For almost two decades of my life, I was immersed in the Charismatic movement. If I had to describe the beliefs I once held, they would fall under the cornucopia of Word of Faith, hyper Charismatic, and New Apostolic Reformation. For fifteen years, I professed to my own private prayer language, and I coached other people to do the same in altar calls, using verses such as Jude 20 to support it. There were dreams and visions I experienced through…
In a recent interview with Destiny Image, Larry Sparks and Lydia Marrow discussed her newly published book, Death to Counterfeit Christianity. The title of the interview was interesting, as it posed the question, Are the ELECT Being Deceived: The Religion of the End Times. In response to Larry’s question as to what counterfeit Christianity is, Lydia stated that the church needed to focus once again on the Acts church and to return to its foundation. She stated that Paul did…