The INSANE World of False Christian Teachers

The List of False Teachers and the Criteria for Evaluating Them

I saw this list of false teachers to avoid on Facebook, posted by someone who is very upset, saying that at least a third of these teachers were not truly false teachers. There's 42 teachers here, and I wasn't familiar with a good number of them.

So let's take a look to see which, if any, of these teachers don't belong on this list. We're going to move pretty quickly because there's so many of them, and you'll want to make sure you stick around until the end to hear my final thoughts about this list.

Fred Price and the Prosperity Gospel

Fred Price was an American televangelist and author who was the founder and self-proclaimed apostle of Crenshaw Christian Center, located in South Los Angeles, California. He was known for his ever-increasing Faith Ministries broadcast, which aired weekly on television and radio.

Is Price really a false prosperity preacher?

Well, listen to this. If you have to say, if it be thy will or thy will be done, if you have to say that, then you're calling God a fool. The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see, to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and the disciples were poor, and then relating that to you thinking that you as a child of God have to follow Jesus.

The Bible says that he has left us an example that we should follow his steps. That's the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce.

I'm following Jesus' steps. So Price says he drives a Rolls Royce because he's following in Jesus' steps. That Jesus and the disciples were so rich they would have been driving expensive cars, and that it's wrong to say to God, thy will be done.

And all that in just a couple seconds of talking. It seems clear that Price falls into the category of false teacher. We've already covered T .D. Jakes in several other videos, so here we'll just play one clear example of Jakes preaching the prosperity gospel.

T. D. Jakes and Seed-Faith Prosperity Teaching

You say, I need restoration in my marriage. I'm going to sow this seed. I'm not worried about no financial return, but hook this family problem up, fix this, turn, somebody say, turn it around. My job is kind of shaky, and I need a breakthrough tonight, and I'm going to sow because I need God to turn it around.

Needless to say, this is disgusting. Jakes is giving a sales pitch for people to sow a seed or give money so that they can receive restoration in my marriage, or to solve problems like, hook this family problem.

Up, fix this, turn, somebody say, turn it around, and my job is kind of shaky, and I need a breakthrough tonight.

Of course, that is not at all the reason we give, and that is not at all how Christian leaders should teach about giving. Regarding the prosperity gospel, Bodie Bauckham wrote in a blog post that Jakes has been this country's most popular purveyor of this heresy in the past two decades.

Kenneth Copeland and Word of Faith Blasphemy

If any Christian teacher belongs on this list, it's Kenneth Copeland. We've covered Copeland in other videos already, so let's just listen to this little nugget of heresy from Copeland.

When I read in the Bible where he says, I am, I just smile and say, yes, I am too.

Jesse Duplantis and Claims of Direct Conversation with Jesus

If anyone could give Kenneth Copeland a run for winning the false teacher contest, it would be Jesse Duplantis. Not only does Duplantis have one-on-one conversations with Jesus, Duplantis recounts this unbelievable.

Conversation with Jesus. I have a habit of saying, hello, Jesus, and he says, hi, Jesse, first name basis. I walked into that study, and something was wrong, Pastor Osteen. I sensed it, and it wasn't with me.

Everything was going great. Everything was fine. So I began to pray like I normally pray, and the Lord began to minister to me, and I ministered to him. Finally, I said, something's wrong. Lord, something's wrong, and it's not with me.

Then I realized, and I said, Lord, somebody hurt you today. Somebody hurt you today. You're not acting like you normally act. Somebody hurt you today. We'll just leave that there.

Joel Osteen and a False Presentation of the Gospel

We've also talked a lot about Joel Osteen in other videos already, so I'll just play the clearest example I have that Osteen doesn't truly understand or teach the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

Today, we are so honored to have a world changer, a history maker, one of the great voices of our generation. Ms. Oprah Winfrey is right here on the partway with us. Hey, Oprah. Glad to have you.

It's one thing to not realize that Oprah is not a Christian who needs to be saved. It's another thing to publicly praise Oprah in front of your entire church. Absolutely unbelievable. Peter Popoff is a German-born American televangelist.

God told me, he said, you smite that cancer with your fist.

Popoff is a debunked clairvoyant and faith healer. He was exposed in 1986 for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members.

You got cancer of the stomach?

Are you ready for God to burn that cancer out? Here it goes in the mighty. Devil, back off.

Popoff still sells miracle spring water.

You can be free to enjoy all of God's richest blessings. That's why he wants to send you your free packet of miracle spring water. Your point of contact for the miracle you need. Now in a larger size.

Okay. Obviously, a false prosperity teacher. John Hagee is an American pastor and televangelist. I did some research on Hagee and found this.

I'm delighted to present my latest book, In Defense of Israel. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah.

Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

So Hagee's enormous support for the nation of Israel leads him to teach that Jesus didn't come to earth to be the Messiah. But John chapter 4 verses 25 and 26 clearly says this. Twenty-five. The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming.

He who is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all the things. Twenty-six. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he. And amazingly, in his book about Jesus not coming to be the Messiah, Hagee never addresses this verse.

Hagee is also a blatant prosperity preacher.

You say, Pastor, you mean that if I give to the Lord that I should expect to gain absolutely. The Bible says very clearly in Luke 638, given it shall be given unto you, listen, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

That's a four-way game. Wall Street does not promise a four-way game. You lay it down, cross your fingers, and pray. Yikes.

That's really bad. Hagee teaches people to give, not because they are thankful to God and because it's an act of worship to God, but rather because they should expect to gain from God. That's the classic false teaching of the prosperity gospel.

Stephen Furtick, Modalism, and Man-Centered Preaching

You might already be familiar with what we've already said about Stephen Furtick. But here are several serious problems with what Furtick teaches. First, Furtick's preaching is so man-centered that he seems to be very wrong about human nature itself.

And the process of discipleship is not God changing you into something else. It's him revealing who you've been all along. It's always been in you. That teaching gift has always been in you. You just had to get past what you would put on yourself.

The idea that I'm not a preacher, I'm just a little girl, I don't have anything to say, that was always in you.

And second, Furtick's adoration of T .D. Jake seems to have led him to teach some version of modalism.

And now Jesus is taken from their sight and hidden in a cloud, but he did not leave. He just changed forms. He did not disappear. He just was no longer visible. Instead, he was internal.

The three persons of the Trinity are not just different forms of God. They are distinct persons. And despite facing much backlash over what he said here, I'm not aware of Furtick giving any clarification or explanation about that clip.

As I said in another video, although I used to be on the fence about Furtick being a false teacher, the evidence now for Furtick being a false teacher seems pretty strong. Brian Houston used to be the lead pastor of Hillsong, but resigned after revelations of misconduct with women.

Like with Furtick, I used to be more on the fence with Houston. But the more I learn about Houston, the more problematic he becomes. Of course, there are the scandals that resulted in Houston's resignation from Hillsong.

Houston is, at best, very soft on the issue of homosexuality.

Someone told me that there's two guys singing in the choir at New York. But we'll never be the kind of church who, when people join the choir, we ask them, are you heterosexual? Are you homosexual? We will never be that kind of church.

And Houston enthusiastically endorses teachers like T .D. Jakes and Kenneth Copeland.

Well, Kenneth Copeland, your beautiful wife Gloria, Brian and Bobby Houston from Hillsong Church in Australia and around the world. And we just want to thank you and congratulate you for 40 years of ministry in our great country, Australia.

And in the one sermon where he was supposed to talk about the seriousness of sin, Houston said people don't need to be told they're sinners.

You don't have to remind people they're sinners. They know.

Because of all this and more, I believe Houston is a teacher who likewise should be completely avoided. T .B. Joshua was a Nigerian charismatic pastor and televangelist. He was the leader and founder of Synagogue, Church of All Nations, a Christian megachurch.

Let's take a look at what Joshua was known for.

T .B. Joshua, one of the world's most controversial faith healers. He's called the prophet and the man of God. Week after week, he's said to heal hundreds and even thousands of desperately sick people.

Hmm.

Three things. One, Joshua was supposedly a faith healer. Two, Joshua was supposedly a prophet. And three, Joshua supposedly healed people by knocking them down, just like Benny Hinn, who we know is a fraud and charlatan.

Joshua also made a false prophecy that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in 2016, saying that he saw a woman winning. When Joshua's supposed prophecy did not come true, Joshua at first deleted this prophecy from his website.

But when major news outlets reported on the story, he put it back on the website saying deleting the prophecy was a mistake. Joshua also gives out what he calls anointing water, saying,. By using the anointing water, you are symbolically setting yourself apart for Jesus Christ's special attention as you pray in faith.

I mean, you are positioned for mercy, favor, healing, deliverance, blessing, prosperity, and fruitfulness. It is not the anointing water that heals the sick, but Jesus Christ himself. There must be faith both in the person praying and in the person being prayed for.

Prayer must proceed from and be accompanied with a lively faith. It is this that brings about the healing, not the anointing water. This is all textbook prosperity gospel stuff. Joshua may have been very philanthropic, but it seems clear that he was a false Christian teacher.

Benny Hinn, Sarah Young, and Claims of New Revelation

We don't need to spend much time on Benny Hinn, who is a textbook prosperity preacher who continued teaching the prosperity gospel even after his supposed repentance.

Because I really believe that when you do this, just like David did, a miracle will happen real fast.

Sarah Young wrote the best-selling book, Jesus Calling. But there is an enormous problem with Jesus Calling.

So Sarah Young tuned in. She got to just the right frequency, and Jesus began calling Sarah Young. And with pen in hand, writing down what he said. Dear ones, if that is indeed what is happening, then Sarah Young is writing scripture.

She's writing scripture. For Sarah to claim that Jesus himself is communicating directly to her, and for Sarah to claim that she is writing down the direct words of Jesus, is a serious, serious problem.

Because Jesus himself says in Revelation 20 to 18, concerning the words of scripture, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. Jesus Calling isn't just a cute, creative book.

It's serious false teaching because it contradicts foundational doctrines concerning scripture. We've covered Bill Johnson in other videos already, so we won't spend too much time here. Johnson teaches the kenosis heresy, which gets the nature of Christ very wrong.

Do you know that Jesus so restricted his function on earth that he actually couldn't heal anyone?

And Johnson teaches that it's God's will for everyone to be healed.

Does God ever choose not to heal? No. God chose 2 ,000 years ago to make a purchase.

For these reasons and many more, Johnson clearly belongs on this list. Todd David Bentley is a Canadian evangelist. He was a key figure of the Lakeland Revival and was in leadership of Fresh Fire Ministries Canada until stepping down in August 2008.

Let's take a look at some things Bentley has said.

The Lord told me, and remember I didn't know he had a broken sternum or broken ribs. The Lord said, I want you to punch him in the sternum as hard as you can. I want you to grab that lady's crippled legs and bang them up and down on the platform like a baseball bat.

I walked up and I grabbed her legs and I started going, Be healed! Be healed! I started banging them up and down on the platform. She got healed.

Clearly, none of this is biblical at all, and Bentley is a charlatan faith healer on the level of Benny Hinn. In 2008, Bentley stepped down from ministry because of unfaithfulness to his wife. His board of directors reported, We have discovered new information revealing that Todd Bentley has entered into an unhealthy relationship on an emotional level with a female member of his staff.

Is Bentley a false teacher? Clearly yes. Patricia King's website says, Hmm. Claiming to be apostolic and prophetic certainly isn't a good start at all. And if we scroll down on this page, we see that she's endorsed by teachers like Bill Johnson, Che Ahn, Heidi Baker, and Chris Vallaton.

So it looks like King is firmly within the New Apostolic Reformation movement, which is essentially the word of faith movement on steroids. Here's King giving a supposed prophecy.

I feel a commissioning from the Lord to blow the trumpet on this. New levels of warfare that are going to target the church, target believers in 2009.

A very vague prophecy that anyone can say came true, yet King received this direct commissioning from the Lord to blow the trumpet. These kinds of attempts to point people to how special of a Christian teacher you are, to convince people that you are indeed an apostle and a prophet, are textbook things that false teachers do.

Todd White and the Need for the Full Gospel

We've covered Todd White in other videos already, so we'll just summarize the main points here. White recently delivered a very encouraging sermon where he repented of not teaching the full gospel, and he communicated the full gospel quite well.

All people are condemned, it says, by the law. It says in the Psalms, in Proverbs, it says the law converts the soul. The soul is converted from the law. That doesn't mean that we preach it as legalists.

That just means that if people don't know that they're sinners, they won't see their need for a Savior. This is hard for people, huh? It's hard for me. It's hard for me because I feel like I haven't preached the whole gospel, and I repent.

However, the problem is that White has not yet repented of being a charlatan faith healer.

I'm going to pray for you, and Jesus is going to grow your leg out and heal your back.

Charlatans and snake oil salesmen have been doing this trick for decades. It's slight of hand.

As well as numerous other false teachings.

You can actually have the word so strong inside of your heart that you never have to slip. People are like, well, that's false. That's not true. Well, you're wrong. I live with me.

Until Todd White repents of false teachings like these, we would still say that White is something to completely stay away from. Charles Russell Taze was the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, which teaches that Jesus Christ was God's first creation.

That's really all we need to say here. Clearly a false teacher. Heidi Baker is a Christian missionary, itinerant speaker, and CEO of Iris Global, a Christian humanitarian organization. Let's take a look at the kind of things Baker teaches.

Heidi Baker, Mike Bickle, and New Apostolic Revelation

Everybody, place that anointing, that crown, that gift upon someone else's head. Keep praying. Every single one of you. Impartation. Legacy. Legacy. Legacy. Legacy. Legacy. Legacy. Legacy. Increase your glory.

More, Lord. Try it again. Try it again. Try it again. Try it again. More, Lord.

Um, so yeah, that's Heidi Baker. She's deeply connected with Bill Johnson and Bethel Church. And like Johnson, she's so obsessed with signs and wonders today that she does ridiculous things like this.

Baker clearly belongs on this list. Mike Bickle is an American evangelical leader best known for his leadership of the International House of Prayer. Bickle, like Heidi Baker and Bill Johnson, is a key player in the New Apostolic Reformation movement.

Here's Bickle describing an encounter that he had with God.

I call it the internal audible voice of the Lord. It resounded in my being. And he said, I will change the understanding and expression of Christianity and the whole earth in one generation. I mean, it came through me like power.

Again, this is another classic example of not trusting in the sufficiency of Scripture and trying to convince people that you receive special direct revelation from God. Not only does Bickle receive this internal audible voice of the Lord, whatever that is, he says God told him something vague enough that anyone can say it came true.

Christian teachers who teach as if God is giving special direct revelation only to them are extremely, extremely dangerous. And this is why Bickle belongs on this list. John Crowder is an author, speaker, and advocate of supernatural Christianity.

John Crowder and Mysticism over Scripture

John is on the forefront of a fresh renewal movement marked by ecstatic joy and miracles. Let's take a look at an example of Crowder's preaching.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, dear Jesus. Oh, Lord. Yes, Lord. I've learned a quick prayer. I'll teach it to all of you really quickly. Okie dokie, Lord. Okie dokie. Lord, I love your heavy, drunken glory. Lord, I love it, Lord.

Thank you, Father, for more of the heavy, weighty, drunken glory in this house today. My favorite little bit of you, Jesus, is the bliss.

This kind of utter irreverence towards spiritual matters is characteristic of Crowder's ministry. Crowder has also said this, Here is a deeper place on the journey that the mystics of old simply called the prayer of union.

In this third stage, I became so absorbed in his glorious presence that I can no longer tell where I end and where he begins. You are no longer distracted with interpreting a vision or trying to understand a scripture.

He shows up and you are undone. It is deeper into simplicity. Like so many other teachers on this list, Crowder is pointing people away from scripture towards something else. In this case, towards some kind of unbiblical mysticism where God shows up in a way he would not otherwise show up.

Crowder's irreverence and teaching concerning mysticism should be avoided by Christians. Womack is an American conservative charismatic TV evangelist and faith healer. He founded Andrew Womack Ministries in 1978 and Cherus Bible College in 1994.

Andrew Wommack and Word of Faith Teaching on Sickness

Listen to what Womack teaches here.

If you are reaping sickness, it's because you've thought sickness. It may not be that you've thought, all right, I want to be sick. But you've thought things that allow sickness to dominate you.

This is classic Word of Faith prosperity gospel teaching where you can control sickness with the power of faith or the power of your thoughts. Womack clearly belongs on this list. Andy Stanley is the founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries, one of the largest megachurches in the United States.

Andy Stanley, the Old and New Testaments, and God's Wrath

Stanley teaches a number of extremely problematic things. He wants people to stop asking, what does the Bible say about that? Because he says the Old and New Testaments are essentially contradictory.

What does the Bible say about that? This is a really bad question we have to quit asking. Here's why. Because the Old Covenant says stone her and the New Covenant says forgive her.

And Stanley has a view of God's love that seems to completely ignore God's wrath towards sin.

And the truth is you're a sinner. But the grace is I don't condemn you. And no one will ever love you more and I couldn't love you anymore. Is Stanley a false teacher?

Well, so many of Stanley's teachings are bad enough that whether or not we place him firmly in the category of false teacher, Christians should certainly stay away from his teachings. Rick Joyner founded with his wife the Morning Star Ministries in 1985.

Joyner is one of the leading proponents of the New Apostolic Reformation which tells us what kind of camp he belongs to. Even more serious, however, is what Joyner teaches about Jesus not being a man anymore.

In his book, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, Joyner writes, there is a tendency to continue relating to him as the man from Galilee. Jesus is no longer a man. He was and is fully spirit. He took the form of a servant and became a man for a brief time making a way for us to know him by and through the spirit.

Getting the nature of Christ wrong in such a fundamental manner is certainly heresy. Paula White is an American televangelist. White is one of the most blatant proponents of the prosperity gospel.

Paula White and Manipulative Prosperity Giving

For your Firstfruits offering of $50 or more, I will give you the book as well as a devotional. But then for your Firstfruits offering of $75 or more, you're going to get the book, the devotional, and a very special calendar with reminders of God's promises all through this year that God has life for you.

God has life for your relationships, for your finances, for your ministry, for your dream, for every area of your life.

This kind of manipulation to get people to give to your ministry is absolutely disgusting. Perry Stone is an international evangelist and author. Stone claims to receive prophecies from God for what is going to happen.

Perry Stone and Claims of Direct Prophecy

I don't consider myself a prophet. I just consider myself someone who has the ear to occasionally hear, and God uses that way. Old men will dream, dream, young men will see visions. Some of these visions are a little older, and I'm having more dreams, so what does that tell you?

And I'm telling you, it scared me. And so we got together, and I got Dad's old dreams, and I had a journal called a dream journal, vision journal. And I got together, and I put it together of what we believed was going to happen.

We've already mentioned that if people like Perry Stone, Sarah Young, Bill Johnson, Heidi Baker, etc. are still receiving prophecies directly from God, whatever the method, then first, the canon of Scripture isn't truly closed.

If you like this video, subscribe to help spread the truth. And second, these kinds of people have become a special class of Christians that have secret knowledge outside of Scripture that other Christians need to listen to.

Needless to say, it's extremely dangerous to point people toward your supposed direct revelation from God, rather than simply to what Scripture clearly teaches. Rob Parsley is a prominent American Christian minister, author, television host, and evangelist.

He is senior pastor of World Harvest Church, a large Pentecostal church in Canal, Winchester, Ohio. Parsley is yet another blatant proponent of the prosperity gospel.

Rod Parsley and the Prosperity Gospel

But you're about to be blessed like you've never been blessed before. And some of you need to step into blessing, and you do that with an act of faith. $300. Why is that significant? It's significant, number one, because it got your attention.

And it's significant, number two, because that's what the prophet of God spoke. You say, but I may not have $300 right now. Well, what do you have? Do you have $100? Do you have $150? Take a step of faith toward God right now.

But everyone who wants to move to greatness, listen to the voice of God. $300. Release it to God and watch greatness come. Absolutely sickening.

Creflo Dollar and a Failed Repentance Narrative

We've covered Creflo Dollar in some other videos already, so we'll keep it brief here. Creflo has been considered one of the worst proponents of the prosperity gospel.

Money, you get a money coming to me now.

Not if you ain't send no money to him. Creflo recently supposedly repented of teaching the prosperity gospel. But he said at least two things that undermined his supposed repentance. First, he said he wouldn't apologize.

I won't apologize because if it wasn't for me going down that route, I would have never ended up where I am right now.

And second, Creflo basically reaffirmed his belief in the prosperity gospel.

I apologize that you hate the prosperity gospel, but that's still not going to stop his abounding provision.

So what was the purpose of Creflo's supposed repentance? It seems clear that he is just trying to lessen the big backlash against his ministry. But he hasn't really changed. Sid Roth is the host of It's Supernatural.

Sid Roth, Signs and Wonders, and Unbiblical Tongues Practices

Roth has said numerous thoughts that are wildly unbiblical. Here's an absolutely ridiculous clip of Roth teaching people how to pretend to speak in tongues, saying the quiet part out loud. Like many other teachers on the list, Roth has an obsession with signs, wonders, and miracles that leads him to teach and practice many things that are completely foreign to scripture.

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which denies the foundational doctrine of justification through faith alone. Of course, he's a false teacher. Christine Kane is an Australian activist, evangelist, author, and international speaker.

Christine Caine and Word of Faith Faith-Activation Language

Christine Kane teaches Word of Faith theology.

You and I have the opportunity to amaze God and allow him to marvel. I haven't seen that kind of faith on that university campus. I'm going to do something extraordinary. See, God healed his servant. Jesus had healed many people before this.

But there was something about this man's faith that activated a miracle.

This language of faith activating a miracle is textbook Word of Faith language. And it's extremely dangerous because it puts the emphasis more on the power we have, the power of our faith, rather than on God and His power.

Kane also preaches to men and is deeply associated with T .D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, and Bethel Church. Although I'm not aware of anything Kane has said that is blatantly heretical, for all of the issues we've covered, we would recommend staying completely away from Kane's ministry and teachings.

Jim Bakker, Repentance, and the Scandal of False Ministry

Jim Backer is an American televangelist. Backer grew his ministry through preaching the prosperity gospel, but he has since expressed repentance over these teachings.

The number one religious group filing bankruptcy right now are those who worship money, those who believe in prosperity as the sign of God's blessing upon them, and that is God's love and God's blessing is their big cars, their big houses and all.

They're filing bankruptcy equal to all the other religions put together. God showed me in prison before I got out and He said, warn the people to stop loving the things of the world. Why was Backer in prison?

Well, he was convicted of raping his church secretary. Scandal arose when Jim was alleged to have raped his church secretary, Jessica Hahn. The PTL ran into further problems when the Backers were accused of defrauding their flock of donations for Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.

Allegedly, the Backers pocketed the excess funds and promised hotel stays that could not be fulfilled. Jim was sentenced to 45 years in prison, serving only five. Backer continued doing ministry after getting out of prison and has expressed repentance over numerous issues.

Was Backer's repentance genuine? We can certainly take Backer at his word, but we would say that the problems that filled Backer's past should disqualify him from current ministry. And there are certainly other, more reputable Christian teachers we can learn from.

Joseph Prince and Unbiblical Repentance Language

Joseph Prince is the evangelist and senior pastor of New Creation Church, based in Singapore. Prince is a blatant proponent of Word of Faith, prosperity gospel theology.

You can say things like, you know, look in the mirror and say, I believe I'm the youngest-looking 40-year-old. I believe I'm the youngest-looking 50-year-old. I believe I'm the youngest-looking 60-year-old.

It's not chapter and verse all the time. Amen. You look at your body and say, I believe I have the healthiest 50-year-old body. I have the healthiest. You can say that.

It's not chapter and verse all the time. And Prince and Osteen share a view of repentance that is completely unbiblical.

Like Joe or me, preaching the Word without using the word repentance sometimes. But people's minds are being changed all the time. From thinking this way negatively to thinking positively. From depression to having a positive expectation of good.

You know, repentance is going on all the time in Joel's church, in my church, and hopefully in your church as well.

But of course, repentance isn't just changing from thinking negatively to thinking positively. It involves acknowledging and turning away from sin and rebellion towards God. Beth Moore is an American Anglican evangelist, author, and Bible teacher.

Beth Moore and Direct Revelation Claims

There are numerous problems with Moore's teachings, including her rejection of the role of preaching on the Lord's Day being restricted to men.

Someone writes in to ask, would Christchurch ever want Nancy to speak on Mother's Day? I assume that this question is coming from a recent flurry of women being asked to preach in church, ostensibly complementarian churches.

And her teaching that God speaks and reveals things directly to her.

And I'm going to tell you, as clear as I'm talking to you now, the Lord spoke to my heart. The very few times I've ever heard God be this articulate with me. And I'm telling you, word for word, these words came into my heart.

I'm not asking you to witness to him. I'm asking you to brush his hair.

Although I haven't really heard Moore teach something that's blatantly and irredeemably heretical, but for these reasons we've mentioned, and more, we certainly would not recommend Moore's teachings at all.

John Gray, Drag Culture, and Pastoral Credibility

John Gray was an associate pastor at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, and then became the pastor of Relentless Church. Being disconnected with Osteen kind of tells us what kind of pastor Gray is. Besides teaching the prosperity gospel and being unfaithful to his wife, Gray also hosted a show called The Preachers, where he interviewed RuPaul about drag culture.

Can you explain what is drag culture? Explain that to us, please.

Well, you know, drag culture, people get transsexuals and drag confused all the time, and I can understand why.

That Gray would host and promote something like RuPaul without warning people about the problem of drag culture points towards the conclusion that Gray is not a pastor that Christians should be trusting for biblical doctrine.

Carl Lentz and Cultural Accommodation

We've talked about Carl Lance in some other videos, so we'll keep it brief here. Lance seems to want to be accepted by the culture so badly that he is unwilling to publicly call sin, sin.

So it's not a sin in your church to have an abortion?

That's the kind of conversation we would have, finding out your story, where you're from, what you believe. Yeah, I mean, God's the judge.

Lance was also fired from Hillsong Church for having an affair with another woman. Although I can't say I've heard Lance teach anything that's blatantly heretical, Lance is clearly a teacher that Christians should avoid.

Joyce Meyer and the Little Gods Doctrine

We've covered Joyce Meyer in other videos, so we'll just say here that Meyer is a strong proponent of the prosperity gospel and has taught numerous heresies, such as the little gods doctrine.

Why do people have such a fit about God calling his creation, his man, not his whole creation, but his man, little gods? If he's God, what's he going to call him but the God kind?

Meyer doesn't seem to actively teach some of the heresies she has espoused, but she has never repented of them either. Meyer is clearly a false teacher to avoid. Pat Robertson is an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, former presidential candidate, and former Southern Baptist minister.

Pat Robertson and False Prophecy About the 2020 Election

Robertson essentially said that God told him Trump was going to win the election in 2020.

That doesn't mean you sit home and don't vote. That means you get up and do everything you can to work, but he's going to win.

Any supposed Christian teacher who makes false prophecies like these should be avoided because they are trying to convey that they are a special class of Christians who receive direct, special knowledge from God.

Robertson also denies the Bible's teaching concerning the age of the earth.

And to say that it all came about in 6 ,000 years is just nonsense, and I think the time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible.

Although we don't think Robertson's belief here is necessarily heretical, it adds weight to the position that Robertson is not a trustworthy Christian teacher. Jensen Franklin is an American evangelical pastor, author, and televangelist.