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I found this to be disturbing because it carried with it the suggestion that if someone should happen to disagree with the leadership, that person would automatically be in conflict with the Holy Spirit, and therefore a bad Christian. What kind of Christians would we be if we used this approach in dealing with our spouses or our children? We would come across as being insensitive and dictatorial, which is exactly how I would describe the actions of the leadership.

I found the name change to be unacceptable because it was done to serve the purposes of the leadership, not the membership. It was clear to me that the leadership was placing it’s own interests (which were obviously to preserve the international ministry, and, by extension, their own livelihoods) ahead of the interests of the membership.

For me, the atmosphere at Global/Transform became less of a community or family feeling and more of a corporate feeling in which everyone is expected to perform as directed by management, no questions asked. Needless to say, we left the church shortly after the name change.

For clarification, it was I that contact Dave Bentley, confronting him with information/evidence I had already obtained and it was not vice versa.

I wonder if at the heart of the Elijah List we can call users Charismatic, I have to use neo-charismatic because of the execesses, the new age influences, the man made ones.

Believing in the gifts of the spirit don’t match up with angels, gold dust, Joel’s Army, dominionism, in fact the opposite is true.

What saddens me is how cheap peoples lives are, how easily they are used and trampled.
No repentence, only plans, no Jesus, only me, me and us, requests for money, not brokeness, faithfulness and holiness.

It is interesting that you noted that Elijah List and Charisma weren’t down much, mainly because they weren’t as tied to Bentley.

EL is tied to people like Rick Joyner, but majors in prophetics; it will (unfortunately) go on.

Charisma covers the charismatic/Pentecostal scene writ large; they were slow to be critical, for they have a tendency to be a cheerleader rather than a critic. However, J Lee Grady was asking some questions fairly early on, showing a decent degree of skepticism; yes, slower than many, but coming from that side of the aisle, he wanted to not throw the charismatic baby out with Bentley’s poopy bathwater.