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>Jack Hayford
>
>General Teachings/Activities
>http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hayford/general.htm
>
>-  Jack Hayford (born 1934) is the 
>hyper-charismatic pastor of The Church on the 
>Way, The First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys, 
>California. Hayford started the church in 1969 
>with 18 people; it is now the largest Foursquare 
>Church (Pentecostal) in the U.S. -- about 9,000 
>members (of which about 80% speak in tongues as 
>a prayer language, according to Hayford) with 
>weekly attendance between 8,500 and 10,000. 
>Hayford promotes the "four-square" doctrines of 
>Pentecostalism -- that Jesus is Savior, Baptizer 
>with the Holy Spirit, Healer, and Coming King. 
>He also teaches the false doctrine that healing 
>is promised in the atonement (Charisma, June 
>1992). Pat Boone is an elder in Hayford's 
>church, and Trinity Broadcasting Network's (TBN) 
>heretical founders, Paul and Jan Crouch, are 
>members. Hayford has authored more than two 
>dozen books, and is also a prolific "hymn" 
>writer, composing more than 400 popular 
>charismatic "gospel" songs, including "Majesty" 
>(which promotes the false charismatic "Kingdom 
>Now" philosophy in which Christians are thought 
>to be able to exercise kingdom authority over 
>sickness and the devil in this present hour).
>
>Hayford's teaching can be heard nationwide 
>through his "Living Way" radio and television 
>ministries. The half-hour weekday radio program 
>was started in 1981 (originally titled, 
>"FreeWay") and is now heard in over 40 states 
>and in several foreign countries. In 1989, 
>Living Way began a Sunday morning "live" 
>broadcast of the church services from The Church 
>On The Way. The now one-hour Sunday television 
>program was started in 1977 and is seen in all 
>50 states on TBN (as well as in Canada and South 
>Africa). Also on its 24 acre campus, the Church 
>on the Way operates The King's College, The 
>King's Seminary, and the Jack W. Hayford School of Pastoral Nurture.
>
>Hayford writes in A Man's Worship and Witness 
>(p. 80) that since the inception of The Church 
>on the Way 25 years ago, over 40,000 "decisions 
>for Christ" have been made at his church, more 
>than 30 churches have been planted elsewhere, 
>and over 100 pastors and church leaders have 
>gone out to serve in other places. Also, Hayford 
>claims to have given over $20 million to "serve 
>human needs and spread the Gospel" throughout the world.
>
>-  Foursquare was founded in 1923 by flamboyant, 
>twice-divorced Pentecostal female preacher Aimee 
>Semple McPherson. (In a 1990 sermon about 
>McPherson's ministry, Hayford defended her on 
>the grounds that "she certainly should not be 
>viewed as one who 'bounced' from marriage to 
>marriage," and that in his view, her ministry 
>was validated by the fact that "a half-century 
>later, the devil still hates her sufficiently to 
>spray lying venom on her memory.") In a 3/93 
>Charisma magazine article, Hayford says 
>Foursquare was "one of the first to fully 
>embrace the charismatic movement as being a 
>legitimate movement of the Spirit." Yet, 
>Foursquare teaches physical healing in the 
>atonement, "Spirit-slaying," spiritual 
>warfare/demon-deliverance, tongues-speaking, 
>signs & wonders evangelism, extra-revelatory 
>prophecy, etc., etc. In the face of mounting 
>criticism, Hayford now admits to a more flexible 
>attitude. In his latest book, he also refrains 
>from demanding tongues as a proof of Spirit 
>baptism, and instead presents "spiritual 
>language" as a "divine and desirable provision 
>to assist every believer ..." [still error 
>though]. (Reported in the 8/17/92, Christianity 
>Today; the 3/15/93, Calvary Contender; and the 3/8/93, Christian News.)
>
>-  Evidence abounds of Hayford's 
>hyper-charismatic, ecumenical, and occultic 
>tendencies: (Reported in the 11/1/89 and 
>9/15/91, Calvary Contenders; and the 12/91, CIB Bulletin.)
>
>(a) Hayford spoke at the 1989 Billy 
>Graham/Lausanne II conference (with John Wimber, 
>David Yonggi Cho, and Dick Eastman), and has 
>appeared at other ecumenical events such as 
>Robert Schuller "success" conferences. [Hayford 
>also endorsed Schuller's 1996 autobiography -- 
>Prayer: My Soul's Adventure With God.]
>
>(b) In 10/91, Hayford visited Sydney, Australia 
>with John Wimber (the "signs & wonders," Church 
>Growth, Power Evangelism, Vineyard Movement 
>founder and leader who died in 1997) to hold a 
>"holiness conference" (a number of Catholic 
>priests also spoke at the conference).
>
>(c) In the 10/91 issue of Charisma magazine, 
>Hayford relates a vision of seeing Jesus seated 
>in heaven and then rising from the throne. 
>Hayford states: "As the anointing caught in the 
>folds of His garments, it began to splash out 
>and fall over the church." Jesus then supposedly 
>said, "I am beginning to rise now in preparation 
>for my second coming. Those who will rise with 
>me will share in this double portion of anointing."
>
>(d) Hayford praised Richard Foster for his 
>efforts in bringing together all the streams of 
>the church. (Foster is the head of Renovaré, an 
>international ecumenical organization that 
>espouses the use of guided imagery and 
>visualization as means of obtaining "personal spiritual renewal.")
>
>-  Charismatic Bible Ministries (CBM) was 
>founded in 1986 by hyper-charismatic Oral 
>Roberts. Jack Hayford was one of the original 
>officers and trustees of CBM. (Others included 
>such hyper-charismatics as Richard Roberts, 
>Kenneth Copeland, David Yonggi Cho, Charles 
>Capps, Morris Cerullo, Paul Crouch, Kenneth 
>Hagin, Benny Hinn, Charles and Frances Hunter, 
>Robert Tilton, Casey Treat, John Osteen, Earl 
>Paulk, Fred K.C. Price, Tommy Reid, Stephen 
>Strang, and Lester Sumrall.) CBM conducts 
>leadership conferences for its charismatic 
>coalition, many of whom espouse dominion 
>theology tenets. CBM's slogan is "Love and Unity 
>through Signs and Wonders." When people look to 
>signs and wonders to produce love and unity, 
>they will find themselves united with everything 
>that appears miraculous regardless of the source 
>(Vengeance is Ours, pp. 125-127).
>
>-  Paul Crouch, the founder of the blasphemous 
>Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), is a member 
>in good standing at the Hayford-pastored Church 
>on the Way. Crouch publishes the monthly 
>newsletter Praise the Lord . I think it's fair 
>to assume that Hayford is in agreement with 
>Crouch's theology, or else as his pastor, 
>Hayford would correct Crouch and discipline him 
>if necessary. The following are quotes from the 
>3/93 Praise the Lord newsletter: (All emphases in the original.)
>
>(a) "I love a good fight! ... who the REAL enemy 
>is! ... the heretic hunters [e.g., Martin 
>Bobgan] ... searching endlessly for some new 
>flaw in doctrine, picking, picking, picking some 
>new splinter of error from the eyes ..."
>
>(b) "... the many documented miracles under 
>Kathryn Kuhlman's ministry and, of course, Benny 
>Hinn's present-day ministry. ... if there is no 
>power -- no healings -- no miracles in a church 
>or ministry, the only thing left to do is to 
>develop a new theology to justify their [the 
>"heretic hunters"] pitiful, spiritually barren 
>lives and ministry!" [Kuhlman was one of the 
>first of many "stage show healers," in effect, 
>blazing the trail for the Benny Hinn's and Oral Roberts of today.]
>
>(c) "If miracles really did cease at 90 A.D. ... 
>the heretic hunters were right! If we are not 
>'little Gods,' we will apologize to you in front 
>of ten thousand times ten thousand before the 
>Crystal Sea!" [Hayford has taught the "little 
>gods" heresy himself, specifically in a message 
>first recorded in 1979 (titled "Marching Against 
>Mammon") and rebroadcast on a on a 10/2/86 Living Way radio program.]
>
>(d) "A host of evil spirits ... responsible for 
>much, if not most, of the personal difficulties, 
>spiritual pressures and aggravated forms of evil 
>that characterize our modern social order. ... 
>this constant and fiendish disruption of the 
>human social order is explained only by the mass 
>activity behind the scenes of a vast, well 
>organized host of wicked spirits under the 
>control of their master prince. ... When will 
>YOU take back everything Satan has stolen from 
>you by bluff, bluster, lying and deceit? ... Say 
>it with me -- 'Satan, I bind YOUR EVIL WORKS in 
>Jesus' name.' Say it with me, 'I claim my 
>healing, in Jesus' name; I take back what is 
>mine, in Jesus' name!'" ["Name-It-and-Claim-It"/demon-deliverance].
>
>(e) "If and when we finally lay down these petty 
>doctrinal and traditional differences and JOIN 
>TOGETHER as an awesome UNITED body and force, 
>all hell will finally retreat into the abyss, 
>and, together, we will bring back the king! ... 
>When will we realize that the enforcement of 
>Christ's Victory is UP TO US? " [Dominion Now theology].
>
>(f) "Some of you have, indeed, grasped this 
>truth and victory -- Glory! Some of you have 
>repossessed your rightful ownership and 
>possessions. ... Praise the Lord, David's God is 
>teaching our hands to war too! Soon our enemy 
>will be destroyed! Soon our enemy will have to 
>yield even his remaining strongholds. Together, 
>we are: 'Destroying the works of the Devil' -- 
>just as Jesus commanded us to do." [Charismatic spiritual warfare]
>
>-  Hayford is an endorser/participant in the 
>National Evangelistic Census (NEC), a Kingwood, 
>Texas charismatic/ecumenical ministry to "turn 
>the nation back to God by winning our city to 
>Jesus." NEC sponsors an annual one day 
>"census"/global neighborhood survey where teams 
>of two go door-to-door asking questions from a 
>form and presenting the "gospel"; an NEC 
>brochure predicts: "The angels in heaven will be 
>shouting when the goal of 25 million souls are 
>reported won to Jesus in one day!" (Among other 
>endorsers are the Evangelical Free Church of 
>America, Youth With a Mission, Campus Crusade 
>for Christ, and A.D. 2000 & Beyond Movement, as 
>well as charismatic-loonies John Osteen, John 
>Hagee, Charles and Frances Hunter, Frederick 
>K.C. Price, Morris Cerullo, Marilyn Hickey, Dick Eastman, and Richard Roberts.)
>
>-  Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright fasted 40 
>days during the summer of 1994, during which he 
>claims to have received a "prophecy from God" 
>that a mighty revival is coming. He then issued 
>a call for hundreds of liberals, charismatics, 
>and new-evangelicals to gather in Orlando 
>12/5/94-12/7/94 to fast and pray for revival. An 
>Invitation Committee made up of a hodgepodge of 
>72 liberals, new evangelicals, and charismatics 
>was formed. Included were: Robert Schuller, 
>Charles Colson, E.V. Hill, Jack Hayford, James 
>Dobson, W.A. Criswell, Charles Stanley, Paul 
>Crouch, Luis Palau, Bill Gothard, Pat Robertson, 
>Kay Arthur, and Larry Burkett. CCC's Bill Bright 
>cites "a great sense of urgency to link arms and 
>unitedly call upon God for help in the spirit of 
>King Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 20)." This ecumenical 
>"linking" is in the "spirit of Jehoshaphat" 
>indeed, but the Jehoshaphat of 2 Chr. 18 
>(instead of 2 Chr. 20) where he "linked" with 
>wicked King Ahab and incurred the wrath of God. 
>(Reported in the 11/15/94, Calvary Contender.) 
>[Another three-day "Fasting & Prayer" conference 
>was held in 11/95 in Los Angeles; it attracted 
>3,500 "evangelicals" and charismatics. The 
>Invitation/Host Committee for this event 
>included most of those listed above, plus Dick 
>Eastman, Chuck Smith, Bill McCartney (Promise 
>Keepers), Tim and Beverly LaHaye, Shirley 
>Dobson, Paul Cedar (E-Free), Ted Engstrom (World 
>Vision), Joseph Stowell (Moody), and Joseph 
>Aldrich (Multnomah). A third conference was held 
>11/14/96-11/16/96 in St. Louis. New additions to 
>the Host Committee included Max Lucado, Henry 
>Blackaby, Loren Cunningham (YWAM), Greg Laurie, 
>Dennis Rainey, Randy Phillips (Promise Keepers), 
>Josh McDowell, D. James Kennedy, Howard 
>Hendricks, and Neil Anderson. Conferences were also held in 1997 and 1998.]
>
>-  Eugene Peterson's The Message has swept into 
>Christian bookstores, homes, and churches from 
>coast to coast. In the first four months after 
>its mid-July, 1993 release, 100,000 copies of 
>this "New Testament in contemporary English" 
>were printed by NavPress and 70,000 books were 
>sold. Apparently, most readers were delighted: 
>"The Message is so good it leaves me 
>breathless," wrote popular New Age author 
>Madeleine L'Engle in her endorsement. Jack 
>Hayford has also endorsed The Message: "The 
>Message is certainly destined to become a 
>devotional classic, not to mention a powerful pastoral tool."
>
>But The Message teaches a different gospel and a 
>different morality than the Bible (as well as a 
>worldly/warm fuzzy view of life)! For example, 
>The Message translates Jesus' statement in John 
>14:28, "The Father is the goal and purpose of my 
>life," versus the Bible's "... The Father is 
>greater than I." In l Cor. 6:18-20, the words 
>"sexual immorality" are deleted and the words 
>"avoids commitment and intimacy" are added. (One 
>could conclude that now "commitment and 
>intimacy," not marriage, set the boundaries for 
>acceptable sex.) In Rom. 1:26-27, the words "God 
>gave them over ..." are deleted and words that 
>qualify homosexuality are added (a loophole is 
>provided for committed homosexuals who "love" 
>each other; thus lust becomes the sin, not the 
>choosing of a same-sex partner). There are 
>hundreds of examples like these in The Message.
>
>Peterson himself, in his introduction to The 
>Message, says, "This version of the New 
>Testament in a contemporary idiom keeps the 
>language of The Message current and fresh and 
>understandable in the same language in which we 
>do our shopping, talk with our friends, worry 
>about world affairs, and teach our children 
>their table manners ..." This all sounds like an 
>excuse for "dumbing-down" Scripture to match our 
>culture's downward trends. Should we then 
>rewrite God's holy Scriptures to fit our more 
>shallow and worldly communications? And what 
>does it say about a man like Jack Hayford when 
>he endorses it as an authentic translation of 
>the Bible rather than as Peterson's personal, 
>politically correct interpretation? (Also 
>endorsing The Message were Warren Wiersbe and 
>J.I. Packer.) [Adapted from "What Kind of 
>Message is THE MESSAGE, an article by Berit Kjos.]
>
>-  In the Foursquare World Advance magazine of 
>Jan-Feb '94, when asked why he was among a group 
>of evangelical Christian "leaders" who met with 
>President Clinton on 10/18/93 at a private 
>breakfast in the White House (since Clinton is 
>pro-abortion and pro-homosexual), Hayford said 
>he respects the office of the presidency and 
>"Finally, I believe in the power of presence. 
>Just my being there would leave a deposit of 
>some sort." He also said he has "deep love" for 
>Clinton as "a human being," and views Clinton as 
>"a personable, devoted public servant." Indeed! 
>And it's what Clinton is devoted to that should 
>be denounced by all real Christians. [Among the 
>other attendees with Hayford were social radical 
>and pantheist Tony Campolo, church growth 
>movement guru and psychologizer Bill Hybels (who 
>stayed overnight at the White House and helped 
>Clinton set the agenda), and the psychologized 
>president of Taylor University Jay Kesler.] 
>(Reported in the 4/94, Lofton Letter .) [Later, 
>in a congregational report, Hayford expressed 
>his conviction regarding the "clarity of 
>President Clinton's commitment to Jesus Christ," 
>and said he was convinced that Clinton was 
>indeed a believer! (6/20/94, Christian News).]
>
>-  Hayford spoke for Renovaré at its 1991 Los 
>Angeles Conference -- Renovaré is an 
>international, New Age, ecumenical organization 
>that emanates from the religious traditions of 
>Quakerism, whose message is that today's Church 
>is missing out on some wonderful spiritual 
>experiences that can only be found by studying 
>and practicing the "meditative" and 
>"contemplative" lifestyle "of early 
>Christianity." In actuality, Renovaré espouses 
>the use of the early pagan traditions of guided 
>imagery and visualization, astral projection, 
>"Zen" prayer techniques for meditation (i.e., 
>Buddhism), and Jungian psychology (i.e., a blend 
>of Eastern mysticism and Roman Catholic mystical 
>spiritual tradition, which nicely fits the New 
>Age model), all as means of obtaining "personal 
>spiritual renewal" in the lives of believers. 
>(For a more detailed analysis of Renovaré and 
>the teachings of its co-directors, psychologist 
>Richard Foster and William Vaswig, see Media 
>Spotlight's Special Report of March, 1992: 
>"Renovaré: Taking Leave of One's Senses.")
>
>-  Promise Keepers is the gigantic new (1991) 
>"men's movement" among professing evangelical 
>Christians. Its roots are Catholic and 
>charismatic to the core. PK's contradictory 
>stand on homosexuality; its promotion of secular 
>psychology; its unscriptural feminizing of men; 
>its depiction of Jesus as a "phallic messiah" 
>tempted to perform homosexual acts; and its 
>ecumenical and unbiblical teachings should 
>dissuade any true Christian from participating. 
>Promise Keepers is proving to be one of the most 
>ungodly and misleading movements in the annals 
>of Christian history. Nevertheless, Hayford is a 
>promoter of this ecumenical, charismatic, 
>psychologized men's movement. Hayford is on PK's 
>board of directors and has spoken at major 
>events for Promise Keepers every year since PK's 
>inception. (He also patterns the men's program 
>at The Church On The Way after the PK model.) On 
>5/14/94, Hayford spoke at a regional Promise 
>Keepers conference in Anaheim, California. 
>During his message, Hayford gave three reasons 
>why God required circumcision in the Old Testament:
>
>"[1] God wants to touch your very identity as a 
>man; [2] He wants to reach out and touch your 
>secret and private parts. This enables Him to 
>better perform surgery on the heart; [3] God 
>wants to touch man's creative parts. This 
>represents the idea that since God has touched 
>our creative parts, we as God's people need to 
>be creative in our witnessing to others."
>
>Hayford also spoke at the PK "1996 National 
>Clergy Conference" (2/13/96-2/15/96) in 
>Atlanta's Georgia Dome stadium. The theme for 
>the conference was "Fan the Flame," because 
>McCartney (PK's founder) believes "God wants to 
>bring revival to His church through its clergy" 
>(2/26/96, Christian News, p. 10). The purpose of 
>this gathering, according to McCartney, was to 
>"tear the hearts of pastors wide open so that a 
>single leadership can be produced." He had hoped 
>to "bring as many as 100,000 ministers and 
>priests of all races together" (7/1/95, The 
>Atlanta Journal-Constitution, p. C8). [Actual 
>attendance was 38,914, which represented all 50 
>states and more than a dozen foreign countries; 
>600 in attendance were Roman Catholic priests!] 
>At the beginning of the conference, Hayford was 
>speaking and trying to influence everyone to 
>"dance in the Lord," an unscriptural routine 
>favored by the fanatical wing of Pentecostal 
>charismaticism. Hayford said he learned the 
>dance in Africa, and later the Lord spoke to him 
>directly saying, "May I have this dance?" He 
>then began doing an African folkdance around the 
>podium, suggestive of the dances associated with heathen witch-doctoring.
>
>-  Hayford's psychological teachings are less 
>chronicled than his charismatic doctrines, but 
>they nevertheless are prominent. Hayford is a 
>frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson's Focus on 
>the Family radio program, and he endorses many 
>of the newly published books by "Christian" 
>psychologists as they come to market.
>
>-  In the Church on the Way's Mission Statement, 
>Hayford espouses the following about 
>tongues-speaking and spiritual warfare (from the 
>Living Way Ministries Internet web site -- 8/6/96):
>
>(a) "Vitality of the Spiritual Language -- The 
>biblical exercise of Holy Spirit enabled 
>supernatural utterance is vital for prayer, 
>praise, intercession, and edification and is a 
>desirable and an available resource for every 
>believer." (Emphasis added.) [Hayford offers to 
>sell the book The Beauty of Spiritual Language, 
>and a 2-tape cassette album titled "The Holy Spirit: The Great Psychiatrist"!]
>
>(b) "Committed to Spiritual Warfare -- The 
>reality of the invisible realm of spiritual 
>conflict demands biblical confrontation through 
>prayer and ministry with discernment and love; 
>that the triumph of Calvary is not minimized, 
>but applied by such means." (Emphasis added.) 
>[Hayford offers to sell the book Prayer is 
>Invading the Impossible, and a 2-tape cassette 
>album titled "Resisting the Devil."]
>
>-  In endorsing ecumenical evangelist Luis 
>Palau's 1991 book Say Yes!, Hayford says: "There 
>are many practical reasons for supporting the 
>ministry of Luis Palau: his fidelity to the 
>truth, his constancy of passion for the lost, 
>and his integrity in personal life ... the 
>evidence of God's sovereign choice to anoint and 
>use this man mightily at this crucial juncture 
>in church history." (Palau is a Catholic 
>sympathizer whose ecumenical message is heavily 
>diluted with pop psychology and Arminian 
>easy-believism -- hardly God's "sovereign 
>choice.") [Hayford has also taken part with 
>Palau in the annual ecumenical/charismatic/ 
>Catholic-accommodating March For Jesus campaigns.]
>
>-  Hayford has endorsed Catholic-sympathizer 
>Chuck Colson's book, The Body: Being Light in 
>Darkness (which is also endorsed by Jerry 
>Falwell, J.I. Packer, Pat Robertson, Bill 
>Hybels, Carl Henry, and Cardinal O'Connor). 
>Colson, ever ecumenical, praises the Catholic 
>chain of command, and includes the Catholic 
>Church as a part of the body of Christ. He also 
>says, "the body of Christ, in all its diversity, 
>is created with Baptist feet, charismatic hands, 
>and Catholic ears -- Fall with their eyes on 
>Jesus." In blindly praising the Roman Catholic 
>church Colson says it, "to its great credit, 
>does call heretics to account." Indeed she does, 
>having burned more than a million at the stake! (4/93, Berean Call).
>
>Hayford also writes: "Redeeming worship centers 
>on the Lord's Table. Whether your tradition 
>celebrates it as Communion, Eucharist, the Mass, 
>or the Lord's Supper, we are all called to this 
>centerpiece of Christian worship" (Seven 
>Promises of a Promise Keeper, p. 19). 
>Historically, the Roman Catholic mass has been 
>recognized by Bible believers as blatant 
>blasphemy, Yet, today, Hayford teaches that this 
>false view of Christian worship is approved by 
>God and proper for all Christians to accept.
>
>-  Almost all of the major apostate religious 
>organizations (including a large Roman Catholic 
>contingent) had representatives/ participants at 
>Orlando '95 (North American [charismatic] 
>Congress on the Holy Spirit and World 
>Evangelization.) A Catholic bishop led one 
>session. There was also conga-style 
>aisle-dancing by the Haitian Catholics during 
>the evening worship sessions. Others "praised 
>God" by dancing around the convention center 
>waving open umbrellas, signifying that the 
>invisible rain of the Holy Spirit was falling. 
>Of the 8,000 attending, over half were 
>charismatic Catholics. The 10/95 Charisma said, 
>"Charismatics abandoned their theological 
>differences ... at least for four days. ... 
>Today millions of Catholics, including Pope John 
>Paul II's personal preacher ... have joined 
>ranks with charismatics." A Catholic priest 
>added, "This is the greatest ecumenical movement 
>in the Christian church." Some of the 
>hyper-charismatic teachers at Orlando '95 were 
>Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, Jack Hayford, Marilyn Hickey, and Paul Crouch.
>
>-  Hayford also has a strange idea of what 
>constitutes true worship of God (although not 
>strange by charismatic standards):
>
>"Let Holy Spirit-filled worship be a blend of 
>our highest thoughts and our deepest feelings so 
>that the goal of true worship be reached: the 
>reshaping of our lives." (Emphases added.)
>
>Wrong! The goal of worship is not the reshaping 
>of our lives. True worship focuses on God, the 
>object of worship, as worthy of all glory and 
>honor and power and obedience for Who He is, 
>regardless of what we are. If we were perfect in 
>every way we would still be unworthy of Him. It 
>is not worship, but Scripture which is useful 
>for reshaping our lives (2 Tim. 3:16-17). For 
>Hayford and others of the charismatic ilk, 
>Scripture is fast giving way to experience as 
>the standard upon which to base belief. Nowhere 
>in Scripture are we told that the goal of 
>worship is the reshaping of our lives. That is 
>just self-centeredness. [Source: Comments/Essays 
>in The Answer To Happiness, Health, and 
>Fulfillment in Life: The Holy Bible (with 
>Selected Writings by Leading Inspirational 
>Authors.] [Comments excerpted/adapted from Media 
>Spotlight, Vol. 14 (1993), No. 1.]
>
>-  Rave is a dance movement from Europe in which 
>teens take designer drugs, use virtual-reality 
>devices, and dance (usually alone) away the 
>night and early mornings hours to repetitive 
>techno-pop dance music. Often there is no 
>lighting except for strobes and lasers. 
>"Christian" rave parties have been adopted by 
>several youth ministries worldwide (including 
>Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel movement). In April 
>of 1997, Hayford's Church on the Way sponsored its second rave concert.
>
>
>Biblical Discernment Ministries - Revised 2/99
>http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hayford/general.htm
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