Re: Turning Point Church World Outreach Center-Tell Your Story
Posted by:
Hector_Ragnar
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Date: March 06, 2011 04:12AM
Dear Calvin and anyone else still empathetic to the teachings of Mike Villamore or Tony Cunningham.
In all humility and an open hand, not a clenched fist, unwilling to listen, but wanting to hear sound reasoning.
I have to ask you
How much false teaching has to come out of a man before you call him a False Teacher Or False Preacher?
25% truth, 60% mediocre teaching and 15% bad??? or 30% bad 65% mediocre teaching and 5% truth???
Remember, Every false teachers weaves in a little truth.
The Christian church has been under attack since the first century, read the epistles by Paul, Peter, John & Jude they helped establish the foundations of the Christian church, addressing issues then!
LOOK in Revelation chapters 1-3 Jesus has some hard words to the 7 churches because they were already being infiltrated with false teachings. In Revelation 2 Jesus complements the church for testing the false teachers.
I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
The problem we Christians are having today, is we have let the wolves come in and play with the sheep, and Christians have not been equipped to know how to study the bible. What most people know of their faith comes from some lyric's of a song or something they read on a "T" Shirt.
Cunningham still promotes himself as being an apostle and prophet of God, yet the fruit of what he teaches has hurt hundreds of people, the testimonies are overwhelming and people like you ignore the facts.
In Acts the Berean's were complemented for testing what Paul taught. Christians today have a big responsibility to test everything according to scripture.. Because we have not been testing things we end up with a Benny Hinn, Todd Bentley, T.D.Jake's and Rob Bell.
People are so quick to quote Matthew 7:1 & 2
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
But why don't they read the whole chapter,
in context? Using biblical hermeneutics????
"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits."
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
or look at Verse 13 &14
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7
Today the church today is looking more and more like the wide path
So Calvin please be honest here, share with us what your theology is and don't just copy and paste something you think will tickle our ears