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Marsha West comments on the Lakeland Revival and the N.A.R. in this article

This question came into my mind today :

When Charismatic Christians are made angry, they ‘christian curse’ their disagreers, but when a Christian is angered by a Charismatic Christian and tries the ‘christian curse’ game, the Charismatic Christian claims that he is ‘curse proof’.
How can this double-standard be so blindly accepted as truth?

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-30-08 is:
Casey Anthony.
The mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony. Ms. Anthony was taken back to jail for unrelated check fraud charges.

This question came into my mind today after reading this great blog post last night and thinking about the article today while driving home.

When a revival leader has moral failures, the other revival leaders claim that the moral failure of the revival leader does not invalidate the revival. However, when a revival critic is found to be in a moral failure, the revival leaders claim that the moral failure of the revival critic invalidates the criticisms brought forth.
How can this double-standard be so blindly accepted as truth?

C. Peter Wagner announces Lakeland, the sequel in his latest e-mail (my comments in bold)

An Update on Lakeland from Peter
August 25, 2008
I was in the San Francisco airport on my way to Singapore and Indonesia when the news of Todd Bentley’s separation from his wife became public on August 12. When I arrived back home last week, I found that Doris had received and replied to around 1,700 emails and the stack of correspondence on my desk was unbelievable. It took me the rest of the week to …

We learned a couple of things this week. We saw that most everyone affiliated had their response that could be summed up in one statement:

We are grieved that Todd Bentley is separating. However, this does not invalidate the Lakeland Revival. However, come next week to my mega conference where people will get…….

Two responses were of interest. First Dutch Sheets of the NAR fame released this .pdf file that gets it in some areas but completely misses it in many other areas. In fact, YouTube user LocalPastor summed it up in …

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-23-08 is:
Ed McMahon
The guy has some of the highest paying pitchman jobs and has somehow become near bankrupt???