You’ve seen my previous post of this embarrassing spectacle, but it’s not over. Paul Eugene is back with more “Gospel Aerobics.”

How did the early Church ever preach the gospel without gimmicky displays like the Power Team with music from POD?

The Power Team’s website boasts that they increase your “church growth” by 20% and that 60% of those who come to see them are the “unchurched.” Wow. More of those buzzwords flying around.

This critique of Joel Osteen was put together by A Little Leaven. Enjoy the video.

An update on TBN darlings “Bishop” Weeks and “Prophetess” Bynum.  See my original post here and a more recent post here. Thanks to Tammy for this update video.

If the early Church fathers were as weak in their stand for the faith as this Mega-Church pastor, Christianity would have died in the first century.

  Since my earlier posting on the “Bishop” Weeks and “Prophetess” Bynum fiasco, I have received contact mostly from defenders of these two people, albeit by the use of out-of-context scripture, but defenders nonetheless.  Apparently no one seems to care that these two individuals spend their time peddling the profane and vulgar.  And those who do care dismiss it way too easily… in spite of our Lord’s warning that even a little leaven will ruin the whole lump.

Well, one of the defenders of these two purveyors of preoccupation with sexuality commented in their defense and I thought it was worth sharing some parts of her comment (the whole comment can be read by clicking on the above picture, then scrolling down to the comments).

Latoya wrote:  The question that must be asked is, what about their teaching is false? If I teach something that is incorrect, but on another subject matter teach something that is correct, and that helps people in doing God’s will, am I a false teacher? or am I a flawed teacher?

Well Latoya, I could pose the same question to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons.  Some of the stuff they teach is scriptural. .. some isn’t.  So are what they teach ok with you because they also teach good stuff mixed in with their heresy? Are they just “flawed” teachers? 

If you received a glass of water in a restaurant but discovered a dead cockroach in the bottom of the glass what would you do?  Would you simply scoop out the offensive roach carcass with your spoon and enjoy your glass of refreshing water afterward, or would you send it back and demand another glass of water, if you even remained in the restaurant?  I’m pretty sure you would do the latter.  So why not treat things of an eteranl nature with as much caution and discernment?  The Bible never says that a false teacher will teach 100% falsehood. In fact, no one would follow one if they did. They always mix a little damning heresy with their truth.  

Latoya wrote: …we as the church need to come to grips with the fact that sex is not filthy or dirty, but a gift. Talking about it (respectfully and with discretion) is not a sin nor is it encouraging lust.

There was nothing respectful or discreet about the way sex was being addressed in those two videos so they failed even your standard of decency. Imagine how offensive it is to God’s standard of holiness in the Church!

Additionally, no one said sex itself was dirty or filthy. But the Church is not where this is supposed to be handled! Sex education was not part of the Great Commission. God did not purchase the Church with His blood (Acts 20:28) so that we can give sex seminars from the pulpit. The martyrs did not die so that we can be taught how to have better orgasms by those who are supposed to be pointing us to Christ and helping us to grow in the FAITH. If you think otherwise, I encourage you to take this enlightening pop quiz.   

Latoya wrote: When someone calls a professed christian a false teacher, to me, they are saying that person is not really a christian, but pretending to be so he/she can get what he/she wants. Can anyone say without a doubt that this is the case here?  And: Who knows the true sheep from the goat? None but God, or the goat himself. 

Bare in mind that Jesus told us to watch out for false teachers and wolves in sheep’s clothing and He instructed us to judge them by their fruits.  What are the fruits of these two individuals? No, no, I don’t want to hear about how they helped someone’s sex life that you know. Even the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses can rattle off what they consider “good fruits” that “prove” they’re correct. Really, what are their fruits? Is it the insatiable hunger to feed the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh as seen in those two videos? 

Here’s the bottom line Latoya, from out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A true false teacher will always be revealed for what they are. But if you want the proverbial proof in the pudding on whether or not “Bishop” Weeks is a false teacher, and how I come to that conclusion, then look no further than this video. This video of “Bishop” Weeks will clearly show what a false teacher is. It’s his own video and it speaks volumes.  

In the video “Bishop” weeks wants you to “imagine” with him all churches, all people, all faiths  gathered in one place. Now before you say “he meant all Christian faiths” think again.  He not only says “all faiths” (and last time I checked there was only one true faith) but on his Church On Demand website he lists Catholicism, Judaism and other faiths.  Last time I checked Jesus Christ said that He was the only way to the Father.  Jews deny this.  How do you reconcile this?

Thanks to Chris from A Little Leaven for putting this together. This video shows a heretical false teacher tickling the ears of his congregation who know no better because their Bibles are more than likely  at home collecting dust on a shelf.

“I wanted to reach the mainstream.”

“I just try to teach practical principles, I may not bring the scripture until the end of my sermon and I don’t feel bad about that.”

This may not seem like a big deal to some, but consider associating Osteen’s philosophy on preaching with that of Jesus, or Peter, or Paul. Whenever you can say “aww, that doesn’t really seem that bad” I recommend that you check out how preachers of old used to preach. In fact, check out this great post by Jim over at OldTruth.com for an example of Now vs Then. I enjoy when Jim compares preachers of today to preachers of yesteryear. It really helps to put things into perspective.

Thanks to Stacy over at StacyHarp.com for this one. I won’t even try to preface this video. I’ll let you watch it and come to your own conclusions.

In one of my other posts I commented on Joel Osteen’s new book (releasing in October) entitled Become a Better You. If you haven’t see it, click here. Now he’s got a short 34 second promo clip on Amazon plugging this new book. I guess his first book Your Best Life Now didn’t deliver, otherwise there’d be no need to become a better you. You can watch the video by clicking here.

New Life Church recently held auditions for their next pastor. That’s right… “auditions.” Would you expect more from the church in America today? Check out this news video clip to see for yourself. The pastor in my previous post said there was no blueprint in the Bible about how a church should be. According to New Life Church, I guess there’s no blueprint in the Bible about selecting a shepherd of a church either.

Another very interesting morsel I found in the news clip was that after the former pastor fell from grace, (i.e. paying for sex with a homosexual prostitute and using methamphetamine), membership in the church dropped by 20% and contributions to the church dropped by 10%. Now I’m no math whiz, but something here doesn’t add up.

And by the way, in case you were wondering, the church website has officially announced that they’ve selected the pastor in the news clip as their new pastor to head their 14,000 member church. Maybe next time they can select a pastor by putting all the candidates on an island and putting them through rigorous tests, then allowing them to vote each other off the island.

P.S. For those of you wondering where Ted Haggard, the previous pastor of this church is today, click here.