Confessions of a Former Word of Faith Pastor

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As many of you know, for quite some time, I was a pastor in the “word of faith” movement. Back in September, 2014, I guest-hosted a Dividing Line broadcast where I shared something of an insider’s guide, as well as the powerful biblical truths God used to alert me to the gross deception. Since then, the youtube video has been viewed around 12,000 times. May the Lord continue to use it to lead His elect out of the movement and into His truth.

2 thoughts on “Confessions of a Former Word of Faith Pastor”

  1. Out of the Word of faith movement, and into legalism :-/
    It’s an easy trap for those leading a congregation to fall into making rules.

    There is nothing wrong with using Sundays for gathering and for sharing spiritual food, even physical food and fellowshipping, just be very careful about making rules about it. I noticed the article on Sunday , the Lord’s day. It can’t replace the sabbath because the sabbath day was never to be replace with another ritual day, and according the book of Hebrews, we enter into God’s Sabbath (rest) with our faith.

    I noticed that the article provided no biblical argument or foundation for requiring Christians to observe the 8th day as a special and holy day. That’s because there is no biblical case for it. Of course Christ was raised on the 8th day, but neither he nor any of the NT bible writers even hinted that the 8th, or first day if you prefer should be observed weekly as a special day set aside. A holy day because Christ happened to be resurrected on that day.

    Sometimes I wish Paul were around today. He would have a field day with these Legalistic leanings just as he did with the Galatians and the Church at Jerusalem. Why? It’s another gospel, a different gospel to build up any requirements about any special day of the week.

    Again let me affirm that due to the fact that most people don’t work on Sunday it’s an excellent day of the week to meet, but never never ever make it a requirement or some required symbol of Christianity or Holiness to participate, or some kind of condemnation not to. My Justification has no connection with how I happen to use Sundays.

    Early church traditions need to be taken with the proper grain of salt. There was already a push or tendency toward legalism due to human nature and the Jewish tradition and Paul fought against that continuously. To tell me that some early Christians according to some Ecclesiastical writer/s assign some kind of holiness to Sunday means nothing to me. What it tells me is that fallen man left on his own has a tendency to fall into ritualistic tradition (thank you Church at Rome, C of E, and several others).

    Due to the grace of God we have his Word, the bible. That’s the standard. The only standard.
    1Co_4:6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us ____not to go beyond what is written____, that none of you may be ____puffed up____ in favor of one against another. (emphasis mine)

    Make Sunday a special day if you like. Treat the day as you please, but never blaspheme God by trying to imply that doing so is somehow His will for Christians.

    Rom 14:5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
    Rom 14:6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
    Rom 14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
    Rom 14:8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

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