Greg Laurie, Calvary Chapel, Jesus Rock, and Rome
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Greg Laurie, Calvary Chapel, Jesus Rock, and Rome
By admin - Posted on 17 December 2011
Greg Laurie, senior pastor Harvest Christian Fellowship, a megachurch associated with Calvary Chapel, is also the founder of the Harvest evangelistic crusades, in which capacity he is holding hands with Rome. This spring Laurie invited Catholic Bishop David Ricken to share the platform with him at the Lifest crusade in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Ricken is a great devotee of Rome’s false Mary and her demonic apparitions. A year ago he approved an 150-year-old apparition of Mary known as “Our Lady of Good Help†in Champion, Wisconsin, having spent two years studying the “authenticity of the Marian visitation.†The shrine in Champion depicts Mary as Queen of Heaven holding a perpetual baby Jesus and being worshipped by angels. By inviting Ricken to participate in his evangelism crusade, it is frightfully apparent that Greg Laurie cannot discern between the true gospel and a false one, between a true church and a false, between a demon masquerading as an angel of light and the Spirit of God. We believe he has had one dose too many of Christian rock, which is the most powerful element of the mysticism that is creating the one-world church. Laurie is believed by many to be a strong contender for leadership of the Calvary Chapel denomination when Chuck Smith, Sr., retires or dies. In 2009, Smith and Laurie joined hands with Rick Warren at the 20th Annual SoCal Harvest Crusade in Los Angeles. When you get into Warren’s sphere, you are within reach of every sort of heresy and fable. These are treacherous spiritual waters, indeed. Chuck Smith claims to believe in the doctrine of end-time apostasy and the pre-tribulational Rapture, but if Rick Warren and his associates don’t represent apostasy, we wonder where in the world we would find it? Warren turns the church into a rock & roll entertainment center complete with pelvic thrusts, hula dancing, and “purple hazeâ€; says God won’t ask about your doctrinal views; promotes Catholic contemplative mysticism and universalist heretics such as the Catholic-Buddhist monk Thomas Merton; yokes together in ministry with New Agers (e.g., Mehmet Oz, Daniel Amen, Mark Hyman, and Leonard Sweet); says that believers should work with unbelievers and pagan religionists to build the kingdom of God and create world peace; and presents Roman Catholic interfaith one-worlder Tony Blair with a peace prize (March 2011). For documentation see www.wayoflife.org/database/warrenheader.html. Calvary Chapels are considered “conservative†by some, but they have long held the heresy that has been described more recently by Mark Driscoll as “theologically conservative and culturally liberal.†Calvary Chapel played a major role in the birth of Christian rock during the Jesus People movement of the 1970s, led by the charismatic Jesus hippie Lonnie Frisbee, who performed “signs and wonders†(mostly the silly spirit slaying and holy shaking) but died of AIDS at age 43 because he did not give up his homosexual lifestyle. Chuck Smith eventually split with Frisbee over “charismatic signs,†but he did not renounce Christian rock. Calvary Chapel’s Maranatha Music label was the first major contemporary praise publisher. After I was converted in 1973 from a hippie lifestyle, the Lord showed me from Scripture that I needed to give up my sensual rebel rock music (Eph. 5:11) and cut my “freak flag†long hair (1 Cor. 11:14). The Jesus People hippies determined to hold onto both the unholy rock of the world and the holy Rock Christ, but this merger is spiritual adultery, and the fruit has been to usher in the one-world church through addictive, body-jerking, emotion-wrenching ecumenical charismatic music. (See The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians for more on Calvary Chapel. It is available for free in eBook format from the Way of Life web site.)
(Friday Church News Notes, December 16, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)
Greg Laurie, Calvary Chapel, Jesus Rock, and Rome
By admin - Posted on 17 December 2011
Greg Laurie, senior pastor Harvest Christian Fellowship, a megachurch associated with Calvary Chapel, is also the founder of the Harvest evangelistic crusades, in which capacity he is holding hands with Rome. This spring Laurie invited Catholic Bishop David Ricken to share the platform with him at the Lifest crusade in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Ricken is a great devotee of Rome’s false Mary and her demonic apparitions. A year ago he approved an 150-year-old apparition of Mary known as “Our Lady of Good Help†in Champion, Wisconsin, having spent two years studying the “authenticity of the Marian visitation.†The shrine in Champion depicts Mary as Queen of Heaven holding a perpetual baby Jesus and being worshipped by angels. By inviting Ricken to participate in his evangelism crusade, it is frightfully apparent that Greg Laurie cannot discern between the true gospel and a false one, between a true church and a false, between a demon masquerading as an angel of light and the Spirit of God. We believe he has had one dose too many of Christian rock, which is the most powerful element of the mysticism that is creating the one-world church. Laurie is believed by many to be a strong contender for leadership of the Calvary Chapel denomination when Chuck Smith, Sr., retires or dies. In 2009, Smith and Laurie joined hands with Rick Warren at the 20th Annual SoCal Harvest Crusade in Los Angeles. When you get into Warren’s sphere, you are within reach of every sort of heresy and fable. These are treacherous spiritual waters, indeed. Chuck Smith claims to believe in the doctrine of end-time apostasy and the pre-tribulational Rapture, but if Rick Warren and his associates don’t represent apostasy, we wonder where in the world we would find it? Warren turns the church into a rock & roll entertainment center complete with pelvic thrusts, hula dancing, and “purple hazeâ€; says God won’t ask about your doctrinal views; promotes Catholic contemplative mysticism and universalist heretics such as the Catholic-Buddhist monk Thomas Merton; yokes together in ministry with New Agers (e.g., Mehmet Oz, Daniel Amen, Mark Hyman, and Leonard Sweet); says that believers should work with unbelievers and pagan religionists to build the kingdom of God and create world peace; and presents Roman Catholic interfaith one-worlder Tony Blair with a peace prize (March 2011). For documentation see www.wayoflife.org/database/warrenheader.html. Calvary Chapels are considered “conservative†by some, but they have long held the heresy that has been described more recently by Mark Driscoll as “theologically conservative and culturally liberal.†Calvary Chapel played a major role in the birth of Christian rock during the Jesus People movement of the 1970s, led by the charismatic Jesus hippie Lonnie Frisbee, who performed “signs and wonders†(mostly the silly spirit slaying and holy shaking) but died of AIDS at age 43 because he did not give up his homosexual lifestyle. Chuck Smith eventually split with Frisbee over “charismatic signs,†but he did not renounce Christian rock. Calvary Chapel’s Maranatha Music label was the first major contemporary praise publisher. After I was converted in 1973 from a hippie lifestyle, the Lord showed me from Scripture that I needed to give up my sensual rebel rock music (Eph. 5:11) and cut my “freak flag†long hair (1 Cor. 11:14). The Jesus People hippies determined to hold onto both the unholy rock of the world and the holy Rock Christ, but this merger is spiritual adultery, and the fruit has been to usher in the one-world church through addictive, body-jerking, emotion-wrenching ecumenical charismatic music. (See The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians for more on Calvary Chapel. It is available for free in eBook format from the Way of Life web site.)
(Friday Church News Notes, December 16, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)