Rick Warren Joins Forces with Hinn, Copeland, Dollar and Jakes
Purpose Driven Pastor Rick Warren has agreed to speak at the Azusa Street Centennial, a week-long festival that kicked off today in Los Angeles.
The event is to mark the 100th anniversary of the "Azusa Street Revival," which is considered the start of the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. According to a story from Agape Press,"more than 150 well-known Pentecostal leaders are scheduled to preach or teach, among them Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes, Kenneth Copeland, and Creflo Dollar."
Pastor Bob Dewaay, who authored the book Redefining Christianity, and who was a guest recently on our radio program,says he "believes Christians need to start holding their leaders and pastors accountable -- and sometimes asking the hard questions. "Where's the gospel of Jesus Christ? Why isn't the gospel being preached?," he asks. "Rather than the gospel and sound biblical doctrine, we're having all these ecumenical meetings and experiences and bringing in everybody under the sun."
Pastor Dewaay added that if Rick Warren "wants to be America's pastor, then I think he better start standing up for sound doctrine -- not only in his own practice but those of the other people around him."
The evidence continues to present itself.
posted by Michael Corley @ 18:35
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I was a delegate to the Southern Baptist Convention recently at which Rick Warren was one of the first speakers. Actually, Mr. Warren did not preach in person citing "family obligations." Rather, he taped a message which was then played on the big screens at the Convention. I was struck by something Warren said in his message. Approximately midway through his address, Warren opined, "The Health and Wealth Gospel is really not the Gospel at all." This statement drew the only "amens" I heard from those listening. I was strck by the apparent hypocrisy of this statement in light of the fact that just 5 weeks previously Warren was sharing the pulpit with some of the most notorious heretics (Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Jessie Duplantis and Creflo Dollar)within the same "Health and Wealth Gospel" which he had just rightly criticized.
This only confirmed to me something which I have noticed about the Purpose Driven pastor. He plays to his audience. If he is speaking before the Baptist World Alliance, he becomes quite ecumenical and bemoans conservative theology. If he is before the Azusa Street Centennial, he praises the Prosperity Gospel luminaries. If he is before the Southern Baptist Convention, he becomes quite theologicaly conservative and calls into question the teachings of the very people he praised just a month earlier.
Rick Warren attempts to be "all things to all people," but in so doing compromises the Truth and, in my estimation, his theological integrity.
Justin Peters
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