NEW CALVINIST MARK DRISCOLL LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING CHARISMATIC JUDAH SMITH
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Among the issues that Apprising Ministries has been covering, along with online apologetics and discernment ministries, is Piper-Warrengate.
You might remember this all begins when Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to feature Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as a keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God.
What was even more surprising was Dr. Piper pronouncing Warren “doctrinal and sound” despite his quite elastic orthodoxy and twistable multi-tranlation Play-Doh Bible.
In Rick Warren Brings Love On Record I shared the following PDL papal blessing from Warren bestowed upon:
You’ll notice both Mark Driscoll and Judah Smith made the cut. Most everyone knows of Driscoll, but Smith not so much, so in Charismatic Quasi-Prosperity Preacher Judah Smith I told you he’s is co-Lead Pastor at a charismatic megachurch called The City Church of Seattle along with his wife pastrix Chelsea Smith:
Under “the apostolic oversight of Pastor Dick Iverson” The City Church of Seattle “was pioneered in 1992 by Pastor Wendell Smith, his wife Gini, their two children, Wendy and Judah, and a group of families from the Northwest and around the nation.”[1] The elder Smiths are still Staff pastors at a church with a plethora of pastrixes, in violation of God’s Word, and yet is apparently under the authority of an apostle:
Do you know how many churches actually overseen by an Apostle of Jesus Christ had women elders: Try zero. Judah Smith’s sister Wendy, also a pastrix, “is married to the well-known charismatic Benny Perez and preaches in Las Vegas.”[2] So the following tweet just a bit ago from the neo-Reformed Mark Driscoll strikes one as rather odd:
The link Driscoll includes takes us to the website for the upcoming Calibrate conference:
Sure, it’s about Jesus. No, it’s about the “chosen style” of the way they “do church.” If it wasn’t, they would know there’s only one way: Preach the Gospel of repentance and forgiveness of sins in Jesus’ Name (cf. Luke 24:46-47) and let the Lord add to His Church those who are being saved (cf. Acts 2:47). We also are not surprised to find among the speakers both Judah Smith and Mark Driscoll:
What is surprising is “preaching and theology pastor” Mark Driscoll is promoting Judah Smith, who is listed as “lead pastor, but I’ve shown you is co-lead pastor when his wife is pastrix in violation of God’s Word. Rather peculiar Driscoll promotes the openy charismatic Judah Smith, whom I’ve shown you was also featured speaker this year at the Forward 2010 Conference put on by well known Word Faith prosperity preacher Jentezen Franklin, who’s also a regular shill at the annual Beg-A-Thon of that haven of heresy Trinity Broadcasting Network:
Not only that, but in Judah Smith, ”preaching and theology pastor” Mark Driscoll is promoting someone who is enamored with the infamous Hillsong Church (HC), perhaps best known for its popular worship music, regularly features the major properity preachers of the Word Faith movement at their annual heresy-fests such as Joyce Meyer, Joel and Victoria Osteen, along with Jentezen Franklin numerous times, and Oneness Pentecostal Word Faith mogul T.D. Jakes again this year.
HC is lead by Our Senior Pastors: Brian and Bobbie Houston:
Yet another pastrix; and yet, Mark Driscoll still promotes Judah Smith, whom you see in the video promo below that Smith did to hawk Hillsong 2010. Smith gushes that he’s “so excited” to again participate; he also tells us that his life, as well as that of his pastrix wife, “have been transformed by being a part, being involved with” various Hillsong conferences and events.
In fact, he says “there’s none better on the planet than Hillsong Conference”; then in Word Faith speak declares “Jesus Christ’s presence is going to be there, and we’re already beginning to pray, and believe, that your life will be transformed.”
O, but it gets even worse concerning the lack of discernment shown by ”preaching and theology pastor” Driscoll, as I just showed you in Judah Smith Turns Pulpit Over To T.D. Jakes Disciple. Pastor and pastrix Smith just hosted something they call The Prosperity with a Purpose Conference (TPPC); and the interested reader will find the really odd back story for TPPC in Charismatic Quasi-Prosperity Preacher Judah Smith.
Here I’ll just show you that this year’s TPPC featured Brian Houston of that heretical Hillsong Church, as well as Chris Hill, pastor of Potter’s House Denver:
If Potter’s House rings a bell; yeah, Hill is undeed a disciple of Oneness Pentecostal heretic and Word Faith mogul T.D. Jakes:
Sadly, you better realize that, amazingly, the whacked world of Word Faith heresy is actually slithering ever closer to the mainstream of evangelicalism.
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End notes:
[1] http://thecity.org/about, accessed 10/26/10.
[2] http://tiny.cc/lcfgm, accessed 10/26/10.
See also:
NEW CALVINISM’S MARK DRISCOLL ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES?
RICK WARREN, DR. DESTINY LAVERNE ADAMS, AND “APOSTLE” CHUCK PIERCE
RICK WARREN, LAVERNE ADAMS, AND CINDY TRIMM
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL T.D. JAKES GOES MAINSTREAM EVANGELICAL
KEEPING YOU APPRISED OF: T.D. JAKES ON THE TRINITY
T.D. JAKES: JESUS IS THE PRODUCT
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