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(revised 01/02/13)
I have posted many blogs covering occultish Spiritual Formation (specifically contemplative spirituality) and heretical Emerging/ Emergent teachings. A number of Wesleyan Holiness denominations are increasingly teaching these heresies.
And, these Wesleyan Holiness denominations are taking part in a number of joint projects. There may be additional joint projects, but we are tracking the following:
Global Wesleyan Alliance (GWA) ( note – these are prospective members – the Alliance is still in formation)
– UPDATE: press release describing 2012 meeting of GWA – 14 prospective members as of Dec. 2011, 18 as of Dec. 2012
National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)
National Council of Churches (NCC)
Wesleyan Holiness Consortium (WHC) (producers of the Holiness Manifesto; 16+ denominations; for the official list of Participating Denominations click here)
WordAction curriculum (WA)(6 denominations)
World Methodist Council (WMC)
I am working on adding stats for each member denomination. Also, I am adding links to articles showing how contemplative and Emerging/Emergent heresies are entering each denomination (some more than others).
Note: it is not my intent to “attack” Wesleyan Holiness denominations. On the contrary, I love what Wesleyan Holiness denominations used to stand for. Specifically, a biblically sound theology which placed priority on the message of Calvary (John 3:16) and personal holiness (Rom. 12:1-2). And the rejection all unbiblical heretical teachings. The Wesleyan Holiness denominations of yesteryear fought modernism tooth and nail. Unlike today’s Wesleyan Holiness denominations listed below, they would have condemned today’s heresies of Spiritual Formation/Contemplative Spirituality and Emerging/Emergent teachings.
I know what these Wesleyan Holiness denominations have lost. I am fighting (along with many others in counter-Emergent discernment ministries) to help these straying denominations hopefully return to a biblically sound theology, rejecting Contemplative Spirituality and Emerging/Emergent teachings.
If the denominations themselves reject correction (as is usually the case), we are encouraging members of these denominations to separate, to leave for biblically sound churches. I recommend Bro. David Cloud’s Independent Fundamentalist Baptist directory – particularly the “two-asterisk” and “three-asterisk” churches – although these churches vary on some doctrines from fundamentalist Wesleyan Holiness churches of approx. 1890-1942.
WESLEYAN HOLINESS DENOMINATIONS FALLING FOR EMERGING/EMERGENT HERESIES
Assemblies of God – in NAE, WHC
– 2010 stats: 12,457 U.S. churches, 1,753,881 U.S. attenders
– main Wikipedia article
– Assemblies of God (AG) claims to oppose the NAR and other heretical movements, but recent AG activities show otherwise
– Repost critiquing the heretical Alpha Course: “ALPHA: New Life or New Lifestyle?”, by Elizabeth McDonald (AG is a big promoter of the Alpha Course)
Brethren in Christ Church – in NAE, WHC
– Wikipedia article
Christian & Missionary Alliance– in WHC
– Wikipedia article x
– Christian & Missionary Alliance Workers will soon be learning Ancient Spiritual Disciplines (12/02/09)
– a list of blogs exposing Spiritual Formation in the C&MA
Christian & Missionary Alliance – Canada – in WHC
Church of Christ Holiness USA – in GWA
– Wikipedia article
Church of God – Anderson (aka Church of God Ministries, Inc.) – in GWA, WHC
– Wikipedia article
Church of God – Cleveland – in WHC
– Wikipedia article
Church of the Nazarene – – in GWA, NAE, WA, WHC, WMC
– Wikipedia article x
– Reformed Nazarene website (provides many blogs and links exposing CotN involvement in heresies)
Churches of Christ in Christian Union – in GWA, NAE
– Wikipedia article
Congregational Methodist Church – in GWA
– Wikipedia article
The Evangelical Church of North America – in GWA, WHC
Evangelical Friends Church International – in NAE, WA
– my critique of the EFCI and EFC-ER
I have many blogs on my blogsite exposing heresies of the Evangelical Friends (and Quakers in general). Click here for a partial list of my blogs on the Evangelical Friends.
– Wikipedia article
Evangelical Methodist Church – in GWA
– Wikipedia article
Evangelical United Methodists – in WA
The Foursquare Church (International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) – – in NAE, WHC
– Wikipedia article
Free Methodist Church USA – in GWA, NAE, WA, WHC, WMC
– Wikipedia article
Grace Communion International – in NAE (joined 1997 as Worldwide Church of God), WHC
– Wikipedia article
International Fellowship of Bible Churches – in GWA
International Pentecostal Holiness Church – in NAE, WHC
– Wikipedia article
The Methodist Protestant Church – in GWA
– Wikipedia article
The Missionary Church, Inc. – in GWA, NAE
– Wikipedia article
Pilgrim Holiness Church – in GWA
– Wikipedia article
The Salvation Army – in GWA, NAE, WA, WHC
– Wikipedia article
– Lighthouse Trails exposes The Salvation Army’s involvement in Spiritual Formation
– “A Simple Way to Begin the Day with Prayer” (Richard Foster, The War Cry, October 1985)
– Cory Harrison, Emergent Salvationism? (blog by an Emergent Salvation Army member)
Shield of Faith – in WHC
United Methodist Church – in NAE (observer status), NCC, WHC, WMC
– Wikipedia article
*** United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) – WARNING – Oneness Pentecostals; UPCI was in the WHC at one time, but as of 12/11/12 the UPCI is no longer listed as a member. Why was the UPCI allowed to become a member in the first place?
– Wikipedia article
The Wesleyan Church – in GWA, NAE, WA, WHC, WMC
– Wikipedia article
Christians United Against Apostasy 
