By Mary Fairchild Willow Creek/Politics Update: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” (July 2022) Bill Hybels preaching at Willow Creek Community Church; 5/5/13. (Flickr Pictures; Globalism Post.) “The beauty, the power, and potential in the local church is head-popping to me. There’s no…
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Willow Creek Community Church: Vision Night
By Mary Fairchild “Jesus used to say every once in awhile you have to change the wineskins.” Bill Hybels, Vision Night 2003 Completion of the 7,200-seat, $73 million, auditorium keeps Willow Creek in the ‘top ten’ largest church auditoriums in the country. The lobby includes a water wall, escalators, 12 kiosks connecting the church’s website,…
Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek: The Volunteer Revolution
By Mary Fairchild Vision Night 2003, Bill Hybels said, “Our values are our rock solid convictions—who we are at Willow. We are going to try to understand the culture.” On “Vision Night 2005,” after Gene Appel read from Acts, “As the apostle Peter preached… and 3,000 people were added to their number…,” Bill Hybels pointed out…
The Theosophical Society
By Mary Fairchild 2022 update: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Esoteric Christianity is secret teaching known only to the “inner circles of Christian initiates.” The Esoteric perspective in this context means the “inner” (eso-), in the sense…
Departure From Scripture in the Evangelical Church
By Mary Fairchild The Church Age Willow Creek Posts Estoteric New World Order PASTOR JIM MOOBERRY TAPE SERIES “THE FAITHFUL WORD” THE NEGLECT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHURCH–“Human experience (mysticism) led you to the idols…” THE CHARISMATIC CHURCH–“..moves into a form of Gnosticism.” THE CONSUMER CHURCH–” “… is heading toward pragmatism (if it works then it is…
Signs and Wonders
By Mary Fairchild The Church Age Receiving Jesus The following is a phonetic reading of an expository teaching tapes of Pastor Jim Mooberry; “The Faithful Word.” Village Church of Bartlett; 10/19/97 The charismatic influence in evangelicalism is staggering. It’s influenced… it’s seeped into the whole fabric of evangelicalism today and so many of…