The US Center for World Mission (which gave birth to the AD2000 & Beyond Movement) has long been training what they call "mission mobilizers" to infiltrate churches. The Assemblies of God and the Southern Baptist Convention were early targets of the USCWM's efforts. Now there are over seventy denominations in Mission America (the US affiliate of both AD2000 and Lausanne). The A/G currently has so many Latter Rain and Brownsville supporters in their rank and file that their leadership is going to great lengths to prevent a denominational split over the issue.
Following is a "Editorial Comment," Ralph D. Winter, Mission Frontiers, January-February 1998:
DIANE: This seems to be very biased and in error on some things."
That depends on whether its true or not, I suppose. :-) Diane, thanks for your comments and questions. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
"...[M]issions is essentially the restoration of God's Kingdom and rule and power on this earth. It involves the restablishment [sic] of His glory, of His honor of His control of things." Ralph D. Winter, executive director, U.S. Center for World Mission, (Mission Frontiers, May-June 1998, punctuation in original)
> I have had and have several friends who work there and they are not involved in the current "river" revival as individuals at all. "
Not relevant, Diane; I never said your friends were. Neither did I suggest that many or most of the USCWM staff personally participate in the River Revival, although there is a River Revival church on their campus. I do happen to have a friend who has been a USCWM staffer for several years. My purpose is not to expose his personal belief system, but I could relate to
you any number of demonic manifestations he and his family have experienced since moving to the Pasadena area. He's given many years to the development of curricula for field missionaries and fixing computers, and was well over $30,000 in debt at this time last year, has drawn almost no support from USCWM since June of 1998, but still works for and is loyal to the
organization and devoted to their goals. He and his wife still "have a growing burden to minister in the churches of the U.S. to encourage them to be more involved in the work of frontier missions" and I pray that they may one day be able to do just that. That is not the work they are furthering now.> This organization is simply a resource to help churches in any way they can to inform and equip for missions through the church."
Diane, the USCWM is far more than that, and you have not asked for what ultimate purpose they provide their mission resources, or what kind of resources they do provide. I would suggest you read "The World Christian Movement: Evangelism vs. Evangelization," by Al Dager, which appears in three recent issues of Media Spotlight, beginning with Volume 22, Number 1, and available from PO Box 290, Redmond, WA 98073-0290. The first two installments are available online
http://www.geocities.com/hebrews928/dagrwcm1.html
http://www.geocities.com/hebrews928/dagrwcm2.html
> Here is what my friend who heads a project there wrote in response to the above post... We have no special training... "USCWM's concentration on training, networking, and infiltrating can be readily seen by examining their website and publications, many of them published under their William Carey Library imprint, including their Perspectives study program
[http://members.aol.com/antichristianity/kingdomstrikes.html]. I decline to comment on your friend's praise of the organization he works for. I'm quite sure your friend is sincere, but sincerely misled as to the organization's true goals. Certainly, no one "heads" anything at the US Center for World Mission, which visitors and staff often describe as pandemonium, except Dr.
Ralph D. Winter, who micromanages this gigantic multimillion or billion dollar operation like a tin despot. It is not their business practices that concern me, it is THE FALSE GOSPEL and the warped view of all of God's dealings with mankind that they promote, and their pernicious influence on the visible Church.Here is a typical bit of "Winterspeak," from "Is One Kind Of Mission Work More Important Than Another?—How Can We Decide? by Ralph D. Winter," posted on their website at http://www.uscwm.org/mobilization/mostimport.html,
undated:> We are being forced to speak more precisely. We cannot glibly talk of "winning the world to Christ" without specifying just what we expect that to mean. We can't go on talking about how many people "have never heard the name of Christ" when we have never believed that was good enough anyhow. [Late last year, Dr. Winter proposed, candidly but unsuccessfully, to his staff that the USCWM's goals—to unify the visible Church, to persuade every people-group to worship God, thus transforming the world to an Eden-like state, and to turn the whole neat package over to their Commander-in-Chief, who is trapped in heaven until they achieve total victory - could be more easily accomplished without requiring anyone to name the name of Jesus.] Confusion right now is necessary, painful, helpful, even encouraging when you take a close look.
Well, let's see what happens when we "take a close look." Winter's vision includes the acceptance of all nominal Christians, as long as their salvation is valid, i.e., takes place in a "missions-minded" church. This specifically includes the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox Churches and the "new and improved" Worldwide Church of God. Islam and Hinduism, with minor modifications, can become valid forms of Christianity. Doctrine is unimportant - in fact, it is divisive, and so hinders, not helps, the Great Commission, and thus delays the return of Christ. Give them the Bible and they will, in time, come around.
I would call this "The Jesus Vaccine." The strategies and tactics Ralph Winter claims were revealed to the USCWM by God to complete the Great Commission would instead vaccinate the world against the gospel. As in the fairy-tale The Emperor's New Clothes, your failure to agree with or even understand Dr. Winter is evidence that you are not sufficiently "missions-minded." Even to "improperly appreciate and support" a fellow church member who partners with the USCWM to "mobilize" your church is to "seriously hinder" the task of world evangelization and, by implication, the restoration of God's Kingdom and rule and power on this earth, the termination of Satan's reign, and the return of Jesus.
USCWM does not "do" missions, but claims the right to dictate how they should be done. From "'A Church-Planting Movement' Within Every People: The key to reaching every people and every person," Rick Wood, Mission Frontiers,
May-June 1995:> God Has Already Defined the Nature and Scope of Our Task
.... In Matt. 21:14 Jesus indicates that all the ethnic groups must be penetrated with the gospel before He will return. And in Revelation 5:9 and 7:9 we see that God's
ultimate purpose is achieved when multitudes of people from every tribe, language, people and nation are worshipping Jesus because He bought them with His own blood. Jesus will not receive all the worship He deserves until every distinct people in all their diversity are worshipping Him in all of their uniqueness. Every people has a destiny to fulfill as true worshipers of the
Lord Jesus Christ and we as His servants can help them to find their true role in God's plan for them. [Note that they are mere worshippers, while "we" are an elite corps of God's servants—a concept endorsed by William Branham.]
> No doubt about it, evil was unleashed and has been stalking the world unchecked until, until, until, what? …until another principle took hold—at the time God set in motion a corrective, conquering Kingdom in Abraham's
mandate (Gen 12:1-3).No question about it— except to those who may not have thought it through— our modern, relatively safer, healthier, explosively growing, relatively less warlike world of today is due to the quiet, 4,000 year-old impact of the work of God in collaboration with His people. Things are coming to an end.
The world is now already in a permanently unstable situation that cannot last long. See Ehrlich et al in "No Middle Way" (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1997). [This article's actual title is "No Middle Way on the Environment" and Dr. Paul Ehrlich is an atheist-humanist who has made a living out of issuing one false prediction of environmental doom after another.] This is precisely due to the massive reversal of evil—that bitter cocktail of suffering that has suppressed world population for many centuries.
> But this does not at all mean that all evil will be conquered before the end of history. At the end there will still be tears to wipe away (Rev 21:3).
No, sorry, history may end in a global conflagration of atomic warfare. That, in fact, could happen tomorrow. But, meanwhile our task is to honor and glorify God and to lead all peoples to "declare His glory." That is the over-arching task of the believers. It is a lot more, not less, than winning people to Jesus Christ. It is called Missions.
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Here is a very short list of the influences, men, and movements I try to keep an eye on:
THE VATICAN (CATHOLIC GLOBALISM)
DOMINIONISM & RESTORATIONISM ("CHRISTIAN" GLOBALISM)
THE NEW WORLD ORDER (SECULAR GLOBALISM)
IDOLATRY, PAGANISM, AND CHARISMANIA
SYNCRETISM, DEMONISM, AND "SPIRITUAL WARFARE"
LIBERALISM, HUMANISM, AND THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT
THE LATTER RAIN AND MANIFEST SONS OF GOD
"CHRISTIANIZATION" AND THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
THE CHURCH GROWTH MOVEMENT
JOHN WIMBER
DR. PAUL YONGGI CHO
BILLY GRAHAM
DR. BILL BRIGHT
DR. C. PETER WAGNER
DR. RALPH WINTER
JAY GARY
THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION
THE RIVER REVIVAL (ARGENTINA, TORONTO, BROWNSVILLE)
THE WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
THE KALEIDOSCOPIC GLOBAL ACTION PLAN (KGAP)
NEW MILLENIUM APOSTOLIC COUNCIL OF PROPHETIC ELDERS
THE U.S. CENTER FOR WORLD MISSION (USCWM)
NETWORKS (LAUSANNE, AD2000, GCGER, NPPN, NSM)
THE WORLD PRAYER CENTER (GLOBAL DATABASE)
PK AND THE PERSPECTIVES & ALPHA COURSES
THE LIGHTHOUSE MOVEMENT (AND RELATED STRATEGIES)
CITY TRANSFORMATION (AND OTHER DAWN STRATEGIES)
CELEBRATE JESUS 2000 (AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES)
THE CALL D.C. (AND SIMILAR EVENTS)
THE CELL CHURCH/APOSTOLIC HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT_____________________________
Editor's Note: The study we just did on Global Impact listed on the index for Joel's Army, was done independent of this information and confirms this study. We received a tip from a friend of our ministry and the information is mind boggling. We have been watching these developments for eight years. Because of the increased participation of so many churches the rate of growth has increased considerably.
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FROM DAVID: " In posts which will follow, I'll document the USCWM-AD2000 connection and endeavor to describe the "vision" of the U.S. Center for World Mission." [Source: David Liben - LLMouser@aol.com - Delusion & Apostasy Watch News
http://members.aol.com/delusionapostasy/myhomepage/news.html
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