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Back in 2007 Ted Haggard was being ‘restored’ by H.B. London at Focus on the Family.  London was in charge of FOM’s ministry to pastors, and was so successful in plying psychoheresy that Haggard converted, saying that he even intended to join the holy order and become a master himself.¹  Haggard’s sins also caused harm to 14,000 at the church where he was pastor, and caused the way of truth to be evil spoken of.   Now that Haggard can attend a play that treats his sins  and laugh at it all, will London, this “pastor to pastors,”² also take his bow?

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Bishop T.D. Jakes called Christians back to the Bible over the weekend, and then confused them as to which bible they should rely on by employing a guest speaker from the ‘other’ bible, the DSM-IV.¹ The “Back II Bible Conference” was held May 16 thru 18, and featured Dr. Cynthia James, who is a Christian psychologist. As there is no such thing as Christian psychology, this means that Dr. James dispenses scripture mingled with psychological therapy when she counsels Christians on living a Christian life. This counseling is more accurately termed Psychoheresy² because it supplements God’s word with the perverted wisdom of men.

When famous church leaders turn over their pulpits to these counselors, the they turn their flock over to wolves in sheep’s clothing who, at best, give them a compromised plan to live their lives by, and, at worst, tempt them into seeking answers from psychotherapy instead of the Bible.

Today, however, fewer and fewer pastors can discern the danger, and Dr. James gets some of the credit for that too. Her credentials from her speaker’s bio states that she “provides oversight for the credentialing, counseling, and pastoral care of approximately 140 pastors and ministers” who most likely have been inducted into Psychoheresy themselves.³

Dr. James is also the pastor of Landmark Ministries Church of God, Oakland, California, where they obviously skip the Bible’s teaching against women pastors. No doubt, however, that James would be what one might call a dynamic speaker; which is the real criterion for so many of these conference speakers today. And that’s really back to the future, not back to the Bible.

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If you find yourself standing in a group of four, odds are increasing that one of you is on prescription medication for mental illness. That’s because over 67 million Americans have taken medication for depression alone, and this is not to mention all the other treatable mental illnesses that are treated with medication. In his article “Are We Really That Ill?” Christopher Lane reveals these and other startling statistics about the mental health industry.

After virtually setting in on the DSM-III gathering through access to unpublished memos and letters from the debates over admitting new diseases to the manual, Lane found that “the overall approval process was more capricious than scientific.”¹ Illnesses that were vigorously proposed include “chronic complaint disorder,” which would have been diagnosed by patients exhibiting excessive “moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results.”²

Notes:

^{1., 2.} Christopher Lane, “Are We Really That Ill?” New York Sun, March 26, 2008.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/are-we-really-ill.

The list of speakers scheduled to participate in Crystal Cathedral’s Rethink conference in January 2008 reveals promoters will be practicing mental stealth. Of course, a gathering of global influencers would not be complete without a cadre of Teletherapists. They are necessary to persuade attendees to embrace new relationships with unsaved globalists, and to take on new ministries to the emotional needs of the rising global consciousness; instead of ministering the gospel of grace to the lost and the perishing. The lineup includes:

H. B. London - billed as the “pastor to pastors” at Focus on The Family, where he is employed as Vice President, Ministry Outreach, Pastoral Ministries.¹ This purported shepherd-of-shepherds recently earned recognition for assisting in the restoration of fallen New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard; restoring him not to the cross of Christ, but to the serpentine staff of psychotherapy, of which mastery Haggard is now in hot pursuit for his own salvation, and the salvation of others whom he hopes to one day earn a living from; being paid to likewise restore them, to Freud, Jung, and Maslow and the gang.

Appearing here in the conference line-up of speakers, London proves once again that he is not only unable to lead pastors, he can’t even lead sheep, or himself, in the right direction: which would be as far from the bazaar as possible. Instead, he is put on the hook as a lure to entice the young and simple in the faith into the camp to be made merchandise of. Certainly it must be a proud moment for Dr. Dobson and Focus on the Family to have helped to give this man legs to walk, and a mouth speaking great things.

Dr. Tim Clinton - is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapists, and an ordained minister. It is obvious by his other pursuits which one of these opposing views the doctor holds to be superior to the other, and which one he views to be only supplemental to his practice. Clinton is also the President of American Christian Counselors, an organization of other licensed therapists, and the Executive Director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, and Professor of Counseling and Pastoral Care at Liberty Theological Seminary. In this last position, it is interesting to note that should pastors reach out for encouragement from a supposed bulwark of theology and doctrine, they will be shown the real power behind the stone, and nursed back to competency with the sour milk of Freud and the gang.

Dr. Les Parrott - is the founder of the Center for Relationship Development at Pacific University. Like his colleagues, Parrott’s concentration is on preaching relationships between other people; married people, unmarried people, and people who are doing the things that were formally reserved for married people, but very little in the way of establishing and maintaining a relationship with God. This is because his Psychology Bible (DSM IV) neither asserts the existence of God nor views relationships with Him as healthy (a diagnostic category has been derived for the treatment of persons to ease them out of a religious view). He is an appropriate choice for officiating in this marriage where “prominent thought leaders become you thought partners.”²

Dr. Henry Cloud - an author and clinical psychologists with a consulting practice who “works with leaders in a wide range of organizations and corporations.”³ With his new book The Secret Things of God: Unlocking the Treasures Reserved for You, Cloud justifies plying his craft on Christians. By asserting the dichotomy of the psychological mind existing separately from the spiritual heart, Cloud suggests the two are at impasse without the power of his psychotherapy to bridge them. He then implies that his work will allow the victorious Word that ineptly gets “locked in their minds” to get activated in their hearts.⁴ Of course, the Bible alone would never do because that is just full of the secrets that get locked in the head, and can’t find their way out to help anyone without the power of psychotherapy to set them free. Not to mention, Cloud would make far less royalties only selling bibles.

These speakers are among those being exalted by Crystal Cathedral for their vain imaginations which are the products of their own reasoning, and the successes they have had in deceiving others with their stratagems. They measure each other by worldly standards, and they are led away by their own conceits. Their carnal reasoning is actually against God; they do not come from Him, they do not express Him, they do not rely on Him, and He will not have them used for Him.

All the “latest thoughts and perspectives,”⁵ or strategies, of these icons are contrived to wage campaigns after the manner of physical warfare, and rely on the weapons wielded by the flesh. The weapons of psychoanalytic observations and manipulative therapies are weapons of the flesh. The eclecticism of modern Teletherapists in applying human techniques to alter thinking and behavior are all strategies and schemes derived and employed by sentient beings relying on their own devices. They are not of God; neither are they for the Christian (2Co 10:3-5).

Notes:

1. Pressroom Biographies, H. B. London, Jr., Vice President, Ministry Outreach/Pastoral Ministries, Focus on the Family.

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/press/focusvoices/A000000029.cfm

2. Rethink, Why Rethink: Rethink Tanks - Learn and Share.

http://www.rethinkconference.com/index.php?option=com

_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 (accessed 10-8-07).

3. Rethink, Speakers.

http://www.rethinkconference.com/index.php?option=com

_content&task

=blogcategory&id=3&Itemid=14

4. Editorial Reviews of Dr. Henry Cloud, The Secret Things of God: Unlocking the Treasures Reserved for You, by Dr. Henry Cloud. 2007.

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Things-God-Unlocking-

Treasures/dp/1416563601]

9. Rethink, Rethink the Details.

http://www.rethinkconference.com/index.php?option=com_

content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=6

Popular teletherapist¹ Dr. Phil has announced that troubled performer Britney Spears “is a suicide risk,”² and that she may need to “be involuntarily committed.”³ While reports of the doctor’s statements were still being looked into several questions were raised at TheNewsBeats, and no doubt in newsrooms across the country. For instance, did Spears seek treatment form the good doctor, obtain his professional advice and warnings, and then broadcast her confidentially obtained prognosis? Was Dr. Phil contacted privately by an agent of the principal, and had an opinion wrenched from him, and then that agent leaked it to the public?

As the details of story soon became known, in all questions the answer was negative. Dr. Phil took it upon himself to examine Spears in absentia and air his professional diagnosis publicly to millions over his television show. Even seasoned reporters were aghast, and immediately other questions were being asked. All of them had more or less the same starting point. What if Spears sees his television show, or reads the doctor’s diagnosis in the media, as she most certainly will, could the strong words from the famous doctor carry strong suggestive power as well?

Here is where the sham in giving these talkingheads the title of “Doctor” temporally causes a neon-outage everywhere else in the world by hi-lighting itself. Such reckless diagnoses in the real medical profession are subject to hefty medical malpractice suits. Yet, the people claiming to be experts in the intricacies of human behavior and thinking, always tempted to fortify their claim of scientific foundation by displaying an assertion with predictive value, can make what might be the most destructive comments possible with impunity.

It is usually irresponsible for any public figure to make such comments even casually, but for one who holds himself out as certified in human behavior, and in the accurate diagnosis and cure of psychological disorders, it is reprehensible.

Perhaps the doctor himself suffers from some serious disorder which would explain such a server cognitive lapse. Maybe a new term could be coined like vaingloriousitis; where bloviating blowhards shamelessly promote themselves. Symptoms may include making scandalous statements form a deep seated desire to increase television ratings. In severe cases the subject may become maniacal and seek to manipulate outcomes of an extra-sensational character, or that are harmful or even tragic.

A person suffering from this disorder might easily make thinly guised predictions over a troubled starlet in order to claim the implied credentials should events transpire as he surmises, or he might contrive a public statement as a covert invitation for treatment of a famous personality, also increasing his own prestige were it accepted.

It is that wicked of a world. It is a place where an industry that builds a person up will tear them down even faster to use them as fertilizer for someone else’s career. It is a place where the best help touted is a highly-paid conversation that might get a person to keep a neat garden for their short walk down here without disturbing others too much so that they can quietly go to hell.

That’s the tall glass of it. The only thing that changes is the mixtures and the doses, and the ones who dispense it.

As for the starlets, the stalwarts, the stumbling, and the stranded; there is a way for you to shine forth as bright as the sun in the Kingdom of your Father. Jesus will give to all those who ask of him Living Water that will become a well inside springing up into everlasting life (John 4:11-14). You need only ask; there are no fees: the price has already been paid in full.

Notes:

^1. Teletherapists - a neologism of TheNewsBeats.com; a) used to describe psychologists who use television to communicate the theories and methods of psychotherapy, b) and or practice those methods on others or themselves.

^2. Don Kaplan, “Dr. Phil: Britney Spears Is Suicide Risk, May Need to Be Committed,” NYPost.com, October 05, 2007.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299583,00.html

^3. Ibid.

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A new term was coined recently for the profession that is unsurpassed in neologisms. Psychology, with its clinicians and psychotherapists, now has a disorder that they themselves must watch out for in each other. Syndromophilia is the abnormal condition in psychologists of having a strong tendency to classify human behaviors as symptoms of mental diseases; combined with an affinity for diagnosing these new disorders, and authoring and providing treatment for them.

It is sometimes referred to in laymen’s terms as “manufacturing victims,” and may have first been used by psychologist Carol Tavris in her forward to Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. Tavris was in a courtroom where expert testimony was being given by a pediatric psychologist supporting a defendant who had been diagnosed with Munchausen by proxy; a disorder where a parent supposedly manufactures an illness for a child and perpetuates it by abusing the child to simulate its symptoms. The new neologism is introduced in Tavris’ assessment of the testimony she heard:

No one disputes that some mothers have induced physical symptoms in their children and subjected them to repeated hospitalizations; some cases have been captured on video cameras. There is a term for this cruel behavior; we call it child abuse. When the child dies at the hands of an abusive parent, we have a term for that, too; we call it murder. But many clinicians suffer from syndromophilia. They have never met a behavior they can’t label as a mental disorder. One case is an oddity, two is a coincidence, and three is an epidemic.

Once a syndrome is labeled, it spawns experts who are ready and willing to identify it, treat it, and train others to be ever alert for signs of it. No new disorder is “rare” to these experts; it is “mistaken” for something else or “underdiagnosed.” (forward; emphasis added)

Indeed, widespread outbreaks of syndromophilia would help to explain the plethora of disorders, and their treatments, being discovered by psychologists who are also professing Christians. They can now treat sufferers of “Faith That Hurts,”¹ “Spiritual Abuse,”² and “Toxic Faith.”³ A person can even be treated after becoming “Addicted to Love,”⁴ because in pseudo-Christian psychology, just as in the pseudoscience of clinical psychology, all that ails you is a momentary lapse in neologism.

Notes:

1. Stephen Arterburn, Faith That Hurts, Faith That Heals: Understanding the Fine Line between Healthy Faith and Spiritual Abuse, 1993.
^2. Ibid
^3. Stephen Arterburn, Toxic Faith: Experiencing Healing Over Painful Spiritual Abuse, 2001.
^4. Stephen Arterburn, Addicted to Love, 1991.

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The July-August news letter PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter put out by PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries (PAM) includes a brief and easy to understand expose on psychotherapy and why Christians should have nothing to do with it. A ministry of Martin and Deidre Bobgan, PAM offers books, including free eBooks on line at their website, and DVD’s, and their bimonthly newsletter which provides solid research into psychotherapeutic theories and therapies. In their article “Two-Edged Swords,” PAM details the two edges of psychotherapy that disqualify it for consumption by Christians: psychotherapy is both a pseudoscience and a separate religion.

Indeed, the reliance upon theories of solving problems of living derived by secular men who were against, and often hostile to, Christianity and the Bible is to put one’s faith in something other than God’s Word, which both declares and promises:

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2Ti 3:16-17)

Many pastors have been intimidated into believing that only those educated and licensed in psychotherapy are qualified to assist Christians with problems of the mind, and churches have become huge referral services for these services. The subtle fact that secular psychology has used the term mind to replace the cure of souls has completely escaped most Christians today, to their detriment. Psychologists have been able to draw away disciples after themselves, and fleece the flock, all with the help of pastors and laypeople.

And no, there is no such thing as Christian psychology. There may be professing Christians who practice secular psychological theories and techniques, but there is no separate and distinct psychology that is Christian.

The PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter can be obtained free of charge by contacting the PAM at their website:

http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/mainpage.html.

First Baptist Church Decatur plans to install female pastor Julie Pennington-Russell. While not every step Decatur Baptist has taken towards apostasy can be pointed out from this distance, a sure wedge used to remove a congregation form truth occupies a prominent position there. For counseling the saints, Decatur relies on Pyschoheresy, which is:

[T]he integration of secular psychological counseling theories and therapies with the Bible. Psychoheresy is also the intrusion of such theories into the preaching and practice of Christianity, especially when they contradict or compromise biblical Christianity in terms of the nature of man, how he is to live, and how he changes” (PAM).

To promote Pyshcoheresy, Decatur Baptists advertises Verdery Counseling Center on their church website. VCC explains their purpose is “To provide competent pastoral psychotherapy based on a sound psychological and theological perspective.” The perspective which seems to have been developed at Decatur Baptist is to do as reprobate men would advise, and couch their advice in the fear of God.

If the congregation would drop the DSM IV and pick up their Bible again they would rediscover this scripture:

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. (1Ti 2:11-13)

Notice that this instruction is not given in the context of some obscure cultural condition extant at the time, but is based on both God’s hierarchal design of governance, further stipulated at the Fall.

David Dansker

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