8. The "if your point was valid I would be with you" subterfuge. Brown always tries to sound like the more reasonable party in the debate. To that end he will try to take the high road after he has employed all of these deceptions. To this caller he actually says that hey, if you were right about Bethel I would be right there with you repudiating them. That has to be the most absurd statement Dr. Brown has made in this call. There is no place on this earth more heretical than Bethel Church. Forget the grave sucking and dead raising team debacles. They operate a school that teaches how to perform the gifts of the spirit despite the fact that the Bible says only the Spirit gives them out. Perhaps usurping the power of God is secondary to Dr. Brown but is sure seemed primary to God when He cast Lucifer out of heaven for it. Bethel also teaches healing on demand; robbing God of His sovereignty. They claim to have the unbiblical manifestations of gold dust, gem stones, angel feathers and glory clouds. They teach unmitigated prosperity gospel, which Brown claims as anathema in this interview earlier! They teach the word faith heresies and eastern mysticism. They are ground zero for the teachings of the NAR and dominionism. Before Brown tries to deflect that he may want to google the "anointing" as an apostle of Todd Bentley by the NAR and he will see Bill Johnson as the man praying over the charlatan. If you can look at all of this and cry, secondary; I fear for either your honesty or your sanity.
Either way beloved, I feel for the plight of the caller. He was allowed about two minutes to express his concern. He never got one minute to counterpoint. The rest was Dr. Brown regurgitating the same old tired defenses and shady debate practices he always employs. The main thing for us as the body is to recognize the patterns that people like Dr. Brown engage in when defending wolves. Remember we are pointing out the false teaching. If scripture says that they are hell bound then that is God they are disagreeing with, not you. Do not forget that the lovable Sergeant Schultz did know; he was just pretending to not know. If you say that someone is both a brother and a heretic, I am afraid you do not know what either of those words mean. We do not need to know a false teacher personally or gauge their sincerity. Only their teaching needs to be evaluated and if found lacking, rebuked. If you call out a false teaching you must also call out those who teach it. Do not let them muddy the waters, pretend doctrine is a secondary issue, or lie about your point being invalid. Titus 1:9 cannot be clearer even if Michael Brown refuses to see it.
Reverend Anthony Wade -- February 23, 2018
Either way beloved, I feel for the plight of the caller. He was allowed about two minutes to express his concern. He never got one minute to counterpoint. The rest was Dr. Brown regurgitating the same old tired defenses and shady debate practices he always employs. The main thing for us as the body is to recognize the patterns that people like Dr. Brown engage in when defending wolves. Remember we are pointing out the false teaching. If scripture says that they are hell bound then that is God they are disagreeing with, not you. Do not forget that the lovable Sergeant Schultz did know; he was just pretending to not know. If you say that someone is both a brother and a heretic, I am afraid you do not know what either of those words mean. We do not need to know a false teacher personally or gauge their sincerity. Only their teaching needs to be evaluated and if found lacking, rebuked. If you call out a false teaching you must also call out those who teach it. Do not let them muddy the waters, pretend doctrine is a secondary issue, or lie about your point being invalid. Titus 1:9 cannot be clearer even if Michael Brown refuses to see it.
Reverend Anthony Wade -- February 23, 2018
