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[1]What is Spree Wales?
Spree Wales is organised by Ecumenical/Emergent groups such as Ignite, The Salvation Army, Big Ideas, Scripture Union, The Boys Brigade, Evangelical Alliance, Show Jesus and World Horizon.
Spree Wales is:
·Focused
on young people from 8 - 15's they advertise that there are
5 streams of age-specific main sessions.
·Main sessions featuring a
high-energy programme of inspirational teaching.
·Audience participation.
·Music.
·Laughter and the odd
messy game thrown in for good measure.
·These sessions are designed
to present the Good News of Jesus Christ in a way that is exciting.
·Challenging and relevant
to your everyday life.
·An inspirational and action-packed
camping weekend! Spree is fast-moving with choices galore.
·Water sports, inflatables,
bicycles, archery and much more … or for those who prefer relaxing there's
a cafe marquee, workshops and The Zone - a dedicated area where you
can talk to
'The Boss'.
Who came up with these idea's? What gospel are they promoting and who are
the groups running this event?
[2] 1, Ignite - The Ignite Cymru team were setup to reach children, or as they state young people, and are committed to evangelism amongst young people in Wales.
What is
the type of Evangelism they are commited to, [3]
Ignite state that the gospel is [4]
3 Simple Words, this presents a simple way of bringing someone into God's
kingdom through the three words: "Sorry, Thanks, Please". If you
say this you have been saved by Spree Wales.
This makes salvation a formula, after a person has been through this mantra
(repeat after me) they simply fill in a prayer card [5]
this supposed Declaration Card functions as an act of devotion to God. Apparently
4,400 youth from across the nations have one.
4,400 youth saved? By whom or what? The problem with this is that it is pushing
an institutionalized religious system that leads people into becoming religious
"christians" and not True Christians who have a Christ centered
approach of repentance, regeneration and a holiness of life. This has replaced
the Gospel of Christ. Many organisations use this same system, the Roman Catholic
Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Lutheran, Baptist, Salvation Army etc....
Ignite
also state "If you would like to have a 'Holy Moment' with God, drop
us a line by post, or e-mail us ."
I would seriously put this in to question, what is the emergent church up
to?
The term [6]
"Holy Moment" is a very common, it is used within the ecumenical
movement. Arnold Toynbee, who is an apostle of an amalgam of Christianity
and Mahayanian Buddhism (and also involved with the [7]
world council of churches), has[8]
a penchant for a Buddhist-Christian partnership that is shared by many prominent
religious leaders. Consider the following from Newark's Episcopalian Bishop,
John S. Spong:
“In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....
I will
not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or
the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by
side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and
blind us.”
Diocese of Newark, The Voice (Jan. 1989).
For a "Holy Moment" to occur people have to have a spiritual experience
and these so-called experiences are seen to be more important than the teachings
of the Bible itself.
As expressed
by John S.
Spong his experience of worshipping God in a Buddhist temple was a"Holy
Moment" this is no different to spree Wales setting up The
Zone - a dedicated area where you can talk to 'The Boss'.
For spree Wales this is how you can have your "Holy Moment" with
God. When we look to the Bible we find no scriptural basis for this, rather
a more superficial practice.
Ignite promotes its so-called "simple strategies."
This formula is what we call "easy believism" and is leading many
people astray. Most of these young people are Biblically Ignorant so by making
Christianity into asystem of fun and games, they are then lulled by the use
of a “simple plan” followed by a travesty of a “sinner’s
prayer”.
This includes [9]
Video Night, Sleepover's, Pizza Party, Games Evening, Live Bands, School Assemblies,
CU Mini-Missions, Workshops- art, music, etc, Discussion Groups, Themed Party,
Day Trip, Weekend Away, Christmas Party, Easter Celebration, Anything with
Food, Youth Service, "Any Questions" Panel.
Followed by the Rick Warren Purpose for your life plan, "I believe that God has a special purpose for my generation and me. I ask God to ignite in me a desire to discover this purpose."
This
is some of the philosophy's of Ignite.
"the consequences of not knowing your purpose" -- not with Jesus
Christ. It warns the group that "without knowing your purpose, life will
seem TIRESOME... UNFULFILLING... UNCONTROLLABLE." And it repeats the
positive (but not particularly Biblical) promise that "knowing the purpose
of your life will -
* "give
your life FOCUS."
* "SIMPLIFY your life."
* "increase MOTIVATION in your life."
* "PREPARE YOU FOR ETERNITY."
After reading
what is being promoted, it is a little wonder why all who pray the "prayer"
suddenly will be affirmed by ignite and celebrated as new members of the family
of God. I wonder if they really are? We just don't know.
Having read
reports from journals and other news, statistics suggest that most people
who call themselves Christians have little, or no understanding, of the gospel
at all which would suggest that they may not trully be saved at all.
Ignite summarises a commitment to:
Include
Jesus in my moral life, my thoughts, words, actions and relationships.
[10]
George Otis thoughts of Moral Government Theology were first expounded in
his book, The God They Never Knew (1978). This book is out of print but I
quote a few references made to it by Greg Robertson. In these passages Otis
concedes that a sinful nature can develop in a person, but, according to him,
it is caused by habitual sinning and is therefore not hereditary:
“’A sinful nature is developed in our lives through habitual
self-indulgence and subsequently begins to affect everything we do. Paul makes
mention of this situation and the impossibility of fighting it in our own
strength in the seventh chapter of Romans. Thus we concur that a law or sinful
nature is present but we must also see that it originated by choice. A good
example of this is a junkie bound by an addiction to heroin. He cannot help
put (sic) crave drugs; but its origin was in his choices’ (Otis
1978:76).”
“When Otis talks about the impossibility of fighting it in your
own strength he is talking about advanced cases of moral depravity (used in
the Moral Government sense), where the habits of sin are so developed that
only in perceiving the character of God in the crucifixion of Christ, can
a person receive the power to reform his moral life and thereby become acceptable
to God (Otis 1978:105-131).
George Otis does not believe in the core message of True Christianity, which
is the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross to pay the wages for our
sins, thereby making it possible for us to be saved from the wrath of God
over the wicked. In lectures given in 1981 to YWAM in Tacoma, Washington,
on Moral Government Theology, he made the following statements in this regard:
This is what they Believe
* “God has put things inside of us. He’s made us in many ways like Himself. His truth is deep within us and it will take our own basic understanding of what God is like and what His principles are like. And then we’ll go into the Word of God and really search the scriptures, we’re going to come up with concepts that are different than what are normally taught today in theological circles. According to this definition of forgiveness, that is the relaxation of a legitimate claim, then it would be impossible for God to have, as one hymn put it, ‘paid the debt and forgave me all my sins’” (1981:lecture 3).
* “Christ has not redeemed us by giving His life as a ransom for our sins in order that He might release us… For God never kept man captive in sin… The truth is Christ paid no man’s debt” (1981:lecture 4).
* “If we accept the premise that Jesus literally purchased, that He literally purchased our salvation with His blood... and He paid the Father... then this approach, first of all portrays God the Father as being vindictive and bloodthirsty and totally incompatible with biblical forgiveness. It also presents another grave difficulty. If Jesus literally paid for our sins with His blood, and a paid debt is no longer a debt, and He died for the sins of the whole world, then we can only come to one conclusion and the theological word for that is Universalism – which means that everybody will be saved” (1981:lecture 4).
With these statements, Otis refutes clear biblical pronouncements on the redemption of sinners through the atoning death of Jesus Christ. The Bible says, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph. 1:7). “For you were bought at a price” (1 Cor. 6:20). “…knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pet. 1:18-19).
Grow closer to
Jesus through studying the Bible, praying and allowing the Holy Spirit to
lead me each day.
[11]
Again they use the ecumenical alpha course in order to aid the "youth"
in having Bible studies, and a promotion of [12]
replacement theology. If the Holy Spirit was to lead, this would be
based on absolute truth, [13]
(John 14:17) Without his ongoing work in us, we cannot comprehend the mysteries
of the gospel. Before his departure, Jesus promised to send to his followers
the Spirit of Truth (John 16:1-3; see also I John 5:7). He also referred to
the Spirit as the Counselor who would convince the world concerning sin and
righteousness and judgment (John 14:25; 16:8).
This also has a warning, [14] beware of any dichotomy between the Spirit and the mind. Any anti-intellectual position, such as the belief held in many charismatic circles today that exercising the mind will hinder the Holy Spirit, is a real indication of deception. Deceivers like to parrot phrases like: “God will offend the mind to reveal the heart.” This cute little mantra often repeated in certain revival groups sounds very spiritual, but is very false. A careful reading of the Word tells us the truth: God will inform the mind to convince the heart. Jesus often did offend the Pharisee’s - by telling them the truth! The Holy Spirit leads people to Christ by shining the light of God’s Word into their minds and convicting them of its truth.
Network
with other Christians in my city, my country and throughout the world.
"Network with other Christians" (new ecumenism) this includes
ecumenical groups like [15]
Corpus Christi Catholic High School belonging to the Roman Catholic Church,
[16]
(Ecumenical Organisation) Salvation Army, (Ecumenical Organisation) Evangelical
Alliance and (Ecumenical/Interfaith Organisation) Scripture Union etc...
"Network with
other Christians throughout the world" this is a oversight, again
what Christians? Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodists, Christadelphians, Unitarian,
High Anglican, Eastern Orthodoxy, Old Catholic Churches of Europe, Philippine
Independent Church, Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, Moravian Church, Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist
Church, Reformed Episcopal Church and the Anglican Province of America
"Involve myself in a local church and respect its leadership".
Again regardless of doctrine or practice, they are not interested that God
commands Christians to be a separated people according to II Corinthians 6:17-18
and 7:1: on the grounds of doctrine you cannot respect a person's authority
if that leadership is not teaching truth, his authority is not from the Bible
or God. It is only right to respect that leadership's authority if that churches
are of like faith and order. With respect to Spree Wales this cannot be done,
simply because we are to have no part in any council of churches that is ecumenical
in nature or thrust. Spree Wales does hinder spiritual growth and stability
especially with young children and teenagers, the Bible teaches us that we
should live a holy life and maintain a testimony consistent with the New Testament.
"Take the message of Jesus" into my school, college or place of work and the world by praying, living and witnessing so that everyone may have an opportunity to know Jesus.
What message of Jesus
????? What exactly is emphasised here is a method called “Love Evangelism”
when we see what is done I question is loving men more important than loving
the truth? Biblical Christian fundamentalism is now rejected because it is
felt, by many, that it is too separatist a stance and, accordingly, “unloving”.
I am not speaking against the need for Love in Evangelism, but we need to
know that we must make a clear distinction between God's Love and what is
often confused with a Man centred view of Love, which is what many Christian
people understand about Love.
What we have is a whole younger generation of “Christians” has
been persuaded that it is not the will of God to expose the false teachers
of today who speak and teach a presumption of the word of God. They have truth
mixed in with error.
Love is seen as a concept where, regardless of whether a person is a Catholic,
Moslem, Hindu, whatever, we should love them in a way that makes them feel
comfortable with God. That we should not seek to confront sinners with the
consequences of their sin. People are being taught not to preach concerning
repentance of sin, to even play down the gravity of their situation, or that
believers should not be concerned about error.
In other words there is to be no distinction between truth and error, “Let
God deal with it, we are to love them”. Thus the understanding of “Love”
is very much a pretext for overlooking and/or acceptance of what the person
does.
"Explore God's
will for myself and my generation and seek to follow it." this is
very Rick Warren, A lot of Christians today call for “inclusiveness”.
Being “inclusive” means that we can accept, in our fellowship
meetings, and meetings of spiritual leaders, people of other belief systems,
(including practising Gay,
Lesbian and Transgender people). “Inclusiveness” also has the
view that we don't need to take any separatist stance, “we need people
to know that we are the new-evangelicals (the neo-evangelicals).”
Proselytizing has now become a goal rather than simply preaching and bearing
witness to the truth of the Gospel and allowing the Holy Spirit to convict
and lead the lost to Christ. The aim is to fill the empty seats in church
buildings rather than have Christ fill the empty souls of the lost, to increase
church attendance through entertainment, even to the point
where secular advertisers are employed to promote events.
This philosophy of “Love evangelism” leads people to disobey God
willingly. Satan's influence being deeply rooted in order to get Christians
away from being 100% obedient to God. This understanding of Love appeals more
to the senses, if it was truly God's love it would be unconditional to the
point where it would not be emotionally driven. This view of “Love Evangelism”
does not concern itself with whether a person is pleasing God but rather is
more concerned about pleasing others.
Neo-Evangelicals such as [2] Rick Warren, [3] Perry Stone, [4] Rev Billy Graham,
[5] Youth for Christ, [6] J.I Packer, [7] James
Kennerdy, and others, also teach a false view of the Word of God. They even
go so far as to having ties with Roman Catholicism. They overlook that the
Bible itself attacks error.
Every time Churches do events like this it shows how spiritually bankcrupt they are.
[17] Activities incude Bouncy castle, bungee run, gladiator challenge, DJ Workshop, Canoeing, Football Tournament, Hovercraft, Talent Show and Zorbing.
Compare that to secular organisations such as [18] Hartlepool Borough Council Fun day, this is including a climbing wall, a magician, face painting, balloon modelling, Punch and Judy shows, children's rides, arts and crafts, Zoolab, penalty shoot-outs, table tennis, the Hartlepool Families First health Bus.
What this comparison
shows is that their is no difference
between the two, the problem is that churches work so hard in organising events
simply because they want to be accepted by the unbelieving world and yes if
you fill the events with entertainment free food etc... they will come to
you, the truth is the Bible says Rom 3:11, "no one seeks God." this
will not convict people of their need for repentance, there is no such thing
as a seeker and churches that think such things are blind guides.
God has to draw men to himself, the problem is people are not reconciled to
God, they are reconciled back to "christian religion" and driven
away from Christ.
More misleading voices in Spree wales is the reading of the book called the shack, [19] this is read from 8-11 year old children, there are many problems with this book, when we look at the interview with the author, he openly Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement, denigh's Christ Death on the Cross as a penalty for sin, that God is feminine in this view then it is ok to pray father, Mother, God. The Shack is based on "pop psychology" you can listen to the MP3 interview here, http://rock-lifecom.files/shakcomp.mp3 Here are quotes from Paul Young's interview with Pastor Kendall Adams on KAYP Radio:
Kendall Adams: "I, I take it that you wouldn't, you wouldn't agree that the cross was a place of punishment for our sin."
Paul Young: "No. I don't, I am not a penal substitution ... reformation ... point of view."
Adams: "But isn't that the heart of the gospel? Is that the heart of the gospel?"
Young: "No! Ha, no!"... I'm not saying that I don't agree with some sense of substitutionary atonement."
Adams: "But you disagree..."
Young: "But it's way broader (muffled) than that."
Adams: "But if you reject a penal substitution that Christ died as a penalty for our sins, it seems like that is the, that is the Christian faith."
Young: "I don't know if you're aware, but that's a huge debate that's going on in theology right now within the evangelical community." LTRP Note: For more information on this "huge debate" regarding the atonement, please see our research: Slaughterhouse Religion: When they reject the blood atonement ... Also see Faith Undone, chapter 11, which addresses this issue.
For the full interview
please goto this site, http://morebooksand
things.blogspot.com/2009/03/transcript-of-interview.html
[20]
Exposing pagan, occult and New Age teachings in THE SHACK - Chris
Lawson
William P. Young's best selling book THE SHACK is considered
by many Biblical ministries to contain New Age, pagan and even occult false
teaching. Blatant heresy and false teaching of any kind should never be permitted
in any Christian Church [or Christian bookstore] regardless of whether or
not it is fiction.
As a result of this tragic acceptance in many circles, we have created this web page in order to expose The Shack's false teachings.
Please note carefully that all of the authors and reviews listed below write from the viewpoint of historic, classical, Biblical orthodoxy. In other words, sound biblical teaching which the Church has taught for the past 2000 years and which cannot be compromised, lest spiritual deceit would have free reign through the Church.
It is the responsibility of Pastors, Teachers and Church Elders, to not only nurture and feed God's flock, but to expose heresy, aberrant teachings, false teachers and false prophets - in order to faithfully and lovingly WARN God's flock. Those that fail to do so not only disqualify themselves from serving in a position of biblical Eldership and leadership, but they end up lead others astray!
"Jesus...
said to them: 'Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My
name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many."
Matthew 24:4-5
QUOTES FROM THE SHACK:
"This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's
'Pilgrim's Progress' did for his. It's that good!"
-----Eugene Peterson, author of The Message (Front cover endorsement)
"God, who
is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things....”
[panentheism]
-----The Shack's "Jesus." [1,p.112]
"Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists
or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims.... I have no desire to make them Christian,
but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters
of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters.”
-----The Shack's "Jesus." [1,p.182]
"The esoteric
spiritual traditions -- whether Christian mystics, Hebrew Kabbalists, Zen
Buddhists, Islamic Sufis, or Hindu yogis -- all have specific practices to
help individuals overcome this great 'illusion of separation' and to experience
the One True Self, which is in us all." [2,p.149]
-----A Course in Miracles, as "dictated" to channeler Helen Schucman
in 1977 by her spirit guide who claimed to be "Jesus."
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, RADIO PROGRAMS EXPOSING PAGAN, NEW AGE, OCCULT
TEACHINGS IN THE SHACK
The
Shack Author Denies Biblical Substitutionary Atonement
by Lighthouse Trails Press Release
The Shack Author Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement
by Lighthouse Trails Blog
Quotes
from Paul Young's [Author of The Shack] interview with Pastor Kendall Adams
on KAYP Radio Quotes posted at Lighthouse Trails
Read Transcript of part of the The Shack Radio Interview Transcript
Listen to The
Shack Radio Interview
Listen to a shorter audio
segment of The Shack Radio Interview
At
The Back Of The Shack A Torrent Of Universalism
A review by James B. De Young (PDF Version - 39 pages)
Revisiting
The Shack and Universal Reconciliation
A shorter review by James B. De Young (PDF Version - 9 pages)
The Shack's Wayne Jacobsen Resonates with Contemplative/Emerging Writers
by Lighthouse Trails
Update
on the Shack: New Age Similarities, Popularity Continues, and Calvary Chapel
Gives Official Statement
by Lighthouse Trails
Sad
Thing - Pastors Endorsing 'The Shack'
by More Books and Things
Should 'The
Shack' Be Attacked?
by Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon [Play
MP3 | Printer
Friendly Version]
“What’s
in The Shack?”
Audio - Test all Things Radio Show (Fran Sankey of Tower
To Truth Ministries)
Spriritual
Research Network in Agreement with Calvary Chapel Distribution Not Giving
Endorsement to William P. Young's, The Shack
by Chris Lawson (SRN)
The
Shack: Evangelicals "Shacking Up" with new Age Concepts
by Orrel Steinkamp
Review
of THE SHACK from Calvary Distribution
by Calvary Distribution Blog (Posted by keyansoltani in Untagged, Aug
3, 2008)
Update On The Shack: New Age Similarities, Continued Popularity, and Calvary
Chapel Official Statement
by Lighthouse Trails
The
Shack's Wayne Jacobsen Resonates with Contemplative and Emerging Writers
by Lighthouse Trails
The
Shack and Its New Age Leaven - God IN Everything?
by Warren Smith
(Former New Age practitioner Warren Smith warns of the New Age teachings in
The Shack)
The
Shack: Father-goddess Rising
by John Lanagan
(Exposes occult aspects, including 'Papa [female Hawaiian goddess] in The
Shack)
Deceived
By A Counterfeit "Jesus" - The Twisted "Truths" Of The
Shack And A Course in Miracles
by Berit Kjos (Exposes dangerous occult teachings brought forth through The
Shack and A Course in Miracles [spiritism])
The
Shack: Imagination, Image, and Idolatry
by Larry DeBruyn
(Exposes dangerous dynamics of vain imaginations that lead to subtle and blatant
idolatry - in The Shack)
Relationship
On The Rocks! - The Consequence of Role-Reversals in The Shack - Pt 1
by Pastor Larry Debruyn
The
Divine-Human Relationship - The Consequence of Role-Reversals in The Shack
- Pt 2
by Pastor Larry Debruyn
Shocked
by The Shack - "A popular allegory that changes Jesus and Christianity"
by Mike Oppenheimer (Let Us Reason Ministries)
A
Reader's Review of The Shack
by Tim Challies
(An in-depth expose' of the false teachings found William P. Young book, The
Shack)
The
Shack by William P. Young: A Book Review
by Pastor Gary Gilley
In
My Father's House There Are Many SHACKS? - A Critical Essay of William Paul
Young's THE SHACK (Pt 1)
by Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker
A
God Made In Our Image - A Critical Essay of William Paul Young's THE SHACK
(Pt 2)
by Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker
SECULAR
NEWS ARTICLES EXPOSING PROBLEMS WITH THE SHACK
'Shack'
opens doors, but critics call book 'scripturally incorrect'
by USA Today
A REMINDER FROM
A.W. TOZER ABOUT WRONG IDEAS ABOUT GOD
“Wrong ideas about God are not only the fountain from which the polluted
waters of idolatry flow; they are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply
imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
Perverted notions
about God soon rot the religion in which they appear. The long career of Israel
demonstrates this clearly enough, and the history of the Church confirms it.
So necessary to the Church is a lofty concept of God that when that concept
in any measure declines, the Church with her worship and her moral standards
decline along with it. The first step down for any church is taken when it
surrenders its high opinion of God..."
- A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (HarperCollins: San Francisco), 1961,
p. 4.
To Conclude, Spree Wales is another Hope 08 and, like many other events, it is set to fail as Christ is not the centre, the emphasis is on the social gospel and Government initiatives etc, and is set to deceive many.
Refs
[1]
http://www.spreewales.com/aboutspree/whatisspree.html
[2] http://www.igniteme.org/getinvolved/cymru.asp
[3] http://www.igniteme.org/resources/declaration.asp
[4] http://www.igniteme.org/resources/3simple.asp
[5] http://www.igniteme.org/resources/cards.asp
[6]
http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5909
[7] http://library.wcc-coe.org/fileadmin/files/wcclibrary/individuals.pdf
[8] http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5909
[9] http://www.igniteme.org/resources/ignition.asp
[10] http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/otis.html
[11] http://www.ignite.cd/index.cfm?section=Life&subsection=117&page=article&id=1512
[12] http://www.ignite.cd/index.cfm?section=church&midsection=4&subsection=4
&page=article&id=1195
[13] http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/hiebert.html
[14] http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cultsandcharismatic.html
[15] http://www.rumneychapel.org/content/pages/documents/1230903721.pdf
[16] http://www.spreewales.com/aboutspree/whatisspree.html
[17] http://www.spreewales.com/09news/index.html
[18] http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=1742
[19] http://www.spreewales.com/09news/index.html
[20] http://www.spiritual-research-network.com/theshack.html
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