The
Global Prayer & Missions Movement Database
Strategic
Partnerships for the Propagation of Another Gospel
The GPM Database is organized as follows:
Global Prayer & Missions Movement Database
• Early Streams of the
Global Missions Movement
• Current Streams of the Global
Missions Movement
• Lausanne/AD 2000 &
Beyond/Mission America
• Leaders of the Global Prayer
Movement
• Messianic &
Discernment Ministries Facilitating the Transition to Lausanne
The Lausanne
Consultation on Jewish Evangelism
The Hebrew
Roots/British-Israel Movement
Cult Watch/Cult
Apology/Prophecy/Discernment
Ministries under
the Council for National Policy umbrella
Ministries associated
with Council for National Policy
Please
note: Many links on the GPM Database lead to other material on the Watch Unto
Prayer website.
* Single asterisk indicates profile on Council for National
Policy (CNP) Database.
** Double asterisk indicates link to another article on this
website.
*** Triple asterisk indicates link to another part of the
Global Prayer & Missions Movement (GPM) Database.
Global
Prayer & Missions Movement Database
Ø Lausanne
Consultation on Jewish Evangelism** [LCJE] 2000
LCJE was formed
by the Theological Statement of the Lausanne Covenant:
·
The
Covenant has been translated locally into more than 20 languages.
·
It has
been adopted by hundreds of churches and parachurch agencies as their basis of
operations and cooperation.
·
It has led
to formations of a number of national and regional movements in
·
It has
been the basis for international consultations on more than 30 subjects, many
of whose findings are published in
All of this has meant that people worked at its concepts and
made them their own locally. The Covenant has become a catalyst for many
cooperative movements, mostly ad hoc and short term and non-competitive with others.
Mandatory
Agreement with the Lausanne Covenant
“Joining
the LCJE entitles you to receive the LCJE bulletin, participate in the North
American and International LCJE consultations, and to be a part of a world-wide
network of Jewish missions. To
join you need to agree to the
See: The Lausanne
Covenant Articles
GPM
Database: Lausanne Covenant
Article #5: Christian Social Responsibility:
“…we affirm that evangelism and socio-political involvement are both part of
our Christian duty.”
LCJE Position on Jewish Identity
“As we
enter a new millennium we recognize that Jewish people express their identity in
many ways and are affected by social, political and religious changes in the
wider society. We also recognize that Jewish identity and therefore Jewish
survival is once again being challenged.
“Those of
us who are Jewish share in the challenges confronting our people and stand with
them in the need to strengthen and preserve our God-given identity. We also
recognize that our faith in Yeshua is seen by many as a threat to Jewish
identity and survival. Yet we believe that the core of Jewish identity is tied
to a purpose and a divine calling that is fulfilled only in Yeshua--to be
reconciled to God and to be a light to the nations for his glory. We
therefore reject the commonly held view that Jews who believe in Jesus are no
longer Jewish.
“Those
of us who are Gentiles affirm that Jews who believe in Yeshua do not forfeit
their Jewish identity; indeed, our own identity as Christians is also
found in Yeshua the Jewish Messiah. Through him our identity is linked to the
destiny of the people
“As
Jews and Gentiles united by faith in Yeshua, we recognize the right of Jewish
believers in Yeshua to maintain a recognizable Jewish identity and to communicate faith in the
Messiah to Jews and Gentiles alike.”
Speakers at LCJE 2000:
·
Stuart
Dauerman –
Director, Hashivenu / Fuller Theological Seminary
“In the Fall of the year 2000, at the beginning of the new millenium,
Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTI) will open its doors for the first
time. MJTI is a new training center for leaders in the Messianic Jewish
movement. Based in Pasadena, California, and in partnership
with Fuller Theological Seminary, MJTI will provide a
graduate-level education equipping congregational and movement leaders to serve
the Jewish people with integrity and mature wisdom.”
Core Principles of Hashivenu:
1. Messianic Judaism is a Judaism, and not a
cosmetically altered “Jewish-style” version of what is extant in the wider
Christian community.
2. G-d's particular relationship with Israel is expressed in the Torah, G-d's
unique covenant with the Jewish people.
3. Yeshua is the fullness of Torah.
4. The Jewish people are “us” not “them.”
5. The richness of the rabbinic tradition is a valuable part of our heritage as
Jewish people.
Hashivenu
links to Messianic Jewish
MJAA sponsored
Messiah ‘99
Speakers: Rick Joyner** / Stephen Strang [liaison/Charismatics]**
·
Moshe Rosen – Director and founder, Jews for Jesus
JFJ part of ecumenical Worldwide Church
of God conglomerate:
“…the
real WCG, now called, United Church of God (International association)…and Global
Church of God (GCG) carry on the work of Herbert W. Armstrong… sub-WCG organizations…have all been incorporated in 1995… Adventist
groups that are considered part of the ecumenical agenda of the COG
conglomerate are: Church of God, Seventh Day, Seventh Day Adventist, Messianic
Jews (Jews for Jesus), Sacred Names…” [source: Exit
& Support Network]
See:
Worldwide Church of
God, below]
·
Louis
Goldberg - Chair of Jewish Studies,
Moody Bible Institute
·
Daniel
Juster - Governing Council, Apostolic of TIKKUN International.
Graduate of
·
Art Glasser - Emeritus Dean,
1970 – Joined missions faculty of Fuller Theological
Seminary
1971-1980 - Dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary
1972, 1980 - Attended World Council of Church's Commission of World Mission
& Evangelism
1974 - Attended the International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland
Contributor
to the Perspectives on the World
Christian Movement Curriculum
· Arnold
Fructenbaum, Director, Ariel Ministries
Coordinator of North
American LCJE [7 years]
“The LCJE is connected with the Lausanne Committee
for World Evangelization… To join, you need to agree to the Lausanne
Covenant…”
Arnold
Fructenbaum’s Response to
exposure/criticism of his membership in LCWE/LCJE and defense of the LCWE:
“Speaking
of the LCWE, they state that it is an ‘international movement that was formed
for the purpose of uniting Christian churches to evangelize the world before
the year A.D. 2000.’
“I am
not a member of the LCWE, but my question is: What’s wrong with that purpose? Do they object to churches coming
together for the purpose of evangelizing the world? Is not that the Church’s
calling?
[Note: LCJE web site states, “To
join you need to agree to the
“Furthermore,
the word ‘uniting’ is not quite correct in the way they use it. LCWE was not
trying to get all churches to become one; what they were trying to do is to get
evangelical churches to come together for a cooperative purpose only, and the
goal is to evangelize the world. No church denomination was asked to forget their unique
distinctives. My question again is: What essentially is wrong with that
purpose?…
[Note: Attendance of Roman Catholic priests at Lausanne II in Manila]
“On page
30 they quote a
Ariel
Ministries – Recipient of Messianic Jewish Top 100 Award from Messianic Bureau International
MBI Statement: The Unity of the
Messianic Jewish Movement
“...Our message
to Gentile believers is that this movement is Jewish led according to that ability
given to us by Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit). Gentiles are free to join as
equals into one Body of Messiah, but in
no way will it any more be identified as led by Gentiles, or by ‘traditional
Christianity.’ The way of Messiah Yeshua must
remain clearly identified as from and for Jews, then for
Gentiles. As G-d chose the tribes of
International Messianic Directory
Ø
Hebrew Roots Movement** / British
Israel Movement**
· Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
[JSSR]
JSSR offers no Statement of Faith. JSSR
view of Jesus Christ does not include His position in the Godhead:
“Jesus
was an organic part of the diverse social and religious landscape of Second
Temple-period Judaism… like other
Jewish sages of his time…”
“Dr. Young has prepared Christian leaders
and pastors for effective ministry
and many of his former students are working on Ph.D. degrees at Jewish academic
institutions.”
“Though the New Testament in its original
setting was a Jewish book, the church has been influenced by anti-Judaism. The
new Bible translation being prepared by GRF seeks to uphold the authenticity of
the text while dealing with the historic
anti-Semitism in the New Testament interpretation. The new translation
prepared by GRF will be the basis
for the Hebrew Heritage Study Bible and the Rabbinic Commentary on the New
Testament.” [See: The Semitic New Testament**]
s
David Bivin, JSSR
director/chairman of Executive Board, 1985-1999
Co-author with
Roy Blizzard, Understanding The Difficult Words Of Jesus [1984]
Understanding
The Difficult Words Of Jesus rejects the divine
inspiration of Scripture.
[See: The Hebrew Roots Movement**]
Founder, Director The Jerusalem
Perspective
“JP…disseminates the results of Bivin’s research and that of many of his colleagues into the life and teaching
of Jesus.”
Recipients of the research of David Bivin and
JSSR “into the life and teaching of Jesus” include:
• Focus on the Family [James
Dobson/CNP]
• Strang
Communications [Stephen Strang/Charisma Magazine]
•
Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics [SIL]
• Christian Friends of Israel, UK [Derek
White/JSSR-affiliate]
• Caspari Center [The Park, Moggerhanger UK]
• Prophetic Word Ministries [The
Park, Moggerhanger UK]
• Centre for the Study of Biblical
Research [Bill Bean/JSSR-affiliate]
Focus on the Family [James Dobson/CNP]
“Articles
that were first published in Jerusalem Perspective magazine have appeared in
the publications of many Christian ministries: Focus
on the Family, Strang Communications Co., International Christian Embassy,
Bridges for Peace, Christian Friends of Israel, Caspari Center,
Prophetic Word Ministries, Centre for the Study of
Biblical Research, First Fruits of Zion, Biblical Faith Ministries,
Israel Vistas, HaKesher, Arkansas Institute of Holy Land Studies, Ahava
Ministries, Issachar Ministries, and others.
“In
1996 Focus on the Family (James Dobson) purchased the rights to fifty-seven
articles that first appeared in
• Focus on the Family’s
CD-Rom: Jesus: The Man, the
Message, the Messiah
FOTF obtained their information for
this CD-Rom from two sources: David Bivin’s Jerusalem Perspective and Biblical Archaeological
Review [BAR], which is the publication of the Biblical Archaeological
Society [BAS]. The BAS position on the
inerrancy of the Bible:
“Archaeology, which endeavors to pursue scientific method and to
follow evidence wherever it leads, cannot-and should not-be expected to support the Biblical record in
every respect or to bolster religious faith.”
Joseph Aviram, a scholar
of the Biblical Archaeological Review, directs the Israel Exploration Society,
which is the Israeli subsidiary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The PEF was created by the archaeology lodge
of the United Grand Lodge of
England [UGLE]***, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge. Through the PEF, Quatuor Coronati has directed
exploration of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for 100+ years:
See: The Israel Exploration
Society, Palestine Exploration Fund & United Grand Lodge of England***
Also: Focus
on the Family & The Theosophical Society**
Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics [SIL]
“Last year
“The second edition of ‘Translator’s Workplace’ is currently being used
by over 2,000 translators. The translators utilizing ‘Translator’s Workplace’
have tremendous influence on the Church
world-wide because they are involved in more than a thousand
translation projects, including new Bible
translations for some of the world’s major languages, for
example, the new revisions
of the Bible in Italian and Turkish.”
[Note: Wycliffe
Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics assisted Nelson Rockefeller’s
genocidal campaign in
See: The Council for National
Policy: Wycliffe
Bible Translators**; New
Bibles for a New World Order**.]
Christian
Friends of Israel UK
“With
the particular help of Lance Lambert and David Bivin, the principles and aims
of CFI were worked through word by word, and these Foundation Principles stand
unchanged today. They
are:
* As Christians who have received from God a love
for Israel and the Jewish people, we want, in the name of Messiah Jesus, to
bless them.
* The early Church was Jewish. Christianity sprang
from Jewish roots and has never ceased to depend upon and be indebted to the
Jewish people.
* We believe that the restoration of the Jewish
people to the Land of Israel is in accordance with promises contained in the
Old and New Testaments, and that God's time to ‘favour Zion’ has begun.
* We believe that Israel (people, land and nation)
has a Divinely ordained and glorious future, and that God has neither rejected nor
replaced His Jewish people. We acknowledge that the barriers that exist today
between Jews and Christians are largely due to
Christian anti-semitism and Christian persecution of the Jews.
* We believe in the Jewishness of Jesus and the Jewishness of the New Testament.
* Although we believe our Lord Jesus is both the Messiah of Israel and
the Saviour of the world, our stand alongside Israel is not conditional upon
her acceptance of our belief.”
“I again wish to note I have
no objections to the arguments of the Jerusalem School being considered for purely scholarly purposes
within an academic format, or being researched and investigated by Christians
with an interest in the Jewish roots of their faith. Indeed
in our own newsletter we have advertised seminars with David Bivin.”
Hawaii
Discernment Conference 2001 Speakers
Jacob
Prasch - Moriel
Jewel van der Merwe - Discernment
Ministries**
Dave Hunt - The Berean Call
Sandy
Simpson - Deception in the Church
· The Park, Moggerhanger,
UK
Tricia Tillin -
Cross + Word**
Banner Ministries link to
The Park
[Note The Park Sidebar: Christian Organisations: Ecumenical, Education, Evangelism, Social
Action]
Ministries
hosted at The Park, Moggerhanger:
s
British
Church Growth Association (BCGA)
Background
History: “Following
the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation in 1974 much interest was aroused in church growth
thinking which led to the first UK Church Growth Consultation in 1978... The
Bible Society had also begun to develop Church Growth Courses...and
developments in the work of the Evangelical Alliance had led to the setting up of a Church Growth
Unit... This Unit drew together a number of leaders involved in the church
growth field but it was agreed to widen its impact by the formation of an
Association which would be even more comprehensive and effective. So the
British Church Growth Association was formed in September 1981...”
Officers
and Council Members of BCGA:
Executive Officer - “Philip Walker took up this position in 1999… He studied Church Growth under Peter Wagner.”
BCGA President - Derek Tidball, Principal, London Bible College [Alma Mater of Jacob Prasch]
Director of Christian Research - BCGA Research Officer - Dr Peter Brierley [Lausanne Consultation 2003 Committee member]
Paul Harris - Evangelism director for the Evangelical Alliance
Wolfgang Simson - Director of DAWN International Network
David Spriggs - Evangelical Alliance's Secretary for Evangelism and Prayer
s
Prophetic
Word Ministries (PWM)
“The
Lausanne Committee is led by: Chair,
Paul Cedar of the USA; Vice Chair, Chongnahm Cho of Korea; Vice Chair, Robyn
Claydon of Australia; Theology and Strategy Working Group Chair, Peter Kuzmic
of Croatia; Communications Working Group Chair, Horst Marquardt of Germany;
Leadership Development Working Group Chair, Doug Birdsall of USA/Japan;
Secretary, Christina Ryden of Sweden; Treasurer, Roger Parrott, of the USA, Peter Brierley of the
UK; and Ulrich Eggers of Germany.”
s The Pardes Centre for Biblical
and Hebraic Studies
Recovering the
Jewish roots of the Christian faith
Pardes: An acronym; last letter ‘sod’ = “a ‘secret’
or mystical meaning hidden in the text as a code”
Jerusalem 2000 Convention: The
One New Man in Christ / uniting Jew and Gentile in Christ
Speakers include: Bishara Awad, Clifford Hill, Cecil Kerr, Lance Lambert
Publication: Pardes Journal
[selected articles]
Did Paul Invent Christianity at the Expense of Jesus?
A Study of the Word Repentance, as it Relates to the Church's Attitude to
the Jewish People
Book Review - Messianic Christology by Arnold Fruchtenbaum
Jesus' Jewish Parents - Reproduced
from Jerusalem Perspective
Partner organisations in Hebraic Roots study:
The Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
The Caspari Centre
In October 1963 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers at the Second
Vatican Council shared with Pope Paul VI the dream of an international ecumenical institute for
theological research and pastoral studies. After his 1964 pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the Vatican purchased Tantur (Arabic for
"hilltop"), then leased it to the University of Notre Dame (USA) for
fifty years…Under the guidance of both Protestant and Roman Catholic rectors,
the Institute has welcomed over 3,500 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Roman
Catholic participants to its programs.
s
The Thornton Institute for
Business Ethics
Part of the original vision for The Park,
Moggerhanger, was that it would become a place where industry and commerce could
come for training courses that would help reaffirm the need for business and
commerce to be conducted according to biblical principles. This Vision was seen in the
context of the very specific historic connections between Moggerhanger House
and the City, being the former home of Godfrey Thornton, a former Governor
of The Bank of England. Similarly, the house itself has a significant
spiritual heritage, being the home for meetings of the Clapham
Sect, the
early 19th Century group of evangelical Christians who were instrumental in
introducing many of the great social reforms of that time.
The Thornton Institute, sponsored by the Centre for
Contemporary Ministry, has been established to facilitate residential training
courses which will be open to middle and senior managers of all companies. The
courses will not be overtly ‘Christian’. They will nevertheless seek to teach
the merits of basing a company ethos on a system of ethics that has its roots
in biblical principles. Participants, whether they be Christians or not,
will be encouraged to use these principles as their measure when conducting
business.
This will not be anew departure for
the City of London. For some hundreds of years, commercial practice in the City
has had biblically based principles as the foundation of the life of the whole
business community. The booklet 'Rules for the Conduct of Life', given to Freemen in
the City since the seventeenth century, bears testimony to this rich heritage
that was instrumental in establishing the integrity of the City in which a
person’s word was his bond.
See: Charter
Schools, Character Education & the Eugenics Establishment**
·
Messengers
of Messiah - Peter Michas**
Peter Michas on the
originality and inspiration of the Greek New Testament:
“Like most
Christians, I had been taught that the New Testament was originally written in
Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew. However, as I continued to study, I
found that the wording of the first four gospels of the New Testament seemed to
be an attempt to express ideas from a language and culture other than Greek. I
wondered: If the Gospels were originally written in Judea (or possibly Antioch,
the largest Christian community of the early Church), by Jews, about a Jew in
Jewish culture, could it be that the Greek was, in fact, attempting to express
the Hebrew language and Jewish culture? This required further investigation. …I
ended up going into a place called the Chabbad House which was run by the Lubovich, the ultra-orthodox rabbis. This
was the beginning of my education in the Hebraic roots of the Bible.” [Peter Michas, The
Rod of an Almond Tree in Gods Master Plan, WinePress Publishing, 1997, p.
19.]
See also: “Is The New Testament
Hebrew/Aramaic or Greek?” by Peter Michas
Under the Law: The Lubavitch Movement** [Kabbalah/ Noahide
Laws] by Watch Unto Prayer
Lynn and Sarah Leslie – The
Christian Conscience **
Lynn Leslie’s [Christian Conscience] endorsement of The
Rod of an Almond Tree in God’s Master Plan at Amazon.com
Lynn Leslie’s review of The Rod
of an Almond Tree in Gods Master Plan in The Christian Conscience [Jan/Feb.
1998]:
“So how
well have Michas et al. filled in the blanks [of the Greatest Story Ever Told]?
Quite well, actually. Starting with the
premise that Gods plan should be examined within its Hebraic context… the
authors draw upon an assortment of other references of Jewish history and
tradition. These include, among others, the Talmud…The Gemara…the Midrash…and
the Torah Anthology…
“Obviously,
the Michases and Vander Maten are left open to criticism for relying on
extrabiblical references in order to delineate Gods Master Plan. However, they
do an excellent job of resting on the ultimate authority of the Bible in making
their case… Their presentation is both thought-provoking and compelling and a
must-read for
anyone desiring a more thorough understanding of God’s provision for the
redemption of His fallen creation.”
Watch Unto Prayer
review of The Rod of an Almond Tree in God’s Master
Plan** documents 18 Kabbalistic [occult] doctrines taught in this book.
· Embrace Israel -- Reuven Doron
“From
1990 to 1997 Reuven pastored River of Life Ministries in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, alongside
Francis Frangipane.
Both
men ministered widely while overseeing the expanding local congregation and
training center.”
Leadership of “Whistler” Gathering / named a “Father” (apostle)/ priest to
the nations
Major player in Global Mission Movement
“Embrace Israel” newsletter is
computer-networked with the US
Center for World Mission [USCWM/Ralph Winter]
“The drawing together of both Jew and
Gentile into the one new man company
is the harbinger of the age that is to come. As the spiritual and natural seed of God's elect unite in Christ, so
shall the spiritual and natural realms unite in unhindered flow of divine life. Free exchange of Heaven's substance will transpire between heavenly and
earthly realms as the gates
between the spiritual and physical places open wide!
“This ultimate and mutual humbling
of both Jew and Gentile, laying
aside those things that divide us
while being poured into God's new mold, will result in the ultimate exultation
and glory that is promised to characterize the completed house of our God!
“How magnificent and wonderful our
God is who kept the best until the end! This house of God, this dwelling of God
in the Spirit, will have as its building material God's best creation; His
newest and His final one. This creation embodies His very nature and life
through the mediation of Christ, indestructible and incorruptible, unable to
fail! The wonder of it all is that the quality and virtue which God produces in His
one new man creation will be branded onto the fabric of Jew and Gentile as God
weaves us into perfect unity centering around Christ.”
River of Life Ministries [Francis
Frangipane]
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
(ACM/Arrow Publications/In Christ's Image)
Echad Ministry – “Hebrew word for ‘one’.
This ‘oneness’ is often derived from a unity of parts. The goal of this
ministry is to bring into oneness the body
of Messiah, a body that is comprised of both Jew and Gentile that we may become
the ‘One New Man’ spoken of in Ephesians 2:15.”
MorningStar Publications &
Ministries [Rick Joyner]
Embrace Israel
Conference, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 8-11, 2001