Assembly of God leader promotes heretical author

What would you do if a Superintendent of a large denominational district wrote an article promoting a universalist author? And what if this article was published and distributed in a popular  denominational magazine? What if, in several months of back and forth emails, the Superintendent never took steps to correct this, and in fact, continued to express his admiration for the universalist?

Neither has the  magazine acknowledged the error in publishing the article.

I have not wanted to write about this. I have, I believe, allowed much time to go by, hoping this would be corrected. Well, it’s February. The article was published in late October of 2009.

I am going to provide the link to the magazine article. You will see names like Richard Foster, Henri Nouwen, Annie Dillard, Tony Campolo and Anne Lamott. You will see that the  Superintendent quotes from The Message without ever noting it is not the  Word of God.

I will get more detailed if I have to. For now, please realize Anne Lamott is a universalist who has a “jesus” as her god: She believes all paths lead to heaven.  She is very honest about it. Yet, as you read this article, you will see that she is never identified as anything other than a Christian. This is a terrible thing to spring on the sheep. How many went out and bought Lamott’s books based on this article?

Reader, the Pentecostal Evangel  finally removed the entire issue from its archives…

Here is a Christianity Today article where Lamott acknowledges she is a universalist. Go to page 3: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/january/8.56.html?start=3

All right. I told you more than I wanted to, but have–if necessary–much  more to say. This is a sad deal.  Superintendent Rachels, if you want us to have “Holy Habits,” then point us to a Bible. Not The Message. And do not allow your sheep to believe they can gain spiritual wisdom from a nice universalist.

More: Quotes from AG Superintendent Rachels and author Anne Lamott: http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/the-ham-of-god/

More: What the AOG Pentecostal Evangel Magazine Deleted (latest article): http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/here-is-what-aog-pentecostal-evangel-deleted/

More: This is the the issue restored to the archives now, but with the offensive article removed:  http://pentecostalevangel.ag.org/Articles2009/4981_Habits.cfm