Excerpt: "There
is a plethora of YouTube videos demonstrating the audacious antics of these
Televangelists. Benny Hinn is a prime example along with Creflo Dollar and TD
Jakes, but for what its worth, their influence is amazing in its magnetic
ability to draw tens of thousands to their assemblies. Additionally, the music in these assemblies
changed dramatically to resemble more of a rock concert than that of the more
somber predecessors. It's ironic to see them decry the debauchery of the fallen
angels and their sinful ways, while they haughtily display the love of monetary
abundance, success and notoriety." For the full
narrative, links and videos please check out my blog
Nana's Rants On
Things From A-Z
CIA Involvement in Fundamentalist Churches
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Pastor,
You Might Have CIA Agents In Your Church!
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Can
Megachurches Deal With Mega Money in a Christian Way?
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Megachurches
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The
Moscow Station, CIA Spyware, and the Prosperity Gospel
Mega-Church
Connection
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EXPOSED
Churches Accepting Bribe Money from Government To Deceive Attendees
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CIA
Illuminati Busted!! Television Mind Control Exposed!! 2015
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Mega-churches,
New world order Agendas Exposed! 2015 (Church of Tares)
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The
False "Church System" Deception
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Hidden Scams of Churches
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Top
10 Richest Pastors in the World – 2017 List Updated
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Top
10 Richest Pastors In the World -- 2017
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Google Books
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CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES - THE DARK SIDE
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CIA'S
'CHRISTIAN' FACTION; AMERICARES, PEDOPHILE RINGS, WOOLWICH, BIN LADEN
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Christian
evangelicals and the CIA
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Controversial
megachurch pastor Eddie Long dies at 63
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The
Unholy Alliance - Christianity & The NWO Part I
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The
Deep Politics of God: The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal (Part
2 of 2)
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The
Deep Politics of God: The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal (Part
1 of 2)
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A
Conservative’s Lament
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By Lee Marsden
Google Books
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HILLSONG
CHURCH; SEX AND CIA CULTS
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The
super-sized growth behind megachurches
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U.S.
Pro-Coup Evangelicals Ally With Putin Inner Circle
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The
inescapable paradox of American Christian fundamentalism
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Founder
of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard said in 1948 that “You don’t get rich writing
science fiction. If you want to get rich, start a religion.”
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Some
current members of the CFR include David Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Barack
Obama, Hilary Clinton, mega-church pastor Rick Warren and the CEOs of major
corporations such as CBS, Nike, Coca-Cola and Visa.
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Televangelists:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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EXPOSING
FALSE PROPHETS AND PASTORS, TEACHERS AND THEIR DEVIL MISSIONS
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EXPOSING
E.A. ADEBOYE OF R.C.C.G CHURCHES WORLDWIDE!
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Breaking
News: Pastor E.A Adeboye Resigns As General Overseer Of RCCG Nigeria,
Appoints New GO
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İznik, historically Nicaea, town, northwestern Turkey. It lies on the
eastern shore of Lake İznik.
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How
the Council of Nicea Changed the World
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THE
REFORMATION
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What
is the Apostolic Church, and what do Apostolics believe?
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Index
of Cults and Religions
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176:
I ACCUSE # 10: “CIA BEHIND MISSIONARIES IN LATIN AMERICA!”
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Liberation Theology, the CIA, and the Vatican: A New Direction
for Latin America?
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Their Will Be Done
From
the Archives Let the pope keep the kingdom and the glory — the CIA wants the
power.
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The
Truth about Liberation Theology
ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-walters/the-truth-about-liberatio_b_8927478.html
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Ronald Reagan's Legacy:
Eight Years of CIA Covert Action
by William Blum
Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1990
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CHILD
SEX TRAFFICKING SCANDAL EXPOSES CIA/FBI JUSTICE DEPARTMENT COVER-UP OF CRIME
NETWORK
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The Religious Right And World Vision's "Charitable"
Evangelism by Michael Barker
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The
CIA and Pentagon: Enforcing the Monroe Doctrine in the modern age
In
addition, the top hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Honduras,
including Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez, actively encouraged and supported
the military coup plotters. In addition, the leadership of a number of
Protestant fundamentalist churches in Honduras, many with links to right-wing
parent bodies in the United States, also supported the coup leaders. Llorens,
himself, has close links to the right-wing elements of the Cuban community in
southern Florida who supported the coup against Zelaya and have backed
similar operations against Chavez in Venezuela, Correa in Ecuador, President
Evo Morales in Bolivia, President Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, President Daniel
Ortega in Nicaragua, President Desi Bouterse in Suriname, and President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina.
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The U.S. government is the financial and ideological architect
of the war against liberation theology. Repression, including the murder of
priests, bishops, and catechists, is a predictable outcome of U.S. policy.
Support for rightwing fundamentalist churches is another weapon in the LIC
arsenal." Whether or not agents of the U.S. government ordered the
massacre of the Jesuits the U.S. is morally and practically responsible for
their deaths and those of numerous religious workers. America’s Watch describes
how the murder of the Jesuits and religious persecution generally fits into a
pattern of psychological war consistent with LIC:
The government’s hostility towards church and relief
organizations was particularly pronounced: In the period November 13 --
December 14, there were 54 searches of 40 different church facilities
and homes of church workers by Salvadoran military and security forces.
Dozens of church workers received death threats and fled the country under
government order or death threat, dozens more . . . were jailed and abused in
detention, and numerous church facilities were ransacked. . . . The symbolic
significance of the Army’s murder of the country’s leading academic and
religious figures cannot be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again,
no one is safe from Army and death squad violence. . . The Bush
Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic
departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for
President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law. In our
view, the murders were entirely in keeping with Salvador’s ten-year civil war.
. . .Those responsible for almost every other instance of egregious abuse
against Salvadoran citizens still enjoy absolute immunity."5
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CIA,
UK Israeli Jewish Zionists Use Christian Fundamentalism For Mind Control ?
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The Gladiators Altar, the new controversial initiative of the
Universal Church in Brazil
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Edir Macedo, Brazil's Billionaire Bishop
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Murder of Victoria Climbié
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Temple in Brazil Appeals to a Surge in Evangelicals
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Secret
Connections: LDS Church and the American Intelligence Community
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The Global Impact of Canadian Evangelical Christianity
Many writers see the growth of Evangelical Christianity as an
American plot fostered by groups like the CIA (Cf. Gifford, 1988).� Reality
is, however, far more complex.� American evangelists influence Africans but
African religion also influences North Americans (Poewe, 1988 & 1989).�
Similarly, Canadian Evangelicals have a considerable impact on other
Christians world-wide. Internationally known evangelists like Aimee Semple
McPherson (1890-1944), Leighton Ford, devotional writer Oswald J. Smith (1889-1986)
all made significant contributions to the international evangelical
movement.�
Similarly, Canadian theologians W. H. Griffith-Thomas
(1861-1924) A.B. Winchester (1858-1943), John McNicol (1869-1956) Dyson Hague
(1857-1935) William Cavan (1830-1904) and T.T. Shields (1873-1955) made
significant contributions to the formation and growth of the Fundamentalist
Movement in its initial, more intellectual, stage. (Marsden, 1980; Rawlyk,
1990a:158-171). Institutionally Canadians founded the fast growing Christian
and Missionary Alliance (A.B. Simpson, 1843-1919), and the Sudan Interior Mission
(R.V. Bingham, 1872-1942), while the Charismatic/Pentecostal Movement
received a major boost by the Latter Rain Movement that originated in North
Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1948 (Riss, 1987).
Today two uniquely Canadian educational institutions Regent
College, Vancouver, and the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, draw a
sizable proportion of their students from around the world.� Even more
significant is that fact that in Australia, Austria, Britain, New Zealand,
South Africa, Singapore, the United States and several other countries there
are now similar institutions explicitly modeled on the Canadian originals.
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Was
Jonestown a CIA medical experiment?
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Haggard
said that he believes wholeheartedly in the Bible, but that Christianity has
“abandoned the application of the gospel” and that, as a result, too much
time is spent on image management and damage control
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In particularly
disturbing info, Rios Montt was explicitly backed by the CIA--partly because
dominionist churches explicitly described themselves as anti-Communist--and
the present district church director for Ted Haggard's New Life Church was
the former director of the Bible Institute at El Shaddai (Serrano Elías
church).
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Satanism and the Born Agains
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Are American evangelical organizations Illuminati fronts?
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Included
in this category are occult organizations, political groups which maintain
secret membership, and also those whose interests span both areas. A prime
example of the latter would be the Masonic Lodge P2, which served as the
major operational hub for Operation Gladio, one of the longest-running and
widest-ranging black ops in history. Ordo Temply Orientis, the Church of
Scientology, the Temple of Set, the Roundtable Foundation, and other occult
groups were likewise set up by people with strong ties to military and
intelligence organizations. Some of this crossover can perhaps simply be
ascribed to the personality of intelligence agents and occultists alike who
enjoy the feeling of access to secret knowledge and power unknown to the
masses. What attracts a certain type to one group might attract them to the
other. Clearly though, the secretive nature of many occult organizations does
make them useful sites to organize illegal activities out of the public's
view. A more cynical motive on the part of intelligence agencies might be to
prey on the number of social outcasts and misfits who are often drawn to
occult groups, whether to use them as MKULTRA-style test subjects (see
Jonestown) or useful idiots/brainwashed patsies (see Sirhan Sirhan). Last but
not least, intelligence agencies have shown a genuine interest over the
decades in studying psychic phenomenon for espionage purposes, so keeping
tabs on those who dabble in such areas might seem a sensible precaution.
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WHY THE DEVIL ARE EVANGELICALS BACKING TRUMP?
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Churches, Angered by
Disclosures, Seek to Bar Further C.I.A. Use of Missionaries in Intelligence
Work By KENNETH A. BRIGGSJAN.
29, 1976
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Operation
Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
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Conversion—CIA Target?
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Megachurch
Globally,
these large congregations are a significant development in Protestant
Christianity.[7] In the United States, the phenomenon has more than
quadrupled in the past two decades.[8] It has since spread worldwide. In
2007, five of the ten largest Protestant churches were in South Korea.[9] The
largest megachurch in the United States is Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas
with more than 40,000 members every weekend and the current largest
megachurch in the world is South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, an
Assemblies of God church, with more than 830,000 members as of 2007.[9][10]
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If Evangelicals hate tyranny, they should be very
wary of becoming tyrants. Nevertheless, Evangelicals will never see
themselves as tyrants, because their faith commands them to be “missionaries
for Christ”. This mandate engages them in a zero-sum game to convert the
country, indeed the whole world, to their faith. Moreover, over the decades
they’ve increasingly reached for more and more political power to achieve
this goal. This is exactly what ISIS proposes, by trying to establish a
global Muslim caliphate. The goal of religious extremists, regardless of
faith, is always the same… Dominion.
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Houston megachurch slapped with sexual abuse lawsuit over youth
pastor's behavior asks for prayer
A Harris County family is suing Second Baptist Church for
its alleged role in the sexual assault of a then 12-year-old girl. The
lawsuit, filed last week, claims that Second Baptist youth pastor Chad Foster
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The
researchers found that Asia is home to the largest mega-church in the world,
and currently there is no one that rivals in size. With a staggering
480,000 in weekly attendance, Korean Full Igreja do Evangelho got its start
in the living room of one of its founding pastors. Headquartered in the
capital of Seoul, it has grown into a multi-site megachurch with a branch in
the US The organization was founded in 1958 and is affiliated with the
Assemblies of God. He was directed by the new senior pastor Hoon Lee
since 2008.
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These
are they who have gone to build outward temples, imprisoning, persecuting and
asking people to give, manipulating the gospel to burden people to give money
to beautify their stone temples.
You
will hear a person say, ‘let’s go to the house of the Lord’ referring to
a house of cement sand and stones. A dead house of stones is not a house of
the Lord neither a temple. You are the house of the Lord. You are God’s
temple.
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Joyce
Meyer's ministry is autonomous. It’s not connected to the body of Christ,
which is a unified body whose ministers all teach the same doctrines. The
leaders of these self-contained mega-churches are competitors of God and of one another.
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GRANDVILLE, MI - Resurrection Life Church has set up an
account for donations to help victims of Ponzi schemer David McQueen.
McQueen donated $300,000 to the Grandville church from 2005 to
2009. He is serving 30 years in federal prison for running a $46 million
Ponzi scheme.
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Hero Worship and the Mega-church
Everyone is
looking for the next political, super-hero leader to move America back to
greatness. In the American church, it is much the same. I don’t know that I
have ever known a time when the church has been so enamored with
mega-churches and super-hero pastors.
These tech savvy, mega-leaders make themselves larger than life and
secure their enormous following through television, social media, and
multi-site satellite congregations where people gather to listen to their
message on huge theater sized screens
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A Defense of Megachurches
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‘Megachurches’:
A Hidden Pillar Of Nigeria’s Economy
Pastors On Forbes List
Nonetheless, the surging popularity of the megachurches among
the Christians who make up half of Nigeria’s 170 million population has
propelled their preachers into the ranks of the richest people in Africa.
In 2011, Forbes magazine estimated the fortunes of Nigeria’s
five richest pastors. Oyedepo topped the list, with an estimated net worth of
$150 million.
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The
influence of the ‘Charismatic’ churches of Ghana and Nigeria cannot be
underestimated or ignored. Religion’s impact, in the Ghanaian and Nigerian
context, weighs in as a heavyweight force that arguably transcends that of
political parties or ethnic affiliation. As these churches seem to understand
the potential of ICTs to ‘create and unleash the developmental force of human
socio-economic and political networks,’ governments in emerging economies
could take note from the ‘Charismatic’ churches as they attempt to overcome
the key challenge, as Rao (2005) describes, ‘to align the interests and
strengths of various constituents of society and find their appropriate
niches in the global information society.’ (ibid., pp. 274-5).
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Biggest Church in East and Central Africa opened
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Database
of Megachurches in the U.S.
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Mega
Church Production – Running a Service for Thousands
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Beyond
the high-tech check-in lies a church that is as wired as any business in the
country. Inside the 7,095-seat auditorium, the image of Pastor Bill Hybels is
projected on large video screens, making him visible to everyone in the
crowd. Miss a sermon, and you can catch it later via streaming video on the
Web, and then surf over to a church blog to learn more about Gulf Coast
relief efforts. They still pass the collection plate at Willow Creek, but
they also accept automatic bank drafts. "We can tithe out of a bank
account as soon as a check is deposited, so God gets the first fruit,"
says Brian McAuliffe, CFO and director of operations.
These
tech-savvy institutions are the fastest growing element in religious life in
the U.S. "We're finding about one a week," says Dave Travis, who
tracks megachurches in his role as executive vice president of church
innovations at the Leadership Network, a Dallas-based research and consulting
group that works with large churches. There have always been large
congregations, says Mark Chaves, head of the sociology department at the
University of Arizona, where he studies religion, organizations and social
movements. But, he adds, the biggest got bigger throughout the 20th century,
and the rate of growth has accelerated over the last generation.
Historically, Chaves says, the biggest churches haven't stayed the biggest
for very long: "They get overtaken by the next cultural wave of
innovation." Increasingly, innovation is driven by technology, which is
a large part of what has allowed megachurches to thrive. Says Travis:
"One reason you've seen an explosion in megachurches is because of the
technological progress that's been made."
Lakewood
Church has $4 million worth of high-end video equipment in its
state-of-the-art production facilities, and a pastor, Joel Osteen, who is a
familiar presence on religious television. But it also puts considerable
effort into reaching out to individuals and small groups. The touch screens
that check in frequent attendees also print out name tags, and the huge
e-mail list pushes out targeted information twice a week. "We tell
people about speakers and topics and include links to our Web site,
information and directions and maps, our new Bible-study program," says
Dodds, the executive director. "We attach photos and links to video of
things you might have missed, and also ask people to tell a friend about us,
to be marketers for us, because word of mouth is the best tool."
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Senior
pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of
Singapore's megachurches preaching "prosperity gospel" that blends
spiritual and material aspirations.
The
churches have ambitions to turn Singapore into a center for evangelical
Christianity and to export their faith to the world. Kong was arrested and
charged in 2012 with criminal breach of trust and falsifying accounts.
The
six church officials were convicted of diverting nearly $37 million in funds
to advance the career of Kong's wife, Ho Yeow Sun.
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(RNS)
A new study suggests that megachurch services produce a spiritual and
biological “high” that keeps congregants coming back for more. By Chris
Lisee.
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Pastor Stan Mitchell Megachurch Embraces Practicing Gays Into
Fellowship
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Unintended Consequences of the Mega Church Movement
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Megachurches
= Mega Business
Serving as the CEOs of their industry, today’s
megachurch pastors are not only spiritual leaders, but are business leaders
in their communities as they move their churches forward in an increasingly
competitive landscape.
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Like
A Drug: “Many participants used the word “contagious” to describe the feeling
of a megachurch service where members arrive hungry for emotional experiences
and leave energized. One church member said, “(T)he Holy Spirit goes through
the crowd like a football team doing the wave. …Never seen it in any other
church.””
Ryle’s
Warnings: “There is a quantity of half-truth taught by the modern false
teachers: they are incessantly using Scriptural terms and phrases in an
unscriptural sense. There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more
sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of
inward, invisible heart-work.”
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Top Ten Mega Churches in Accra
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Religion
on the go: has PrayerBox found a real sweet spot in Nigeria?
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5. Leaders of organizations often become micro-celebrities
Celebrity
culture is another inevitable problem of large churches. This is nothing new,
even Paul and Apollos had to deal with it.
The
problem is that celebrity culture can quickly deteriorate into factions,
cronyism and narcissism. Even if the top leader is humble and thoughtful,
that doesn’t mean his supporting leaders will be. Instead, they are often
mediocre executives willing to tow the line.
In
the worst scenario, micro-celebrity pastors start to take on the
characteristics of cult leaders. The people who leave the churches often have
harrowing stories of being belittled, pushed around or ignored because they
didn’t tow the line.
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GQ
gets to know Carl Lentz, the man who brought Australian mega-church Hillsong
to New York City. Watching Pastor Carl tromp around onstage before 4,000
hipsters in Chelsea boots—saving souls with the gusto of a televangelist but
the effortless cool of the guy at the record store—it’s easy to see how one
might be sucked in by Pastor Carl’s charisma.
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Megachurches,
giant congregations that can include up to 50,000 worshippers, have spread
across the United States, wooing the faithful with a mixture of prayer and
spectacle. The number of these churches has doubled in a decade -- and their
numbers are set to grow thanks to tough economic times.
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Hidden
Scams of Churches
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HYPNOSIS
IN CHRISTIANITY EXPOSED
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Pimping
Through Hypnosis and Mind Control
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Exposing
the Hypnotic techniques used in the 'church' today. Benny Hinn, TLR and
others
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The $1-Billion-a-Year Right-Wing Conspiracy You Haven’t Heard
Of
You mentioned the National Christian Foundation. I bet most of
our readers haven’t heard of that, either. Can you tell us a bit about it?
The
NCF was created, back in 1982 or so, to maximize hard right-wing evangelical
Christian philanthropic giving. It was so novel and complex, the architects
got a special ruling from the IRS, to make sure it was legal. The NCF has
multiple overlapping legal entities and holding companies, but at the core is
a huge donor-advised fund. The NCF is now the 12th biggest charitable
foundation in America that raises money from private sources.
Since
its founding, the NCF has given away over $4.3 billion, $2.5 billion of it in
the last three years. The NCF gave away $601,841,675 in 2012—and is estimated
to have given out $670 million in 2013.
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Tucked next to two
large hospital complexes on the northern perimeter of Atlanta, NCF operates
so far under the public radar that even Parker’s hometown newspaper,
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has never featured it in an article.
But, with more than $450 million in assets, NCF is the sixth-largest
donor-advised fund in the nation. As such, NCF serves as a conduit through
which benefactors can funnel cash, real estate, stocks, and other valuables
to the charities of their choice—and earn a bigger tax break than by giving
directly to a private foundation. As a bonus, these funds virtually guarantee
anonymity for the benefactor. It usually takes a minimum of $10,000 to open a
donor-advised fund with NCF. Although the contributor does suggest where the
money should go, the final decision rests with NCF.
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1982 National
Christian Foundation
In
2014, the National Christian Foundation was the fifteenth largest charity in
America. It handed out $859 million during the year, and received more
charitable contributions than groups like the American Cancer Society,
Harvard University, and Habitat for Humanity. The foundation continues to
grow dramatically, as it has since its 1982 creation.
The
brainchild of three evangelical financial professionals, NCF was established
to “simplify the process of giving, multiply the results, and glorify the
Lord.” The founders created one of the first donor-advised funds designed
specifically for Christian givers. They also focused on making it easier to
donate non-monetary gifts—like an operating business—which most philanthropic
organizations find too complex to handle. They are now national leaders in
this work.
By
streamlining the philanthropic process, connecting Christian donors with the
wisdom and charitable choices of other givers, providing up-to-the-minute
advice on Christian nonprofits, and offering definitive handling of
complicated donations, the National Christian Foundation has become not only
one of the most important religious philanthropies in the U.S. but one of the
most innovative philanthropic organizations of any sort. Its grants to
religious charities now exceed a billion dollars a year, and in 2015 reached
a total of $6 billion since the organization’s founding.
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1984 Leadership
Network Helps Build Megachurches
When
Angelus Temple opened in Los Angeles in 1923 with seating for 5,300, the
megachurch was born. An evangelical Christian congregation led by a
charismatic
pastor, committed to welcoming new believers, Bible-based but
lacking conventional denominational boundaries, the new church drew huge
crowds. Lakewood Church, founded in Houston in 1959, was another early
example of the type. It was theologically conservative, racially inclusive,
and popular from the start. By 1979 Lakewood was attracting more than 5,000
people to its services; today it is America’s largest church, with average
weekly attendance of 43,000. (Megachurches are among the most integrated
institutions in the U.S., averaging a 20-percent-minority mix of congregants,
while Lakewood is 40 percent white, 30 percent black, 30 percent Hispanic.)
Megachurches
are conventionally defined as those attended by at least 2,000 congregants
per week. There are now 1,300 such churches in the U.S. (up from just 50 in
1970), housing about a tenth of all U.S. churchgoers, and they are continuing
to expand in both size and influence. They include prominent institutions
like the Willow Creek Church led by Bill Hybels, the Saddleback Church under
Rick Warren, the McLean Bible Church founded by Lon Solomon, and the Potter’s
House pastored by T. D. Jakes.
This
vast expansion was driven not just by congregational donors but also by
broader philanthropy. Bob Buford built a large network of cable television
stations, but he was also a devoted Christian and in his mid-50s felt
strongly drawn into the world of nonprofits and church-building. Buford had
become close friends with famed management theorist Peter Drucker, who viewed
America’s vigorous civil society of churches, charities, and helping
organizations like the Salvation Army as secrets to the country’s success,
and vital buffers between private interests and the state. Together they
discussed what became the Leadership Network—a group devoted to helping the
pastors of fast-growing churches thrive even more. Leaders of new churches
with a thousand members or above would be brought together with similar peers
so they could learn from each other, and be taught essentials of excellent
management and oversight.
Bill
Hybels and Rick Warren were just two of many church founders who benefited
from Leadership Network training and resources as they grew their
congregations to over 20,000 members. Bob Buford also joined with
philanthropist Phil Anschutz to finance the Burning Bush Fund, which
concentrated on planting new churches and cultivating new leaders to open
churches. Pastors like Tim Keller, Larry Osborne, and Greg Surratt were aided
by the fund as they built thriving, multi-campus evangelical churches. In a
1998 Forbes interview, Peter Drucker characterized megachurches as “surely
the most important social phenomenon in American society in the last 30
years.”
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A Catalyst that Fostered a Movement: Thoughts on Bob
Buford and Leadership Network Meet
one of the most influential men in the church growth movement: Bob Buford. |
ED STETZER
What you might not
know is how that took place behind the scenes. You might not know how these
teaching churches and their pastors became the new locus of learning for
churches around the world—and how much of it happened because of Bob Buford,
a quiet philanthropist in Texas, and his mentor, Peter Drucker.
Buford became
wealthy in the cable television business and then decided to make a
difference with his money. It was his influence that led to the rise of
significant teaching churches, which has essentially replaced the Church
Growth Movement and remapped evangelicalism and beyond.
As the Church
Growth Movement was declining, new ideas, like those of Calvary Chapel and
Vineyard, were on the rise. They changed the ways that churches worshipped
and approached culture. Soon other churches took the new approach to worship
and culture, and started to add a new approach to leadership.
About that time,
Bob Buford decided to find what he called "islands of strength" in
the church and invest in them. The hope was that it would lead to an
exponential return. The investment paid off.
Buford helped take
a new approach to ministry, a reinvention of American Protestantism, and
fused it with leadership savvy, the principles he learned from Peter Drucker.
Of course, Drucker was interested in the megachurch himself. He once told
Forbes magazine, "pastoral megachurches are surely the most important
social phenomenon in American society in the last thirty years."
Together, Buford
and Drucker made a huge impact on the direction of the church. Simply put,
your church probably sings like a Calvary Chapel, but is led like a
Saddleback. Those two men are part of the reason why.
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An academy
personally authorized and named by Peter F. Drucker in Asia.
A non-profit
social enterprise with the mission of keeping alive Drucker's
management
legacy. China's most
authoritative organization spreading Drucker's
management philosophy.
1999, with the
guidance and involvement of Peter F. Drucker himself, Minglo Shao,
Board
Chairman of Bright China Group, founded the Bright China Management
Institute
(BCMI). It was a social enterprise established soley for the research and
promotion of the management insights of Dr. Drucker.
In 2005, Dr.
Drucker personally authorized Bright China to use the name Peter F.
Drucker
Academy in China. On April 18, 2006, the Drucker family officially granted
Bright China the right to use Drucker brand exclusively in all training
programs and
certifications in China.
In 2006, the name
of BCMI was officially changed to Peter F. Drucker Academy (DA).
DA continues
its mission to impart the Drucker legacy to Chinese knowledge worker s
and
facilitate their study and practice of Drucker's management principles. In
the
same year, DA was registered in Hong Kong as a non-profit organization:
an
extension of Beijing's DA with the identical mission.
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