Christian Research Service
POINTS to PONDER
August 10, 2008
Patricia King, Melissa Fisher, Todd Bentley, IHOP, Caleb Brundidge
> Mortuary Ministry???
In this 7:19 YouTube video, smiling Patricia King introduces fast-talking Melissa Fisher who asks, "Have you ever wanted to do something totally radical and outrageous for God?"
Radical and outrageous is right, for according to Fisher, if you want to "kinda spice things up" try visiting your local mortuary to "raise the dead."
Yes, you read it right (we don't make this stuff up, folks).
Melissa Fisher is in charge of the Evangelism Department of Patricia King's Extreme Prophetic. After a "brainstorm" with her team members to develop a new "creative outreach," Fisher claims to have mapped-out all of the mortuaries in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area. During a visit to the first mortuary, Fisher asked the mortuary attendant, "Do you have any people that are dead here that we can practice on?"
Again, you read it right. Again, we don't make this stuff up.
When given the okay by the mortuary attendant, Fisher claims that she and her team began to pray and call "life back into the bodies." Fisher also claims that when the power of God fell, "oil and "diamond-dust" appeared on their hands.
Towards the end of the video, Fisher states, "Now, we haven't seen any dead raised yet, but we know, we have been pressing in, that it's going to happen eventually."
Yes, the dead will resurrect--both saved and unsaved. But in the meantime, Melissa Fisher, her "Mortuary Outreach" team, and Patricia King should strongly consider 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
> What About Their Eye-Glasses, Todd?
Reports of healings from the Florida Outpouring have made their way into the news media, websites, and blogs--especially the man who walked on-and-off the stage with two amputated legs and one glass eye (see it for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHAf3W3iPPY ).
But little is said about those who walk on-and-off the stage wearing eye-glasses.
In this 9:48 YouTube video, count the number of people on stage wearing eye-glasses (at least 11). Todd's "god" supposedly heals their hernia, cancer, diabetes, etc., but forgot to heal their vision.
Whoops!
For related reading, refer to Benny Hinn: A Simple Over-Sight, Perhaps? and Todd Bentley: Miraculous Healings?
> New Age hops into IHOP
The folks over at the DiscernIt blog are exposing the International House of Prophets (IHOP) for their open promotion of Contemplative Prayer and visualization, and rightly so.
Although the Bible teaches:
And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as
the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their
many words (Matthew 6:7),
the folks at IHOP blindly
encourage their followers to twist Scripture and use meaningless
repetition.
Has the New Age Movement slithered its way into the Christian church on the backside of Contemplative Spirituality? You better believe it! And it is being welcomed in Christian churches across the nation.
Go to
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/Contemplative.htm for
articles and information on Contemplative Spirituality and the
Emerging Church.
> Dancing in the mysterious
Hoist up your red flags of discernment and watch this 6:42 YouTube video titled, "Patricia King and The New Age Ekstasis Dance workshop part 1" at
During the video, smiling Patricia King introduces the smiling Worship DJ Caleb Brundidge who, in turn, introduces Ekstasis worship and "Club Mysterio."
Brundidge takes the viewer into a new realm of worship and dance "into the ecstasy of God." At 5:08 into the video, watch the youth as they dance and bounce to the beat of the music, and pay close attention to Caleb Brundidge's subtle words in the background, especially: "Well the words that we're speaking become one at a cellular level in your body" and "...it's no longer that you have to study the word..."
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness (2 Timothy 2:15-16).
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