The Assemblies of God got themselves in very hot water because Stephen Strader, the pastor who hosted Todd Bentley’s “revival” was Assemblies of God.
People cried out to the AOG early this summer to condemn what the AOG had condemned for fifty years of this false movement, They did a lukewarm response.
So did Jack Hayford, head of the Foursquare Church. This is doing the thing in the book of Revelation where a church is condemned for “tolerating” the false prophecies and false teaching of Jezebel. it is not an obscure sin. Hayford and the AOG needed to stand by the Bible and condemn Lakeland at the time.
Now that Lakeland exploded in sin, they have egg on their faces. Not to mention the unbelief now sown in the scattered sheep of the false revival there. Strader should have been reprimanded immediately.
P.S. This is also the reason some are alarmed at any NAR/Dominionist ideas of Sarah Palin’s AOG pastor. His “tolerated” associations. To tolerate means to have passive agreement and is NOT pleasing to the Lord where blasphemy and heresy is being hawked.
“Be ye either hot or cold, but be ye lukewarm, and I will spew you out of my mouth...” (Funny I learned that scripture under Jack Hayford...)
Jack Hayford is a fine man and a fine Christian.