The Germane Genealogies of Normalized Church Lunacy Part 2 by Alan Morrison

Watch our pls and take heed the LORD is calling you OUT! Hanna

so it goes on …

The “Toronto Blessing” Affair

In 1994 came an explosion of all the above influences which unleashed itself with venom into a mass of churches. Known as “The Toronto Blessing” because of it seeming to begin in the Airport Church in Toronto, it involved supposedly spontaneous outbursts of uncontrollable laughter in churches which became known as “Catching the Fire”. That was the catchphrase. And, of course, lots of silly swooning into a heap on the floor at the touch of some manipulative church leader. As I watched all this happening and saw videos of it, I said to myself, “If this is Christianity, I’m a banana!” People are so desperate for “Revival” that they will even accept this nonsense as being indicative of such a thing. Evangelical pastors I knew told me that I should not be so quick to dismiss these phenomena as they could be indicative of “God being at work”. I told them that I had no desire to be a banana. Then, of course, the knives come out. Yawn.

In that year, 1994, thirty years ago, when I was still a naive young pastor who had no idea of the backlash which making such a video would generate, I gave a public talk about this phenomenon, which still astonishingly exists on YouTube at this link,

, entitled “The Toronto Blessing: A Different Gospel”, where you can see actual examples of it all and an analysis of the real background and agenda. It is a long talk with a number of video examples but it is packed with useful information.

That same year, I produced a leaflet showing the ancient historical occult background of all this Charismatic razzmatazz. Here it is below for your perusal. There is nothing new under the sun. This is all the same mystico-occult codswallop that has existed in the pagan scene for millennia and plagued the church for many centuries. People deciding and practising what is right in their own eyes rather than in the plain meaning of the Word of God.

Some Final Thoughts

It is plain that the various Charismatic ‘Holy Spirit Movements’ in history have been crude manifestations of mystical experience with which any Eastern, ‘Christian’ or New Age Mystic can identify. The display of such phenomena (which was known derisively as “Enthusiasm” in Puritan times) not only has no biblical pedigree, but they have been entirely absent in gatherings of genuine disciples down the ages, having only ever been practised among mystery religions, mystical orders, shamanistic cults, and pagan sects. It was not until the ‘revivalist’ excesses of the so-called ‘Holiness Movement’ in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the influential and delusional Azusa Street event in 1906, that such phenomena began to seduce professing Christians en masse into their powerful wake. Thereafter, the Signs and Wonders movement of the 1980s and the Toronto Blessing of the 1990s could more easily cut a huge swathe of madness across the churches, allowing that madness to gain respectability.

Honestly, I do not like writing about all this stuff. It makes me feel dirty and sullied and always leads to vituperative communications from some professing “Christians” who have been bent out of shape by what I say. That so many find such filth and madness to be the work of the Holy Spirit can only be explained by knowing the acute level of deception at which Satan and his demons operate. As I sit here writing this in a quaint café surrounded by the idyllic and clean countryside of Cornwall, the contrast with the visible church’s sordidness overwhelms me.

I feel so concerned for any new convert coming into this mess and getting nobbled by the dirt-pedlars which would be so much to their detriment. I just have to remain confident that in the end the Lord’s work cannot be scuppered by any deception, no matter how insidious it is, though it is a real nuisance on the visible church’s radar and to any evangelist’s operations. New Age Spirituality converts are especially vulnerable as some charismatic practices are similar to New Age ones as I showed in my book, “Signs, Wonders and Divine Revelation”. They are also prone to being ravaged by so-called “Deliverance Ministries” on account of their previous involvement in the occult. This is one of the reasons that I have written so extensively about all this and why I am writing the present piece to pull a few things together.

The reason why I have titled this little piece as “The Germane Genealogies of Normalized Church Lunacy” is because the apostle Paul speaks about “myths and endless genealogies” and “foolish controversies, genealogies” about which one should not waste one’s time thinking about (1 Timothy 1:4; Titus 3:9). Well, the genealogies of these wacky pseudo-Christian phenomena are not at all mythical. They are highly germane to Church history and the discernment necessary for finding one’s way through the labyrinth of modern Churchianity.

Well, I hope all this makes sense to you and that you can see the dark provenance of it all. We do not need to major on such matters 24/7, but it is important to be aware of counterfeit movements in the churches. If you have any questions, I am always available on diakrisis-project@outlook.com .

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