Lighthouse Trails Research Project - Exposing Contemplative Spirituality

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What is Contemplative Spirituality?

definition: contemplative spirituality: a belief system that uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness (the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped in Christian terminology; the premise of contemplative spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all).

spiritual formation: a movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement.

How Widespread Has Spiritual Formation Become? Read our list of ministries that are promoting it. Please pray for the leaders of these groups that their eyes may be opened.

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New Emerging Network - From the Frying Pan into the Fire

As Lighthouse Trails reported last week in our article, "Some Say the Emerging Church is Dead - the Truth Behind the Story," a new emerging network/alliance is forming among several disgruntled emerging church leaders such as Dan Kimball, Erwin McManus, and Scot McKnight.1

According to McKnight, the new network/alliance will be "committed to the Lausanne Covenant." One blog posting said that the Lausanne Covenant is "more typically evangelical than Emergent Village is presumed to be." However, documentation shows that Lausanne is currently on the same theological path that the emerging church has been on all along with respect to ecumenism, global peace, eschatology, and mysticism. The fact is, Lausanne has had plans for some time to work together with emerging church leaders.

A 2005 Lausanne Committee report titled "The New People Next Door" states that they hope to bring together "younger emerging leaders" from around the world and that "[t]ransformation was a theme," adding: "We pray for peace and reconciliation and God's guidance in how to bring about peace through our work of evangelization."(2 This 64-page report by Lausanne claims it is "heavily drawn" from the book, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins (p. 57), a book strongly pro-ecumenical and pro-Roman Catholic. Jenkins is also author of The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice.

To reach its objectives, Lausanne has turned to Rick Warren, who will be at The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in South Africa in 2010. Warren, one of the emerging church's strongest supporters and also a major proponent of the contemplative prayer movement, has shown an affinity to both Dan Kimball and Erwin McManus as well as other emerging leaders. To see where Rick Warren stands on the contemplative issue, one only needs to look as far as Warren's list of recommended spiritual resources. One of the books that Warren resonates with is Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, which openly promotes eastern-style meditation.3

Leighton Ford, Honorary Life Chairman for Lausanne, is also helping to bring about the goals of Lausanne. Ford came out of the contemplative closet with his recent book, The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things. The book offers a collection of quotes by and references to some of the most prolific eastern-style meditation teachers, including Thomas Keating, David Steindl-Rast, Gerald May, Kathleen Norris, and atonement rejecter and Episcopal priest Alan Jones (Reimagining Christianity). It is Steindl-Rast who suggested that the Gospel "gets in the way" between Christian and Buddhist dialogue (see A Time of Departing.

The fact that Lausanne is working with two highly influential contemplative proponents, Ford and Warren, reveals the organization's affinity toward mysticism, an affinity which is shared by the emerging church, including Kimball and McManus.

As Lighthouse Trails and its authors have stated on numerous occasions, the "fruit" of contemplative prayer is interspirituality and panentheism. While the seemingly heart cry of the emerging church (and Lausanne) has been missions and global unity, the underlying force is mysticism, which we believe will be Satan's instrument to deceive the whole world (Revelation 12:9). Mysticism (i.e., the occult) is overtaking all segments of society, and this means that the world is falling under the spell of sorceries (magical arts) that according to the book of Revelation will deceive all nations (Revelation 18:23 - see last chapter in FMSC).

It is ironic that Kimball, McManus, and McKnight are suggesting that they must leave emergent behind (at least in name) because certain segments of the movement are not theologically conservative enough. Translated: Brian McLaren and others deny the atonement, and that is just too radical, they say. But the apple may fall quite close to the tree in this case--

A few years ago, former New Age follower Warren Smith wrote an article titled "Evangelicals and New Agers Together." In the article, he identified a man named Jay Gary. Gary served as a conference planner on Lausanne for three years in the 1980s. Smith points out in his article Gary's endorsement of New Age leader and former assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Robert Muller. What's more, as Smith points out, in Muller's book New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality:

Muller said he often heard himself being described as a "Teilhardian." He admitted that "...now after a third of a century of service with the UN I can say unequivocally that much of what I have observed in the world bears out the all encompassing, global, forward-looking philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin [a staunch mystic and panentheist]."

Muller's unabashed identification with Chardin should have put Gary on immediate alert. Instead he seems oblivious to the dangers of Muller's doctrine. Perhaps because of his contact with Muller and others, even his own writing seems to have an underlying Teilhardian quality.

Gary had apparently so imbibed Muller's fondness for Teilhard's writings that one of Gary's chapter subtitles, "Hymns of the Universe" is the actual title of one of Teilhard de Chardin's most mystical books about the Cosmic Christ! And wouldn't Gary find it curious that in Chardin's book this mystical godfather of the New Age also talks about a star that the world is waiting for - a star that heralds the coming of the Cosmic New Age Christ.

Jay Gary is a link in this emerging shift that should not be ignored. Today, he is a member of and a speaker for the World Future Society where New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard is on the "Global Advisory Council." Interestingly, the man who Kimball and McManus wish to distance themselves from (Brian McLaren) talks about Jay Gary in McLaren's own book, The Secret Message of Jesus (p. 179). In referring to "eschatological [end-time] intentions," McLaren says Gary writes "brilliantly" in his explanation of the future of the world where Gary describes a "creative future" that is much different than the future that is described by those who believe the book of Revelation.

The Lausanne that Kimball, McKnight, and McManus are "committed to" is an organization that while appearing to be more evangelical than the "emergent church," gives ample reason to believe they are on the same track as McLaren and other radical, Bible rejecting emergents. The break-away emergents (Kimball, McManus, etc.) see themselves as more conservative orthodox members of the emergent movement, but in reality they embrace the same mysticism and the same eschatology beliefs that have led McLaren and others like him into radical apostasy. In essence, nothing is changing at all - it will be like the child who hides his peas under the mashed potatoes - they're still there but just out of sight for awhile.

For those who are skeptical, let us leave you with this. It's been sometime since Jay Gary has been a part of Lausanne - now it is Rick Warren who is there as the influencer. But Jay Gary and Rick Warren share something vital in common - Leonard Sweet. Sweet was invited to Regent University a few years ago to speak with Gary who is on staff there. And just a few months ago, Rick Warren had Sweet come and speak at the Small Groups Conference at Saddleback. Sweet is a New Age sympathizer, and yet both men find him appealing. So nothing has changed at Lausanne, and for Kimball and McManus, who claim to be going in a more theologically sound direction, they may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire and unfortunately taking a vast number of people with them.

Related Stories:

The Call to Global Oneness by Berit Kjos

Kjos Ministries Database on Lausanne

Evangelicals and New Agers Together by Warren Smith

For more on Jay Gary, read chapter 10 of Warren Smith's Reinventing Jesus Christ

Rick Warren Will Go Down in History as an "Interfaith Activist"

LTRP Note: The title of the following article by Newsweek and the Washington Post is "Rick Warren, Interfaith Activist." Lighthouse Trails believes this is an accurate name for Rick Warren--he IS an "interfaith activist." More concerned about establishing a Purpose Driven global kingdom that about warning the world of spiritual deception and the impending dangers, Rick Warren has done an injustice to the Gospel message of Jesus Christ all the while ridiculing, marginalizing, and belittling the body of Christ. And anyone who has studied interspirituality (interfaith) knows the premise of it is that all paths lead to God. Interspirituality rejects the words of Jesus Christ who said, "No man cometh to the Father but through Me" (John 14:6).

"Rick Warren, Interfaith Activist"
by Eboo Patel
Newsweek/Washington Post

Rick Warren is our new Billy Graham - at the center of not only his own Christian tradition, but of American civil religion as well. Churches follow his direction (most recently into Rwanda), and political candidates seek his blessing. . . .

Last week at the Clinton Global Initiative, Warren was asked how "the church" could help to solve poverty. His response was to rattle off the numbers of Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians in the world - in that order - and make a plea that the public and private sectors take seriously "the faith sector as the third leg of the stool of successful development".

This is a big deal, because it signals an important turn in the American Evangelical tradition - from viewing people of other faiths primarily as lost souls requiring conversion to viewing them as partners in the plan to make earth more humane and just.

Click here to read this entire article.

Quotes by Rick Warren at Clinton's Global Initiative

"There are 600 million Buddhists in the world, there are 800 million Hindu's in the world, there are a billion Muslims in the world, and there are 2.3 billion Christians . . . And there is already an army ready to be mobilized, an army of compassion, in those villages. They're called churches or mosques or temples or synagogues."

"[W]e are not interested in simply wealth redistribution, we're interested in wealth creation, and there is no reason at all why those churches can't be involved; in fact, I would give you lots of examples
where they are involved in the kind of things that Muhammad is doing in creating wealth, in creating jobs, in training jobs, and things like that. And I hope we can discuss that."

Related Articles:

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The World Has Become Purpose-Driven

Rick Warren Distorts the Instructions of Jesus to Fit His Global Peace Plan

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Mr. Warren ... Excuses, Excuses

Tony Blair Begins Search for 30 Young Leaders for Interfaith Initiative

LTRP Note: The following story pertains to Tony Blair's Faith Foundation, of which Rick Warren is on the Advisory Council.1

"Tony Blair Faith Foundation Launches Search for Thirty Young Ambassadors for the Millennium Development Goals"

Wall Street Journal
Tony Blair today (Thursday) launches an international search for thirty outstanding young people to serve as inter-religious ambassadors for the Millennium Development Goals. In Spring 2009 these young activists aged 18 - 25 will be selected to be the first Faiths Act Fellows....

Tony Blair said: "The Faiths Act Fellows will become ambassadors for inter-religious cooperation in the fight against deaths from malaria and the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals. Click here to read this entire article.

Related Stories:
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Tony Blair's Leap of Faith by Time magazine

Contemplative Spirituality and the Emerging Church Come to Kansas through YouthFront and MNU

Contemplative spirituality and the emerging church have come to Kansas and in no small way. First of all, the Christian university in Olathe, Kansas, MidAmerica Nazarene University, is introducing students to the writings of Brian McLaren, Shane Claiborne, Henri Nouwen, and Rob Bell, four of the strongest voices for contemplative emerging spirituality.1 In the required chapel services, speakers include Tony Jones, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Calvin Miller, and Leonard Sweet, all of whom teach mystical spiritual practices. A newer style of chapel has been introduced at MNU: "Morning Prayers." The description for the service reads: "It will be a contemplative, liturgical service, which will include the reading of the morning prayers, scriptures, hymns, and communion." 2 MNU is just one of a number of Nazarene Universities that has moved swiftly into the contemplative/emerging camp over the past few years.

Secondly is a Kansas-based Christian organization called YouthFront, a national youth ministry training organization that has gone in the contemplative/emerging direction. Books being promoted by YouthFront include those by emerging leaders Scot McKnight and Tony Jones, and YouthFront's president Mike King. King is the author of Presence-Centered Youth Ministry (also promoted by YouthFront), and in his book, he presents the classic contemplative/emerging teachings. The majority of the quotes and references in the book are by contemplatives such as Dallas Willard, Henri Nouwen, Brennan Manning, Ignatius Loyola, and Brother Lawrence as well as emerging church leaders such as Tony Campolo, Robert Webber, Mike Yaconelli, Phyllis Tickle and more. In a chapter titled "Prayer Practices for Presence-Centered Youth Ministry, King advises readers to practice exercises such as breath prayers, prayer ropes, Ignatius exercises, silence and solitude, making the sign of the cross, praying with icons, and more.

Not surprisingly, Mark Ostreicher, of Youth Specialties, placed his endorsement on the back cover of King's book. Youth Specialties is a leader in bringing contemplative/emerging beliefs to tens of thousands of youth across North America.

YouthFront has had a significant influence in Kansas through their YouthFront Camps, where young people are "trained." Kansas City magazine chose YouthFront Camps as "a 2008 Family Favorite in their 'reader-approved choices for the favorite family-friendly places in the Kansas City area.'"3 It is alarming to know that families in Kansas are trusting their children to mystics.

In addition to training youth, YouthFront also trains youth workers who come from many different churches. Part of this training involves participation in events such as the Youth Specialties National Youth Workers Convention, a pro-contemplative, pro-emergent convention which speakers list includes names such as Mark Yaconelli, Jim Burns, Greg Stier, Phyllis Tickle, Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, and many others in the contemplative/emergent camp.

This past summer Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) partnered with YouthFront to teach a youth spirituality and formation course.4 The following link is to a blog posting written by someone who witnessed what was taking place with teens at YouthFront: http://revolutioninjesusland.com/index.php/2008/07/30/youthfront.

Kansas is also the home of the highly prolific IHOP (International House of Prayer) with contemplative proponent Mike Bickle. With the influence of MidAmerica Nazarene University, YouthFront, and IHOP, it looks like contemplative prayer and the emerging church have planted their feet down solid on Kansas soil.

Related Stories:

Those Who Resist

Nazarene Superintendent Praises "A Time of Departing" But Denomination's Schools Sinking into Contemplative

Servant Leadership ... A Christian Idea ... Not Exactly

LTRP Note: Today, there is much talk about teaching people to become good leaders. In reality, what is happening is people are being taught to be good followers. The term (and the concept) Servant Leadership, used by many of the most prolific Christian authors and teachers today, did not originate with them.

"Servant Leadership"

by Warren Smith

To further encourage people to accept the teachings of the New Age/New Gospel/New Spirituality, Neale Donald Walsch founded a new organization in 2003 called Humanity's Team. The expressed purpose of Humanity's Team was "to change the world" . . . The Humanity's Team Leadership gathering was a concerted effort by Walsch, Hubbard and their other New Age colleagues to further develop the new paradigm concept of self-declared "servant leadership" as an organizing principle by which to change the world. In the Preface to the "Humanity's Team Leadership Declaration Agreement," Walsch tells his self-declared New Age "servant leaders" that:

By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.1

In another section of this same Agreement, entitled "responsibilities of self-declared leaders," it states: "To serve, because that is leadership's function." On his Humanity's Team website Walsch has a "worldwide servant leaders list."2 He invites those visiting his website to declare themselves to be "servant leaders."

The term "servant leadership" originated with former AT&T business executive Robert K. Greenleaf who wrote the 1977 book Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness.3 Greenleaf stated that he was inspired to create the "servant leadership" model after reading German-born author Hermann Hesse's mysterious, metaphysical book Journey to the East:

The idea of the Servant as Leader came out of reading Herman Hesse's Journey to the East. In this story we see a band of men on a mythical journey, probably also Hesse's own journey.4

Hesse was described by his publisher as "a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought."5 The publisher explained that Journey to the East was the story of a group of seekers from a "secret society" whose ultimate destination was "the East"--the "Home of the Light"--where they expected to find "spiritual renewal."6 Greenfleaf's inspiration for "servant leadership" came from Hesse's "Leo," the obscure "servant leader" of this secret society that was journeying toward the East. Greenleaf wrote that he received his insight about "servant leadership" as he "contemplated" Leo: "I did not get the notion of servant as leader from conscious logic. Rather it came to me as an intuitive insight as I contemplated Leo."7

Greenleaf described how his "servant leadership" model was based on the idea of a "servant leader" that was a "living" leader, as Leo was to his group, rather than some "dead prophet" from the past.

Some who have difficulty with this theory assert that their faith rests on one or more of the prophets of old having given the "word" for all time and that the contemporary ones do not speak to their condition as the older ones do.... One cannot interact with and build strength in a dead prophet, but one can do it with a living one.8

It is no wonder that a "living" New Age "prophet" like Walsch--who is obviously trying to overturn the Bible's "dead prophets"--would find Greenleaf's mystically inspired model of "servant leadership" compatible to his Humanity's Team New Age/New Gospel/New Spirituality leadership movement. Greenleaf's term "servant leadership" might sound biblical, but it clearly is not.

Ironically, in 2003, when Neale Donald Walsch founded his worldwide Humanity's Team on the principle of self-declared "servant leadership," self-professing Christian businessman Ken Blanchard also founded his worldwide "Lead Like Jesus" movement on this same principle of self-declared "servant leadership." In their curiously similar 2003 "servant leadership" programs, both Neale Donald Walsch and Ken Blanchard had their leaders sign statements declaring themselves to be servant leaders."9 There is often overlapping language, common to both of their "servant leader" movements. Walsch's Humanity's Team Leadership Declaration encourages his "servant leaders" to "be the change" they wish to see "in the world."10 In Blanchard's 2006 book Lead Like Jesus he also tells his servant leaders they should "be the change" they wish to see "in others."11 There is an obvious danger of these overlapping servant leader movements. One day soon the Christian "servant leader" may very well become indistinguishable from the New Age/New Spirituality "servant leader." In fact, at the end of Hesse's book Journey to the East, the figure of the author/seeker merges into and becomes indistinguishable and at "one" with the servant leader Leo. Thus Hesse's book, along with Greenleaf's notion of servant leadership, actually facilitate the plans of the New Age "Christ" who is trying to transform biblical Christianity into the emerging New Spirituality. Click here to read more from Reinventing Jesus Christ by Warren Smith.

Notes:
1. Humanity's Team Leadership Declaration Agreement. This agreement was distributed to the attendees of the Leadership Gathering in Portland, Oregon, June 27-July 1, 2003. (http://web.archive.org/web/20061114105219/www.humanitysteam.org/images/agreement.pdf)
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20061101015756/www.humanitysteam.com/leaders.html.
3. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership web page: What is Servant-Leadership? http://web.archive.org/web/20061127102733/www.greenleaf.org/leadership/servant-leadership/What-is-Servant-Leadership.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership.htm
4. Robert K. Greenleaf, SERVANT LEADERSHIP: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (New York: Paulist Press, 1977), p. 7.
5. Hermann Hesse, THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST (New York: Picador, 1956), back cover.
6. Ibid.
7. Greenleaf, SERVANT LEADERSHIP, p. 12.
8. Ibid., p. 9.
9. (Walsch): Humanity's Team Leadership Declaration Agreement. This agreement was distributed to the attendees of the Leadership Gathering in Portland, Oregon, June 27-July 1, 2003. (Blanchard): Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges, THE SERVANT LEADER: TRANSFORMING YOUR HEART, HANDS, & HABITS (Nashville, Tennessee: J. Countryman, 2003), pp. 120-121.
10. Humanity's Team Leadership Declaration Agreement, p. 1.
11. Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges, Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Times (Nashville, Tennessee:W Publishing Group, 2005), p. 209.

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New Website Warns Nazarenes About Emerging Church

Tim Wirth, of Simply Agape blog, has teamed with a group of concerned believers who are trying to warn members of the Nazarene denomination of the fast growing influence of contemplative, emerging, and Purpose Driven within their denomination. The new website is www.concernednazarenes.org.

"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psalm 11:3)

"Christian Yoga" Catches on in Arizona

LTRP Note: The following out-of-house news story is presented for research and informational purposes. Lighthouse Trails believes that what is being called "Christian Yoga" is not Christian at all but is a derivative of Hinduism.

Travis Roemhild
East Valley Tribune (Phoenix, AZ)

A spiritual twist has been added to the cocktail of exercises known as yoga.

Two Valley women have been teaching Christian yoga for years now and will be holding an upcoming event to introduce it further to the public.

The concept for Christianity-centered yoga has sprung up across the country, but Elena Porter pioneered it in Arizona in 2002. She had been a yoga instructor for years and realized that her experience could be better.

"I found yoga to be very peaceful," Porter said. "But I did not find it to be very spiritual."

So one day, she decided to try something different and focus her thoughts on a specific Biblical verse before she began her exercises for the day. It was that idea that would plant the seeds for the growth of Christian yoga at her church and around the Valley.

"I felt like I had an incredible spiritual experience," Porter said. "So I was encouraged by a friend to pursue teaching Christian yoga."

She said she went to her pastor at Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E Pecos Road, with the intention of talking to him about possibly starting a class for the public.

"I don't know what compelled me to do it, but afterwards I was freaking out thinking, 'I'm about to teach this class,'" Porter said. "Never in my mind did I think it would catch on."Click here to read this entire story.

To understand the roots of Yoga, including "Christian Yoga" please read Out of India by Caryl Matrisciana. Also visit our research page on Yoga.

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Out of India by Caryl Matrisciana has gone to press. It will be ready for shipping on October 24th.

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Description: The biography of Caryl Matrisciana. Born and raised in India, Caryl saw firsthand the effects that Hinduism had on the people of that nation. After leaving India as a young adult, she became involved in the counter-culture New Age movement, only to find that the elements of Hinduism and the New Age were very much the same. Later as a Christian, Caryl discovered that this same spirituality had entered the Christian church through various avenues.

Author Bio: As co-founder and co-producer of Jeremiah Films for 23 years, Caryl contributed research and expertise to more than 55 documentaries and also served as the Creative and Marketing Director. In 2002, she founded Caryl Productions, (visit www.caryltv.com) which produces cutting edge video journalism and information to help discern the times in which we live.

Topics covered in this book:

*Hinduism

*Yoga

*"Christian Yoga"

*The hippie generation and the Beatles

*the New Age

*Chakras

*Reiki

*Hypnotism

*Chicken Soup for the Soul

*Centering Prayer and mantra meditation

*Ashrams

*Divination

*Vegetarianism

*The Emerging Church

*Purpose Driven

*Gandhi

*Global Peace Plans

*The Secret and The Moses Code

*The Great Tribulation

*New Age music

*Interreligious dialogue

*Breath Prayers

*Horoscopes and Astrology

*Interspirituality

*Tantric Sex

*The "New Reformation"

*Nazism

*Relaxation Techniques

*Salvation

*Spiritual Formation

*Suffering

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Book Spotlights

These two important books expose the truth about contemplative spirituality, spiritual formation, and the new age.
A Time of Departing and For Many Shall Come in My Name

HOLOCAUST: LEST WE FORGET
A true story that will change your life and challenge your faith ..

"Will sweep you into 1930s Germany and back with your faith intact ... [Trapped in Hitler's Hell] carries a stark message for today's Western Christian ... will refocus your priorities and recharge your spiritual life."-Leo Hohmann, Read entire review at The Messianic Times Trapped in Hitler's Hell

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The Other Side of the River by Alaskan Kevin Reeves

When mystical experiences and strange doctrines overtake his church, one man risks all to find the truth ... a true story. Read more about this important book, especially now in light of the Todd Bentley "revival" in Florida.

Find out the truth about the emerging church and the avenues through which it is entering Christianity.

Faith Undone by Roger Oakland

Find out more about the book that tells it like it is.