In Mid-July 2008 two Christian friends approached me with very similar concerns about the same house church group. They were both worried about the intolerance shown by leadership to non-compliance. The former friend has been working in a para-church organisation. He felt belittled and undervalued because the para-church organisation was not part of the house church movement to which he belonged. The latter friend was counselling some Polish Christian friends who had been excommunicated from their church for warning leadership about some Roman Catholics they were involved with.
These events occurred two days apart and I felt prompted by the Lord to explore “intolerance by leadership to non-compliance”. I was looking for anecdotal evidence of its occurrence within a house church group in the UK and was shocked when I was repeatedly referred to the Purpose Driven Church Paradigm (PDCP) popularised by Rick Warren in “The Purpose Driven Life”.
Some months ago I expressed my concern that negative elements of the Emerging Church movement (ECM) were having an influence in the UK church predicated on a paradigm characterised by
- Gnosticism
- Mysticism
- Inter-spirituality
- Diaprax[1] – achieving consensus among the body (rather than using Gods Word)
- Pelagianism
At the time I did not think that Rick Warren shared a similar paradigm although I did know that many of the pastors referred to on his website were part of the ECM. The Purpose Driven Life is so well nuanced that the “New Age” sub-text appeared to be harmless.
When I explored non-compliance I was led to a number of critiques[2] of the PDCP including “Spirit-Led or Purpose-Driven” by Berit Kjos. Chapter 4 is entitled “Dealing with Resisters” and is a manual (based on the sub-text of PDL) for dealing with resisters and those who do not comply. Chapter 3 is entitled “Small Groups and the Dialectic Process”, which is a manual (based on the sub-text of PDL) for ensuring consensus within small groups.
I had no idea until very recently that Rick Warren’s mentor was Peter Drucker and the PDCP was largely predicated on systems theory. Drucker is not a Christian and is best known as a guru of General Systems Theory.
Systems Theory sees our world in terms of ‘systems’, where each system is a ‘whole’ that is more than the sum of its parts, but also itself a ‘part’ of larger systems. It is predicated on an esoteric belief system that merges Darwinism and eastern mysticism that is commonly describes as ‘New Age’ or the Gaia Hypothesis. It contends that man is moving to the next level of evolution, but in order to reach this plateau, mankind must ascribe to a common, universal consciousness, or belief system.
It would appear[3] that both the Emerging Church Movement and the Purpose Driven Church Paradigm are similarly characterized and are paving the way to the apostate church instigated by the Illuminati. There is compelling evidence for this as Rick Warren is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations[4] and Oxford Analytica[5], which are Illuminati /Masonic organisations.
I want to belong to a Spirit-Led and Biblically grounded Church not an apostate one!
[1] Diaprax, a word coined by Dean Gotcher, essentially brings together people of diverse and often opposing backgrounds, worldviews and belief systems in the hope that they will forfeit their own values, traditions and absolutes for the emotional rewards of group acceptance.
[2] “Deceived on Purpose” by W Smith; “Driven away by Purpose” by D Chew
[3] “Outcome-Based Religion: Apostasy, Purpose, & the New Paradigm Church” by Mac Dominick
[4] “Who are the Illuminati” by L Porter; “Saucers of the Illuminati” by J Keith
[5] Oxford Analytica, is the first private-sector, overt, global intelligence network.