Pastor Shares His Experience With “Toronto Blessing”
2008 June 4
Color me unsurprised.
Growing up in charismatic and Word of Faith circles every church that my family attended eventually grew towards the behavior in this testimony, which I believe we could put in the all valuable category of experience. I’m not saying “definitely this is what will happen,” but if I had to hazard a guess I would guess that those going to Lakeland to find what they already have in Christ to “bring back” to their churches will tend towards this five years down the road.
How do I know this? Experience.
Wow. As I mentioned before, I was raised in the Vineyard, my parents were pastors of a Vineyard, I experienced “the blessing”, was a worship leader of a few Vineyards for quite a while. I think Paul spoke truthfully and humbly. I remember a lot of the same experiences he spoke of, know the pastors he refers to and quotes and I think he’s spot on.
Many of these issues Paul brings up were fundamental to the Toronto split from the Vineyard and I know that was very trying for Wimber and many Vineyard pastors. My prayer would be we would learn from that time, more pastors would speak clear warnings and bring truth. But a lot of the same old junk is being rehashed and dressed up as “new blessing”.
Thanks for finding that post, that was gold. And I don’t mean gold dust on the face, I mean gold as in great.
Kyle,
If you have not seen this before I think you will definitely enjoy it.
http://scotteriology.wordpress.com/2007/03/20/how-to-write-a-mediocre-worship-song/
Please see “A Call for Discernment” by going to http://www.justinpeters.org. Justin is an evangelist and in addition to expository preaching, also holds seminars on the “Word of Faith” movement. He has cerebral palsy and concurs with the apostle Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee.”
You can view his brief overview of the misleading Word of Faith movement given at Southwestern Theological Seminary here:
http://www.justinpeters.org/demo.htm
To God be the glory!
Caron
Los Angeles
Woffers… don’t like ‘em.
for a LOT more on this subject, Miriam Franklin has a blog (actually she linked to this one for the humour in the post about kierkegaard et al) that is at the forefront of the discussion of this and Lakeland
http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/