We are putting this blog on automatic pilot for a while or until we deem it necessary to continue blogging. As those who came before us have pointed to the many instances of hypocrisy and double standards, we have done the same. Our blog will remain public and constitutes a record of testimony from the hundreds of people who have suffered physical, mental and spiritual abuse at the hands of a few money hungry and greedy hypocrites who masquerade as leaders of the church, claiming that they are the only light that shines in a dark world. In spite of all we do to warn people it seems that folks would rather believe a lie than the truth. So many times we have put the truth out there and people read true accounts of hypocrisy and wickedness committed by the leaders of the New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc. and people will reject the truth and continue to live in hypocrisy.
Many people have shared the darkest secrets of their hearts and the only answers that we have ever received from the ntcc was to discredit and disparage the character of those who speak out against them. Kinson, Briggs and many other licensed ministers to include Mike Kekel (as 'The Wirlwind') have showed their true nature on FactNet and Jeff's blog, very seldom denying the true accounts of their own hypocrisy, but wresting the scriptures and twisting them to defend themselves. We have compared the scriptures many times to their own words and actions and in the many comparisons the ntcc leadership is found to be just a bunch of phony men pleasers and double standard hucksters whose only purpose is to swindle you out of your money so they can live large right under your holier than thou noses.
There is not much that we can do to convince cult members that they are in a cult, and the harder we try it seems like they just dig in deeper and cleave to their false teachings endorsing the false prophets and further contributing to their insatiable lifestyles. For the record we are going to summarize the many instances of double standards and hypocrisy that have highlighted the ntcc and defined it's leaders throughout the years. But what you should see clearly, many of you deny and you have lied to yourselves throughout the years and made yourselves part of the problem rather than confronting the phony hypocrites and finding out for yourselves what many of us have been trying to tell you for years.
The most obvious abuse of power in the ntcc which can be clearly seen is their greed for money and their willingness to destroy lives so that a very few can live in the lap of luxury. You have been expected for decades to fund the lifestyle of Davis and now Kekel who live the opposite of any example that Jesus or his followers lived. They Preach pay tithe or go to hell, which Jesus never preached and they spend your money on the riches of this world unlike Jesus or any of the apostles, yet they want to be lifted up on a pedestal and worshiped and adored as if they were already appointed as the 24 elders mentioned in Revelation. They have want of nothing and spend your money on unnecessary amenities while many of you struggle, living from paycheck to paycheck, stealing from your own family to give more to the money grubbers who laugh at you all the way to the bank. Jeff has pointed this out over and over again on his blog. GS/DS have also pointed out much of the hypocrisy having seen it on their level, being overseers in the organization and expected to lie and break rules to make things happen. The ntcc is a family owned and operated religious organization that has achieved it's success by twisting scriptures and lying to you about the Old Testament law of tithe, which happens to be the only sacrament that they carry forward and preach as a heaven or hell issue. Will they be held accountable? Do you think God appreciates the ntcc leaders for preaching tithe and getting rich off the profits? Time will tell, but if you claim to be a bible believer, you need to get your nose in the book and see if you can find any new testament examples of anyone preaching tithe or hell and then collecting huge amounts of money from what is supposed to be the body of Christ and spending it on their own unnecessary and greedy desires. Guess what? You will never find that, but you continue to feed these impostors who pretend like they care about your soul, but they only care about the almighty dollar and how much of yours they can get their hands on.
The New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc. or New Testament Church of God, as they used to be called, is an organization that was founded by R.W. Davis who has always been a serial adulterer and child molester according to testimony of the many victims that have shared their horrific experiences. The ntcc has been a filthy organization from the beginning and so many people have come forward to expose Davis and other board members for using their office and position of power to do unthinkable things. We have spoken to people that have been eye witnesses to early accounts of adultery committed by Davis. One man had Davis at gunpoint and came close to blowing his brains out for having sex with his wife. We spoke to a member of the church who seen this first hand and there were other accounts that verified that this actually happened.
P. Norton also came forward and shared that Davis had sexually violated and molested her while she was 16 and married to Johnny Jordan. Johnny Jordan who worked for Davis raped Pam Norton's 14 year old sister Lisa Norton and while she was pregnant Davis moved everyone except Lisa up to Washington and then had Ashmore smear Lisa calling her a whore and a slut. This was verified by Lisa herself and her best friend Lori Kelly who was also shunned by Ashmore. RW talked Lisa's Mom, Barbara Norton Warwick into moving to Washington and showed up at Lisa's house on Christmas day to oversee and provide physical labor in the form of bible school students to take all of the furniture, plates, glasses, silverware and household items to include the Christmas tree and presents while leaving a pregnant 15 year old Lisa to take care of her special needs brother who was traumatized that his mother abandoned them. All of this was done to hide R.W. Davis's sins. This was revealed a couple weeks before Davis died but nobody in the ntcc camp came forward to deny any of it. We highly commend Lisa for her bravery. The women that have come forward to include Pam, Lisa, Lori and Julie have raised awareness within the ntcc and saved others from having to suffer the same fate.
Julie Ridgeway St. Clair was very instrumental in helping Lisa come forward and share her story. Having grown up at the same time and having Cerebral Palsy Julie has shared her testimony that she recieved spankings from Davis and Kekel and these spankings were sexual in nature. They would pull down her underwear and pull up her dress and feel her bottom and spank it hard. Julie revealed that she had been raped by her father Ralph St. Clair on numerous occasions and this was admitted to by Joan St. Clair to someone close to the family who spake with her. Joan stated that Ralph's worthless ministers license had been suspended for six months and he was told that he couldn't be around any children during that time. The punishment came from none other than R.W. Davis who according to Julie began molesting and raping her himself before she even became a teenager. Julie wrote many detailed letters of what she went through and it was so terrible that I can't even imagine how she survived and didn't commit suicide. She also was raped and forced to commit sexual acts with Mike Kekel. In several blog posts, Julie gives detailed accounts of how Kekel abused his power and took advantage of Julie's upbringing by the St. Clairs and her disability for their own sick sexual perversions. Julie grew up having no idea what a normal childhood was. The ntcc has a horrible history of sexual abuse.
Michael Fontenot is another pervert who molested his own daughter on several occasions before she was even 10 years old. This sexual predator was allowed to teach Sunday School and be around other peoples children even after it was brought to Olson's attention by Fontenot's X-wife that he had molested and penetrated her 6 year old daughter with his finger. Olson told her that she needed to have 3 witnesses and that she would be better off in another church. This is one of many instances where they harbored the sexually deviant predator while x-communicating the victims who spoke out.
Perhaps one of the worst cover-ups in ntcc history was revealed by MDR on Jeff's blog. While Reed was Pastoring a couple by the name of Moreno, Roland confided in Bro. Reed that His pastor in Japan, Phil Kinson, had Roland Moreno take him to a whore house to retrieve his wallet. Moreno reported this to Ashmore who at the behest of R.W. Davis quickly ushered the Kinsons out of Japan and promoted them to be Co-pastor of their biggest church in Graham, Washington, where he would be protected and perhaps counseled by Davis on how to feed his sexual desires without getting caught. The Moreno's were shunned and later Roland was said to have killed his pregnant wife and son before turning the gun on himself and pulling the trigger. Meanwhile Kinson has never come clean about his role in this scandal but he went on Jeff's blog and stated that he has never 'slept' with anyone other than his own wife. Most whore house visitors don't visit these houses of ill repute to sleep. They visit for sex. While Kinson did comment on Jeff's blog, he never denied the fact that he visited a whore house and he never denied that he had oral or any other kind of sex with a prostitute. He just answered the claims in a Clintonesque way by saying he never slept with anyone other than his wife.
Finally, I have testified on this blog that I have had 3 homosexual pastors and two pastor's wives who have cheated on their husbands. That's 5 sexually deviant ntcc members that were in the ministry out of 14 pastors and that's just the ones I know about. Michael Rudy was allowed to run the New Testament Christian Church of God's School and has been reported as a pervert who was allowed to spank little boy's and girl's bare bottoms in front of the rest of the class. He was also caught cross dressing by Davis, but just reprimanded and allowed to be around kids and later he was introduced to servicemen's works where he and Donald Hummel turned the servicemen's home in Fayetteville, NC into a homosexual massage parlor while preaching hell fire and brimstone. Perry Broadnax also took the brethren to the Korean bathhouses so he could see them naked. He would sleep with the brethren on the heated floor on matress pads and one night his touched my genitals to gratify himself. He was reported to Olson by another brother for saying a lot of inappropriate sexual innuendos but Olson stated that Broadnax was responsible for sending 23 students to bibleschool. It was only after I outed him for his openly homosexual behavior that he was confronted by the board and removed from Servicemen's work. According to a source who wishes not to be identified but says he would testify in a court of law, the foot massages were originally started by a minister that many have often identified as having effeminate characteristics as none other than J.R. Ashmore. This particular source who used to attend one of the original serviceman's homes has stated that Ashmore used to have the brethren in the home give him foot massages while he had the bible in his lap and was teaching in the home.
To date, nobody from the ntcc has ever denied any of these claims. We have challenged members of the ntcc to straight up ask Kekel about all of these testimonies and nobody has had the intestinal fortitude to confront him and dispute any of these allegations. Most ntcc members would rather live a lie than to get down to the truth and find out for themselves if we are just making all of this up or if it really happened. Herein lies the problem. If people confront the truth, they run the risk of offending Kekel or finding out for themselves that they are actually in a cult that is a cover for sexual trafficking, child molestation, child rape, many other types of sexual perversion and that the leaders of this cult are using the preaching of the gospel to lure in young naive Christians that will do anything to show their obedience and loyalty to the so called man of God, for the sole purpose of getting filthy rich. You can find the complete testimonies of this summary in the side bars of our blog, along with links to Jeff's blog and GS/DS, and FACTNET among others.
Many others have testified of inappropriate behavior that they have seen. Davis on many accounts going to the homes of ministers wives while they were out making a living, while preaching to others that they should never be alone with a member of the opposite sex unless it was their spouse. Inappropriate comments and questions being asked in private, and so many stories of abuse where a preacher screams at people from behind the pulpits calling out names and pointing their fingers at others. People are people, I get it. David committed adultery and was forgiven. These hypocrites in the ntcc have used the same tactics over and over to cover up their lies and perversions. They have never owned up to their sins as David did. True repentance is in the bible for all to see. David admitted his sins openly, but the ntcc and Davis will lie and tell you they can't remember the last time they sinned. They are the worst type of hypocrites and liars because they make you believe they are pure and without sin, while they pick apart your life and laden you with burdens that they will not lift a finger to move. They preached holiness or hell which was another man-made doctrine designed to control people and test their obedience to the ntcc leadership. This is another double standard doctrine that was exposed when Kekel allowed his son to play sports in shorts and lascivious football pants. When confronted by Jeff about his double standards Mike lied and through his Father in law, R-dub, under the bus by saying that Davis was preaching policy, rather than false doctrine, which Mike and Tanya were always allowed to push the boundaries of and break the rules with not a word said to them, while you and I know that people were made to dress their daughters up like the Quaker Oatmeal girl and get letters from their ministers excusing them from wearing shorts or participating in any sports. All of this is old news but points out clearly that there were many double standards. Some were run off for breaking the holiness rules, and others were told they would die and go to hell for being lascivious. The only ones in the organization that were allowed to bend and break the rules were the overseers and board members.
We have reached the point where we have shared everything we know and unless some one opens up with new testimony, we feel that no matter what we share or what we say, the ntcc members are going to believe what they want to believe. Jeff has reached this conclusion a little sooner than we have and has left his blog up as an archive of record which has many accounts of double standards and hypocrisy. While we reserve the right to crank it up at any time, we can only do so much, and people for many reasons have chose not to be involved or to 'move on'. I can't say that I blame folks for not wanting to dwell on the past, but as quickly as the past is forgotten people will also forget to learn from their mistakes. We welcome comments but have no interest in posting critical statements of disgruntled x-ers who want to defend the actions of the perverted leadership of the ntcc. The ntcc will not defend their own actions, so guess what? We are not going to post anything that disparages victims or attempts to justify repetitive deplorable actions of ntcc leaders that we all have witnessed. Together we have amassed an encyclopedia full of hundreds of testimonies that point to the outright lack of human decency displayed by the ntcc leadership towards it's members and ministers. Those who choose to disregard our warnings, you do it at your own peril and will unfortunately have to pay the endless costs of ignoring the hundreds of people who have been burned financially and emotionally over the years. The longer you choose to stay, the deeper the wounds will be inflicted upon you. You can hate us and label us as the enemy if you wish but we are not your enemy. We are one of many voices that have cried out through the years and we have only testified of that which we have experienced and what many others have shared.
Just went to the NTCC website and can't find the info for Ashmore's church in San Diego. Can anyone confirm that info or if something is going on with that church?
ReplyDeleteWasn't jim ashmore in Graham, Washington living in kekel's old mansion since helen ashmore had a stroke?
ReplyDeleteLisa wants to thank everyone for all of the love ans support she has recieved. She also appreciates all of the prayers that you have prayed.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about Ashmore. We heard that he was in San Diego and also that he was moved back to Washington at some point when Helen had her stroke. Not sure what is true, because this bunch is so secretive and they also lie on the church locator. You would probably be better off calling the psychic hotline to find out where some of these creepy people live, because everything we know about where they move is second hand.
ReplyDeleteWhen I am in a traffic jam in my truck, I'll sometimes turn on the CB to find out what I can. Usually you get 10 different lies from 10 different liars. One of them might be telling the truth but many of them have no clue. The CB is a waste of time just like the ntcc.
The ntcc has always been a bunch of lying hypocrites. They want to know all of your personal info so they can use it against you while they continue manipulate public info to deceive the masses. A bunch of religious creeps. They talk out of both sides of their mouths and you have to look at their feet to see which direction they are going to walk. Most of them can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time so hopefully they'll trip over their own feet because while they claim to be leading folks to heaven, they are actually leading them to hell.
I will say that if you are in the ntcc, you are an idiot, because these hypocrites are living high on the hog and you are supporting them. They aren't holy. They use holiness to hide who they really are. It's a big time scam and it's been revealed over and over on the blogs and FACTNET. Many in the Xer community are afraid to speak out and people in the ntcc are afraid to breathe without permission. What a perfect environment for a bunch of wolves in sheep's clothing to operate.
This thanksgiving I'm thankful to be rid of all of those phony ntcc hypocrites. God bless those who really love and seek him without all the hypocrisy.
I am a former member, I left 3 years ago after being in "the cult" for 16 years. I was in Puyallup at a antique mall on a Saturday, low and behold I ran into a couple who had the "NTCC look" woman with long hair, I didn't know them, but as soon as a I saw them I knew. I walked by and I felt this strong conviction to say something to them, so I stopped them and said, "Do you attend NTCC" before I asked them they looked at me no smile but when I said this they perked up with a fakeness I remember well. Yes, they said, I said I was a member at that church for many years, I said to them "You need to know the truth about that church" they smiled and said they are "fine". Just another brainwashed bible school couple, but I felt compelled, I wish someone had said that to me so many years ago when I was wrapped up in all that fakeness. It would have made me think and maybe I would not have spent so many years with this cult. I knew nothing of what has been written here. I thought it was a Godly upright church, come to find out it was just a façade of fake Christians who practiced nothing of what they preached. Now I really read my bible and see the error of my thinking from attending that cult all those years. This blog helped me know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing, I went out to the NTCC website, on the home page, interestingly enough there was what appeared to be a interracial couple, and a older couple where the woman had short hair, we all know how they felt about those two topics. Just a interesting observation.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI am a former member, I left 3 years ago after being in "the cult" for 16 years.
DNA said:
Congratulations for finding your way to freedom.
Anonymous said...
Just another brainwashed bible school couple, but I felt compelled, I wish someone had said that to me so many years ago when I was wrapped up in all that fakeness.
DNA said:
And herein lies the dilemma, the people that are trapped won't listen to us or wont believe us. It is so hard to get a cult member to realize they are in a cult. That is why they call it brainwashing, because they wash away all common sense. I remember they used to say, "I'm not brainwashed, I'm bloodwashed", but they were and still are in many cases following a bunch of corrupt money grubbing hypocrites.
The ntcc is the worse kind of cult because they use real Christians by introducing them to Christ, who they have ignored for so many years, to manipulate good people that are hungry to do right into thinking that the ntcc is the only church on planet earth that is ready to go. The deception is getting them to believe that they are Godly people when they are really a bunch of tithe and prosperity preaching, pan handling, peddlers of watered down theology. They preach against the very things that they do. Ntcc members will not compare the lives of those who blindly lead them to the life of Jesus or any of his disciples. John emphasized the love of God, while the ntcc emphasizes pay tithe or go to hell. Jesus emphasized to have love for the poor and broken, while Davis and Kekel have always emphasized don't invite bums or poor people to church. "You can't build a church with like that." You need tithe payers. Guess what, Davis didn't take a dime with him when he died and neither are any of his followers going to take any thing with them.
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Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteOne more thing, I went out to the NTCC website, on the home page, interestingly enough there was what appeared to be a interracial couple, and a older couple where the woman had short hair, we all know how they felt about those two topics. Just a interesting observation.
DNA said:
I haven't been on Kekel's website, but I know the hypocrite is adapting to recover some of the money he's lost for all of the exposure he's endured from the Xer community. Now all of the holiness or hell doctrine is slowly being phased out by foundation, make up, wrinkle cream, lipstick, tight and lascivious clothing and all the stuff we were once told would send us to hell. Ntcc folks are beginning to branch out and experiment to see how much they can get away with. It used to be only the overseers who could live like hypocrites but lately more and more ntcc'rs are finding new comfort zones and doing so many things that used to be considered devilish.
Davis the discriminator used to rail against mixed marriages. But he's no longer around to tell people who they can marry and who they can not marry. Kekel is used to a standard of living that requires quite a bit of money to come in to the General slush fund, and that money wont keep pouring in if Kekel preaches the same garbage that his Father in law preached. Thus the compromise. Watch their feet closely and you will see what direction they are walking.
Don and Ange said...
ReplyDelete"Watch their feet closely and you will see what direction they are walking."
That's a great observation, it doesn't matter how spiritual someone from NTCC may sound, how loud they can preach or yell, how flamboyantly and demonstratively they can flail themselves, or how coyly they can answer questions. Watch their feet, see the direction that they go, and RUN the other way!
If I've learned one thing in all my years in the ntcc, it's how not to live.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid growing up in Denver, there were a couple of bullies that would grab me by the shirt and threaten to beat me up if I didn't give them my lunch money. They never really actually beat me up but they got quite a bit of money from me and I missed quite a few lunches. One day they cornered me in the class room and Iwas in a real bad mood. They just picked the wrong day and I snapped which was very uncharacteristic of me. I grabbed one of those desks that was attached to the chair and started wailing on them. That was the last day they ever asked me for any lunch money.
ReplyDeleteThese bullies reminded me a lot of the ntcc and it's leadership. They want your money. They will threaten you and warn you what will happen to you if you don't give it to them. What evetually happens to 99% of the victims is that they reach a boiling point and they figure it all out. Many of us just left, but every once in a while there would be those who stood up to the hypocrites. They are not used to people fighting back. They don't have the stomach to fight back. They will do what all bullies do and that is they will look for an easier victim.
So if you are in the ntcc and you are tired of paying someone to preach at you, take a stand. Ask them where in the bible did Jesus ever charge people 10% of their incomes to hear Him preach. Ask them if they believe the bible so much, to show you the verses that justify them living in their mansions in Graham, WA while you have to scrape your change together to pay your electric bill. You will see their true colors. They are nothing but a bunch of modern day snake oil salesmen and bullies that only have power over you if you let them.
I remember asking TPJ to show me in the bible about women and attire, namely wearing dresses/skirts only. He said it was not in there. I was quite shocked as I was following NTCC for nearly 15 yrs at that time. Things began to unravel from there.
ReplyDeleteThe Ashmore's are no longer with N.T.C.C. He has resigned his position, but is still Pastoring a church in the San Diego area.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"I remember asking TPJ to show me in the bible about women and attire, namely wearing dresses/skirts only. He said it was not in there. I was quite shocked as I was following NTCC for nearly 15 yrs at that time. Things began to unravel from there."
Saturday, December 20, 2014 4:40:00 AM
Ange says,
Isn't it amazing how one seed of truth can take root and grow? When I started reading Factnet, I noticed a trend. Some of the most vehement defenders of NTCC on Factnet became some of the strongest voices against NTCC's madness. But it took time for those people to be eXposed to the truth, and to run out of their borg-generated cult-thought-stopping-jargon responses. During this time, on average seven years, the truth was rooting and percolating. Light drives out darkness. And the truth shines, exposing the weaknesses and fallacies of the NTCC false doctrine. If a person is honest with his or herself, in time he or she will embrace the truth and leave the NTCC.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"The Ashmore's are no longer with N.T.C.C. He has resigned his position, but is still Pastoring a church in the San Diego area."
Sunday, December 21, 2014 9:53:00 PM
Ange says,
My first response to this comment was, "Yeah? Says who?" LOL!
My NTCC eXperience has made me somewhat of a skeptic.
Nevertheless, the idea that this info about Ashmore might be true is intriguing. I'd love to know the rest of the story.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!! Part 1
ReplyDeleteWe hope that while you are celebrating our Saviors birth and life that you are able to enjoy the freedom salvation brings. We hope that all those living under the law of the ntcc, will allow God to lead them to a place where they are accepted in Christ. We say this because we remember the many Christmas holidays that were spent in dead church services, where people are not accepted unless they were willing to jump through a bunch of hoops. We were doing the same things over and over like the sacraments of the old testament law, and the afore promised blessings would never come. Until you are free, you don't really have much to celebrate.
Freedom is not found going to the same building, singing the same songs, preaching the same old crusty messages. I've got all of them highlighted in my Thompson Chain. Look around you and ask your self, "Why do good people leave"? Why is it the same people attend conferences over and over? Do you really feel like a free Christian when you do the same thing over and over and you wait for the promise of blessings that never come? Why don't they come? Could it be because those that are benefiting from all of your sacrifice are not practicing what they preach? Might they all be double standard hypocrites? How can you truly be free in Christ when those that you follow are not living according to the bible?
Merry Christmas to all!!!! Part 2
ReplyDeleteWe hope that in all of your works that you find the true reality of Christmas. Christ is gift that you can't obtain through work. I don't care if you knock on 1,000 doors per day, and invite hundreds out to church. You can read and pray and try to work your way to heaven but the only true quality you can possess that will last is the love that you show to others. Does your love resemble that of Christ or of the Pharisees who loved to dress religiously, while calling it holiness? Do you care about the people in the world that are poor, homeless, orphaned or widowed? Or do you just bring GI's out to church because they have the ability to give? Did Jesus help those who had the ability to give in return? Very few. Jesus spent most of his ministry healing the sick, saving the poor, and getting rebuked by the religious Pharisees who cared more about religious traditions than they did about those around them. There is a lot more to Christianity than soul winning and bringing people out to hear a message. The baptists do that and RWD and Kekel preached against them. The mormons dress the part and jump through all the hoops that the ntcc does and they are called out by ntcc preachers every week for being in a cult. The Amish live holy and separated lives but the majority of their leadership are corrupt and enjoy the benefits of the labors of the meek and lowly church schlubs. The Amish and ntcc leadership have a history that is saturated with the blood of the women and children they have violated through rape, molestation and many other types of perversion.
Olson, the guy many of you follow, once said that he had a vision of the rapture and in his vision Davis went up first, then the executive board members followed by all of the church members (schlubs). It looks like that vision didn't come from God, nor many of the other visions that were proclaimed by the rich money grubbers that you follow. They are either for God or against Him, right? That's what they have preached to you over the years. How can they be so right and so wrong at the same time?
Our hopes for you this Christmas is that you will have your eyes opened and find true freedom in Christ, or at least find your way out of the ntcc cult first. Christianity is not supposed to be a near impossible life of being made miserable while giving to the rich. It may be a narrow path and one which many may never find, but some people make it harder than it was ever intended to be. Most of those who have posted on this and other blogs have never found freedom while in the ntcc. It was always a ritual and an experience that they had to endure. They were never truly accepted for all their faults and failures and could never live up to the expectations that were required of them by lesser men who wouldn't lift a finger to participate in the work of God. We hope that one day you will open your bible and be honest about what is happening and who is profiting. Follow the money and you will see what the ntcc is all about.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
It doesn't surprise me that people are willing to give Olson and company a pass. People are still willing to give Benny Hinn a pass even though his actions included:
ReplyDelete•Claims he and a Catholic priest channeled the power of God to heal practically every patient at a hospital in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada.
•Claimed to have video of Jesus walking around in one of his meetings. When asked to show the video, his staff said it had been “misplaced.”
•On Dec. 31, 1989, Hinn went into a trance and said God was giving him (in real time) prophecies about major events that would occur before the end of the next decade. Hinn predicted the total collapse of the American economy within a decade. He declared that during the 1990s the East Coast would be be ravaged by earthquakes; a female would be elected as president; Fidel Castro would die in office; a “short man dictator” would arise; the rapture of the church would occur; and the homosexual community of America would be destroyed by fire “in ’94 or ’95, no later than that.”
•Claimed God told him by divine revelation that there are nine members in the Godhead.
•Claimed that as a young man he was in his room talking to the Holy Spirit. When called to supper by the “woman of the house,” he said, “as I was about to leave, I felt someone take my hand and say, ‘Five more minutes. Just five more minutes.’ The Holy Spirit longed for my fellowship.”
•Claimed that an image of Jesus appeared on the wall of his church and “stayed for eight weeks.” Hinn says, “Even the people who studied the Shroud of Turin came to see this image. …the mouth [of Jesus] would move, the Lord’s mouth would move…but His mouth would only move as I was preaching.”
•Claimed (repeatedly) that he once saw a man raised from the dead on the platform on which he was standing. When later questioned by a reporter about the incident he said, “I did not see it. In that one case we did hear about it.”
•Regularly “slays in the Spirit” people who get up on stage by touching them on the forehead or cheeks, waving his coat at them, or yelling, “Fire!” Once he even managed to slay himself! This practice has not one shred of biblical support.
•Claimed to have a department that verifies all his healings.[16] I have spoken with a former employee of Hinn who says not only that the healings are not verified but that such a department does not even exist.
•Seed-faith theology is a staple in Hinn’s teaching. He promises people that if they “sow a seed” (translated, give him money), God will give them a “harvest.”
•Teaches that “if the preaching of the gospel lacks signs and wonders, it’s an empty shell.”
•Claimed the Holy Spirit told him women were originally intended to give birth out of their sides.