Beth Moore Commissions Women To Fulfill Their "Divine Destiny"

      
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Apparently Beth Moore is leading a new crusade to have women stand up and be leaders. As if she has any authority to do any of this stuff. (Side note: this is a good example of why there are just far too many conferences now--they usurp the authority and function of the local church).

As The End Time blog reports:

This past February, just weeks ago, Beth Moore and four other women concluded the Unwrap The Bible event in Houston, and closed it with what the sponsor of the event, Women of Faith, called "A Commissioning". (??)

"Unwrap the Bible" was touted as America's largest bible conference, sponsored by "Women of Faith." (WOF) It was held for two days at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church. In addition to five women who were to teach and preach their way through the weekend, WOF used clips from Catholic Mystic Roma Downey's "The Bible" series to punctuate the biblical "truths" the lineup of teachers was to teach.Downey also promoted the conference prior to its inception. Christine Caine, Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Lisa Harper, and Sheila Walsh were the 5 scheduled bible teachers. Joel Osteen's wife Victoria opened the conference with a prayer. Lisa Bevere was on hand too. Eleven-thousand women attended. Here is a photo of Lakewood Church with Beth on the jumbotron-

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Notice the names: Joel Osteen's wife Victoria led them in prayer and the whole event was at Osteen's church. Christine Caine is a pastor in the Strange Fire Charismatic movement. Roma Downey is a New Ager.

Behold Beth Moore's "Christian hedonism" where you can do whatever you want since you've gained cover by the likes of John Piper and others who give their approval as if that's a high enough standard.

The article continues to report:

It was then that Moore told the women to grab a women next to them and repeat what Moore said to the women they'd grabbed. She would say a line, the 11,000 women would repeat it to the partner they'd grabbed, whether they knew the woman or not, not knowing whether the woman was even saved or not. That's why there is a space for pauses after each phrase. Here is the transcript.

My dear Sister  Be confident this great day  That your God has chosen you  He can make a miracle  Out of your big mess  He can stand you up straight  And set your feet upon a rock  No matter where you’ve been  Or what you’ve done  You are not dirty  The power of the cross  Has made you clean  When you run out of what it takes  Girlfriend, run to Jesus  Let Jesus turn water into wine  Never forget  You have an enemy  Hell-bent on destroying you  But you have a Savior  Who became earthbound to deliver you  There is restoration and divine destiny for you  Throw your arms wide open and receive in Jesus’ Name  Rip off those expiration dates  God’s promise to you will be fulfilled  Quit just eavesdropping on God  Start leaning in and believing what He says  Impossible is where God starts!  Your God is faithful  He will do it  Do NOT retreat in fear  Now, girlfriend – get out there in that lost world  And show them what a woman looks like  When she unwraps her Bible 

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Notice how it's all about "you", not God? God is the useful genie that can grant you whatever you "need" to make you stand out in a crowd, to have big Self Esteem. I am woman, hear me roar.

Ah the divine destiny. Moore's sounding more like Oprah now.  I guess in order to fulfill a "divine destiny" you have to make it happen. That's hardly the sovereign God of Scripture. HE makes His will happen with all people according to Eph. 1:11. He doesn't wait for us or depend on us. And our predestination is not predicated upon our works.

How does one eavesdrop on God? Scripture tells us that the Bible is the way to know the mind of Christ. But easvesdrop? Like we're in heaven near the throne and God is whispering things to who know who??

None of this is a surprise of course. Moore has absolutely no idea how to rightly handle Scripture, much less walk in it. Her infamous "Don't Lose Your Confidence" is a glaring example of why Paul says women are not to teach nor have authority over men.

But what is interesting and really an aside to the point of the article is this:

"Well, the second problem that ties back into the first (ecclesiastical feminism) is that words mean things. They mean things. Any liberal in any realm in the battle for hearts and minds will first seek to change meanings of commonly understood words in order to co-opt the meaning and then to redefine them to their advantage. Example: sodomite---->homosexual---->gay. In the church world, we no longer sin. We make mistakes. We're no longer Christian. We're Christ followers."

While this is not new to anyone reading this, perhaps my point might be: John Piper did this very thing when he popularized "Christian hedonism" in his "Desiring 'God' " book back in the 80's. No one realized he was a Post-Modern back then, set on changing Christianity--something Piper has led the Emergents in doing. In fact I'd say he was likely the grandfather of the Emergents. He IS why you have Charismatic Calvinists, worldly Reformers, and defiant leaders like Driscoll and Keller and Joel Taylor  and Francis Chan and all the young bucks coming out of the seminaries today (yup even TMS).

We are seeing the bad fruit of the bad "Christian hedonism" tree. Its why these men are accepting of sodomy over at "Desiring 'God' " ministry, why Keller can't even begin to teach against it in the pulpit, and why Driscoll and others talk about sex in the pulpit and write books about sex and go on tours of colleges to talk about sex and then have dreams and visions of sex and then share those dreams and say they are from God.

I've been warning about Moore for years and have been insulted and accused of being judgmental, etc. etc. In fact the article on my blog that gets nearly the most criticism and insults is the one I wrote about years ago on the feminism of Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, and Kay Arthur--with the defense of Moore being the biggest and loudest. Where Piper is the pope or god of men, Moore is the pope or god of women.

My point is this: those who actually do have the gift of discernment (the most hated gift among "Christians"), spot false teachers early on and warn others. But we are ridiculed, discredited, reproached, reviled, judged, rebuked, and dismissed. False teachers do not like early detection, Spurgeon said. Neither do their followers. To them these men and women couldn't POSSIBLY lead them away from God. Why, they are anointed!  Yes, that "touch not their anointed and to their prophets no harm" is The Mentality even among "solid" Christians"---the fact that hardly one solid public male teacher/leader is willing to call Piper and Moore false teachers is proof of that.

To borrow from Steve Lawson, those who think honesty is a virtue do not want the truth. Especially of their paper pope.