I think this falls along the same line of reasoning. If someone was truly glorifying God and exalting Jesus, I would be first in line to say amen. That is not what we are talking about. One of the tactics Brown employs is to divide everyone into two camps. His camp of charismatic and the other side are the cessationists. It never occurs to him that both could be wrong but by dividing, it is easier to conquer.
3. They freely mock brothers and sister in the Lord, appointing themselves judge and jury.
As you can see, these are fairly repetitive. He wants to sell the notion that he is a sincere arbiter of truth and anyone who disagrees with him must be a mocker. That is an absurd premise designed to try and marginalize his critics. According to 1Corinthians, we are absolutely to judge those inside the church as well as being called to test everything! Brown is trying to conflate the judgment of the false teacher personally, when the reality is the teaching is what is being judged.
"4. They throw millions of healthy babies out with the bad bathwater." - Dr. Michael Brown
Let us be clear. There are many, many god-fearing ministers and ministries who teach correctly and try to do the right thing but they are not found on television. The amount of people who have large national or international ministries is actually quite small compared to the whole body. Brown thinks we are disparaging all Charismatic teachers but in reality it is all Charismaniacal teachers, which is a very small percentage of teachers worldwide. This is a red herring argument, one of Brown's specialties.
"5. They bear false witness against others in the body, thereby breaking one of the Ten Commandments." - Dr. Michael Brown
No Dr. Brown. Disagreement is not false witness, and you know it. Also, we are not talking about people in the body but voracious wolves devouring the sheep. That aside, because we should not bear false witness against anybody anyway, what Dr. Brown is doing is changing disagreement into false witness or splitting hairs. For example, he recently posted that it was bearing false witness to say that he has endorsed Benny Hinn. Except he has endorsed Benny Hinn, multiple times. He went on his television show for a week - what bigger endorsement can he make? When I was on his radio show, he called Hinn a good brother in the Lord. So, it is far from a false witness to claim he has endorsed him.
"6. They spread dissension and division." - Dr. Michael Brown
