The reason I post the following article, which I found on a by me very often visited website in Switzerland, is, that I really had to ponder lots after TF, whom to fellowship with & sad to say, you find a lot of strange & weird practices among the so called charismatic movement, which became sort of an ecumenical movement as well...although you find problems & sins everywhere in the church of God, I personally am convinced, that there's a reason to it, that the charismatic leaders are prone to pretty heavy mistakes...TF, if to be placed anywhere on the C.-spectrum, I'd say it's far left from the charismatic groups, if the evangelical, fundamental(brethren/Darby e.g.) ones happen to be at the opposing "right" side...if that division makes sense at all...
Personally I felt, after the overemphasis of false
prophecies in TF, never too attracted to charismatic fellowships, although I read much about it & know people, who were once members in
some of the many branches...
CHARISMATIC PROPHET IS ALCOHOLIC, HOMOSEXUAL. Friday Church News
Notes, November 12, 2004 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist
Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061,
fbns@wayoflife.org, http://www.wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Paul
Cain, one of the most renowned of the charismatic prophets, has been
exposed as an alcoholic and a homosexual by his pastors and fellow
"prophets." A special bulletin (October 19) published by Rick Joyner,
Jack Deere, and Mike Bickle of Morningstar Fellowship Church in
Kansas City stated: "In February 2004, we were made aware that Paul
had become an alcoholic. In April 2004, we confronted Paul with
evidence that he had been recently involved in homosexual activity.
Paul admitted to these sinful practices and was placed under
discipline, agreeing to a process of restoration which the three of
us would oversee. However, Paul has resisted this process and has
continued in his sin. Therefore, after having exhausted the first two
steps of Matthew 18:15-17, we now have a responsibility to bring this
before the church." I saw Paul Cain in 1990 when he appeared with
Mike Bickle and John Wimber at the Indianapolis '90 ecumenical
conference, which I attended with press credentials. Cain was
promoted as a "major prophet." In reality, he has always been a false
prophet and a deeply deceived man who has admitted that he makes
"mistakes" in prophecy, and only in the environment of the radical
fringes of the charismatic movement would he be accepted as anything
other than a false prophet.