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I commend you on your work. I

I commend you on your work. I was National General Secretary of AoG Australia (1989 to 1992) and resigned over where I perceived AoG to be heading. I have written a long article entitled "AoG-UK a different movement with the same name." I served for many years as an AoG pastor in UK and have traveled extensively in both USA and other countries. CWM has commenced a blog which among other things features the Todd Bentley so called healing revival. We have been speaking out since 1994 on matters such as these. You can access our blog at: http://www.christian-witness.org/blog/ where the article on AoG-UK is accessible and is as follows in part: THE UK ASSEMBLIES OF GOD A DIFFERENT MOVEMENT WITH THE SAME NAME By Philip L. POWELL - http://www.cwmfellowship.org; http://www.christian-witness.org Having grown up as the son and nephew of British Assemblies of God pastors, [born 1939] and having entered the Assemblies of God ministry as a student-pastor [circa 1959 in Brisbane, Australia] and a credentialed AoG-UK minister [circa 1961], becoming General Secretary of The Australian Assemblies of God [1989-1992] after pastoring in Britain (16 years) and Australia (10 years), I and others found ourselves in a quagmire. The original Assemblies of God had never been a denomination with a hierarchy. It was designed as a movement of autonomous local congregations held together by common doctrine and biblical practice with “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5). However things had changed and with the election of carnal ambitious men as part of the hierarchy, over the years, the emphasis had moved away from Bible based doctrine and holy living to pragmatism and a plethora of false teaching with inevitable consequences. I witnessed one deception and counterfeit “revival” after another bearing no resemblance to the biblical Pentecostalism I knew from my childhood. Doctrines alien to the Word of God, that traditional Pentecostals would have dismissed as heretical, were being embraced and promoted. For me it started with the 2nd visit of Mr Paul (later changed to “David” in typical cultic fashion) Yongii Cho to Australia [Adelaide circa 1979] . He taught “incubating” as part of his Fourth Dimension heresy. Admittedly I did not at that time realise that the source of his doctrine was Buddhism, on account of his claim to have received it by “revelation” from the Lord Jesus. However both my wife and I were uncomfortable with it. I recall mentioning my concern to Fred Evans, brother of the then Australian AoG Superintendent Andrew Evans. It seemed to me that Mr Cho’s idea condoned and even promoted covetousness, which the Bible forbids (cf. Exodus 20:17 with Romans 7:7 and 13:9). I shall never forget Fred’s response, “Ah, Phil I don’t worry about that sort of thing!” My concerns and more were confirmed by Dave Hunt’s book – The Seduction of Christianity in which among other things the author documented Cho’s doctrinal source as being Buddhist. Amazingly the AoG hierarchy in Australasia banned Hunt’s book. I wrote to the editor of The Australian Evangel at the time, challenging the official AoG ban. My letter was not published. ASSEMBLIES OF GOD—inter alia

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