Calamity of Christianity

Miracles, healings, raising the dead, signs, wonders, visions prophecies, so on and so on... and then, the man of the hour (Todd Bentley) announces he is getting a separation from his wife - And this sends people into a tailspin! Why would a man who hears from an angel named 'Emma' with bizarre and sadistic visions surprise anyone that he's been having an affair with the worship leader??????

Maybe they should have questioned his dogma, his visions, and prophecies - Listening and speaking with angels and relaying their messages?
Since when does a 'Christian' do that? I may be mistaken but I believe Paul stated,

"But even though we, or AN ANGEL from heaven, should preach to you any gospel other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. "(Gal 1:8)

Another Botched up mess!
But who is to blame? God? Leaders? Followers? The Devil? Answer: Everyone BUT God! Certainly Satan loves this kind of thing, Certainly Satan uses people who aren't rightly hearing from God or interpreting scripture, and 'helps them' with visions and encounters to 'proclaim the truth', Certainly leaders who do not question, test, prove or scrutinize the person they put in position, their life, their ideas, their understandings their ideology, and certainly the followers who do not search the scriptures themselves to see if these things be so.
People from Charisma Magazine , God TV and Leaders that have validated, ordained and promoted Todd Bentley are reeling from this newest announcement from his ministry. They are concerned that this may cause many people to fall away from the revival, and even Christ.

SHAME on US! The worldly are more discerning! They pegged Him as a Hypocritical freak a long time ago! What is so desperately wrong with 'Christians' that they couldn't see, wouldn't see?
Where is the discernment that is supposed to be in the church and its leaders? OH I Know ....
It's been thrown out with every message over a pulpit that shook its finger in our face saying we are not supposed to judge....Yet, Jesus demands we judge a tree by it's fruit!

I would wonder if they were even in a revival at all that was truly ordained by Jesus Christ? Signs and Wonders are NOT always evidence of a revival ordained by our Lord God. Satan can manifest lying signs & wonders, and his ministers can come as ministers of the light. What do you think 'wolf in sheep's clothing' really means, do we as Christians really believe that the big bad devil is going to show up with his horns and pitchfork and that we will recognize him because of that? Remember it is FRUIT that we judge by/discern by!

Todd Bentley's antics, doctrine, preaching, visions, dreams and manipulation of the crowds have been altogether shameful. The fact that any leaders, Magazine or TV station are now backpeddling simply goes to show that as Christians we are seriously lacking in our personal understandings of the word of God, and are more enamered with the glitze and glamour, the flashy and the fantastic, the fame and fortune$$ that unscriptural teachings and a hyperspiritual frenzy can produce.
Everyone wants revival but noone wants to pay the price for it. Christians are looking for the fantastic, they are nearly as hungry and malnourished spiritually as the unsaved. Why? Christians are looking for quick answers, they want microwaveable spirituality, they want to see POWER. They DON'T want to have to study, sacrifice, hear about sin, be offended or unliked by their worldly counterparts.

We as a whole are looking to be entertained, whether by the flashy loud and seemingly 'anointed', while others swing to the other extreme on the pendulum, to the smooth talking, sleek looking, cool dudes that are altogether hip intellectuals, yet just post modern humanistic philosophers parading around in Christian cloaks. These may be more dangerous because of the appeal to the refined, to the acceptable, to the well to do, a 'love for the world and friendship with it'. They play themselves as a friend of all, an enemy of none, they never really plant themselves securely on the word of God because they don't want to offend anyone or give up their position, or justification of their own agendas. Yet Jesus never behaved like either of the two extremes in my bible, nor did his disciples in the book of acts, nor is any of it condoned within the New Testament writings.
With either extreme of the pendulum's swing, we as Christians are swallowing it hook line and sinker! A few more generations in this direction and it may be the Christians burning Bibles!
Boy, do we need to get back to understanding and knowing our bibles! There really is no other way to know Jesus.

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