Authored by: marina on Monday, July 17 2006 @ 11:27 PM CST

Welcome to the Miracle Channel Review, John! I'm glad you found your way here. It is really great to hear from the actual horse's mouth on that call on In Sight! You seem to have struck a sensitive nerve with Mr. Deweert. Thank you for your courage to publicly and openly bring this serious issue up for discussion on live television. It was a great encouragement to many. I took great issue with the way your call was handled, and the way in which the investment scandal was minimized. So, after watching the program, I gave my heated two cents in an email to which I have never received a response. (Not that I expected one, thus the reason for my article on this site, which included your call.) Figured I'd post the email I'd sent to the Miracle Channel, for all to see, complete with typos, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, due to my haste in writing it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Marina Thibault
To: insight@miraclechannel.ca
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: morality

To whom it may concern,
 
Comments in regard to May 10, 2006 program as I was unable to phone in.
 
Speaking of morality, what of the morality of white collar crime within the church in light of the charges of fraud brought against Wesley Campbell (the husband of Stacey Campbell) and others in his church who were bilked out of $12 million? Is this a double standard? This is just one small church. How many more dollars are being swindled from believers who trust the man of God who says that their "investment" into whatever will bring them a huge return?
 
Mr. Dewert renounced the last government for its lack of financial accountability and scandal. He did not simply encourage people to pray for these leaders, he actively incited a movement to oust the God-ordained authorities for mismanaging millions of tax-payer's dollars! Why is it that church leaders who get caught with their hand in the cookie jar get forgiven as just making a mistake and get reinstated so easily, when it is they who must demonstrate a higher standard of righteousness and accountability as representatives of Christ more than anyone? I don't recall seeing any of the disciples being duped or schemed in the N.T.! Something has seriously gone wrong.
 
The Campbells, particularily Stacey Campbell as a well known prophetess who claims to be in tune with the Spirit of God, should have discerned that the financial investment was a pyramid scheme. Personally I don't believe it would take a great deal of spiritual discernment to see that this promise was "too good to be true". But many are blinded to the obvious when they give place to the greed of the flesh. The leaders of this church and from what I understand, many more well known Christian leaders, failed in their calling to protect the people from the wolves and deceivers. This can  be avoided if only  people are encouraged to test the words spoken by the modern day prophets and teachers to see if what they say lines up with the written Word. Sadly, church members are expected to blindly submit to elders and are chastened for questioning their dictates. People are told to leave their brains at the door of the sanctuary, so to speak, and cast biblical discernment to the wind. 
 
How can God extract glory from a church that is supposed to bear the mark of His Son, when the leaders who are supposedly His prophets, are involved in robbing His children? And if the children are being robbed physically, whose to say they are also not being robbed spiritually? Where are the watchmen? Asleep at their post.
 
Christianity is wrought with scandle, greed and hypocrisy and I pray that God is beginning His house cleaning. At least this case managed to surface for all to see and fear. If the church does not sound a clear message to the world through it's demonstration of the righteousness and holiness of Christ, it's message is dead and empty. The people of God must live up to God's standards before they can point His Way to others! There is NO WAY we are going to see morality change in our nation for the better unless the church removes its own filthy sin from the camp and demonstrates the nature of Christ with no shadow of turning!  Otherwise all we have is a bunch of lifeless Pharisees for the world to scoff at.
 
Sincerely,
Marina Thibault

John, please let us know if anything further develops in your experience with your pursuit of truth. I'd be really curious to see if Deweert  or Ray Block meet with you on your terms and if so, what the outcome is.

Marina

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Authored by: Nathan on Tuesday, July 18 2006 @ 12:06 PM CST

I couldn't believe it when I watched your call John. I can't believe the host of the show wasn't willing to even challenge Dick for a moment about your question. In my opinion, your question was legitimate.  Mr. Dewert's reply(or lack of it) was anything but honest. I especially disliked the part where he said that Jesus was decieved. I hope God uses you to make them look at the real issue here, which is that they fail to discern the truth. May you speak it in love.

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Authored by: Common Good on Thursday, August 24 2006 @ 04:44 PM CST

For Dr. Dick Dewert to make the statement on the Insight program that “Jesus was betrayed by Judas” during a conversation about being “duped,” is to infer that Jesus was duped by Judas. Of course this is totally contrary to scripture. John 6:64 says “… Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.” Such a statement would seem to indicate that Dr. Dick lacks a basic understanding of the omniscience of God. Why would a person with a doctorate degree in Theology (no less) make such a statement as this? Discernment permits me to question whether or not Dr. Dick’s “doctorate” is in fact a matriculated degree. And if it is not a matriculated degree why on earth would he permit himself to be called such, and why would he permit his literature to leave the Miracle Channel labeling himself as “Dr. Dick Dewert.” Does anybody out there know where this alleged degree came from?      For the,

Common Good

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Authored by: tim on Thursday, August 24 2006 @ 07:56 PM CST

I agree with you, Common... discernment does permit for questions such as the one you pose. Hanging around the site for a while also allows us to direct you to some answers if we have them.

You might be able to find your answer by reading the comments to the following article: Miracle Channel Donor/Viewer Alert

Click Here for a direct link to the comments of the above article if you don't wish to read it in its entirety.

Hope this helps.

Tim

 

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Authored by: Common Good on Thursday, September 07 2006 @ 02:10 PM CST

Thank you for directing me to the information on Dick Dewert’s academic career.  I found it all most interesting.  An honoris causa is only a decoration for goodness sake, and it is usually a decoration that is nicely framed and put on the wall.  If one would be so inclined to embarrass himself and wear that decoration on a daily basis, accordingly he should always clearly labeled it as such, so as to not mislead people (such as myself) into believing he has labored to matriculate the degree and deserves my consideration as an expert.  Rosa Parks received two dozen honorary degrees throughout her life time but when she died, it was not Dr. Rosa Parks whose life we celebrated in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.  Instead it was a humble retired seamstress who worked hard all her life then went home to be with her Lord.   Amen and Amen.

 

At this point I feel a little sad for Mr. Dewert and those who deal with him daily. He must be a very insecure man to need to be referenced as a “doctor” when all he has, is a wall plaque that can be purchased by anybody for the right financial donation to an institution of higher learning that may have a proclivity for selling them.   That being said, I still soberly question whether he grasps a full understanding of “fear the Lord” as he misleads mass amounts of people with his “other” gospel.  

 

For the,

 

Common Good

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