Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker-Sensitive, Church Growth & New World Order

November 19, 2012 By

Can the Church borrow the marketing tools of the world and apply them to the Church? What is the history of the Church Growth movement and its false premises? Who is involved in the new evangelicalism and second reformation? Why are these movements embracing contemplative mysticism? How does this movement play into the New World Order? These questions and more are answered in Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker-Sensitive, Church Growth & New World Order.

Church of Tares chronicles the man-centered pragmatism of these evangelical Christian movements in comparison to the Bible’s instruction for building the Church of Jesus Christ.As a sequel to The Real Roots of the Emergent Church, Church of Tares documents the connections between the liberal Emergent Church movement and the Church Growth movement. Both movements’ leadership were discipled by business management guru Peter Drucker, who was attracted to the megachurch movement as a social phenomenon that could bring about his “new society” and New World Order. Megacurch pastors Rick Warren and Bill Hybels as well as Leadership Network founder Bob Buford all acknowledge Drcuker (who professed not to be a Christian) as their mentor and have built their organizations upon his secular business management philosophies rather than the foundation of Jesus Christ.

The fruit of these movements is great compromise of the Gospel and the Great Commission. Rick Warren claims to be ushering in a new spiritual awakening and second reformation with his P.E.A.C.E. Plan. But this reform appears to be a social reformation rather than a spiritual one by joining together in ministry with unbelievers to fight global giants. Such compromise has led to the affirming response letter to the Common Word document which declares Muhammad to be a prophet and the Bible and Qur’an to be of the “same Divine origin.”

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Written, edited, narrated and directed by Elliott Nesch. Original interviews with:

Paul Smith, leader in the Calvary Chapel movement founded by his brother Chuck Smith, who also wrote the foreword to Paul Smith’s book New Evangelicalism: The New World Order.

Phil Johnson, executive Director of Grace to You, a Christian tape and radio ministry featuring the preaching ministry of John MacArthur.

Chris Rosebrough, Captain of Pirate Christian Radio and Host of the Fighting for the Faith radio program, holds a degree in Religious Studies and Biblical Languages from Concordia University.

Joe Schimmel, Senior Pastor of Blessed Hope Chapel in Simi Valley, California, head of Good Fight Ministries and producer of such films as The Submerging Church and They Sold Their Souls for Rock and Roll.

Gary Gilley, Senior Pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, Illinois, and author of several books including This Little Church Went to the Market: The Church in the Age of Entertainment.

Bob DeWaay, former Senior Pastor of Twin City Fellowship in Minneapolis, Minnesota,   author of Redefining Christianity: Understanding the Purpose Driven Life Movement, The Emergent Church – Undefining Christianity as well as over 90 articles on important theological issues through Critical Issues Commentary.

Ray Yungen, speaker, research analyst and author of A Time of Departing and For Many Shall Come in My Name.

James Sundquist, founder of Rock Salt Publishing and author of Who’s Driving the Purpose Driven Church?

Eric Ludy, bestselling author of dozens of books on Christian thought and living, the President of Ellerslie Mission Society, teaching pastor at the Church at Ellerslie, the lead instructor in the Ellerslie Leadership Training.

Robert LeBus, Bible researcher, apologist and evangelist.

Running time: 119 minutes

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Filed Under: Bill Hybels, Bob Buford, Brian McLaren, Church Growth, Contemplative Prayer, Emergent Church, Islam, Mysticism, Peter Drucker, Purpose Driven

The Emergent Church: The Sons of Belial on Blog Talk Radio

November 7, 2012 By

Jerald Washington and Elliott Nesch will be discussing The Emergent Church, and its leaders are the Sons of Belial (Sons of lawlessness), on how their plunging Post Modern American Christianity into the “great falling away” the Bible prophesied and warned about which leads a people into the One World of Religion of Anti-christ.

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Filed Under: Bill Hybels, Bob Buford, Brian McLaren, Church Growth, Contemplative Prayer, Darwin, Doctrine, Emergent Church, Eschatology, Fascism, Gay Agenda, Hell, Hinduism, Hitler, Homosexuality, Islam, Mysticism, New Age, Occult, Peter Drucker, Postmodernity, Prophecy, Purpose Driven, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Satan, U2/Bono, Willow Creek, Yoga

Fascist roots of the Church Growth Movement

September 12, 2012 By

Found over on Intrepid Lutherans:

“Yea, hath God said?” Gen. 3:1
“If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” 2 Timothy 2:13

“Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’” John 18:38
“…Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.” Col. 2:2-4

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” -William Jefferson Blythe Clinton
“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, that he not be wise in his own eyes.” Prov. 26:4-5

“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State” -Benito Musolini
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Mr. Chris Rosebrough, Cap’n of the Pirate Christian Radio network and host of the daily show “Fighting for the Faith,” has been doing yeoman’s work identifying the tendril root of fascism in the post-modern church leadership movement. Understandably, readers may recoil at the word fascism, since it is misused in modern discourse. However, Rosebrough’s context is deliberate and accurate, highlighting America’s founding on the Enlightenment (“we are endowed by our Creator”) and contrasting with the subsequent Anti-Enlightenment (e.g. Kant: reality is unknowable; Hegel: truth is synthetic; Rousseau: individuals don’t exit, only society; Nietzsche: morals determined by community.)

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Social engineer and management guru Peter Drucker, explains Rosebrough in the episode above, adopted the former worldview at weekly dinner parties held by his father for Vienna intellectuals between the World Wars. (To put it in the Martin Luther College vernacular, that was Drucker’s “ministry crockpot.”) Drucker’s 1933 essay, “The Unfashionable Kierkegaard,” — to be read only after three cups of coffee — identifies social responsibility as man’s path between the hopelessness of mortal life and the hope of eternity. Drucker presses forward in the 2nd half of the 20th Century by shaping social organizations to fill the duality (eternal & mortal) of man.   In this 1989 interview, Drucker explains that people desire communities, and that churches should deliver what the market demands, but without worrying about doctrine or theology.

So where does the Church Growth Movement fit in here? There’s a thick black thread beginning from Drucker’s mentorship of Bob Buford’s Leadership Network, Bill Hybel’s Willow Creek, and Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven trainwreck. From that hydra, prominent names developed: Modalist TD Jakes, homosexual-affirming Andy Stanley,  Craig Groeschel, Mark Driscoll and others in the post-modern Emergent Church.  It isn’t merely the adoption of management, marketing, and endless consulting and conferences which Drucker fostered into the megachurch movement. It is the abandonment of Sola Scriptura.

The following links are to outside sources for background reading. Proper Christian discernment is encouraged.  Below is the podcast of the presentation by Mr. Rosebrough, and the second link includes additional source material.

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Fighting for the Faith — Resistance is Futile

Christianity Today — The Business of the Kingdom Management guru Peter Drucker thinks the future of America is in the hands of churches.

Christianity Today — MANAGING TO MINISTER An interview with Peter Drucker

Holy Bible Prophecy — Drucker’s Discipleship by Elliott Nesch What the Emergent Church, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels Have in Common

New Yorker — THE CELLULAR CHURCH How Rick Warren’s congregation grew.

Fast Company — How Willow Creek Is Leading Evangelicals by Learning From the Business WorldWillow Creek, one of the nation’s largest and most powerful megachurches, leads evangelicals by learning from the business world’s best.

“In order to make your church grow you must change the primary role of the pastor from minister to leader.”
Pastors.COM — Break Through These 3 Barriers to Growth

(The link above also shows Warren twisting Col. 3:19 to infer that God commands church growth, but that’s another essay.)

Filed Under: Bill Hybels, Bob Buford, Church Growth, Fascism, Hitler, Peter Drucker, Postmodernity, Purpose Driven, Rick Warren, Willow Creek
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