Onward, Forward, Toward…

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 …

I came across this interesting article by a man named Chris Elrod entitled Did I Sit On The Sidelines While The Playing Field Burned? where Pastor Elrod takes a sobering look at the Lakeland Revival and regrets not doing more to warn the community about Todd bentley.
What makes this story unique is that Elrod is the pastor of the Compass Point Church in Lakeland. If anyone saw the stuff that went on in Lakeland from April until the first of August, this pastor (along with Charisma forums poster “Hesed” who …

In light of the recent debacle now known as Lakeland, I was wondering and thinking about where the church will go next in terms of a ‘movement. In my thoughts, this came to mind:

Will we swing from the excessive charismatic/prophetic back to the excessive over-repentance / hyper-holiness mentality?

I believe that if we are not careful enough, we can get ourselves in grave danger of heading in this direction of an ‘over-repenting’ and ‘hyper-holiness’ type of Gospel where the legalisms widely known within fundamentalist and ole-time pentecostalism can take form. To …

According to John Arnott, there was also in addition to the emotional adultery, a problem with “excessive drinking” where Arnott states:

Todd has chosen to do something that is wrong according to Scripture, and his timing to announce it was equally inappropriate. Everyone is asking, “What happened?” “Why didn’t anyone see this coming?” We are making the answers to those questions a matter of prayer, and are as shocked and saddened by what has just happened as you are. Furthermore, it has now come out that there has been some …

Who is Todd’s other woman?
The world wants to know…
I was thinking about this recently and an intriguing thought came into my head. If ‘the other woman’ was also a willing participant in this emotional adultery, shouldn’t she
(1): Be terminated from the ministry and a public announcement made?
(2): Be equally called out in public for her part in the emotional adultery?
Now if this ‘emotional adultery’ was ‘forced’ or ‘falsely coerced with a promise of a mega-blessing from God’, or a ‘threat of blackball if she decided to reveal all’, …

What if Senator Charles Grassley was to enact the same legal proceedings he enacted on the televangelists in reference to the Lakeland Revival to see if any possible investigation can come forth?

Che Ahn comments on Todd Bentley
Here is what bothered me about Ahn’s press release:

Please pray that their marriage will be fully restored. It is not surprising that the enemy would use this incident and anything he can find to impugn the work of God to cause us and all involved to question the Lakeland revival.
Every revival that I have experienced or studied had its controversy, and the Lakeland revival, to say the least, has had its share.

This comes across as being so ‘flippant’ as if Life Goes On. The …