I Just Came to Meet Your Boss

I am considering going to another Last Reformation event.

The Last Reformation’s founder, Torben Sondergaard, got driven out of Denmark in January. He invited a documentary crew to film his ministry, and of course, they twisted the truth and made his organization look like a sick cult. The Danes rose up in arms and threatened to pass laws to ban what he was doing. People said doing his type of ministry in front of kids was abuse, which is completely untrue. He feared losing his children and going to prison.

Over the last month, he has been provided with a big, beautiful property in North Carolina. I believe he said it has 90 rooms. About 75% of the cost has already been paid, and the Last Reformation is leasing to buy the rest. No loans. They’re already planning their first event.

My friend Mike needs to be baptized, and I would like to complete what I started when I went to their event in Clearwater in December. I would like to pray for the sick and see results.

I have also considered flying to Seattle to see Tom Loud, who does street ministry and healing. I really want to get going.

I found an outfit in Florida. It’s called the Acts 2 School. It’s in Vero Beach, which is a couple of hours away. I thought it might work out because Tom Loud has worked with them. I assume he has some clue about the people he deals with.

When I looked at their website, I noticed two things. First, they charge $300 for their events, and second, you have to live on the premises for several days.

Oh, boy. Charging a hundred bucks a day, up front, for teaching? That can’t be God’s will.

They have a student handbook, which I examined. If you attend an event, you have to live in a common bedroom with strangers. You have to sleep in a bunk. You have to eat with everyone else, when the leadership chooses. You have to help prepare food, wash dishes, and clean the facility. You can’t talk to a person of the opposite sex in the room where he or she sleeps. At 10:30, they turn off the lights. YOU don’t. They do.

“CULT.” This is the word that comes to mind.

1. If you really have faith in God, you should be able to get by on freewill offerings and whatever other resources he provides. If you have to charge people hefty fees up front, God is not blessing you. The people you charge are. They are not merely brothers and sisters; they are also customers.

2. Sleeping in a common room is fine for people who have no choice. It’s not fine for married people, older people who have money and status and are tired of being nannied, or people who snore. There are hotels around Vero Beach. There is no good reason to tell people they can’t use them. Charging a hundred bucks a day for self-prepared food and a self-cleaned bedroom and bathroom is way out of line. I grant you, a Holiday Inn would cost just as much without food and drink, but you would have privacy, you would not have to clean anything, and you would not have people telling you what to do and when.

3. If a grown person feels like staying up until 10:45 or whenever, it’s up to him. This is America, not socialist Cambodia. Turning off the lights for free adults is insulting and somewhat crazy.

I guess what I’m saying is that I decided not to go.

I’ve seen a lot of video about Scientology. They practice slavery, right here in America. They tell people where to live and what to do. They tell them who to associate with. They make them do unpleasant work for nothing. They put people who misbehave in buildings with doors that lock from the outside. They forbid people to communicate with others. This is not what religion is supposed to be like, and it’s very dangerous for a Christian leader to go down the same path.

It’s very hard to prosecute Scientology leaders because the people they hurt are afraid of them. They fear for themselves as well as their friends and families (especially children). It’s remarkable that such things happen in America, but they do. We have many Muslims here practicing slavery. Pimps practice slavery, too.

Who would join a ministry that reminds him of Scientology? It’s like paying to be punched in the face.

Cults don’t honor people. God just showed me that. They humiliate them. The Bible tells us to honor other people. If you put a 65-year-old man in a room full of strangers, make him clean toilets, and tell him when to go to bed, are you honoring him? No. You’re dishonoring him. God hates dishonor and emasculation. He gets buried in it every day, so he knows what it’s like.

Elisha was dishonored by a bunch of kids, and God sent two bears to maul them. That’s harsh. God’s law said that if a son was nasty to his parents, they could have him stoned to death. It said that if a woman tried to stop a fight by squeezing a man’s genitals, her hand had to be cut off. It said that people who did not honor their parents would be cursed.

Dishonor is bad. Unfortunate for me, because I used to excel at it.

I don’t know if Tom Loud endorses these people. The video he made with them is several years old, and they rarely update their own Youtube channel.

I think he has an issue with the Last Reformation. He said his friend Doug Collins is involved with a ministry, and he gave the impression that he’s not enthusiastic about it. Doug Collins is a Last Reformation member.

Tom Loud got Doug Collins started doing miracles. Collins called him and asked to be taught. Loud was not involved with the Last Reformation. Collins found them later.

My only concern with the Last Reformation is that they may be getting too structured and man-based. If it turns into the Torben Sondergaard religion, it will fail just like Catholicism did.

I’m not a joiner. I don’t care if you line up hundreds of dead bodies every morning and raise them with a wave of your hand. I’m a child of God, not a child of Perry Stone or Benny Hinn or Tom Loud or anyone else. If I have to know your secret handshake and let you tell me and my family what to do, I’m out. Psalm 23 says, “The Lord is my pastor.” Deal with it.

Loud says God told him he ended the healing revival of the 1950’s because it glorified men. He says God showed up he would bring it back, however. I don’t doubt that God said these things.

It’s crazy to have a movement that glorifies men and turns them into celebrities who supposedly have powers the rest of us don’t have. Preachers are supposed to help us meet and get to know and obey God, not themselves. You know what the Bible says: “Call no man ‘father’.”

Christianity is reproduction. That’s very important to understand. God is reproducing. When you have kids, you don’t hope to have one normal kid and 9 kids without arms and legs. All your children should be like you in their capabilities. God isn’t looking to produce three or 4 Reinhard Bonnkes and Todd Whites and leave the rest of us in iron lungs and wheelchairs.

I guess we’re weak because we are the spiritual children of men, not God. We take after our fathers.

Remember what Moses said? “Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!” Moses was always in danger of being worshiped for being special, and he wanted no part of it.

Lust for attention and worship is what caused Satan to be blasted out of heaven. He wanted to dress up like Liberace and stand in front of everyone, being admired, praised, and obeyed. He said he would sit on the throne of heaven. Preachers who glorify themselves and don’t replicate themselves are just like he was.

I don’t know if the Last Reformation is going to become a carnal, failed denomination or not, but it’s something to be wary of. The Last Reformation has never saved anyone, and there is no guarantee that it will exist a month from now. You have to keep your eyes on the source, no matter who fails around you.

God said, “A thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near thee.” No matter who fails, you have to focus on the one who never can. No one can carry you or walk your path for you.

It’s all very interesting.

I like the Last Reformation, and they do reproduce. They teach people how to heal and so on. I just don’t want to be obligated to their leadership. Men in leadership make mistakes. Often, they disagree with God and with people to whom God has been speaking. That happens to me a lot. I don’t need any more of it.

It’s one thing to have some random person with no power criticize the things God says through you and to have him tell you to do things God doesn’t want you to do. It’s another when it comes from someone to whom you have given your loyalty.

My last pastor told me I wasn’t allowed to lay hands on people, and I was a deacon. He said demons could leave me and go into others that way. Meanwhile, he was laying hands on people, and he was involved in a sexual relationship with his young niece, which started when she was 6.

Rich Wilkerson at Trinity Church in Miami had a rule that he was the only one who was allowed to receive or interpret a message in tongues. I wonder how he expected to get God to obey that rule.

I think he’s an atheist. I don’t think a person who believes in divine judgment could do the things he does.

The further you go with God, the fewer people you can listen to without being dragged downward. The more aligned you are with God, the more people will disagree with you, and you will find that as time passes, you get into conflict with people who are higher and higher on the Christian food chain. I suppose the status of your persecutors varies with your status with God. After all, ordinary Christians fight demons, but when Jesus was tempted, Satan himself showed up.

When Paul became the chief voice in the church, Peter, who was very close to God himself, rose against him and had to be corrected.

It’s interesting. When Israel was threatened by Goliath, who was the greatest warrior among the Philistines, God sent his anointed king to kill him. He sent his best. I suppose Satan does the same thing, when he has to, although he likes to send human beings who are low and unworthy of respect.

It’s a form of dishonor to send a lackey or a child or someone else of low regard to fight a worthy enemy. In the play Cyrano de Bergerac, a noble hires flunkies to drop a log on Cyrano, who laments this disgrace as he dies. Liberals love sending kids to bait and insult conservatives. It’s a filthy tactic intended to humiliate. Witness David Hogg and the Thunberg girl, whose unfortunate mental illness is being used to shame people who resist the climate hysteria industry.

It’s astounding how much power Satan has in the church. He owns it. He’s not an invader who comes in quickly to make raids and then leaves. He sits on a throne of authority. He is at home in the church. He built it.

I’m not going to Vero Beach to pay some character $300 to turn the lights out on me. If you can’t treat me like a man and teach me while I’m staying at a hotel, there is something seriously wrong with what you’re doing.

I would like to be able to do the things the apostles did, and, most importantly, I would like to be able to do it because of God’s love flowing through me, not because I want an achievement, because I’m angry at Satan, or because I feel obligated to do things for God. Love is the big thing that’s missing from every ministry I’ve seen. They’re starting to get the gifts of the Spirit right, but when you’re around God, you feel his love the way you would feel heat while standing in front of a searchlight. We have to get that, or what we do will be weak and half-baked.

I think a trip to North Carolina would be nice. We’ll see what happens.