Pentecostal and Charismatic Chruches: How to Take Them Down

Pentecostal and Charismatic Chruches: How to Take Them Down

I wish to open this thread to a challenge for all of us to think about. If these crazy churches are a danger to society and caused a lot of ruckus in our lives, how can we stop them? I think the key is to analyze what allows these churches to exist. (1) All churches need money, (2) Money usually comes from church members and donors.

So, if we starve these churches of people – even a few people – we can starve them of funds.

So we must aim at these people feeding the beast. How can we stop these people from giving their money and time to these places that leech off of people?

(a) We must break their confidence in their movement

When people lose confidence in a movement, they will not give as much time and money to the movement. We can attack the legitimacy of their churches by calling into question their doctrines and showing them how much harm they cause.

(b) We must remove potential members from the church influence

We must starve the churches of new members. This will also strike a critical blow to their confidence. When people start laughing at their recruiting and challenging the legitimacy of their churches, they will not be as bold and will lose energy in the potential success of their movement.

Potential members are usually “backsliders.” These people come and go usually with too much guilt to completely make a break. We must go out, find all these people, and give them a final inoculation shot – as it were – and convince them that these churches are harmful and that they should never return or support something that causes harm.

So, if we (a) Break their confidence, and (b) Starve them of potential converts, we have come a long way in taking these places down. No money, no church. That is a fact.

So, what other ways can we take them down? We are a small, but committed group here. We do not have much money, because we do not need too much. But we can be effective in implementing a strategy for all who come here. What should everyone that comes here take away in a strategy that they can implement on a personal level? List the ideas.

We can network with phone calls, conference calls, and discussion boards. We can organize local meetings with "backsliders.” We can visit old friends who are “backsliders.” We can break the confidence in regular members by dismissing their ideas a quaint, strange, or anything else.

We must starve these churches of potential converts and break the confidence of current members in some fashion. This will drive less revenue and less cash into the coffers, and hopefully remove these churches from being such a large threat to the communities they operate in.

Okay, what else? We need your brains.

JPI