Does Dr Michael Brown really have the ability to part the muddy sea of discernment with his ‘voice of clarity and moral sanity’?
THE WONDERFUL WORDS OF LOVE FROM DR MICHAEL BROWN
Come with us on a journey to Dr Michael Brown’s Facebook ‘wall of love, friendship, unity and acceptance’. Early on this week, we were welcomed with a warm cheesy moustache smile, offering a ‘friendly challenge’ to his critics out there to call in live on Michael Brown’s ‘Line of Fire’ program.
Accept my “friendly challenge” – you hyper-critics!
Source: Dr. Michael Brown, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ASKDrBrown/videos/952195939747647/, Posted April 04, 2024. (Accessed April 04 at 6:02, 2024.)
Michael “Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity” Dr. Brown started his livestream – proving once again he is nothing more than a disqualified voice to speak on Christian issues?
“Last week I did a video explaining why I don’t cater to critics and basically said listen we all have to give an account to God. We all have to run the race God’s called us to run. I can’t tell you what race you’re to run. You can’t tell me what race I’m to run.
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 that like athletes competing in the games, we should be disciplined in all things, and we should run our race so as to win. So at the end of our lives, we’re going to give account for our lives. Not for someone else’s lives right. We’re going to give account for what we did with our life and how we responded to the calling of God.
So I’m often challenged, ‘Well why don’t you do more of this? And why don’t you focus more on this?’ And in particular by very strong anti-charismatic critics, ‘Why don’t you spend more time calling more people out?'” [2:54]
So let’s flip the above highlighted statement and break it up:
1. “YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT RACE TO RUN.”
This is the number one problem with Dr. Brown, who rose to prominence in the New Apostolic Reformation with all his apostolic and prophetic ‘hacks and quacks’ he calls friends around him. They won’t hold him accountable and he won’t hold them accountable. This was the one issue C. Peter Wagner identified in the NAR – to whom are NAR Apostles accountable too?
Wagner’s answer is still made manifest in the ministry of none other than Dr. Michael Brown:
“To whom are the apostles accountable?
[…] To the degree that friendship and trust can develop from this process, there is realistic hope that many apostles will voluntarily and publicly submit themselves to an accountability structure of legitimate apostolic peers. On this one, the jury is still out.”
Source: C. Peter Wagner, Churchquake!, Publisher: Regal Books, (Ventura, California, USA: 1999), pg. 122-123. (Emphasis added.)
Apostles Che Ahn, Randy Clark and Joseph Mattera are not correcting Apostle Michael Brown nor is Dr. Brown calling them out for their many false gospels and teachings. We are essentially seeing the same apostolic ‘boys club’ since the 1990s saying nothing while evil flourishes in their own apostolic networks and movements. So who are we as a bible-believing Christian to tell Dr. Brown what he can and can’t do in his lane when the Apostles themselves appreciated the scrutiny of the Bereans (and even called them noble for questioning their apostolic ministry and message to the scriptures)?
“The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” Acts 17:10-11
Dr. Brown has made it very clear – you can’t tell Dr. Brown what to do.
We will be – at the end of this article.
Dr. Brown can’t because of his own false prophecies and teaching. But that’s not all – he’s not even being honest when he opened his program with this statement:
2. “I CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT RACE TO RUN.”
The above highlights the reality of Dr. Brown’s negligence of what it means to be a Christian teacher or leader. He has been berating believers with these types of statements (much like the other false apostles, prophets and teachers he associates with or defends) for decades – ever since Pensacola.
Does this statement prove that Dr. Brown is NOT running the Christian race himself? Because he has assumed a dangerous role of being a teacher of scripture, who has proven again and again throughout his lifetime he should never have been promoted to a pulpit to begin with (see James 3)?
So let’s now observe what Dr. Michael “I can’t tell you what race to run” Brown has had to recently say on his social media platforms after that episode.
EXHIBIT A:
A few hours later after the Line of Fire episode:
“I believe “hyper-cessationists” are doing just as much damage as “hyper-charismatics.” Bad doctrine, practice, and fruit.”
His comment below:
“For the record, I would define a “hyper-cessationist” as someone who is not just a cessationist but also aggressively anti-charismatic, always trying to disprove reports of the contemporary moving of the Spirit and focused on attacking charismatic leaders.”
Source: Dr. Michael Brown, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ASKDrBrown/posts/pfbid018S5hEs7Vpacchi6ynLfoUaATiDvwCR3DMyuwtwmo2DGp7ih2jWLsLmPrhahjF82l, Posted April 04, 2024 at 10:23. (Accessed April 04, 2024.)
Commentor John Laws stated, “Many times some believe they are losing the favor of the people for teaching Biblical doctrine, when they are doing the opposite” (at 18:43), after Dr Michael Brown decided to post the following:
“Many times, the favor of God comes at the cost of the disfavor of people. It is worth it!”
Source: Dr. Michael Brown, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ASKDrBrown/posts/pfbid031Joi83mNq7xybYJwwNkMHi93JnJCAmPV9yaVhx4MeEc9zog6Gjh61VRjDV7H7RgDl, Posted April 05, 2024 at 13:02. (Accessed April 05, 2024.)
EXHIBIT B
A few moments later,
“These are some of the ways that anti-charismatic hyper-critics do so much damage. (I could easily multiply this list.)
1) They deny the glorious work of the Spirit worldwide, often mocking what is sacred in the Lord’s sight.
2) They fail to recognize the massive amount of God-glorifying, Jesus-exalting work done by Pentecostals and charismatics worldwide.
3) They freely mock brothers and sisters in the Lord, appointing themselves judge and jury.
4) They throw millions of healthy babies out with the bad bathwater.
5) They bear false witness against others in the Body, thereby breaking one of the Ten Commandments.
6) They spread dissension and division.
7) They discourage faith and rob hope, even telling the sufferer to run from the very one God sent to help them.
8) They paint with too broad of a brush, thereby condemning the innocent with the guilty.
9) They deny essential teachings of the Word.
10) They fail to remove the beam from their own eyes before passing judgment on others.
11) They often judge superficially, in violation of John 7:24.
12) They use one set of standards when judging their own camp and another set of standards when judging those outside their camp.
13) They call for the violation of explicit New Testament commands, such as, “Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy,” commands which the Word never rescinded.
14) They tear down more than they build up.
15) They mistake extra-biblical (meaning, not explicitly addressed in the Bible) with unbiblical, failing to heed the wisdom of Jonathan Edwards, who said “we ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself.”
16) They reject the Spirit’s inward transforming work because they don’t like the outward packaging.
17) They do not cultivate hunger for God or intimacy with Jesus.
In short, in the words of Jesus, “they strain out a gnat and swallow a camel” (Matthew 23:24).”
Source: Dr. Michael Brown, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ASKDrBrown/posts/pfbid0QjpSgVVAKprtWE5UEcmoN66z5kE5aez7DT8ZSjJT9ApmtoUVAqchUuTQJwiGUTVgl, Posted Friday April 04, 2024 at 13:38. (Accessed April 04, 2025.)
A few minutes later… he provided these comments below his post:
Dr. Michael Brown
For those asking, I affirm continuationism because it is the explicit teaching of Scripture. I dare not question God’s Word when He has made Himself so clear. Cessationists must argue from experience; they cannot win a debate using the Bible alone. As for counterfeits and errors, which I and others have called out for years, just as they existed in biblical times, they exist today. And just as Paul did not reject the work of the Spirit in Corinth despite their many errors, we don’t reject it today.
Source: Friday April 04, 2024 at 14:45. (Accessed April 05, 2024.)
Dr. Michael Brown
BTW, the reason for this post is that I made some broad statements recently in terms of hyper-cessationists doing as much damage as hyper-charismatics. This is meant to explain this further. There is also massive documentation of the glorious work of the Spirit worldwide, much of which I have seen with my own eyes. As for the debate between cessationism and continuationism, note that not a single leader featured in the cessationism movie or involved with the strange fire conference has been willing to have a public debate with me on the subject. That alone is quite telling, given the bombast of some of the claims they make. What does the Word say? To me, there’s no debate.
Source: Friday April 04, 2024 at 14:15. (Accessed April 05, 2024.)
EXHIBIT C
A few hours later,
Yesterday, I listed some of the ways that hyper-critical cessationists can do a tremendous amount of damage. Here, I’ll list some of the ways that hyper-charismatics can do a tremendous amount of damage. (For more details on issues in my own camp, see my 2018 book, Playing with Holy Fire: A Wake-Up Call to the Pentecostal-Charismatic Church, and my 1991 book, Whatever Happened to the Power of God: Is the Charismatic Church Slain in the Spirit or Down for the Count?)
1) Giving false prophecies
2) False claims of revelation or divine encounters
3) Prophesying for a fee
4) Basing doctrine on experience rather than the Word
5) Confusing spirituality with emotionalism
6) Prophetic manipulation
7) Unaccountable leadership
8) Intimidating congregants by use of “the anointing”
9) Exalting power over character
10) Preaching a pep talk, carnal prosperity “gospel”
11) Setting up false expectations of healing
12) Producing counterfeit manifestations by the power of suggestion
13) Putting people under pressure to perform
14) Preying on the gullibility of the flock
15) Lack of BIble-based, exegetical or expository preaching
Source: Dr Michael Brown, Line of Fire, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ASKDrBrown/posts/pfbid02Zn8rvkMBg2B2JXrdVGGqcUya5hQcJC73HKtRgkqiShCVdPhpFuZjQ9EsirdWgRqgl, Posted April 06, 2024 at 5:55. (Accessed April 06, 2024.)
According to the list in Exhibit 3, Michael Brown is a “hyper-charismatic” who has done and is still doing “tremendous amount of damage” in the church today. Unfortunately Dr. Brown has repeatedly told the story of a false spirit giving him a false gospel (he calls this the “gospel-based moral and cultural revolution), that has now become the foundation of his ministry throughout the 80s, 90s, 00s and so on. Perhaps it’s time someone removes the ‘mike’ from Dr. Brown given the number of times his own list points its ‘finger’ back at him?
Dr. Michael Brown fulfilling the following from his own list:
Number 1 – “Giving false prophecies”.
Number 2 – “False claims of revelation or divine encounters”.
Numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 – What does he think the Pensacola Outpouring that he was deeply involved in was?
Numbers 9 and 10 – He preaches the NAR Dominion gospel mixed with his ‘moral’ Judaizer gospel as mentioned in Galatians chapters 1 and 3.
ChurchWatch Central will compare the above lists to the life and ministry of Dr. Michael Brown more closely in another article.
HOW TO RUN THE FAITHFUL RACE.
Be a disciple: Read your bible. Be faithful. Be loving. Be guarded. Be prayerful. Be ready.
Grow as a disciple: Grow in wisdom, discernment and maturity in the faith. Don’t disqualify yourself. Mark, watch and avoid false teachers. Beware of false apostles, prophets and teachers who will try and deceive you in these last days.
Make disciples: Stand, contend earnestly and fight for the faith once and for all delivered to the saints. And if you wrong your brother or if a brother wrongs you, Christian or not, reconcile or bear good witness and good fruit to those who have wronged you and be salt and light in your community.
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“Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?” Galatians 4:16
Categories: Line of Fire, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)