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NAR Heretic Ché Ahn’s Church Has a 24k Gold Ceiling, $1,000,000 Chandelier

Charismatic pastor and head of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Ché Ahn has revealed that his Church is bursting at the seams with all sorts of wealthy accouterments and treasures, detailing in a recent service how their church building has a 24-karat gold ceiling, a chandelier worth more than $1,000,000, and walls filled with precious gemstones – more so than any mine in the western hemisphere.

We bought our church building in 2004…called the Ambassador Auditorium. It was valued at $32,000,000 when we bought it. We’re talking about the ceiling is covered in 24-karat gold. The wall is pure Onyx. In fact the largest amount of Onyx, which is a gemstone, is in our building, in the whole western hemisphere. If you want to find it it’s not in some mine, it’s in our building. The chandelier is huge, it’s worth a million dollars just itself.

Though Ché Ahn has done some good work in the last few months in defying the government trying to shut his church down, his wild charismaticism and New Apostolic Reformation nonsense always shines through, as being one of their apostles, he tirelessly works to bring about the “Seven Mountain Mandate.” In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that he declared that Micheal “knock-’em-down” Brown was an “apostle” – a title which had him tickled pink and grinning like a fool for days on end.

We last saw Ahn explaining that Jesus appeared to his fellow NAR ne’er-do-well James Goll in a dream and told him that Ahn’s recent book was the most “important book in the world” for the hour.

H/T to Salt & Light for the video.

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Charges Dismissed Against Doug Wilson’s Deacon for Open-Air Worship Event

A man who was arrested and charged for singing worship songs in public, unmasked and without social distancing has had all charges against him dropped, according to a January 09 court ruling.


Gabriel Rench, a deacon of Christ Church in Moscow City, Idaho and host of Cross Politic, was arrested last September for worshipping in public at a Pslam Sing gathering. The event consisted of around 150 congregation members assembling to sing three acapella hymns and then the doxology at Moscow City Hall. Details of the case went almost instantly viral and gained even more national attention when President Trump tweeted about it.

Rench was cited for violating Public Health Emergency Order 20-03, which stated that:

“Every person in the city of Moscow must wear a face covering that covers their nose and mouth when in any indoor or outdoor public setting where the 6-foot physical distancing is not able to be maintained with non-household members.”

In accordance with Moscow City Code Section 1-11-10, any person who knowingly violates the provisions of this order may be charged with a misdemeanor. The maximum penalties for this offense are up to 6 months in the county jail and a $1,000 fine.

Special Counsel Michael Jacques, who is part of noted religious freedom defender Thomas More Society (Who also are representing John MacArthur and Grace Community Church) said in a press released that the City of Moscow “violated its own ordinance when police officers wrongly arrested Rench and the others.”

The city of Moscow, Idaho, appears to have been so anxious to make an example of Christ Church’s opposition to their desired COVID restrictions that they failed to follow the mandatory exemptions articulated in their own laws.

The Moscow City Code allows the Mayor to issue public health emergency orders, but exempts ‘[a]ny and all expressive and associative activity that is protected by the United States and Idaho Constitutions, including speech, press, assembly, and/or religious activity. Mr. Rench and the other worshippers who were arrested had their constitutionally protected liberties violated and their lives disrupted – not only by the inappropriate actions of law enforcement officers, but also by city officials who did not immediately act to correct this unlawful arrest.

There is no word yet on the other two people arrested and whether or not their cases will likewise be dismissed.

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Video: Bethel Church Literally Sings Worship Songs to Themselves

In a shameless move of self-adoration and idolatrous self-aggrandization that would make our brethren that hold to the ‘regulative principle of worship’ instantly take off their shoes and chuck them at the stage, a Bethel church pastor was seen leading his congregation in self-worship and self-adulation, in possibly one of the most self-centered things we’ve ever seen.

In the video, Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry Pastor Dave Ward stands on stage and claims to have a direct revelation from God, while the music plays and the lights are sufficiently dimmed to evoke the right heightened emotion.

Take a moment and bask and show off. Just like my 3-year old daughter…I tell her 14 times a day ‘you’re the most beautiful thing in the world.’

And she puts on a dress that doesn’t go with her shorts, and she wears long socks that don’t match….she walks up to me proudly and prances around and I just go ‘oh my goodness, you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.’

Let’s be like that with the Lord right now. Put on your outfit. Your quirks. The things you don’t feel good about yourself, the things that don’t match. The circumstances, the challenges, the weaknesses…

Telling the congregants to act like three-year-olds and get ready to prance and twirl so that God can tell us we’re the most beautiful thing in the world, he continues:

I dare you, says the Lord, to come before me, and give the Lord a little twirl… if you’re a man do it in a manly way… but just stand, prance, twirl before the King of the universe, the Father who looks at you and says ‘before you do a thing ‘you move Me.’ You move Me. You move Me. You move Me.

Pleased as can be that they are moving God, Ward then turns it around a bit, doing a little switcheroo, telling his congregation:

Now tell him it back. Do it proud. Because I move You…I move You…tell the world, tell those around you. I move You. I move the King of the universe! I move you. I move You. I move You.”

Watch the video.

It’s so grimy it hurts.

H/T to Salt and Light for the video.

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Police Suggest Church May Lose Their Charitable Status For Having In-person Services

Police in Canada have threatened not only to fine and arrest members of a small Baptist Church for having in-person services but also report them to the Canada Revenue Agency for investigation (the Canadian version of the IRS) suggesting that their actions could result in them losing their T3010 status as a charitable organization (Think 501(c)(3)).

The province of British Columbia has outlawed all church services altogether, prompting some Christians to travel up to 200 miles each way to attend services with churches that haven’t closed their doors and who have vowed to stay open, come hell or high water. In this case, 100 Mile House Baptist Church in the town of 100 Mile House.

In a video shown below, a police officer showed up at Pastor Grant Reich’s home, after fining him twice previously by showing up at his home on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve to deliver the summons and to give him this message:

Just to advise you Sir, based on the substance of the call, we would notify the CRA in regards to this because you could potentially be in breach with your not for profit…the church organization could be involved in their not for profit for society legislation that they’ve agreed to, as far as being that. So we’re going to contact them and they’re going to do what they want with it.

Pastor Reich says he has no intention of shutting down and will fight the fines with the help of Rebel News, a media organization that launched a website with lawyers on hand ready to give the first 1000 Canadians given shutdown fines some free, pro-bono services.

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It’s 2021, and Andy Stanley’s Church Isn’t Open Yet

North Point Community Church pastor Andy Stanley, who on July 14th declared that his church doors would be officially closed until the new year, announced that they would slowly start to open up some of their churches in the next few months, having their first adult in-person services in almost a year.

Maybe.

During Stanley’s July announcement that the 40,000 member megachurch was closing, he cited risk of their congregants getting COVID-19 as the primary factor (with fear of giving a subpar “worship experience” as a secondary one). He pointed out that if anyone attending church in any of their services got the virus, Northpoint would be responsible for all contract tracing, which from their perspective would be impossible to track and trace successfully.

Since then, he has repeatedly argued that it would be unloving and a bad witness for his church to open up, getting defensive and prickly when people chide him for it, such as when John MacArthur called him out.

Yet it appears that he changed his mind despite an even greater difficulty to contact trace and protect his people.

On the day that Stanley announced North Point was closing due to coronavirus fears, there were 2462 new cases and 24 deaths.

Now, on the day they announced a staggered reopening, there were 8924 cases and 164 death, numbers which are expected only to rise in the next few months, leading one to wonder about his logic for closing in the first place given the magnitudal change.

This is especially true in light of the comments by Bill Willits, North Point’s executive director of ministry environment, who told The Christian Post:

Our other campuses will be reopening when we can ensure a safe experience and adequate spacing for adults, students, and kids at the same time…

So we are starting with a staggered approach focusing on our children and student environments. Of course, anything we do is predicated that there [will not be] a rise in the number or severity of COVID cases, school closings, and hospital bed limitations.”

They closed the church when the numbers were low, started opening when they were 4-6 times worse than when they closed, and now are saying they may abandon their plans to reopen if the cases get worse?

That makes about as much sense as when Stanley said that “God did not command people to gather for church.”

Willits further revealed they are slowly starting to accept limited services for students at 3 of their 7 churches, with the possibility of starting some services for adults in February or March in the Browns Bridge, East Cobb, and Woodstock City locations, with the other congregations left to rot in ecclesiastical purgatory until God knows when.

We can only hope by then that most of the congregants have left to find biblical churches in the area and that when North Point reopens, they find their attendance at least cut in half, the consequences of their sin and disobedience on full display for the world to see.




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It’s About Time! Dwight McKissic Leaving the SBC Because it Isn’t Woke Enough

(Reformation Charlotte) Dwight McKissic, a racist, anti-gospel charismatic tongue-babbling black nationalist who masquerades as a shepherd of God’s people has done more to harm the body of Christ than possibly any other Southern Baptist pastor in history. McKissic, a Marxist and a socialist egalitarian, has regularly traded the gospel and the mission of the Church for social activism, called for slave reparations, and repeatedly maligned true defenders of the faith as “racists” and “white supremacists.”

Not only has McKissic stated that the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention were not saved because they were slave-holders and that their history must be eradicated, but he has also argued that voting for pro-abortion Democrats is no different than voting for Republicans who want to “place children in cages.”

McKissic has been instrumental in the Southern Baptist Convention’s hard slide to the left in recent years. Dwight McKissic sponsored an anti-“alt-right” resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention in 2017 which basically denounced conservatism and implied that…

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Editor’s Note. This article written by Jeff Maples and published at Reformation Charlotte. Title changed by Protestia.

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Where Are They Now? ‘Bad Christian PodCast’ Discuss Their ‘Faith’

For many people, the boys at the Bad Christian Podcast have been out of the limelight for the last few years, being much more prominent in the mid-2010’s when their proclivity to curse openly during their show and defending a routine dropping of the f-bomb was still somewhat novel for protesting Christians, with Mark Driscoll having grown of it by then.

The show, which comprised of Emery Bandmates Toby Morrell, Matt Carter and their friend, pastor and former Emery bassist Joey Svendsen, (now since gone) was fresh air for some who were burned out by the burning out of the emergent church a few years before. With their straightforward and unfiltered dialogue and discussion, as well as their willingness to question why Christians believe what they believe, it was a natural home for many.

But the deconstruction of their faith and the constant prodding and poking of theological foundations had consequences, and now five years later, they’ve been torn to shreds.

They released an interview they had with the Provoke and Inspire Podcast, and we were given clarity on exactly how far they’ve gone, describing “the journey of learning to let go of things that seem very important and unlearning the behaviors and patterns that we had been programmed with by our families cultures and choices.”

One big change is that one of their primary co-hosts, pastor Joey Svendsen has left the show. He struggled with mental health issues, a spiraling depression, and disagreements over how the show could proceed with that reality, and now he’s gone.

He has his own podcast now, “Pastor with no Answers” where he delves more into his progressive beliefs, such as his support of same-sex marriage, his belief that there is no eternal hell, his loss of belief in the sufficiency and infallibility of the scriptures, promotes aged Emerging church mainstays like Brian McLaren, and demonstrate that his shows namesake holds true.

For Bad Christian, however, Toby and Matt likewise explain that their views have changed and they’ve become “less certain” over time. Note that these quotes have been lightly edited for clarity.

“At this point I’m comfortable saying that I’m sure I’m some kind of relativist and it would probably make you more comfortable to think of it as “but do you believe in absolute truth?” And I’d just go with “no.”

Acknowledging that “we might just be like the culture and do what we want to do.” he explains:

One of the things I don’t want to do anymore is try to stop sin. What I want to do is to start seeing what things actually are and then I can realize if it’s good or bad for me.

Because his belief are ever-changing and contradicting themselves, he never has any confidence in them, and he’s ok with that “I can’t act like I know my morals are on the right track” and that because he knows he’s just going to violate them anyway, using pornography as an example, “I try not to think about morals, is a goal of mine, to try to not worry about those.”

Matt explains how “morals are a low-resolution tool for achieving desired behavior outcomes for myself” and using sex outside of marriage as an example, he explains how “I don’t believe my morals are right or wrong anyway. Like I don’t need to know which ones are the right or wrong ones. Like I just don’t have that view. “

When the host calls his belief system “a bit naive” Matt responds that his new perspective is that “it only works if it’s working for me now” and that the other way just didn’t work out so he’s trying a new system, explaining that his deconstruction means that “I’m going to have different words for what is definitions of what sin is, or what it means that God has a moral system.”

“That’s the thing that really bummed me out. Morals and saying ‘God told me not to do that so I won’t do it’ didn’t work for me. Like I still did things and then I just felt really bad about it.”

When the interviewer asks Matt how he sees scripture and whether or not it is infallible and authoritative, he says that he’s getting a lot closer to Thomas Jefferson on that one, the past president who famously created a bible where he cut out all the miraculous parts of it, and is moving in that direction heavily. He praises the efforts of the process of Jefferson to make the scriptures work for him, and says he is “interested in more types of scripture now”, which he acknowledges makes him “more of a pluralist.”

He says of the bible “I do not know if it should be the supreme authority of a human’s life….as authority is something that is earned.”

While it has earned a spot in his own life, he clarifies “I would never push that on someone else.”

Both hosts describe how they haven’t been to church in over a year, and Toby explains that they don’t take their kids to church because don’t want their kids introduced to the biblical historical Christian orthodoxy- “I wouldn’t want to do that to them” especially because it doesn’t line up with who they think God is or what they believe.

Toby offers that “I could see us in the future moving away from Christianity” and notes that all his family believes they are lost.

The show essentially ends with this bleak quote, which encapsulates the whole episode. The interviewer pushes a bit into the purpose of proselyting and sharing the gospel, and the boys respond poorly to it, challenging the belief that anyone really needs Jesus or why he’s needed to live a fulfilled life, comparing a Christian life vs non-Christian life.

You’re saying “Jesus is real” and so having that knowledge and that he lived and died and rose again gives you something that maybe the person that doesn’t believe that has, but I’m saying take morals out of it. Say you’re equally as moral people, I don’t know what more you have except for you have something you really believe in.

So that’s great for you, and it’s awesome for you, and it helps shape your life, but the person who doesn’t believe that has everything as well and you’re both going to die and figure it out when you die anyway.

I don’t know, like proselytizing the world and sharing Jesus seems more to me like a sales scheme to get more people on my team as opposed to, I’m not really offering them anything, except for maybe an afterlife.

I might get to say ‘hey, there might be an afterlife’ but no one really knows, I mean, no matter what no one’s been able to really prove that. When you’re dead you’re gone, so there isn’t really anything more, so your belief would be for you then.”

Pray for Matt, Toby and Joey. Nothing that you’ve just read should give you any confidence that they are believers. These are lost souls headed to hell, and only God can save them.

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Bethel Church Pastrix Promotes God Healing Through Holy Snoring

A Bethel Church pastrix (because there’s no such thing as a female pastor) who is likely to be a regular feature here due to some never-before-seen idiosyncratic charismatic manifestations, hosted a guest on her ministry page who describes how God healed her after hearing a word from the Lord through her friend’s snoring.

Pastrix Theresa Dedmon, who “birthed” and now heads up and teaches the Kingdom Creative Movement at Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) had a guest on to describe the creative way that the Lord heals, encourage and uttering “woooooooow” as she recounts the details.

The guest, Bella, describes how she was sick for years with a fever and throat pain that would flare up every few weeks, resulting in chronic depression because of it.

Then one night, my roommate on a missions trip, she was snoring. And one time she was snoring and I was waking up, the presence of God came in very strong and every snore became like a word, and it was like “chosen,” “love,” “unique,” but then this one sentence came: “believe you are healed.”

Bella explains that later when her friend woke up she apologized for snoring, that she knew that she was snoring in her dream and tried to wake herself up, but a voice appeared in her dream told her NOT to wake up, and instead told her, “It’s the lion of Judah!” She concludes:

After that encounter where I heard the voice of the Lord telling me (through snoring), “you have been healed,” I didn’t get sick every third week anymore. So a huge healing has happened because the word, which we have in the bible, spoke, and it works.

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Hilarious Paul Tripp Mashup Featuring his Woke Pastor, Eric ‘Silver & Gold, Hallelujah!’ Mason

@WokepreacherTV, ever doing the Lord’s work, took time out of his busy life to create this wonderful mashup of Dr. Paul David Tripp’s video “The Gospel, The, Church, And Racial Injustice” and Dr. Eric Mason’s sermon “CANCEL CULTURE: A Biblical Case for Reparations.”

In his video looking about as earnest as can be, Tripp discusses his attendance of Epiphany Fellowship where Pastor Eric Mason holds sway and urges white Christians to learn more about “racial justice.”

Mason, you’ll recall, was recently featured on Reformation Charlotte discussing his support for “kill shots” for white Capitol Hill breaches, blamed ‘white foolishness’ for black people not being saved, saying that ‘whiteness has caused blindness of heart’ and releasing a much-mocked sermon demanding reparations for slavery- snippets that are featured here.

Enjoy!

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Top SBC Leader Says If He Were Senator, He Would Vote to Impeach and Convict Donald Trump

(Reformation Charlotte) Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission — a George Soros-linked front group for the Evangelical left — is arguably the most controversial figure in the American Church. That Moore, who spends denominational resources fighting for open borders, amnesty, and lobbying governments to build Islamic mosques, has somehow managed to hang on to this top leadership position despite calls from multiple angles for his resignation.

In a recent email communication, Russell Moore called for the impeachment of Donald Trump. But he didn’t stop there, he said that if he were a senator, he’d impeach Trump and vote to convict him — and that he’d be willing to risk losing his Senate seat to do so.

After making a ridiculous and unfounded case that, somehow, the president — who called unarguably called for peaceful protesting — incited a “violent” “insurrection,” he writes,

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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Jeff Maples and published at Reformation Charlotte.