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I came across this article while googling more article and opinions about the Lakeland Revival. Even though I do not support this organization, I found their insights and Analysis into the Lakeland Revival, Joel’s Army, and Dominionism very insightful.

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?

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 …

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 …