I have received a lot of email over the last year from many who have heard the “still small voice” calling them out of the seeker-sensitive church-growth movement and it’s thousands of Willow Creek/Saddleback churches across America. Many have shared with me heartbreaking stories of deception and betrayal by a corrupted clergy who they once considered to be brothers in Christ. I believe with all my heart that God has allowed this movement to prosper for a time that Satan may sift the brethren the way he sifted the Apostle Peter before Jesus’ crucifixion that Heaven and Earth may know who belongs to Him. It is a separating of the sheep from a gathering of goats and a coming out party for the One-World Religion that will accompany a One-World Government under the guidance and direction of the United Nations.
Just this week an article in the Chicago Daily Herald was brought to my attention by one of my readers describing a recent forum held at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois for the world’s largest religions. It was like a reenactment of last September’s pageant of pantheism called “The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders” held at the United Nations in New York City. Included in the article was a very disturbing and yet revealing comment that confirmed much of what I’ve been writing all along about Willow Creek.
FORUM UNITES DIVERSE RELIGIONS
“All pathways to heaven and God are not the same; that’s the reality,” said David Staal, a spokesman for Willow Creek.
As any bible believing Christian knows, this is the opposite of what Jesus taught. It is more of the Hegelian Dialectic at work made famous by socialists for centuries and the driving force behind the New World Order…The anti-gospel.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6)
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
These two scriptures are the essence of the gospel message and yet many of today’s “Christians” continue to follow Willow Creek’s blind guides into the global abyss seeking the emotional gratification of group acceptance. It is clear that those who remain loyal to the church-growth movement do so because it is where their friends and family are and they just can’t bear to forfeit such valuable relationships for the cause of Christ. It is a travesty that the cross is so readily forsaken for the frivolity of compromised companionship. These poor souls never seem to grasp that in doing this they exchange the “Agape” love of Christ for the “Phileo” love of ecumenism. Tragically, some even convince themselves they can carry out a ministry by playing along in these “Temples of Doom” forgetting the Apostle Paul’s warning to not be “unequally yoked together with unbelievers”. (II Corinthians 6:14)
The fact is Willow Creek and Saddleback utilize many of Satan’s carnal tools to promote the global agenda believing as socialists do, that the end justifies the means. The “church growth movement” is about growing churches and budgets instead of Christians. It is “seeker-sensitive” because it is not God sensitive. It focuses on “felt needs” instead of spiritual needs. So, rather than equipping saints to go out into the world to rescue the lost from a culture of death they employ the culture’s own singers, celebrities and salesmen to seduce them into their apostasy by marketing a gospel of gratification. It is the harlotry of hedonism and the very antithesis of all that is holy.
Regardless of what the spokesman said at Willow Creek’s religious forum, “…There is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
It is still Jesus Christ plus NOTHING.
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Willow Creek…. Hegelian Dialectic and The New World Order
Willow Creek (Part II)…..Socializing The Church
Willow Creek (Part III)….Converting Christianity