By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
The Spirit Of God Routing Out More False Teachers, Evangelists And Prophets
True Christians Should Be Able To Spot Them From Scripture Alone
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness...
(II Peter 2:12-15)
Marcus Lamb: Televangelist Announces Extortion Over Affair
Dec. 5, 2010
Marcus Lamb: Televangelist Announces Extortion Over Affair
by Carlin DeGuerin Miller
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20024257-504083.html
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) The "Rev." Marcus Lamb, a prominent
Dallas-based Pentecostal televangelist, came clean on national television
about an affair he had years ago rather than pay the people he says are
trying to blackmail him out of $7.5 mil of "God's money," Lamb and his wife
announced Tuesday. Lamb, who created DayStar Television Network with his
wife Joni, said he and his wife had healed their marriage and had hoped to
keep his adultery private, but went public because they would not pay
extortionists (this is not true repentance, he would have stepped down from
his leadership position. Instead he is being forced out of money which
obviously pains him more than being a spiritual fraud.
See False Prophets & Anti-Christs).
"They're trying to take our pain and turn it to their gain," said Lamb, during a one-hour live broadcast with his wife by his side and supporters surrounding him. "We're not going to take God's money to keep from being humiliated (no shame for this scam artist when money is involved)." DayStar, based in Dallas, airs some of the highest-profile evangelists in the world, including Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar and Joyce Meyers (All these fraudsters are in it for the money. Study their beliefs: they all teach contrary to the Bible). The Lambs' supporters on the broadcast repeatedly described the affair and the extortion plot as an attempt by the devil to discredit the evangelist couple and their ministry, although Lamb (you mean a lamb in wolves clothing) has said that only he is to blame for his wrongdoing (according to the Bible this scam artist is not fit for a leadership position. Why do his supporters keep supporting him? They get a pretty good salary for keeping the scam alive. None of this is scriptural or true Christianity).
DayStar is rooted in Pentecostalism, the Christian tradition known for its
spirit-filled worship, and its belief in modern-day miracles and everyday
battles with evil influences. Joni Lamb described her husband's affair as
"an emotional relationship" with a woman that became "an improper
relationship." (God calls it adultery and the false evangelist is a wolf in
sheep’s clothing). She confronted her husband and the two decided to undergo
Christian counseling with Fred and Anna Kendall of the Life Languages
Institute, which specializes in training communicators. Marcus Lamb said he
took responsibility for the affair by confessing what he had done to his
wife's parents and asking some members of the DayStar ministry to help hold
him accountable for his promise to stay faithful (This wolf is not wanting
to be accountable to God. What does God have to say about this? He is
supposed to be disciplined by not being a church leader, the scam artist
lives on). A spokesman for the Lambs, Larry Ross, said they went to
authorities with their allegations, but he said he could not discuss
specifics for fear of interfering with any investigation. He said the
extortion attempt was made within the past few weeks.
Disgraced Evangelist Ted Haggard, Wife Announce New Church
June 4, 2010
Disgraced Evangelist Ted Haggard, Wife Announce New Church
Adelle M. Banks
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11632639/
"Some of his counselors said Haggard promised them he would not start a new church in Colorado Springs. When you think of the ethics of that, it, to me, just defies explanation…"
(RNS) -- Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace in 2006 after a gay sex-and-drug scandal, has announced plans to start a new church with his wife Gayle. The couple, who incorporated St. James Church in late April, said Wednesday (June 2) that they would hold a "launch party" for the new congregation in their barn on Sunday in Colorado Springs. Haggard, 53, will serve as senior pastor and his wife, Gayle, also 53, will be co-pastor of the independent evangelical church.
"There was so much enthusiasm over the reports of our incorporation," Ted Haggard said. "Gayle and I went for a walk and we thought, let's just go ahead and get this done." The couple plans to refine plans the following Sunday and find a location in or near Colorado Springs for their first official service on June 20. The decision comes almost four years after Haggard resigned from New Life Church in Colorado Springs and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in the wake of a scandal involving a Denver male escort. Haggard later admitted he bought methamphetamine and paid the escort for massages. He went through a "spiritual restoration" process, but ended it through a mutual agreement with advisers.
Haggard said he already has an answer for critics who will say it is inappropriate for him to start a new church. "For the people that believe I'm not qualified, I believe they're probably right," he said. But people have been calling, thinking he had a church, and others have come to their door seeking help, he said. "St. James is a church for sinners — for people who have hit rock bottom and people who want to help people who have hit rock bottom," Ted Haggard said, according to the Denver Post. "It is not a gathering for the righteous, except those who are righteous by faith."
The Haggards hope that St. James' dynamics will facilitate greater diversity than their previous church. "Everybody is welcome (just don’t forget your checkbook poor shmuck): Democrats, Republican, Independents, gays, straights, tall, short, addicts and recovering addicts," Haggard said, the Denver Post reported. His wife, who authored a book called "Why I Stayed (the scam artist is a moneymaker for her)" about her decision to stay married after the scandal, called the first gathering "kind of a resurrection celebration that we're back and that we're ready to go to work." She said they named their church after the verse in the New Testament book of James that proclaims "faith without works is dead." (None of this has to do with true Christianity, these false teachers have found a scam and it works for them).
The Haggards also are considering being in a documentary, and filmmakers captured the footage of their church announcement. They previously were featured in a 2009 HBO documentary, "The Trials of Ted Haggard." Haggard had earlier denied the incorporation meant the couple was about to start a church, explaining it was created to handle their traveling and speaking expenses. "A corporation does not a church make," he said in an interview on May 18. On Tuesday, Ted Haggard said they had been unsettled about when to start the church and his wife said they now had the "courage" to reveal their plans. "I went through the shame," he said. "She has been a pillar of strength."
Their former megachurch, which the Haggards also started in their home, issued a statement Wednesday saying: "New Life Church will always be grateful for the many years of dedicated leadership from Ted and Gayle Haggard and we wish their family only the best." Some of his counselors said Haggard promised them he would not start a new church in Colorado Springs. When the couple held prayer meetings in their home last fall, the Rev. H.B. London, who chaired Haggard's restoration committee, expressed disappointment. "When you think of the ethics of that, it, to me, just defies explanation," said London, a vice president at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, at the time (a lying sodomite who scams people religiously is the answer).
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
(Matt. 7:15-17)
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