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More Information On Chameleon Rick Warren Speaking At The Apostate Hillsong Conference 2013

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

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If you honestly think Hillsong Conference is a Christian movement, examine who they are inviting. Once again, Brian Houston has invited ministers that are attacking and desecrating Australian Christianity with their heretical and depraved teachings. Indeed it is a tragedy that Brian Houston has bent his knee to the Purpose Driven Chameleon, Rick Warren.

In 2006, Rick Warren spoke at Hillsong Conference.

Hillsong, Rick Warren And Fascism

At the beginning of this year, Brian Houston spoke at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church. Apprising Ministries reported that “Brian Houston, co-pastor of the nefarious Hillsong Church Australia with wife pastrix Bobbie” bought “his Word Faith mythology to the SBC church of Rick Warren, General of the Seeker Driven  Army“. Rick Warren informed his Saddleback folk,

“Brian Houston at Saddleback: Dec.29-30
I’m so excited to announce that Pastor Brian Houston of the world-famous HILLSONG Church in Sydney, Australia will be speaking at Saddleback!  Brian is flying over from Australia just to speak that weekend! Many of your favorite worship songs, like Shout To The Lord, came out of HILLSONG church. I’ll see you at this incredible end-of-the-year service!” – News & Views 12/19/12, http://saddleback.com/blogs/newsandviews/news–views-121912/. (Accessed 02/04/2013).

Chris Rosebrough covered the “intentionally deceitful” sermon of Brian Houston up there at Saddleback Church:

Rosebrough Says Brian Houston Was “Intentionally Deceitful”

But now Rick Warren is speaking at Hillsong Conference. And Christians have every right to be outraged by Houston’s despicable act of inviting this deceitful man to malign Australian Christianity for his own selfish and worldly purposes.

If Rick Warren is a Calvinist as he claims to be, then WHY does Warren endorse the universal cult of Roman Catholicism; peddle New Age mystical practices; support and praise the apostate and gay affirming Emergent Church Movement; peddle the fascist teachings and ideologies of Peter Drucker AND teach that Jesus and Allah are one and the same God? Serious scrutiny needs to come upon Rick Warren’s ecumeni-chameleon character and agenda.

This documentary shines light on this intriguing fellow.

If you know ANY Christian keen to go to the Hillsong Conference – warn them not to participate in Hillsong’s high-rank apostasy. We are to remain reformed to the Word of God not to the ways of the world and our own sinful desires.

“Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.” 2 John 1:9-11

If Brian Houston or Hillsong Church had any desire to worship God with their heart, they should search their heart for God’s truth. This is because Christ Himself declares to be, “The way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Jesus teaches His ways are narrow but the road to destruction is wide. Therefore we are to hold what he teaches and remain in his word, so he may remain in us. Christians can only be the disciples of Jesus if we follow Jesus’ teaching.

But just like a ship is “guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs”, so too has Brian Houston steered Hillsong Church into apostasy, emptying Christian truth from within it’s walls. The leadership of Hillsong are deceiving Christians everywhere into elevating mystical worship experiences over the truth of Christ and His Word. It is important for Hillsong to heed the words of Jesus. Jesus condemns people who lead people to worship in spirit and error,

“Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”” Mark 7:6-8

What good is Hillsong if the TRUE love of God is not in them? It is time that Hillsong clean up their act, contend for the Christian faith and cleanse their conferences from the diabolical teachers who oppose Christ, His work and mission here on earth. Please pray that Christian’s avoid this conference. If they attend, pray that the Holy Spirit opens their eyes to the false teaching.

Brian Houston Accused Of His “Continual Avoidance Of The Subject Of Repentance” (Part 1)

20 Sunday Jan 2013

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Cameron Buettel writes,

Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston’s Continual Abuse Of Scripture

Brian Houston, senior pastor of Hillsong Church in Australia (and it’s rapidly expanding global empire) has just visited Saddleback Church in California which is just a couple of hours down the road from my current address. I became immediately interested when I found out that Houston would be preaching from 2 Corinthians 7:8-10. I had to ask myself how Brian Houston would preach from a passage explicitly about repentance:For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it – though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. (2 Corinthians 7:8-10).

Those who know me or are regular readers here know of the years I have spent pursuing Hillsong Church and its leaders over their relentless failure to preach the core salvation doctrine of repentance. Not only is this doctrine historically recognized as the necessary correlating partner to saving faith, it is also a core element of Hillsong Church’s very own doctrine statement (which is somewhat difficult to find, although this may be due to my severe lack of nerd capabilities). To quote from their “What We Believe” page:

We believe that in order to receive forgiveness and the ‘new birth’ we must repent of our sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and submit to His will for our lives.

Time and time again I have cited example afterexample of this violation of their own doctrine statement (several of the videos previously cited have since been removed). In fact, of the services I and others have attended, the books we have read, the CDs we have heard, and the videos we have downloaded or streamed, none of us have ever heard anything about repentance coming from any Hillsong source. Even if it has been preached on an occasion that I am not aware of (and I gave an open invitation to my many critics to prove me wrong with nothing ever forthcoming), such a core doctrine essential to salvation should be strongly evident in all their outreach arms. Hillsong even had the audacity to edit the Bible verse on the back cover of their “Mighty to Save” CD to sanitize repentance out of it (yes, they REMOVED the line from 2 Chronicles 7:14 that says “turn from their wicked ways”). Can anybody else smell a rat?

Fast forward to the Pastor Brian Houston’s sermon at Saddleback. I polled several friends and colleagues of mine at the Master’s Seminary (where I am a student) and asked them if they thought it was possible to preach a sermon out of 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 without mentioning the word repentance. None of them thought this to be possible but Brian Houston proved them all wrong. That’s right, he preached directly out of a passage that explicitly and obviously centers on repentance without even once talking about it. How did he get out of even mentioning repentance when reading the text itself? By switching to a very liberal translation (The Message) when he got to verse 9! Preachers are called to submit to the biblical text, not submit the biblical text to their own agenda. If you don’t believe me then you can see it for yourself (the translation switch happens at the 15:30 mark). Chris Rosebrough’s brutal review of the sermon can be heard here (start listening to the program at the 93 minute mark).

I cannot put into words my personal grief at seeing Houston butcher and pervert a passage of such immense beauty that describes the godly sorrow over sin that leads to repentance and salvation. Furthermore, he twisted the passage into something completely irrelevant to its obvious meaning from a plain reading. Brian Houston believes that the problems at Corinth were caused by Paul’s angry letter and that the Corinthians needed to make the decision to stop being bitter and wounded about it so that their pain would be “only for a while”. Earth to Brian! Houston we have a problem! Hello!!!!! Paul’s angry letter was written because of the incest (1 Corinthians 5:1), immorality (1 Corinthians 6:12-20), lawsuits between brethren (1 Corinthians 6:1-8), idolatry (1 Corinthians 10:1-14), and turning the communion table into a place of drunkenness and gluttony (1 Corinthians 11:17-22). The Corinthians grieved “only for a while” because Paul’s rebuke had brought about deep conviction and saving repentance in their lives. As I watched Houston’s sermon I was left wondering if he had even read Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. My criticism is not the deep theological insight of a Seminary student. It is the obvious conclusions of anyone who would take the time to read these letters in the same way that they read their own mail. It’s just not that difficult . . . unless you are determined to avoid the subject of repentance.

Oh how tragic that a church would pay a lot of money for a man to fly a long way and then obscure the glorious truth that is so obvious to anyone who would read that passage. It is perhaps almost as tragic that Brian Houston’s continual avoidance of the subject of repentance makes him oblivious to his own need to repent. And repentance of the unbiblical nonsense he is preaching is the single greatest contribution he could presently make to the Body of Christ . . . . . that and keeping his mouth shut until he takes the time to read his Bible.

(Source: Cameron Buettel, Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston’s Continual Abuse Of Scripture, 
http://onceuponacross.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/hillsong-pastor-brian-houstons.html, 17/01/2013. Accessed 21/01/2013.)

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