Church Growth Movement – Donald McGavran
The Church Growth Movement began
with Donald McGavran. This highly organized and lavishly funded plague has been
portrayed as doctrinally neutral or conservative in Christian values. McGavran
belonged to the extreme leftist denomination, the Disciples of Christ, which
began as a way of united all denominations and promptly split into four warring
factions. McGavran received a Disciples education and, like many missionary
children, graduated from Yale Divinity School, certainly the epitome of New
England liberal trends, though less radical than Harvard and Union. McGavran
omitted his PhD in sociology from Columbia University from his autobiographical
lectures.[1]
The ALC-LCA-ELCA leaders tumbled
for Church Growth, and so did WELS-LCMS-ELS. Mission funds and AAL-LB insurance
donations made sessions at Fuller safe, legal, and effective. Objective
Justification, which is shared among the mainline denominations and all the
Lutheran, made the faux-neutral aspect of Church Growth ideal for the leaders,
and the conservative claims made Church Growth appealing to uninformed laity.
Thus began the apostates’ Long
March[2] through the Protestant
denominations of American and the Roman Catholic Church. Congregations were no
longer places of worship but marketing centers to be studied by sociologists. A
drive-by D.Min. degree from Fuller Seminary is the ticket for denominational
advancement and rewarded with undeserved academic positions.
Fuller Seminary
Although the school has a
conservative reputation, that is only in comparison with the Disciples schools,
such as their seminary at Butler, operating jointly with the Unitarians.[3] McGavran was invited to move
his Institute of Church Growth to Fuller Seminary in 1965, after Fuller’s
repudiation of inerrancy. That faux-conservative stance was watered down in the
original version, so they subsequently treated inerrancy and sound doctrine as superfluous
burdens for world and domestic missions. Several additional influences should
be noted. Robert Schuller’s Garden Grove Community Church and Hour of Power TV
broadcasts certainly influenced Fuller Seminary. Anything that worked, apart
from the efficacious Word, was hailed as a Church Growth Principle.
Karl Barth and His Mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum
Two key figures at Fuller
Seminary studied under Karl Barth and his mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum in
Switzerland. The students and theological leaders knew of the mistress living in
Barth’s family home. Barth-Kirschbaum were eager to adulterate their
Calvinistic doctrine, which was bad enough, but it was mixed with Marxist dialectic,
adding a hypnotic effect on those who favored the Bible containing God’s Word but
not being God’s Word.
Fuller Seminary’s theologian
continues to be Barth-Kirschbaum, whose deadly effect continues to wear
Protestantism down to Unitarianism or worse.
Paul Y. Cho and C. Peter Wagner
One Church Growth ingredient
to consider is the Pentecostal-Occult influence of Paul (now David) Cho and C.
Peter Wagner. The far side of entertainment evangelism is the concept of
attracting people through claims of miraculous manipulating God’s universe to
benefit those with arcane knowledge of how to handle the spiritual powers (The
Fourth Dimension, Wagner) who gladly obey orders.
Wagner, for all his charismatic
clowning, should be honored for saying, “Church Growth Principles do not work.”
Nevertheless, this vast movement of apostasy has achieved what an outsider
never could have done. Every denomination is poisoned and shrinking after 65
years of Church Growth, degenerate Calvinism, and occult magick.
[1] Dr.
Donald Mc Gavran A Brief History of
the Church Growth Movement, Lecture 5, The
Final Lectures
[2]
The Long March in China marked the beginning of Mao’s genocidal political
control.
[3]
McGavran earned his B.A. at Butler, founded as a Disciples of Christ school.
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| Downplaying? Downplaying? John Sparky Brenner would not answer why their precious theological journal printed this lie, except to say, "Write a letter." I then asked, "Does anyone edit that journal?" |
