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Todd Bentley-Lakeland Revival Reviewed Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival Dr Andrew Corbett, May 30th 2008 It was C.S. Lewis who said – “You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” Human experience tends to confirm Lewis’s assessment. We are spiritual beings who are intuitively supernatural. Atheists object to this assessment though. They assert that there is nothing supernatural and that the uninformed are not being spiritual but rather “superstitious”. But when Christians who claim to be spiritual behave superstitiously and call it “revival”, we have to think that's an odd Gospel, or perhaps a “Todd Gospel”... The Todd Gospel is the gospel of Todd Bentley. While there are heresy-hunters who poo-poo anything Charismatic or Pentecostal, like Toronto or Pensacola, what is happening in Lakeland, Florida deserves a more rigorous treatment than that done by these cynics. While the ministry of Todd Bentley bears some similarities to previous Pentecostal/Charismatic “outpourings”, it is fundamentally different. Todd Bentley’s message is also radically different from other “revival” leaders. 1 © Dr Andrew Corbett Finding Truth Matters www.findingtruthmatters.org Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival I live Tasmania. This is about as far away from Lakeland, Florida, as anywhere in the world! Yet nearly everyday someone contacts me either to share their opinion (or to seek mine) about Todd Bentley’s ministry! Therefore, in reviewing his ministry I am susceptible to the criticism that I have not visited his Lakeland meetings, but due to the village-nature of the modern world (thanks to satellites and digital media) it is perhaps easier than ever before to be well informed about trends within Christendom happening anywhere in the world. But this doesn’t just extend to the particular ideas being promoted, but thanks to the same technology, there is also a sense of immediacy about this- we can be informed about events happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Boise, Freetown, or Lakeland, immediately. This has changed the nature of war because of the increased accountability from the media. But it has also changed the nature of “revivals”. Preachers are now more susceptible to criticism and evaluation than at any other time. And those able to evaluate revivalists are not just theologians or pastors, but thanks to YouTube, Google, and blogging, anyone can pass judgment on anyone. My preliminary research found no shortage of people seeking to savage not just Todd Bentley, but anything Charismatic. Here’s why... THE ESSENCE OF BEING “CHARISMATIC” Christianity is miraculous. It is fundamentally spiritual. The notion that only certain branches of Christianity promote, or have access to, the miraculous is ill-informed. The foundation of Christianity- the Resurrection of Christ, is profoundly miraculous. The transmission of Christianity, where the Gospel (as outlined in 1Corinthians 15:1- 4) is preached in the power of the Holy Spirit resulting in the spiritual regeneration of a soul as the grace of God imparts faith - is profoundly miraculous and not just the expression of Charismatics or Pentecostals. The ministry of healing through prayer 2 © Dr Andrew Corbett Finding Truth Matters www.findingtruthmatters.org Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival and care for the sick has a long tradition within all branches of Christianity. Therefore, it is over simplistic to distinguish forms of Christianity into either Charismatic or non-Charismatic since Biblical Christianity is intrinsically spiritual and miraculous. But those who designate themselves as “Charismatics” generally place an emphasis on supernatural spiritual gifts. The original Greek word in the Bible for these gifts is charismata, which is where the English word ‘charismatic’ comes from. Those who designate themselves as “Charismatics” believe in and practice the spiritual gifts which are referred to in First Corinthians 12 and include speaking in tongues, the interpretation of tongues, healings, miracles, prophecy, and discerning of spirits. Those who refuse to be designated as “charismatic” generally claim that such spiritual gifts ceased when the Canon of the New Testament was completed. This group are often labelled: “cessationists”. They appeal to First Corinthians 13:8-10 which says that tongues would one day cease as the proof text for their position. An initial reading of the text seems to support their position but soon betrays them when it becomes clearer that this text is not talking of the Canon as “the perfect” but the final consummation of the ages (1Cor. 15:24; Eph. 1:10) where sin, death and suffering are finally put away. This is called the Resurrection. 3 © Dr Andrew Corbett Finding Truth Matters www.findingtruthmatters.org Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival People often confuse those who are designated Charismatic with those prefer the designation: Pentecostal. This confusion is sometimes promoted by Pentecostals themselves who have failed to recognise fundamental differences between the two. Charismatics are far more subjective about their spiritual experience than Pentecostals. Pentecostals have a somewhat more objective approach to spiritual experience. For Charismatics spiritual gifts are any gifts from the Holy Spirit to any believer. For Pentecostals, the supernatural spiritual gifts mentioned in 1Corinthians 12 are the available result of being baptised in the Holy Spirit subsequent to the Holy Spirit's wok of salvation and regeneration. For Pentecostals, the evidence of being Baptised in the Holy Spirit is speaking (more accurately, praying) in tongues. There are some Charismatics who are known as “Neo-Charismatics” who also believe that there is a subsequent experience to salvation with the Holy Spirit where the evidence may be tongues or any of the other spiritual gifts. “every Christian is indwelt by the Holy Spirit ... [y]et not every Christian is filled with the Spirit... Some [Christians] have only got the pilot light of the Holy Spirit in their lives, whereas when people are filled with the Holy Spirit, they begin to fire on all cylinders... When you look at them you can almost see and feel the difference.” Nicky Gumble, “Questions of Life”, Kingsway Publications, Eastbourne, 1993:131-132, 133) Pentecostals have generally endorsed the ancient creeds of the church, defended the inerrancy of Scripture and upheld Sola Scriptura (the Bible as the highest authority on matters of faith, doctrine and practice). There are Hyper-Pentecostals who teach that salvation is given through the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in tongues. Therefore, they claim, unless someone speaks in tongues they are not saved. This is a heretical notion. But Charismatics are less doctrinally dogmatic. Thus, there can be wildly different doctrinal positions between Charismatics. And this is where Charismata becomes Charismania... 4 © Dr Andrew Corbett Finding Truth Matters www.findingtruthmatters.org Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival WHEN “CHARISMATIC” BECOMES “CHARISMANIA” The common doctrinal vacuum of Charismatics makes them vulnerable to false teaching. The pursuit of sound theology and doctrinal precision are often ridiculed by such Charismatic preachers. Instead, they emphasize connection with God through spiritual experience which may not be rational, logical, or even reasonable. This philosophy of Christian worship encourages people to “let go” and go with their impulses which may mean shaking, rocking, screaming, jumping, or even barking. “Stop trying to work it out with your head- just surrender to it” seems to be a catch- cry of these Charismatic leaders to their skeptics. And this is the foundational problem of the Charismatic movement. It tends to encourage the lessening of self- control and the abandonment of the rational discerning of teachers. This is despite the New Testament encouraging both self-control (1Corinthians 9:25; Galatians 5:23; 1Timothy 2:9, 15; 2Timothy 1:7; 2Peter 1:6) and using our minds to rationally evaluate what we are being taught - “Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.” 1Corinthians 14:20 When the Charismatic movement goes extreme by placing the highest authority for God’s will on some dream, vision, out-of-body experience, or prophetic declaration, it has become Charismania! Most “Charismaniacs” would be shocked to realise that if God never speaks again we already have His sufficient word in the Bible. We could spend a thousand lifetimes trying to plum the depths of God’s message in the Bible and still only scratch the surface! You don’t need a prophetic word from a prophet to know God’s will! Yet Charismatics place an inordinate emphasis upon visions, dreams, and prophecies. First Thessalonians 5:20 tells us not to despise prophecy- but in the next verse it also tells us to “test” these prophecies. Which presumably means that some “prophecies” will not pass the test. But what is the tool for testing such prophecies/visions/dreams? Scripture. 5 © Dr Andrew Corbett Finding Truth Matters www.findingtruthmatters.org Reviewing the ministry of Tod Bentley and the Lakeland Revival This is sometimes hard for Charismatics to understand when some Charismatic leader has just been used to heal a cripple then declares that God has just spoken to him about leaving his wife and getting remarried to his more supportive secretary. I even heard one Charismatic leader commence his latest ‘prophetic revelation’ with – “I know the Bible says...but, God has shown me that...” I would like to encourage Charismatics to apply 1Thessalonians 5:21 to such statements before they abandon Sola Scriptura. It is with this understanding and foundation that I have considered the ministry of Todd Bentley and the Lakeland Revival... THE TODD GOSPEL... Todd Bentley is a changed man. From a background of sexual abuse and criminal activity he was confronted with the Gospel in his late teens.
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