Jesus said that you will recognize false teachers (wolves in sheep’s clothing) by their fruit. A classic example would be Hillsong dressing up their conference with their “Jesus-following” wool but completely throwing Christ under the bus to further their humanistic movement.
We certainly appreciate that Hillsong is at least up front with their Colour Your World Conference. Is it about Jesus?
“Colour Conference is about you,” Hillsong says.
However the Colour Conference is not about you or Jesus. It is “a humanitarian conference at its core”
Hillsong Church writes:
AN ATMOSPHERE OF WORSHIP
Encounter God and rest in His presence. Our guests and team prepare to present the Word of God for your hearts to absorb and outwork.
This is a humanitarian conference at its core, so we inform, educate and awaken you to the plight of thousands in desperate situations, and equip you with practical tools on how to make an impact in your own world and globally as we work together.
Colour Conference is about you; it is about value, being valued and placing value on others. We can’t wait to share Colour with you!
Source: Hillsong, http://hillsong.com/colour/experience. (Accessed 02/09/2014.)
HILLSONG PUBLICLY LYING TO THEIR AUDIENCE
In the above blurb, Hillsong mislead their audiences,
“Our guests and team prepare to present the Word of God for your hearts to absorb and outwork.”
No. They present anything but the Word of God. For instance, they have invited two questionable speakers. One is Word of Faith leader, Joyce Meyer, who is far outside of biblical orthodoxy and must be considered a false teacher. She exposes many to the errors of the Positive Confession movement where she even says that Jesus lost his divine nature, went to hell, finished the atonement in hell, and was born again! This is a serious error since it implies that Jesus, who is God in human flesh, needed to be changed.
The other is Beth Moore who reduces her audience’s spiritual IQ whenever she attempts to preach anything from the scriptures. She cannot to be trusted to properly teach from the word of God, she is leading many astray with her approval of contemplative prayer, personal revelations, and faulty biblical exegesis. It wouldn’t take much effort for Hillsong to research these false teachers and the false doctrines they peddle. So why does Hillsong insist that their guests, like Joyce Meyer and Beth Moore, “prepare to present the Word of God for your hearts”?
What also stands out in this blurb is how Hillsong associates their “humanitarian conference” with the idea to “awaken” people to worldly causes. You may think that we are overreacting. But consider for a second what a Christian often associates the word “awaken” with – revive or revival.
Not so with Hillsong here. They deliberately link the idea of “awaken” with their “humanitarian conference”. Why?
This only links yet again that the definition of “awaken” used by Hillsong is interchangeable with pagan origins. This is not the Christian idea of ‘awakening’. This is self-actualisation disguised in Christian talk. This type of thinking stems from Buddhism. Although Hillsong insists that they preaching Christ even, they are really only using his name (in vain) as a buttress for their social “gospel”. The problem with the social gospel is that it emphasises we are the answer – not Christ.
Dr. Michael Horton informs us that in C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, the devil’s strategy is not to remove Christ altogether from the scene, but to propagate a “Christ And…” religion:
What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of “Christianity And.” You know–Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychic Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform. If they must be Christians, let them at least be Christians with a difference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old Thing (Letter XXV).
Hillsong Church Watch 
“Colour Conference is about you,” Hillsong says.
I am surprised that Mrs Osteen has not been invited to speak at this conference, she would fit in perfectly.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/joel-osteens-wife-accused-of-blasphemous-remarks/
There is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian.
This article is very correct in identifying the ‘awkening’ concept with Buddhism, which is in turn foundational (along with its originating religion Hinduism) to the teachings of the ‘new age’ movement. It seems the wolves are becoming bolder by the minute, and barely bother disguising their lies anymore.
For anyone who has some fondness for Buddhism or the Dalai Lama, and thinks Christians can have anything to do with Buddhist teachings, please read the article below and watch this documentary:
http://dharma-documentaries.net/the-tibetan-oracles
(Sorry if the embed code doesn’t work properly. The article also contains the documentary).
I must warn viewers that the documentary contains footage of people actually possessed by demons. It is very disturbing that the Dalai Lama is so highly venerated as a wise and honourable by so many people around the world. He consults demons for his guidance and ‘wisdom’, amongst a number of other occult practices. Notice how nice his residence is too. Not bad for a monk.
@TNP:
“It seems the wolves are becoming bolder by the minute, and barely bother disguising their lies anymore…”
Usually the ‘wolf’ only bares his teeth when he feels that he has his prey cornered. He likes to show the lamb just what it is that will devour him. Before that time, the ‘teeth’ are hidden, often behind a “wolfish” kind of smile – no prizes for guessing who’s smiling right about now…
For what it’s worth, the Dalai Lama is chosen as a child and ‘educated’ in Buddhist philosophy as well as metaphysics and other topics:
http://www.biography.com/people/dalai-lama-9264833#becoming-the-dalai-lama
@ Annette – hello Annette – there isn’t anything wrong with being vegetarian. in fact, Romans 14 goes into some detail about how a believer can, for conscience sake, avoid eating certain kinds of food, that may well be acceptable to others.
No one can judge you for either partaking or abstaining, with the only Biblical injunction being against not eating meat (raw) with the blood still within the animal – that is a pagan practice and is strictly forbidden to Christians by James, in Acts 15:20.
Some Bible scholars believe that people before the flood were, generally speaking, vegetarian, (Genesis 1:29 – 30) as God only gave mankind permission to eat meat afterwards, (Genesis 9:1 – 50) and Paul makes it clear that Gentile Christians are not bound by Jewish dietary constraints throughout the book of Galatians.
@Kiwipirate – Mrs Osteen may not be an invitee because she might appear to upstage Bobbie and therefore embarrass the powers that be, by being more foolish than the incumbents… having watched the video what more can I say?
Maybe Mrs Osteen isn’t invited because she doesn’t line up with teaching. Furthermore, I just watched Beth Moore’s talk at 2014 Colour Conference airing on Daystar right now. She actually says the opposite of
Everything I read above. We need to research for ourselves and nor accept one person’s opinion, who may actually be the WOLF! Why on earth would Beth be invited to Billy Graham’s center to speak to women new to ministry? Why would she be chosen by Bush to lead Day of Prayer at White House? She is a Southern Baptist girl from the Bible Belt. Don’t believe some reporter over your own ability to correctly divide the Word of God.
The same Beth Moore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4CYqHhCwsE
The lady seems very determined to immunize listener’s minds against people who question if she truly hears from God or not…..
“Why on earth would Beth be invited to Billy Graham’s center to speak to women new to ministry?”
Whoever thunk Billy Graham was a Christian needs to rethink that.
That poor man can’t even get the Gospel right ! Poor Billy said even those who don’t know the name of Christ can be in the Body of Christ, because they know they need something they don’t have. Ridiculous !
Ask Beth Moore about “lectio devina.” She can tell you all about that. Just like Poor Billy can tell you all about the pope.
“She is a Southern Baptist girl from the Bible Belt.”
Further explaining why the Lifeway Bookstore chain pushes her books like crazy. That chain is the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. Nice arrangement isn’t it?? Who cares what the books say, its big $$$ for both.
You’re just one of #the15 Dumitru. 🙂
“just one” ??
Ed Stetzer calls me the “ringleader” !!