02/22/2025
Hi Friends! This is Pastor Tim with Omega-Fire Ministries-Tucson, right here in Tucson, Az! We can be reached at: [email protected] for your questions and or comments to this post! Or for any other purpose!
BUT, what I have to share this evening, is a VERY HOT topic within the Church! It has been laying on my heart for a VERY long time! I have been in prayer about sharing this. And I feel as though the Lord said to BLOW the TRUMPET! ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!!!!
The Church, as a WHOLE, is being 100% DECEIVED by FALSE TEACHERS spreading FALSE DOCTRINES and the MODERN CHURCH is FALLING for it!!!! WHY? Because, as the Word says in 2 Timothy 4:3-4, we read, 3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having ITCHING EARS; 4) and they shall TURN AWAY their ears FROM TRUTH, and shall be turned unto FABLES. (EMPASIS MINE; KJV of the Bible).
I will be sharing from a TRACT, but make NO MISTAKE, the TRUTH it shares, is what WE as BELIEVERS, need to ask the Lord for His Wisdom and Guidance.......Let's get started:
Is Your Church Purpose Driven?
How Can You Tell?
In the past ten years a large percentage of churches in America, and in other countries, have changed from a traditional New Testament church model to a contemporary Purpose Driven model, many with sorrowful results.
Contrary to Purpose Driven Church proponents, millions have been leaving their churches after the change occurred.
It is important that every church member know if their church is targeted for a Purpose Driven Church takeover.
Initially, a small clique of church staff, possibly including the pastor or a new pastor, plans the change without telling the rest of the church membership.
Church Transitions, an associate of Saddleback Church in California, trains the clique initiating the change in eight published steps. The church membership is not to be informed of the transition until the fourth step. After the sixth step in the process of change, if there are some in the church who voice concerns, the following is suggested:
1. Identify those who are resisting the changes;
2. Assess the effectiveness of their opposition;
3. Befriend those who are undecided about the changes;
4. Marginalize more persistent resisters;
5. Vilify those who stay and fight;
6. Establish new rules that will silence all resistance.
This means the church membership is not told until it is too late to make a difference. in other words the members either accept the changes, or leave the church, which they may have served and given to build.
Dr. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Church and The Purpose Driven Life has stated: "When you reveal the vision to the church, the old pillars are going to leave. But let them leave...they only hold things up."
Dr. Warren is right in one way. It is the senior members of the church who do indeed hold a church up and keep it from falling into apostasy. While some PDC initiators may not implement the full PDC format, generally theses are signs indicating that your church may be a target for a Purpose Driven Church Format:
1. Change in music to a contemporary rock style.
2. Removal of hymn books; eliminating the choir.
3. Replacement of organ and piano with heavy metal instruments.
4. Repetitive singing of praise lyrics.
5. Dressing down to casual attire.
6. Eliminating of business meetings, church committees, council of
elders, board of deacons, etc.
7. The pastor, or a new leader with a few assistants, usually four,
takes charge of all church business.
8. A repetitive 40-day Purpose Driven Church study program
stressing psychological relationships with each other, the
community, or the world, begins.
9. Sunday morning, evening, and/or Wednesday prayer meetings
are changed to other times; some may even be eliminated.
10. Crosses and other traditional Christian symbols may be moved
from both the inside and outside of the church building. The
pulpit may also be removed.
11. In accordance with Dr. Warren's instructions, new Bible versions
are used; or only verses flashed on a screen are referenced
during regular services.
12. Elimination of altar calls or salvation invitations at the close
of the services.
13. The elimination of such words as "unsaved," "lost," "sin,"
"Hell," "Heaven," and other gospel verities from the pastor's
messages.
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There are MANY MORE to list. But with respect to SPACE, I only list the MAIN/MOST IMPORTANT ones, so you can get an idea of how things are!
You MUST educate yourself and others, so that you can mobilize the membership to effectively resist. "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" 2 Timothy 1:7
Dr. Rick Warren stated on May 23, 2005, at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: The word 'fundamentalist' actually comes from a document in the 1920's called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity."
The Five Fundamentals of the Faith that Dr. Rick Warren OBJECTED to ARE:
1. The inerrancy and full authority of the Bible.
2. The Virgin birth and full Deity of Jesus Christ.
3. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
4. Christ's atoning, vicarious death for the sins of the world.
5. The literal second coming of Jesus Christ.
Are we to believe that Christians who hold to these basic foundational doctrines of the Christian faith are narrow and legalistic? According to the New Testament definition, those who believe OTHERWISE are NOT Christians!
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So here is my thing friends. I shared this piece because I am tired of the ENEMY in OUR Churches!!!! We can even FIND a GOOD SOLID church anymore without them preaching THIS garbage! Or it being a "Seeker Sensitive" Church that was started by Bill Hybels from Willow Creek Church in Chicago!
All I'm saying is, it's time to GET EDUCATED, and take back GROUND from the ENEMIES CAMP!!!!!! The Devil MUST GO OUT of OUR CHURCH!!!!!! We need SOLID PREACHERS that will GET UP and PREACH the TRUE Word of GOD, and NOT BOW DOWN to ANY FALSE DOCTRINES and GET FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND LET REVIVAL FIRES BURN FROM COAST TO COAST!!!!!!!!!!
Pastor Tim Turner
Omega-Fire Ministries-Tucson
Senior Pastor/President
