Barna survey: pastors avoid "controversy" (unlike Jesus...)

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Barna: Many pastors wary of raising 'controversy'

The measures of success for (most) churches is: "attendance, giving ($$$), number of programs, number of staff and square footage." Really??

The Consensus "Peer-Driven" Church

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What's the best way to get people to believe they're following the Bible while actually doing the opposite? Get them to go along with the group, because "they" know what they're talking about ("they" told me so).
Excellent article with funny video!
http://www.herescope.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-peer-driven-church.html

New Apostolic Reformation: It's Influence and Teachings

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Here's a very informative article that summarizes this movement:
New Apostolic Reformation: influence and teachings

What's amazing is that most people don't even know what it is...
                         but it's taking over the church like a steamroller!




"The Presence" that Jesus, Paul, Peter, John, etc. failed to mention

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Recently, I did a word study of the entire New Testament and there is NOT one verse about "seeking God's Presence" or "feeling God's Presence" or "carrying God's Presence..." (and the word isn't capitalized either, that's a New Age innovation, as Warren Smith explains in the video I posted earlier about the book "Jesus Calling"). 
NOT EVEN ONE VERSE! 

 So where is this teaching coming from and why is the church all worked up over this mystical and elusive "pixie dust?" This extensive and scholarly series of articles helps explain: