My exit out of Living Word Church (a pseudonym), and Charismania in general, for that matter, was prompted by a handful of what Oprah Winfrey would call “Aha!” moments. One of those moments, ironically, was born out of a friendship, probably the only true friendship I had at Living Word.
Living Word Church was NOT a [...]
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Great Faith, or Delusions of Grandeur?
Posted in Amway, Biblical truth, Blogroll, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Elijah list, Lakeland Outpouring, Paula White, Todd Bentley, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lakeland revival, osteen, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged abuse, angels, anointing, authority, Biblical truth, Blogroll, Bob Jones, cessation, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, documentation, dreams, Elijah list, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false miracle, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, Florida, florida outpouring, fraud, honesty, IHOP, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, Lakeland, Lakeland Outpouring, lakeland revival, lawsuit, lie, miracle, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, proof, prophecy, prophetic movement, racism, raised from the dead, revival, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, supernatural weight loss, Todd Bentley, true prophet, truth, verification, verify, visions, weight loss during altar call, Word of Faith on August 1, 2008 | 45 Comments »
By their fruits…part i
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Elijah list, Paula White, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged charismatic, Elijah list on May 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A few nights ago, in response to a post about “Bullying” at church, I found myself leaving the following comment at a blog I like to visit:
Bullying can take more subtle forms, too. I saw lots of practically wordless bullying when I worked for the “Ladies’ Ministry.”
That’s in quotes, because essentially, our “Ladies’ Ministry” consisted of thrice-yearly [...]
Wish I would have written this one!
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Elijah list, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Todd Bentley, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on May 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Every once in awhile, I’ll stumble across something so good that I’ll find myself wishing I would have written it. I felt that way today, when I found a post entitled, A Challenge to the Sow-a-Seed-For-a-Specific-Need Preachers. I’d actually recommend the entire website, which is called Theology Today.
In case you’re too lazy to click on [...]
One of those tiny little things…
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Elijah list, Paula White, Todd Bentley, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, lawsuit, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged Florida, Lakeland, revival, Todd Bentley on May 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Having grown up in a pretty conservative, Bible-teaching Evangelical church, one of the values I absorbed was having respect for God’s name. At the Christian school I attended as a child, it was even frowned upon to use the exclamation of, “Oh my gosh!” So ingrained in me was this viewpoint that, although I realize that this is [...]
Re-thinking “Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors”
Posted in Biblical truth, Elijah list, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, osteen, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged Elijah list on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since I put up the Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors post, I’ve been feeling bad. Publicly suggesting that Pastor Smith (a pseudonym) engineered a fake miracle so that he could kick off Living Word Church’s (another pseudonym) special week of meetings with a bang and drum up more excitement about the annual “Miracle Handkerchief And Anointing [...]
Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Elijah list, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
[Please read my disclaimer for the following post.]
Despite our journey through Charismania, we are not cynics. We have not lost our faith in Christ. We believe in the Bible as the Word of God, and we believe that our only hope in life and death is that Jesus saved us from our sins by dying [...]
One rusty nail…
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, osteen, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on February 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s been awhile since we’ve added anything to the site. That’s because, in most respects, we feel like we’ve moved on from our experience at Living Word Church (a pseudonym). We’ve now had a year to process what we witnessed and went through, and after awhile, it’s easy to feel like we’ve figured it all out.
But the funny thing [...]
Paula White and Larry King – a reader weighs in
Posted in Biblical truth, Paula White, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, deception, discernment, evil, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, spiritual favoritism on November 28, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I only caught a portion of Paula White’s appearance the other night on Larry King Live. I found myself yelling at the TV – I just couldn’t stomach watching her dance around Larry’s hard questions. The whole thing is so sad, because I can remember when she still preached Christ. It wasn’t that long ago, either. [...]
Pastor Smith and his “anointing”
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, osteen, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on November 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
One of the great mysteries we still wonder about is just how much Pastor Smith realizes and understands about the stuff that goes on at Living Word Church (once again, our usual disclaimer: “Pastor Smith” and “Living Word Church” are both pseudonyms, as are all other names used on this site).
Awhile back, we posted an entry about [...]
Talking back to Pastor Smith, part ii
Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Lindsay Roberts, ORU, Oral Roberts, Oral Roberts University, Paula White, Richard Roberts, Word of Faith, abuse, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, hagin, hankins, hickey, inappropriate, kenneth copeland, lawsuit, osteen, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on November 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Here is Part 2 of our analysis of Pastor Smith’s (“Pastor Smith” is a pseudonym for our former pastor) sermon on “The Anointing.” If you haven’t already done so, please take the time to read either the sermon transcript, or Part 1 of our analysis, or both. We realize that they’re lengthy. The sermon transcript alone [...]
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