Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, California, told congregants in a recent sermon that they require all aspiring students attending Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry to give three false prophecies if they want to advance to the next grade. Bethel Church is an assortment of false teaching and bizarre
The thirty-fifth in this year’s series showing our brothers and sisters in Christ gathering for church service as faithful believers. While going to church does not make one a believer, refusing to faithfully attend a local church should seriously call that faith into question. This is a glimpse of what
The 12,000-member Bethel Church in Redding, California, led by Bill Johnson, is a hodgepodge of false teaching and bizarre charismatic shenanigans. From ‘Little God Theology’, teaching that Adam created the animals in Eden, that Michael the Archangel wears tights, and that angels sit around in heaven farting contents, it’s a
On Protestia Tonight, David discusses the SBC sex abuse scandal, the common ground between self-described Christian Nationalists and classical liberals on the responsibilities of Christians in Western societies, and why James White owes us an apology for bashing us over our skepticism of Rosaria Butterfield, who just recently publicly repented
It’s another sad day in America. A week ago, a Christian school was shot up, leaving six dead. Yesterday we reported another disturbed trans man was planning to shoot up a church, leaving a terror in his wake. Violence in church is really nothing new. In fact, about 10 percent of
A week ago, Amen Church founder Dr. Field Harrison shocked concertgoers attending the ‘Amen Nights’ worship concert when he attacked the inspiration of the Bible and came out fully as LGBTQ-affirming. Telling the gathered throng, “there are some people that want to treat the whole Bible as equal, just not this
Hillsong Church likes to spend their congregation’s tithes and offerings like it’s burning a hole in their pockets. From their leaders staying in $22,000/night hotel rooms to pastrix Bobbie Houston buying $18,000 in designer clothing in a single day, to say they have sorely abused their people’s sacrifices would be
Despite being “credibly accused” of covering up sexual abuse while president of Southwestern Baptist Theologua Theology, a federal judge has dismissed the entire slate of claims against Paige Patterson and SWBTS. In 2018 SWBTS President Paige Patterson was then under fire for a spate of offensive comments that were unearthed
A month after the SBC’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) announced that Guidepost Solutions was chosen to develop a “Ministry Check” website to “establish and maintain a public database of “pastors, denominational workers, ministry employees, and volunteers who have at any time been credibly accused of sexual abuse and who have
Rosaria Butterfield is the author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, and The Gospel Comes With a House Key. She’s one of the prominent Christian held up as an example of the power of the gospel on account of being a lesbian Women’s Studies professor who was saved and sanctified.
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