money. Christine is listed as a Hillsong conference \u201cApostle\u201d as was Pastor Craig. The problem is when Life Church has a guest speaker, attendees at church think that ministry and that speaker are endorsed by Life Church. The question is, were they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Todd of Transformation Church, another Book Club speaker, had a sermon based on his <\/em>new book. Mike, a prosperity preacher, is a motivational speaker who was light on Scripture and heavy on stories about his church. There were other questionable speakers. Should people come to preach from their books or use God\u2019s Word? Was church all about self-help for my life challenges, or was church supposed to be about exegeting from Scriptures? The questions kept coming. Did Pastor know what these friends of his were about? Did he endorse their theology? Did he know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tipping Point<\/strong>
The tipping point came when John Mark Comer\u2019s contemplative-advocating Practicing the Way <\/a><\/em>was promoted as a way to experience<\/em> Jesus in a deeper way. As a Life Group leader at Life Church online, I was invited to log onto to this website. I began immediately researching the author of this site and what he promoted. I found this was the gateway into learning contemplating prayer. As a reader of Lighthouse Trails, I knew that contemplative prayer was Christianized Eastern mysticism. I thought that this can\u2019t be. But it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had loved and read the YouVersion Bible app for many years. Now my research turned to the app. I had been reading these devotionals for years. Why had I missed what was now being promoted? I found Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Myers as well as many questionable authors who had devotionals listed. How had I missed this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I turned my attention to Pastor Craig Groeschel and what I could find out about him. He came out of the Methodist Church as a young minister and got his degree from Phillips Theological Seminary (a school with a liberal bias). Pastor Craig founded Life Church with his young wife, Amy, in 1996 in a garage in Oklahoma. Life Church is part of the Evangelical Covenant Church (a church group that supports gays and is a very \u201cwoke\u201d denomination before woke became popular). Pastor Craig has preached a few woke sermons and is supportive of social justice. All this was just the tip of the iceberg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to figure out what I was supposed to do. I couldn\u2019t unknow what I now knew. As a prayer leader at Life Church online, I had promoted the YouVersion Bible app and sent that link to all new believers as well as to anyone who currently didn\u2019t have the app. But now, how could I endorse the app that promotes and teaches contemplative prayer, Spiritual Formation, breath prayers, and much more? I continued to research and found nothing to convince me that I should stay. The more I prayed about what to do, and the more I sought counsel from friends outside of Life Church, the more I realized I had to leave. How could I support a church that was truly an emergent, mega church that was veering from God\u2019s truth in so many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took my time as I thought about my future without a church home and all the friends I had made who still attended. I wanted to leave in a God-honoring way without anger or bitterness and with my friendships intact. I began to pray about how to leave gracefully. I felt that God was leading me on my journey, but it was my private journey. I felt I had no need to try to correct the leadership in Oklahoma or argue with my local pastors. I knew they thought they were right, so I left them for God to deal with them.
My plan became to, little by little, step down from each of the areas in which I was involved. I felt no need to try and pull others away from Life Church. As I stepped down, I just told the leadership that I felt God was leading me on a different journey. Honestly, I could say I didn\u2019t know where this journey would lead me. But I knew I had to be faithful to follow God to where I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all this, I hold onto Philippians 4:13: \u201cI can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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