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By Roger Oakland
\nUnderstand the Times Ministries, International<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since the commentary \u201cAnother Spirit or the Holy Spirit?\u201d was published, a number of Calvary Chapel pastors have contacted us and asked to be removed from the Understand the Times mailing list. While none of them gave any specific reasons, we can only assume it was because they did not agree with the facts we presented in that article about Lonnie Frisbee and his connection with the Jesus Movement and the beginning of Calvary Chapel.<\/p>\n

At the end of that commentary, we documented how Skip Heitzig hosts the Riptide <\/em>documentary, which shows how Lonnie Frisbee played the role of a catalyst for the \u201cfirst\u201d Jesus Movement. Riptide also showed Skip interviewing some of the pastors who were calling for \u201cAnother Jesus movement\u201d or as a promo-cut of Riptide <\/em>called it \u201cAnother Wave.\u201d We inferred that this Second Jesus movement could be the same as the Roman Catholic \u201cAnother Jesus\u201d movement that is promoted by Roman Catholic Charismatics, and promoted by another spirit for the sake of another gospel.<\/p>\n

A few days after publishing our commentary, I spoke with a former Calvary Chapel pastor (who still has connections with Calvary Chapel) who told me, \u201cyou are confusing the sheep\u201d by bringing up these issues that focused around Lonnie Frisbee. When I explained that I was only presenting facts, he said it would be better to keep quiet about the facts and just let the past be the past. When I explained that bad roots eventually produce bad fruit and that it would be important to clear the record before it is too late, this pastor said he was more concerned about apostasy that was taking place now in the Calvary Chapel movement than he was about the apostasy that was taking place at the beginning of Calvary Chapel.<\/p>\n

Now, as you may understand, I am somewhat bewildered by what this pastor told me. If I am confusing the sheep by presenting facts that show that the spirit Lonnie was promoting was not the Holy Spirit, why should this be covered up? Was it really \u201ca precious move of the Holy Spirit\u201d as so many say? Or was something else going on that has been covered up in order to rewrite Church history from man\u2019s perspective rather than explaining exactly what was going on?\u00a0<\/p>\n

To say that the issue of Lonnie Frisbee shouldn\u2019t be brought up today because it is a thing of the past could be very erroneous thinking. Is Lonnie Frisbee\u2019s name and past role being used to bring about this second \u201cJesus Movement\u201d or \u201canother wave\u201d? Are the \u201cmovers\u201d of this new \u201cHoly Spirit Movement\u201d going to be turning to the same spirit that Frisbee turned to? And once again we ask, which spirit did he turn to? These seem like fair and vital questions to ask. Click here to read more.<\/p>\n

Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Challenge For Calvary Chapel Pastors to Take a Stand Against Apostasy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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