Touch Not the Lord’s Anointed

Ministry Today Just Doesn’t Get It. The article is very short so I put it here in total, my comments are inserted.

[Bolding Wisely Placed By Yours Truly]

The War on Error
By David Cannistraci

Are online heresy hunters bringing needed correction in the church or sowing disunity?

Davy-poo, Thanks for recognizing I’m a heresy hunter. Heck, I’ve got a black T-Shirt I wear with my black commando pants tucked neatly into assault boots when I go to a church. The law says I cannot physically enter a church building without proper identification.

I exist to both correct the church and sow disunity. Paul did too. He put it this way: “No doubt there must be divisions among you to show who has God’s approval.” I can prove I have God’s approval—just look at the award on the right hand margin. That’s it baby. God comes to me in visions and tells me who is approved and who isn’t.

Division comes when idiots in leadership positions in churches and para-church organizations care only for themselves and not for the mindless horde hanging themselves on every word. [By the way, para-church organizations are those groups that meet in C130’s then end the service with a mass sky dive. Courageous or stupid, you be the judge.]

Infidels beware: A new generation of crusaders is on the march, ignoring history’s warnings about the damage unrestrained spiritual zeal creates. Their mission? To protect us all from religious fraud and dangerous doctrines by investigating and exposing those who push past the accepted boundaries of conservative evangelicalism. They have pledged themselves to defend truth and liberate the kingdom of God from the threat of apostasy.

Well, I don’t like conservative evangelicalism either, but I get your drift. Why is this a problem? Seriously. Think it through. Accountability for people who carry the spiritual lives and psyche of millions of people is a GOOD thing.

From discernment ministries to watchdog groups to bloggers to anonymous Web site commenters, the Internet has created a breeding ground for unbridled criticism. Though truth and correction are essential to the health of the church, this new wave of heresy hunters may be taking things too far. Their targets are not the likes of David Koresh or Jim Jones—we would thank them for that. Instead, they’re aiming at many of today’s most popular charismatic Bible teachers, including Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes.

This is interesting to me. Somehow in your mind, Davy, there is a difference between the likes of Koresh and T.D. Jakes. But there isn’t. At least, not Biblically.

See if you can read for comprehension:

The Bibble teaches we are ALL completely evil. According to the Bibble there is only one who is good (though I think the “I’m #1” tee Jesus is always wearing because he says it’s “retro” is a little much, don’t you think?)

Koresh or Jakes or Cannistraci or even Lil Ol’ Whore Church are evil.

Koresh was driven by his own narcissism to believe he had a special place in God’s Kingdom which eventually made him beyond correction leading to a Waco Bar-B-Q.

Jakes ego hasn’t taken him quite that far, but it’s taken him quite a ways. Evidence? Try this:

If that’s not saying “I am an expert on everything, even weight loss” then I don’t know what is. Jakes is like most any narcissist: He did something once and felt he could write a book on it.

[Just in case you don’t know Davy, he gained the weight back. But he didn’t write a book about that or why his God didn’t have the power to keep Mayor McCheese away from Jakes puffy paws.]

There is no one who does good, not even one. Trust me.

These zealous soldiers of orthodoxy aren’t afraid to fight dirty, either. Armed with ample evidence to prove their case, they quote, deride and scoff at any ministry they “discern” as dangerous. In this biblical blitzkrieg, no question is too trivial, no accusation too personal and no ridicule too cruel.

OK, so if we have “ample evidence” as you say, then we don’t need to discern much of anything. If it walks like a duck…you get the picture.

But your last sentence is where you lose it Davy-Doodles. You don’t understand. The internet is a BIG PLACE. Remember that illustration about hundreds of monkeys, typing away at hundreds of typewriters? Yeah, that’s the internet.

The vast majority of blog monkeys are boring and no one reads what they say. Then there’s people like me who say it with such style, such finesse, such—dare I day it?—perfection, we become the bastion of a new theology.

Fragile narcissistic egos are hyper sensitive to every criticism. That’s a part of their mental defect. They can’t weigh whether they are being criticized by lesser bloggers or the superior insights of yours truly.

As you noted, God has called me to a special place, hunting heresy and defending The Church from the ego driven so called “super”-pastors. A mission, though difficult and often fraught with dangerous peril, I am willing to humbly endure for the sake of Christ.

From:
http://www.ministrytodaymag.com/display.php?id=15788