Someone's tryng to proselytize me.How do I respond.

Does her church affirm the Nicean Creed and the Trinity?

 

My dear friend, this girl is in bad company. The Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn stuff is heretical.This is the Word of faith movement that many pentecostals will not even associate with .I would advise against going to any of thier meetings.

 

OK. We won't debate, we'll just dispute. (Acts 9:29; 17:17)

 

This is so true! If she is reading her bible and praying for wisdom and discernment then hopefully she'll see very soon how dangerous their teachings are.
When I was first saved I found the so called 'Christian tv' and watched it constantly wanting to learn about God and the bible so badly. Well I kept following along with my bible when they would teach their garbage and realized that what they were preaching was so wrong. Thank God I did!

Rachel

 

It would be advisable for you to turn away from her and carry-on living for Jesus.

Obviously the devil has you ensnared and even to the point of a near obsession.

I understand your concern as her friend, but to remain her friend, you will simply have to agree with her to disagree, letting the Lord shed the Light of His Word in her heart revealing the Truth and the Spirit to her, else you very well might be in danger of taking on heretical beliefs and also sinning. So simply beware, and separate from her.

An arguementative spirit is of satan, our adversary, it is NOT of God.

 

The best answer Jesus gave to Pilate? NONE.

 

O.k now I understand where you are comming from, these are a pentecostal group that teach that you must speak in toungues in order to be saved. There are a number of Pentecostal groups and a number have essentially the same beliefs as we do, yet this group are not in that basket, the Assemblies of God, Pentecostal Freewill Baptists and Full Gospel Baptists are Trinitarian and affirm the Nicean Creed.

Incedently I am surprised at them not acknowledeging the Universal catholic church. If they really did study it they would see that catholic and Roman Catholic are two completley different things.

Anyway it is likely that no amount of reasoning with scripture is going to help your friend. These groups "love bomb" new members, that is they go out of there way to smother them with attention and to make them feel as though the church is there actual family and where they belong.

Yet cracks always appear and that is where you can help. Do not openly critisize the group to her or that will be used against you as the leadership of the group will say that you are in bondage to the devil and they will work to get your friend to cut you off. Instead go along with your friend to some of the stuff that they do and appear interested, yet ask them for scriptures on subjects that you have already researched prior when they teach a particular thing like slaying in the Spirit, ask them and compare with them, what does the Bible really say.

Take any of their teachings that they are on about to the Pastor or the Elders of your own church and be sure that you are well grounded in the subject matter.

You will simply have to be there as a friend for your friend and pray that her eyes will be opened, the power of prayer is strong and if you commit to it you can set her free.

Here is a resource that many people use to get people out of cults, it is called "Let Us Reason Ministries". They have much information and are happy to answer your emails and point you to the right resources to deal with this group. They may well even be able to put you in touch with people that have left the group.

http://www.letusreason.org/

 

Unfortunaltly I have been in a Prosperity Gospel Church myself and I learnt the hard way, It was Let Us Reson and some other groups that helped me to get out of it.

God led me to the Seventh Day Baptist Church and scince then I have spent the last few years learning to trust God again. Spiritual Abuse is a horrible thing to happen to anyone. I have a book called "The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse" by Jeff Vanvonderan that really helped me alot.

 

Tahnks for the site.