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 Thursday, July 29 2010 @ 08:43 PM CST

Dominion Conference 2008

    
Monday, June 30 2008 @ 10:40 AM CST
Contributed by: The Last Spike
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You are all forgiven if you didn't remember, or even notice, that the MC "Dominion Conference 2008" was held over this past weekend. Most of us in Lethbridge didn't notice either. Indeed, it was such a small scale event this year that the only day you would have been aware that something special was going on was Sunday. That was the only day there were cars overflowing from the parking lot onto the streets. Unlike previous years Dominion Conference did not need special parking attendants and pylons set up to handle this years meagre gathering. Of course Sundays increased attendance cannot be dismissed as not at least partially being increased by the remaining regular DGC Sunday congregation, and the fact that is the day they have the end of conference barbeque.

Personally, I read nothing advertised in the news paper. The DGC site . . .well you cannot even connect to it. I think it must now be defunct. The MC site had nothing about it yesterday. Today they have the first installments of the event up for your perusal. According to the website new Chairman of the Board Mervyn Mediwake (and long-time Victory elder) "opened the conference by welcoming the hundreds of visitors that have arrived." Hundreds? Think low hundreds readers. On most days the parking lot wasn't even full! Lead Speaker, and Victory darling, "Craig Buroker, host of Times of Refreshing, addressed the crowd saying, "There is a time of harvest!" and went on to explain how the Lord is creating opportunities within secular businesses.God's people, however, need to ensure, through their giving, that God's hand will bless and prosper these opportunities for kingdom purposes." ((emphasis added) I think we are all seasoned enough in Charispeak that I do not have to decipher that message to you (LOL).

Fred and Val Bennet, from Memphis Tenn. were speaking. Something about seeing the hand of God working in their lives. (yawn) "The message went on to explain how a flood of God's presence is about to come like a flash flood and for people not to grow weary in a dry time. "Never give up!" Fred commanded." At least Fred is a realist! Saturday morning was a zinger of a message, as Val Bennet took the opportunity to address the attendees speaking from Deuteronomy 26, she outlined "the different ways that God's people can give to the kingdom." (emphasis added) Encouraging the sheep to be fleeced and claiming "God wants to bless His people and does so by multiplying back their giving to them." I wonder if Val would accept our prayers in lieu of cash as just as great an offering to God?!
Then they pulled a dark horse out of the closet, Anne Buroker of South Side Victory Church in Calgary. If you had any doubt whatsoever who is in control of the MC you can now lay those doubts to rest fellow readers. It has always been a Victory Church podium!

Saturday night, apparently was the wing-ding. They celebrated Canada Day 3 days early (hey you gotta' make a buck out of it somehow), by going LIVE on the "Revival in the Land" program. A quote from the MC site states, "Fred and Val Bennett welcomed the audience and had special greetings for the many Americans watching on satellite, the Internet, and Sky Angel IPTV." In other words, if they (Americans) swallowed Todd Bentley's crap they'll certainly find this palatable. (LOL). Another long-time Victory fellow, Missionary to Thailand and now apostle to south-east Asia, Al Purvis, "spoke of an attitude of giving and how an expectation of our gifts to the Lord are seen by heaven." So Al has reached apostolic heights now, I wonder if God bestowed that title upon him? It would seem unlikely as his giving focused message is the same old tired and oft repeated Victory message carried as a theme throughout the conference.

Then it was lead speaker Craig Burokers time to rant again. "We're so close to a great revival...greater than anything that has ever been seen before." "The Church is in transition. Don't give up, don't give up!" More hints at the dire financial scene the MC may be experiencing. So you see, these guys can be real when they have to . . . when their pay cheque is on the line. (LOL)

So gone this year were the superstars of deception like Pat (Coking) King, Len Zoeteman, and Dick Deweert. On a much tighter budget, it would seem, the MC opted to scale back costs in favour of presenting the back-benchers of deceitfulness. Even the praise and worship was provided by low-key players happy just to be asked . . .let alone paid. I wonder if they were . . .paid that is.

What do you think, were you watching?

RIP MC

 
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Dominion Conference 2008
Authored by: tim on Monday, June 30 2008 @ 10:56 AM CST

Regarding the DGC web site, I'm not sure if it's actually done away with or if they simply forgot to renew it. I checked with CIRA today and the domain expired on June 28 so it may just be a temporary outage until they renew it.

Maybe this is the "renewal" or "revival" they were talking about at the conference... lol


Dominion Conference 2008
Authored by: brdewi on Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 10:31 PM CST

I read the article with a breath of relief.  Why?   Well, I was going to treat my wife to a weekend in Lethbridge and take in the conference.  Thankfully we did not leave our small hamlet on the border of Alberta/Saskatchewan.  I have run into the Dewerts many times in my ministry and even before my ministry when they were out beating the boondocks for support for MC.  I have even watched MC and at times I learned a few things, but I guess I had rose coloured glasses on over the years if I did not see the fall of Dr. Dick coming.  It seems to me that just when televangelists reach their pinnacle they shoot themselves in the foot so to speak.  Dr. Dick can now breathe a sigh of relief as he has reached his pinnacle and has joined the lists of discredited televangelists the like of Jimmy Swaggert, Jimmy Bakker, et al ad infinitum.  Why do they do this?  Not only do they destroy their families and friends but they cast a further pall on ministers of the gospel all over the world.  This ranks right up there with the Roman Church's abuse, not to forget the other mainstream faiths that had a hand in the Native Schools Debacle. 

It must greive God to have to look down on all this and try to find out what He did wrong.  Many times I have said to my Franciscan brothers, God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and all the saints must be looking down from heaven and said to one another, "2000 years, and they haven't gotten it right yet?  Then all just give a collective shrug.  I think the tears fell on Lethbridge a week or so ago.

I pray for a better future.

 

Dominion Conference 2008
Authored by: Spidey on Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 07:56 PM CST

I hadn't checked for a while, but I notice the Dominion Gateway Centre website is now back up and running.

 

Dominion Conference 2008
Authored by: jwhansen on Monday, June 30 2008 @ 06:37 PM CST

The following is a copy of a post regarding The Dewerts.  As a first time visitor to the Miracle Channel's site I see the "hangover" from last year reflected in this as well as several other posts. 

I am a writer and a speaker and as mentioned in my latest article (Are You in the Zone of God's Will, http://savannahmaria.wordpress.com/), I talked about the Father's gentle prodding and how He puts the words that flow from thought to pen in my soul and mind.

This same sense of knowing touched me this morning when, for the first time in a long time, I caught your show (Bill Prankard's FTR - June 30/08).

During your interview with Dick and Joan Dewert the Lord impressed upon me to  write and to tell about King David and Bathsheba.

While it is a story with which we are all very familiar, the essence of my reference to it is that in our humaness, we all fall short of the Glory of God.  Even those who are the greatest among us.  This doesn't lessen the seriousness of sin, nor does it exempt us from sin's consequences.

However, the power of the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is wonderfully sufficient for both forgiveness  and redemption.

This is an important point in the context of the present state of the Miracle Channel's web site and corresponding chat rooms.  When I visited the sites this morning one could not help but notice the bittnerness and melancholic tone associated with many of the posts.

From the poor showing (other than Sunday) for the 2008 Dominion Conference, to the resignation of Faisal as the host of Plumbline to a post on "evangelical prostitution" which listed a series of Ministries in which the utilization of funds is being investigated, it would appear that there is an undercurrent of cynicism that has gripped that ministry.

And while the Dewert's had a greater responsibility in terms of their conduct as leaders in the church community, they cannot be held accountable for the continuing reactions of a "disappointed" public.

Each of us as individuals can choose how we react to the failure of those close to us or those we look to for leadership.  For me Peter's denial of the Lord three times, and the subsequent exchange between he and the Risen Christ in which the Lord asked him if he loved Him 3 times is one of the most powerful examples of redemptive love.

In his book Cries of the Heart, Ravi Zacharias' position on guilt is also worth noting:

“Guilt is a real experience of life.  But when it remains as just guilt it is compounded by each self-serving effort of irreverence, pride, fear, dismissal of the moral, or the claim of innocence.  Only in the admission of sin is there genuine restoration, because guilt is first a vertical problem before it is a horizontal one.  God is the one who has been violated before humanity has been wronged.  That is why God has the ultimate prerogative to forgive.”

Perhaps we all should take a few moments to ponder the "verticle" nature of the Cross  (http://savannahmaria.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-incomplete-cross/), and in the process open the path to a true healing and ultimate restoration.

My prayers are with Dick and Joan.

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