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Table of Contents Table of Contents • Acupuncture • Freemasonry • The Raelian Religion • Ahmadiyya Movement • Fundamentalist Church of • Rastafarianism Jesus Christ of Latter Day • Alternative Medicine • Reiki Therapy Saints (FLDS) • Animism • Reincarnation • Goddess Worship • Armstrongism • Reorganized Church of Jesus Gospel Assembly Church • Christ of Latter Day Saints/ • Assemblies of Yahweh • Halloween Community of Christ • Astrology • Heaven’s Gate • Roman Catholicism • Atheism • Hinn, Benny • The Secret • Aum Shinrikyo • Holy Spirit Association for the • Seventh-day Adventist Church • Baha’i Faith Unification of World Christianity • The Shack • Bailey, Alice • Holyland/Reach, Inc. • Share International • Bell, Rob • House of Yahweh • Shepherd’s Chapel • Boston Church of Christ/ Houston, Jean • Shi’a Islam International Churches of • • Hypnosis Christ • Spiritual Abuse • Iglesia ni Cristo • Branhamism/William Branham • Star Wars • International House of Prayer • The Brethren/ • Swedenborgianism (IHOP) The Jim Roberts Group • The Temple of Set • International Society for • Cayce, Edgar Krishna Consciousness • Theosophy • Centering/Contemplative Prayer • Islam • Therapeutic Touch • Channeling • Kabbalah • Tolle, Eckhart • Chen Tao/The Right Way • The Kabbalah Centre • Transcendental Meditation • The Children of God/The Family • Mayan Calendar: 2012 • True and Living Church of • Chopra, Deepak Jesus Christ of the Last Days • McLaren, Brian • Christadelphians • The Twelve Tribes • Meyer, Joyce • Christian Identity • The Twilight Series • Miranda, José Luis de Jesús • Christian Science • Unitarian Universalist • MorningStar Ministries Association • Church of God in Christ, • Nation of Islam Mennonite • Unity School of Christianity • New Age Movement • Church of Jesus Christ of • The URANTIA Book Latter-day Saints • Nichiren Shoshu/ • Van Praagh, James Soka Gakkai Buddhism • Church of Satan/Anton LaVey • Voodoo • North Texas Church of • Church of Scientology Freethought • Watchtower Bible and Tract • Church Universal and Society/Jehovah’s Witnesses Nostradamus Triumphant • • The Way, International • Occult • Concerned Christians • Weigh Down • Oneness Pentecostalism • A Course in Miracles Workshop/Remnant Fellowship • Order of the Solar Temple • Crowley, Aleister • Westboro Baptist Church • Osteen, Joel • The Da Vinci Code • Winfrey, Oprah • Patterns in the Cults • Eckankar • Witchcraft/Wicca • Philadelphia Church of God • Edward, John • Word-Faith Movement • Psychics • Family Radio/Harold Camping • Zen Buddhism • Pyramidology Watchman Fellowship, Inc. MISSION STATEMENT Watchman Fellowship, Inc., founded in 1979, is a non-profit, independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult, counterfeit Christianity, and New Age spirituality. We maintain files and information on hundreds of religious movements, spiritual leaders, and controversial doctrines. Our team has developed an extensive research library containing over 50,000 cataloged items (books, periodicals, files, and media) pertaining to this field. The purpose of Watchman Fellowship is threefold: evangelize, equip and educate. Evangelize: The staff of Watchman Fellowship has participated in mission trips throughout the US and internationally. We have shared the gospel at psychic fairs, New Age events, Jehovah’s Witnesses Conventions, and many Mormon Temple openings. Our team has conducted evangelistic outreaches to Mormons for over 20 consecutive years in Utah. Internationally, we have organized and participated in mission trips to over a dozen countries including Canada, Mexico, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Kiev, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, South Africa, and several Caribbean countries. Equip: Jesus warned “beware of false prophets.” How can one beware unless one is first aware? By equipping the body of Christ through local churches, we help Christians evangelize those of other faiths and to educate their neighbors against false teachings. Each year our staff teaches hundreds of times in churches throughout America as well as at numerous Bible colleges and seminaries equipping tens of thousands of Christians to correctly distinguish biblical Christianity from alternative faiths and religions. We provide solid training to help believers effectively share the Gospel with those who do not share our Christian worldview. Educate: Watchman Fellowship impacts local communities and the general public by clearly contrasting the difference between the traditional Christianity and the other gospels. We do this through educational conferences, our website (www.watchman.org) and the news media. We are recognized by the media as trusted experts having been interviewed on Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, The News Hour (PBS), and USA Today. DOCTRINAL STATEMENT Watchman Fellowship holds to these foundational truths of God’s Word: Scripture: The Bible, inerrant as originally given, is God’s verbally inspired, complete revelation to mankind. God: There is one God, who is infinitely holy and perfect, existing eternally in the Persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ: We accept the Virgin birth, earthly miracles, sinless life, substitutionary death on the cross, bodily resurrection, ascension, and literal second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is the Divine Person sent to indwell, guide, empower and sanctify the believer, and thus to bear witness of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Church: The Church consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through his blood and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Resurrection: There will be a resurrection of the saved and the lost, the first to everlasting life and the second to everlasting punishment. .
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