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Six Ways To Identify A Christian Cult クリスチャンカルトの六つの特徴
How Reliable, Biblically, Is The GotQuestions.org Website?
If you search on the net for Bible related questions you will surely find Michael Houdmann’s Got Questions.org website. The website is apparently his full time job that he started after Bible school. He writes weekly articles from his home in Colorado and solicits giving from people on their mailing list. Houdmann does a good job answering a lot of questions about life with Bible verses that he quotes. Overall he’s doing a good job of getting lots of content on the net and answering some basic questions. However, we have received a lot of questions about the answers there. We will answer your questions about how reliable and true to the Word of God his site is from a Spirit-filled believer’s perspective.
Generally, it is interesting and can be used as somewhat informational but you can’t trust GotQuestions.org essays all too much. From our research, it is written by people coming from a very conservative, evangelical religious perspective. Apparently the ‘whatever happens to you is God’s will’ group (we call it Dark Ages Mentality or DAM). For example, anything about the Holy Spirit is usually not in line with Spirit-filled believers or people accustomed to the Biblical beliefs such as what the mainline Assemblies of God, or the Foursquare Christian groups know or expect.
Recently, Mr. Houdmann’s was labeled as a false teacher by several other Christian ministries. Why is this? It is likely the result of “what comes around goes around”, or just plain old ‘sowing and reaping’. He answers the typical questions about Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses with the usual cult responses, but he doesn’t stop there. He also labels other Christian ministries as cults or ‘scripturally off’ who are not cults but just different from his background. That is really saddening to see a Christian attacking fellow brothers and sisters in the Kingdom.
Ministries that we see leading people to Jesus and helping people to walk in His ways are labeled cults and should not be. We don’t see him as a false teacher but from the site answers, just more as an over-zealous traditional religious person.
Generally, Mr. Houdmann seems to be working hard on his website Got Questions.org, raising funds, and trying to develop new sites. But like any information on the net, there’s good but unfortunately, there’s a bit of error as well. Error comes when people write about what they do not understand or have not experienced. It completely missed the boat on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit calling the Baptism “tongues” and saying that this ended with the destruction of the temple in 70AD. You wonder, “What Bible did that come from”, if you are already baptized in the Spirit and seeing miracles working in your life. After all, Jesus said we would do greater works than He, because He was going to the Father in John 14:12.
Although, generally interesting reading, the website can sometimes be a distraction, misleading, and divisive among the church. From a Bible-believing Christians’ perspective, it’s better to see his essay’s as needing to be examined according to the Word of God.. Would love to see him and his website helpers baptized in the Holy Spirit and promoting unity among the body of Christ that would surely bring more people into the Kingdom. I hope that answers your question. 😉
UPDATE 28 April 2016- FaithPro.org BETA
There is so much misinformation and religious teaching out there that distracts us from our relationship with God, we have decided to do something about it. We want Jesus, not religion. The Spirit is our teacher according to John 14:26. It’s time to get inspired answers to life’s questions directly from the Holy Spirit who inspired the men and women who wrote the Bible.
We are creating a new site is called FaithPro.org. We all need inspiration. If you read and study the Word for yourself, the Holy Spirit will inspire and teach you. You will learn from believers who are filled, inspired and led by God’s Spirit. You will learn to walk by faith like a PRO! After all, it is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).
Check out the new Faithpro.org site here. It’s still in BETA so please let us know how to make it better. Be a part of the inspiration. Some good is going to happen to you, BECAUSE you believe!
A Praying Church Knows How to worship
Just like a worshipping church would likely know how to pray powerfully.
Preaching Should be positive
If you are getting up to preach and you can’t encourage, you should sit down.
Today I heard a grieving widow preach. The people of God need to be lifted up and encouraged n the house of God.
What A Thriller!
Great to see a church with such creativity… and having fun
Powerful Real Life Experiences- Beyond the Grave
We have been enjoying watching these Beyond The Grave videos. Very powerful testimonies.
Farewell Jack LaLanne- Fitness Pioneer Dies at 96
Sorry to see this guy go. He was a an inspiration to take care of your body, eat natural foods, and live long. He seemed strong to the end.
I want to see people making that Biblical promise of 120 years. I want to go long and strong myself.
Jack, I didn’t know you but I hope you knew Jesus personally.
Here’s the article quoted from here.
(Reuters) – Jack LaLanne, a one-time sugar-holic who became a television fitness guru preaching exercise and healthy diet to a generation of American housewives, died on Sunday at age 96, his daughter said.
LaLanne, who became U.S. television fixture in his close-fitting jumpsuit starting in 1959 and came to be regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement, succumbed to pneumonia following a brief illness at his home in Morro Bay, along the California’s central coast.
“He was surrounded by his family and passed very peacefully and in no distress … and with the football game on Sunday, so everything was normal,” Yvonne LaLanne, 66, told Reuters.
She said her father had remained active until a few months ago, including the taping of a recent public TV special.
Well into his 90s, LaLanne exercised for two hours a day. A typical workout would be 90 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of swimming, changing his routine every 30 days.
He preached the gospel of exercise, raw vegetables and clean living long after his contemporaries had traded in their bicycles for nursing home beds.
“I can’t die,” LaLanne would say. “It would ruin my image.”
LaLanne was born Francois Henri LaLanne on September 26, 1914, in San Francisco, the son of French immigrants. He said he grew into a “sugar-holic” who suffered terrible headaches, mood swings and depression.
In desperation when he was 14, LaLanne’s mother took him to hear health lecturer Paul Bragg, who urged followers to exercise and eat unprocessed foods.
The young LaLanne swore off white flour, most fat and sugar and began eating more fruits and vegetables. By age 15, he had built a backyard gym of climbing ropes, chin-up bars, sit-up machines and weights.
Soon, LaLanne, who was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, was playing high school football. He added weight-lifting to recover from a football injury and was hooked.
LaLanne opened the nation’s first modern health club in Oakland, California, in 1936. It had a gym, juice bar and health food store. Soon there were 100 gyms nationwide.
Without bothering with patents, LaLanne designed his own exercise equipment, which he had built by a blacksmith. In 1951, he started using television to get the first generation of couch potatoes to try jumping jacks, push-ups and sit-ups.
“The Jack LaLanne Show,” which went national in 1959, showed housewives how to work out and eat right, becoming a staple of U.S. daytime television during a 34-year run.
He also was known for a series of promotional fitness stunts. At age 45, in 1959, he did 1,000 push-ups and 1,000 chin-ups in 86 minutes. In 1984 a 70-year-old LaLanne had himself shackled and handcuffed and towed 70 boats 1.5 miles in Long Beach Harbor.
LaLanne said in 2007 his focus was always to help people the way Paul Bragg had helped him, adding, “Billy Graham is for the hereafter, I’m for the here and now!”
Spreading Christians Out
Just heard a great quote on a podcast this AM. I am not sure who said it as the speaker was quoting someone else, but it seems so true.
Christians can be like manure sometimes. When they stick together too much, they can start to stink. But when you spread them out, things start to grow.