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Bethel Church Offers ‘Acting Classes’ for Only $26,700 + Dance Certificate for $14,000

A few weeks ago we did a story on Bethel Church’s finances, the result of our curiosity after learning the 12,000-member megachurch led by Bill Johnson had broken ground on a nearly $100 million dollar Apostolic Training Center, and we wanted to throw some numbers and statistics at our followers, to show just how big and expansive the organization really is. You can see that report here.

Among other things, it showed that Bethel’s influence is on the rise. This juggernaut is only growing and expanding in influence, examples which can be seen at the end of this article.

Yet through the course of our investigation, we learned that the church made nearly $14 million dollars from the school tuition and fees for various endeavors ( Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, WorshipU) but one institution caught our eye that we had never heard of before: the Bethel Conservatory of the Arts.

According to the website:

“Bethel Conservatory of the Arts exists to train and equip professional artists–creative revivalists who release God’s Kingdom through story, movement, and emotion. Through our Spirit-filled teachers, curriculum, and environment, we will equip a generation of bold and strong storytellers who partner with the Presence as they train and perform.”

All the faculty attends Bethel Church and the school offers a few programs, with the corresponding tuition:

These prices DO NOT INCLUDE ROOM AND BOARD, but rather are simply the tuition costs.

The acting class is a three-year program that “focuses on establishing healthy mindsets and sustainable internal ecosystems to aid students in navigating the entertainment industry” and runs $80,000 for all three years. According to the program summary:

“At BCA, actors achieve excellence in their craft and technique as they partner with the Holy Spirit to perform confidently from identity. Our faculty provides space for students to partner with the Spirit through traditional and experimental acting techniques like the Dream Circle, a defined area to explore craft without fear of judgment or failure. As we train our students to perform in boldness and truth, God is raising up a generation of actors who will release His Kingdom to the world.”

If that’s not your style, you can take dance at Bethel Church, whereby:

“Our focus is to develop the true heart of an artist by giving space to explore, dream, and discover. BCA Dance is designed to fully immerse the student into a creative atmosphere that trains them physically, mentally, and spiritually through the artistic expression of dance.”

The most disturbing thing about the whole affair is the theology they promote. These classes aren’t merely technical endeavors to be mastered, but rather have huge portions that are theological in nature and that inculcate Bethel’s wretched teaching and wonky beliefs, including:

  • Foundation in identity and biblical principles
  • Understanding Kingdom and revival culture
  • Performing in the Presence
  • Wholehearted Artist
  • Theology of acting and storytelling
  • Dream Circle Technique
  • Deeper relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit
  • Community with creatives
  • Pastoral oversight
  • Church

This is some bad kimchi, and no one should be attending this church

Editor’s Note. The promised bad beliefs, in the last year alone.

Bethel Patrix Tells Congregants to just ‘Make Up Prophecies’ if they Don’t Hear from God,
Bethel Church Claims Congregants Healed by Looking at Paintings,
Bethel ‘Prophet’ Who Falsely Prophesied Trump’s Victory Headlines Prophetic Conference
Never Forget: Bethel’s Chief Prophet Praises Pope ‘You’re My Hero’
Bethel Church Does Damage Control over ‘Grave Sucking’- Fails Miserably
Bethel Leader Bill Johnson Denies Scripture – ‘God Doesn’t Control Everything’
Bethel Pastor Claims Christians Have Doppelganger ‘Angel Twins’ that Buy Strangers Pizza
Bethel Church Pastrix Promotes God Healing Through Holy Snoring

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Man Who Calls Joel Osteen a ‘Piece of S—‘ To his Face has been Fired

A man has been fired after posting a video of himself cozying up to Joel Osteen, who’d met out in public at random, and telling the prosperity preacher ” “Hey man, you know you’re a piece of s—, right?”

In the video, which has been viewed over 6.5 million times, Osteen merely laughs a bit uncomfortably and then walks away, prompting the insulter, Nick, to mug for the camera and say “He knows.” 

@nickandsoph

Sound still has potential…. Got taken down for bullying #joelosteen #notbullying #happyholidays #fyp #blowthisup @worldstar @hasandpiker

♬ original sound – Nick & Soph

Two days later, he posted another video, explaining that he’d been fired from his job for the insult, noting “And with all that attention, I got fired this morning. So if anybody wants to buy me that beer, now would be a good time.” He did not elaborate on where or who he worked for, only revealing “It wasn’t my employer’s fault. Some outside forces came into play, if you know what I mean.” 

@nickandsoph

Well this escalated quickly…. #fired #joelosteen #heknows #thanksforurlove #fyp @H3 Podcast @Complex @The Daily Show

♬ original sound – Nick & Soph

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Charismatic Leader Has Video of Jesus Appearing On Stage With Him- We Review the Evidence

Charismatic leader Hank Kunneman, the senior pastor of Lord of Hosts Church and founder of One Voice Ministries, had an encounter last week where Jesus appeared on stage with him while he was preaching. According to his bio, this minister has a “strong prophetic anointing as he preaches” and “his ministry has been marked with an incredible accuracy in the word of knowledge and prophecy concerning nations and world events” who is “used of God in demonstrations of the Spirit with many testifying of healing and miracles” was surprisingly casual and blasé about the whole affair.

Kunneman last made an appearance after this website after prophetess Kat Kerr testified about a vision he had, and took a picture of the hand of God in the sky used to confirm his creds, which ended up being less than impressive. In this case, he recounts on Sunday night what occurred just days earlier on Friday.

THE RECOUNTING: Hear what the spirit of God is saying: In fact, there was such an anointing that came on Friday night, and as I was praying that afternoon, I said, ‘Lord, I just want you to do something that you validate what you’ve given to me.’

And all of a sudden, as I was standing there on Friday night, I literally saw, out of the corner of my eye, a human figure wearing a robe walk right around me. And I knew it wasn’t an angel. And I could see a beard and a mustache as it went fast, and it was Jesus. And I stopped, and I said, “Jesus, you’re here!” And you could feel the atmosphere immediately shifted…

THE INCIDENT: So the anointing of preservation is upon you. Now how do we know when the glory shows up that God- man, there’s something moving around me… that’s… Wow! I don’t care if you saw that. I just saw somebody standing right here. Maybe it’s the Lord Himself. Come on, Jesus! …I’m telling you, I felt Him right here. I’m serious! My whole being started shaking. I could feel it on my left side. Well, Jesus, You’re welcome here.”

That’s about what we figured the minute we heard about it.

Editor’s Note. h/t to that hive of scum and villainy known as the Friendly Atheist for the link.

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Charismatic Prophetess Says You can Adopt Unwanted Babies in Heaven

When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that she has a picture of thousands of lioned-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to heaven for judgment, or that Miscarried Babies are Reincarnated For the Next Pregnancy or that the Mothers Decide in Heaven if their Dead Children will Grow and Age, or Stay Babies Forever, she’s claiming that some babies who go to heaven will never grow up and will stay babies forever.

Speaking to chief-enabler Steve Shultz on Episode 46 of Wednesdays with Kat and Steve, Kerr explains to him that there are no marriages on the new earth and that women e aren’t giving birth to new babies in heaven. This is because there are already so many of them there. Kerr also reveals that these little ones will remain babies forever in heaven, ostensibly with the mind and reasoning of a child.

You have to remember how many children’s lives have been taken over the ages. Some of them whose parents never will arrive (to heaven) are still babies, are still children. It isn’t like we won’t have children around as people who don’t want children, which is hard to understand. Or why would they want children? Well Because God loves children and babies. There’ll be some that just remain children, like forever.

Shultz: “Really? Really? Forever?

They’ll want to, The babies will want to be small forever. And God will always have some children. And you have to also remember that I’ve said before the God created part of one of the tribes, one of Gabriel’s tribes, all those angels look like little, little tiny children, angels, but they look like little children.

So let’s say a two year old went to heaven and they didn’t have any friends, God makes creative beings or angel beings that are small, that would become a friend to that little two year old. And they say, “Come and play, let’s go play.”

So, of course, he’s always going to have them, they’re not going to grow up, they were created to be small. I’m talking about the angels. So we’re always going to have small little beings around us and some children, that never had a chance to be born. They were either aborted or they were miscarried. But their parents, back in the generations when a lot of the gospel wasn’t being told, I did see a lot of certain ethnic groups in heaven that were babies, that were all babies.

Shultz “Oh?”

You can actually adopt one when you get to heaven, If you never have one, I do know that also. But some will just be small, because they’ll want to be small.

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Todd Bentley Performs ‘Miracle’ in Voice of Irish Pirate at Ohio Revival

Charismatic “prophet” Todd Bentley, the only huckster in the whole of Christianity that Dr. Michael Brown has ever bothered to condemn (and that only slightly), is up to no good again—the result of a string of angelic encounters and personal visions from Jesus who gave him a new 25-year ministry mandate.

We have written extensively about Todd, chronicling his malfeasance from lauded anointed revivalist and miracle worker, to drunkard, adulterer, liar, and sheep-fleecer extraordinaire, all the while being lifted up by a cadre of ne’er-do-wells as a great and supernaturally gifted man of God.

Bentley, you will recall, went relatively radio silent in 2019, a year after being newly accused of drug use, adultery, and sexting, some of which he admitted. A “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) tribunal report was launched and they found that Bentley was guilty—a pointless summation, as Bentley had already checked out and declared the whole thing a scam and witch hunt anyway.

Despite these findings, Bentley was able to maintain a high level of ministry support, with the revelation of decades of grossly immoral behavior being viewed as “just a scratch” to his reputation. This should surprise no one, however, as charismatics and NAR adherents historically have enjoyed infinitesimally low levels of discernment when it comes to the sinful behavior of their leaders, and this case has sadly proved to be no different.

With an angel-filled, gospel-less message, Bentley has been putting on healing crusades up and down the East coast, claiming to be performing miracle after miracle after miracle, with Saturday evening service geared at removing metal rods and plates in people’s bodies.

During the service, people are “slain in the spirit” while Bentley does his schtick, twirling around, telling the congregation that the angels are everywhere, pointing them out left and right. “I’m burning up right now,” says Bentley, preparing to go spiritually “super-sayan,” and “man, my whole body’s on fire!”

He approaches a man who had some metal plates put into his ankle as a result of a skateboarding accident in his youth, resulting in pain and swelling, and tells him, his voice sounding like that of an Irish pirate in the last 10 seconds of the clip:

(You) look drunk a little bit to be honest, in the Holy Ghost by the way. My whole hand is on fire right now by the way. Look at it—you can see my hand—it’s tingling right now. This is the gift of healing. Oral Roberts would have the gift of healing, come he’d feel it in his shoulder or go all the way into his hand.

That happens to me only when the angel comes, and there’s burning here right now. You see it’s increasing. I don’t even have to touch him. You see whoever I get around, the angels start doing stuff. God’s doing this not us. So God, may he be released into a realm of creative miracles and visions of God, and know how to work with the miracle angels.

Boom! And take out the metal all the way. Never let it swell up again and let it never let it be in pain again, in Jesus name.

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Joel Osteen Claims Jacob Slept with Wrong Woman Because He Was Drunk

Within the pantheon of wretchedly preached Joel Osteen sermons, one has caught our attention, in which he claims that the reason Jacob didn’t know he was having sex with Leah instead of Rachel is on account of him being too drunk to tell the difference.

Joel has kept a fairly low profile these past few months, and was the last prominently seen marching in a Black Lives Matter rally in Houston over the summer and marketing his “Inspiration Cube”. Osteen exemplifies low-hanging fruit, in that the man couldn’t tell you what the gospel is if his life depended on it.

Rather, the “good news” that he brings is that “God loves you and wants to save you from a life of mediocrity and small dreams. Therefore, if you believe in ‘God’ and be obedient to him, God will give you a plan for your life that includes big dreams, self-esteem, favor, health and wealth, influence, a better job, a positive self-image and a fulfilled life free of negativity.” That’s it. That’s what it’s all about. That is the sum of just about every book, every sermon, every media appearance, and every tweet of Joel Osteen, condensed into a few sentences.

There is something very important to understand about Joel Osteen: He does talk about God. A lot. You cannot accuse the man of not mentioning him because he’s all over that. Here’s the thing though—It’s never really in a personal sense. Joel talks about God, but it’s always in a vague amorphous sense. There is certainly nothing distinctly Christian or Biblical about it. There’s nothing doctrinal or theological about the way he talks about God. Rather is an ethereal, shapeless, formless, customizable, singular being thing that is out there called God that functions like a cosmic vending machine whose sole purpose is seemingly to bless you and make your life better. Even when he mentions God, it’s not ABOUT God, but it’s about what God can do for YOU.

It is no wonder he plays so fast and loose with the scriptures, molesting them with his permanently plastered-on grin, taking the story of Israel and transforming into some debaucherous narrative that the scriptures never say.

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”  So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.  (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)  And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” (Genesis 29:21-25 ESV)

Jacob worked those seven years being his best. He didn’t just pass the time, he excelled. Because of Jacob, Laban became very wealthy. His flocks multiplied many times over.

Seven years finally came and Jacob was so excited. In those days at the wedding the bride wore a very thick veil—you couldn’t see who was in there. After the big celebration, with partying and dancing, I can imagine Jacob went to bed that night with a little too much to drink.

The next morning when he woke up, he leaned over to kiss his new bride. But it wasn’t Rachel it was her sister Leah. Jacob nearly passed out. [According to Osteen]

h/t Doctrinal Watchdog

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Millionaire Scamvangelists Brag About their Private Jets+ Link Flying to Mark of the Beast

Two multimillionaire evangelists spent a night together at a fundraising event bragging about their private jets while offering a new novel concept for what the mark of the beast is, along with explaining why Jesus hasn’t come back yet.

These money-grubbing musings came at Victorython, a major three-day fundraising event created to raise millions of dollars to support Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Network, his television network that hosts his show, along with every other widow-bilking heretic and false teacher in Christendom.

After yucking it up with the theologically corrupt Jesse Duplantis, his naked greed on full display as he gave us such satanic pearls like:

“I honestly believed this: that the reason why Jesus hadn’t come is because people are not giving the way God told them to give. You see what I’m saying,-I mean when you understand you can speed up the time, you know, and I pray for the Lord all the time, but speed up the time, Jesus sped up the time for Mary at the wedding of Cana.

they talked shop about the importance of owning a private plane- Copeland has three- explaining:

The time has come for ministries, particularly traveling ministries, to have some other method of travel other than the airlines. You get into this situation-‘ we’re not going to let you fly unless you’re vaccinated’- well to me that’s the mark of the beast.

h/t RWW

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Charismatic Pastor Dies After Burying Himself for 3 days in Attempt to Recreate Jesus’ Resurrection

A pastor in Africa has died after he, in an effort to prove he was a messenger from God, buried himself for three days while pledging he would rise again.

James Sakara, a 22-year-old Pastor from Zion Church in Chadiza, Zambia, desired to demonstrate to his congregation that he had the anointing from the Lord and could perform the miraculous by insisting on being buried alive in an underground tomb for three days. Though they were skeptical, he was able to convince three members with his scheme, binding his hands and buying him under three feet of dirt.

Because his theological knowledge was clearly lacking, before he attempted his resurrection, he quoted Jesus’s instructions at the last supper “do this in remembrance of me’ and insisted it referred to being buried and resurrected, and not about taking communion.

After being dug up three days later and finding a dead corpse, congregation members attempted to conduct a series of rituals to “complete” the resurrection, but their results were in vain.

Source: Daily Mail and several Zambian TV and Radio stations. As we delved into the veracity of this story, an alternate minority account has Sakara being a ‘faith healer’ of some sort who occupied a position of prominence in the church but was not the pastor perse, with the rest of the details the same.

h/t to Revealing Truth for the story





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Charismatic Prophetess Reveals Existence of ‘Fake Hell’/ ‘Mock Hell’ Where Children and ‘Women who Wear Blue Jeans’ Go

When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that she has a picture of thousands of lioned-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to heaven for judgment, or she’s talking about how heaven is filled with giant 20ft sasquatches, unicorns, 200ft high cryptids, and other fantastical creatures- the result of visiting heaven “thousands of times,” she’s explaining that Satan has created a ‘Fake Hell’ where children and women wearing makeup go.

Speaking to chief-enabler Steve Shultz on Episode 39 of Wednesdays with Kat and Steve, Shultz tells her about a guest on the Sid Roth show who had a vision where he saw Christians in hell and wanted to know about her take on such a vision, and whether believers can be found there. She explains:

I don’t think that they could be a Christian, a true believer and be in hell no matter what. Either they (The man giving the vision) didn’t mean what they said, they were just joking and they’re lying, or it was a situation where somebody was taken to the mock hell.

(In this mock hell) they are shown people. And this mock hell is a place Satan created, he can make things in the spirit realm. And when the Spirit comes to ask you to go with them, you better test that spirit. And Satan does that often.

So there’s a mock hell, as in not real. This whole thing’s made up but it looks real. You can see children there, you’ll see believers in there, and they’re being told this- there are people that were told this:

She reveals that this hell is filled with children who didn’t obey their parents and women who wear blue jeans or makeup because that is where people were told they would go if they acted and dressed that way.

And so the issue with the fake hell is because people don’t understand the spirit realm. It’s a real place. It’s a literal place, there is building materials, spiritual building materials to build things.

When I go out, I see places all over the place, some built by hell, and you don’t see what your physical eyes and so he (the devil) has made in the second heaven a mock hell, and it’s fake. It’s not real, and so he can convince people…they had a real encounter. The bottom line we’re looking for was did this person really have that encounter? Most likely they did.

They traveled, they were taken to this place, probably by something that looked like an angel, and they were told this information and then they’re always told ‘go back in Share the truth. “

Well, that’s not the truth. That’s a lie. Yes, they had an encountered that was not an angel of God. That was not the real hell. Trust me…. you’re not going to go to hell for wearing jewelry. makeup or blue jeans, people, you go to hell for rejecting, outwardly, openly rejecting hating and despising Jesus Christ.”

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Charismatic Prophetess Claims She Saw Walt Disney in Heaven, Despite Evidence to the Contrary

When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that when babies die in miscarriage, sometimes God “puts them back” in the womb, or that she has a picture of thousands of lion-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to heaven for judgment, she’s explaining that she saw Walt Disney in heaven, on account of creating Disney Land and family-friendly fun. [Editor’s note: It figures. Her theology is kind of Mickey Mouse…]

But I do know for a fact that we’ll have new ways of entertainment for whole families to enjoy. And I might as well throw this in there, (unintelligible) anybody nervous enough, but Walt Disney made it to heaven. Walt Disney made it to heaven. His whole focus, I’m just gonna mention him because he’s a great part of family entertainment. And that was his focus when he started that whole thing. So he totally heard from heaven to create a place for families to come and enjoy themselves and not have to be concerned about the profanity, that extreme violence and the other stuff that’s involved in some of those areas. [Editor’s note: She seems to have forgotten about the “gender” nonsense that Disney is currently promulgating…]

By all evidence, Disney’s faith is highly questionable. According to biographer, Bob Thomas, in Walt Disney: An American Original:

Walt considered himself religious yet he never went to church. The heavy dose of religiosity in his childhood discouraged him; he especially disliked sanctimonious preachers. But he admired and respected every religion, and his belief in God never wavered.

His daughter Sharon said of him: “He was a very religious man, but he did not believe you had to go to church to be religious. He respected every religion. There wasn’t any he ever criticized. He would not even tell religious jokes,” and his other daughter Diane said of him: “I do know that [Walt] had great respect for all faiths…My sister dated a Jewish boy for awhile with no objections from either of my parents.”

Perhaps most revealing was an article Walt Disney wrote for Roland Gammon’s in the 1963 book about prayer, Faith is a Star, just three years before he passed away, demonstrating a belief in a higher power, but nothing more.

In these days of world tensions, when the faith of men is being tested as never before, I am personally thankful that my parents taught me at a very early age to have a strong personal belief and reliance in the power of prayer for Divine inspiration. My people were members of the Congregational Church in our home town of Marceline, Missouri. It was there where I was first taught the efficacy of religion…how it helps us immeasurably to meet the trial and stress of life and keeps us attuned to the Divine inspiration. Later in DeMolay [Editor’s note: DeMolay is an international fraternal organization for young men], I learned to believe in the basic principle of the right of man to exercise his faith and thoughts as he chooses. In DeMolay, we believe in a supreme being, in the fellowship of man, and the sanctity of the home. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the family and for our country.

…thus, whatever success I have had in bringing clean, informative entertainment to people of all ages, I attribute in great part to my Congregational upbringing and my lifelong habit of prayer. To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

Barring a death bed confession, whatever Disney has said publicly about his religious beliefs should give no confidence in his salvation.

h/t to Revealing Truth