Like pastor, like people. When pastors are not established in the government of God, the people are not established in the government of God. The pastors taught the people the art of double vision and imparted the skill of speaking with a double tongue. They speak of God and walk their own way. They condemn their condition, yet justify their own remedies. This is the double tongue of Satan that the apostle James spoke of (Jas.3:8-12).

Example: Rod Parsley is currently recycling the 'digging of the well' false doctrine with his new book. He is advocating, "We must get back to the point of digging the ancient wells." The phrase, "getting back" implies that something was abandoned. It implies that there is hope in a renewed effort, so the pastors pick up their shovels again and prepare to labor with the soil (earth bound things from beneath, not from above).

Why preach about wells that need to be dug? Because the church is not getting the life giving water; because The enemy has supposedly stopped up the ancient wells. With this type of preaching and teaching, Rod Parsley is admitting that the church is dry, without inspiration, and needs to be, "restored to the unquenchable blessing," but at the same time, these leaders have been confessing for the past 20 to 30 years that the waters of life have been freely flowing from them to these people.

Why does the church need to be restored to the unquenchable blessing of the life giving water of God if these leaders have been supplying it all along? Why was the digging abandoned in the first place? Because no water came forth. Why pick up the shovel again? Because Mr. Parsley is making merchandise of christians by manipulating with their fear and lack.

When the Wheat said to their taskmaster, "I have toiled for you all these years and my belly is still empty," the Tares told them, "When God created you it was because He has a deep longing to be loved. The emptiness you feel on the inside is His call to you for love." The Tares then sold the Wheat many books about how to fill the void, and when the void was not filled, they excused the void as 'normal'.

This is the double vision and the double tongue. Again, condemning a condition, while at the same time justifying their own remedies to sell their books, and clearly not aware of the double vision. The vision contradicts the claims of their own position. [Benny Hinn's broadcast of 2-5-03]

Let's look at the dry wells a little closer and see how Satan is masquerading as an angel of light. The dry wells that the pastors are talking about is the well that the sons of Jacob dug for their father and abandoned because they found no water. It was into this very well that they cast Joseph, leaving him for dead. But when the opportunity arose, they made money off of his suffering, and sold him into slavery instead.

This is what the pastors have done, they have kept the sheep in bondage in the dry wells, and then made merchandise of the people because of their suffering, taking them out of the dry well to sell them into another form of bondage, using the condition that they created (spiritual dryness) to advance themselves, their visions, their books.

Whatever they try to bury or destroy will end up ruling over them in time. Joseph was promoted second to Pharaoh according to the word of the Lord, and his brethren came and bowed down to him according to the word of the Lord.

It's interesting to note that the 20 pieces of silver that Joseph's brethren gained from selling him into slavery was used to buy sandals for the family. This is brought out in the books of the Patriarchs. They had to remove these sandals when they came in before Joseph. Even so, the gain that the pastors made from selling the sheep into slavery will be removed from them.

Ps.68:6, "....the REBELLIOUS dwell in a DRY land." God is identifying the Tares in their rebellion as they confess to their dryness.

There are no dry wells here at Second 8th Week Ministry. We daily experience the powers of the world to come, and the normal cycles of growth in Christ, and are fed daily of the grace of God and are watered by the Spirit as we labor at the altar of Christ, confirming Him from the foundation of truth.

Christians are dry because the Tares have deprived them of their priesthood, their faith is not made living, they don't understand how they are to grow in Christ, and do not know how to labor at the altar of Christ. The Wheat who have had their faith separated from the Tares soon begin to experience the waters of life that come freely to those who abide in Christ according to the true pattern of faith. The Wheat should take courage and prepare to have their faith separated from the dry wells of the Tares.

Because the framework of truth was not set in the pastors by apostles, pastors each try to present Christ from their own experiences. If a believer likes the 'view' of Christ from that pastor's soapbox, they stay until they get tired of that view and go and seek something 'different', something more compatible, agreeable, more exciting, something that will renew the enthusiasm that they have become spiritually addicted to.

When believers find confirmation of themselves in another pastors 'view' of Christ they say that they were 'led of the Spirit' to that church and their migration has been confirmed or justified.

THE PASTORAL VIEW OF CHRISTIAN GROWTH represented an independent faith, which contributed to the global problem of an independent vision of Christ, which in turn denied Christ His true authorship of salvation, which in turn led to spiritual dryness, which in turn led to christian migration, which is turn led the author to address the notorious church splits.

We can better understand the pastoral view of christian growth by looking at what the world does with the money market. Each country has what is known as a 'mandate' for that country concerning economical stability and growth.

In the world of politics we see that people don't want politicians, they want professional problem solvers on the job representing them. In the world of religion, we are seeing that people don't want theologians, they want professional problem solvers on the job. They desire leaders with the ability to look at the various threads that are necessary to hold their Church together and to have the skill to take those threads and weave them into the fabric of their faith.

God never instituted faith in our Lord Jesus Christ to take this avenue of _expression. This is why pastors are burned out. We are hearing that out of 40 men and women who enter into this field of 'ministry' only 3 survive the rigorous pastoral demands and continue.

The basic flaw in the NCD approach to growth and experience is that this approach looks at the congregation and the needs of the people and asking how they can match the need of the congregation to the skills that are presently available in the congregation. We talked about this a bit earlier when we addressed the pastors vision for 'your place' and helping you find the 'will of God for your life'.

Pastors centered the gospel on man instead of Christ. When you appeal to the nature of man (need, desire, skills, creativity, giftings, fears), you need the nature of man to keep your vision alive. Man, as a creative being, as a multi-skilled vessel, he can always see that his skills can be better suited elsewhere, or that his particular needs are not being 'served' by you. The beastly nature of man cannot be tamed by providing service for it.

The 'visions' of the pastor for congregational growth, evangelism, and service only feeds the aspiration and principle of those in the pew. The vision of the pastor to serve God by serving people is said within the context of good will so this false knowledge escapes the notice of the Wheat. The believer does not realize that this vision does not bring Christ.

True apostles center the gospel on Christ. When you appeal to the nature of Christ according to His government, His truth, and His Spirit, the believers are no longer depending on their human skills, talents, and giftings to serve God and one another. Human skills are not an asset, Christ is.

The needs of the believer to use the tools of the covenant, the needs of the believer to overcome themselves, the world, and the devil do not change, the need of the believer to have that one foundation of truth set in them does not change. These needs do not vary from believer to believer, from church to church.

When the believer is able to serve God through the 'things' of Christ, depending on their spiritual priesthood, using the law of grace and truth, serving Christ and one another from the same table, they can do so without the trappings of the flesh and therefore there is no division nor offense. There is no offense in Christ.

God is restoring ONE DOCTRINE of truth to the Body of Christ through the apostle Eric. You do not have to wait for it, pray for it, fast for it, it is already here. When all pastors embrace this one doctrine of Christ, then all share the same needs and share the same vision. God is bringing the Church back into reflecting Christ not their personal needs.

In his book, Mr. Frangipane is advocating that before anyone leaves a church they should get 'released' from their pastor, they need the pastor to 'bless' them.

1. We see again that pastors have reigned in the Church as false government heads in place of apostles. Pastors are not authorized by God to teach outside of government (they first need to be instructed by apostles). Pastors have no God given authority over your faith. The Church has become sickly under pastoral headship because Christ is absent.

2. We see that the Church really doesn't have a problem with the idea of submission, christians simply do not want to submit to a real apostle. Submission is fine in an environment of autonomy, where believers are free to embrace any kind of doctrine they like as long as they go along with the pastor's vision for growth.

Believers have been told that they are under some kind of spiritual covering through the pastoral authority. This kind of submission is 'transferable'. In other words, when the pastors dry well is no longer entertaining, believers are free to come 'under' the 'covering' of an other digger of the soil.

The covering of a pastor is a spiritual illusion; God set the covering in Jesus Christ through the headship of apostles, there is no covering under pastors who placed themselves outside of government. This is clearly why believers are not experiencing the blessing that was promised, and migrate to a new covering to try out the blessing there.

Frangipane suggests a new thing (I thought we were not supposed to be adding to the bible). He is inventing a new doctrine. He is saying that christians MUST go through the formality of asking the pastor's permission to leave his or her church. The pastor MUST grant permission before they are 'allowed' to leave. The believer cannot leave without a 'blessing' of God to leave (which comes through the pastor who is acting as the mediator).

Here is where the threat takes place according to Mr. Frangipane. If the permission is not granted, and the believer leaves, that believer is under a CURSE and carries a CURSE with him into another church.

This false doctrine goes a long way in assuring a pact or truce between pastors. The sheep are kept in fear of this 'curse' and comply out of fear. This is the cult-like activity of the Tares that we will be addressing in another article in order to help the Wheat escape the fear that is planted in them so thoroughly by the pastor.

This author also included in his presentation how he lost VITAL members of his Church. These he called 'door greeters', people who played the guitar. He said, "I needed you!!"

1. This pastor did not put the tools of the New Covenant into the hands of these people who left. They were door greeters and guitar players. This says something about why the rebellious dwell in a dry land. The rebellious pastor who is denying the headship of Christ is neglecting the spiritual needs of the sheep. The sheep could open the door and greet a new customer, they could play a guitar, but they could not functioning in their priesthood. Is it any wonder they were spiritually dry, unfed, and had the 'urge' to wander.

2. This pastor demonstrates the type of Shepard that the tares developed. A pastor who 'needs' believers to fill in a pew and render the service of a bondman to them.

Having robbed the believer of faith, they are surprised that believers might want to leave and find faith somewhere else.

The word 'pastor' was included in this television discussion over 20 times in just a few minutes. The word 'apostle' not once. We see that these believers cannot simply talk about Jesus without talking about the 'pastor'.