Narrow is the way.

Then life came full circle. A simple John Macarthur teaching made it so obvious to me. Tongues will cease, said Paul. But when? Early, says history. Before the apostolic age was even finished, they had all but quit, not to mention other miraculous giftings. Do the study yourself. Until 1900, all “tongue” speaking was by heretics and pagans.

One thousand eight hundred years with no tongues in the church! And now God resurrects a gift that was originally placed in the church as a negative sign to Jews? Probably not.

I decided that I would have to leave Pentecostal churches altogether, though this could cause unimaginable pain to friends and family, nearly all of whom are Pentecostal/ charismatic/NAR. I would maintain a love and respect for the many good and holy people I knew. But I could no longer promote tongues.

How ironic. When I entered the tongues movement, I left all behind. Now I was being called on to do it again, for the opposite reason.

And it wasn’t just tongues. Carried to a greater degree there are further issues that developed over the years. Like the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation). Before I knew all the New Age trappings that many NAR folks are a part of, which I will discuss in more detail later, I listened with great interest to men like Bill Johnson and Randy Clark. I went to a Randy Clark meeting and had him pray over me. I went To Rick Joyner’s operation in what used to be Jim Bakker’s headquarters. I traveled to Toronto to sit under the Arnott’s and his fellow pastors. Bill Johnson actually became my favorite online preacher. I loved listening to Furtick and Jakes and Todd White, all connected in one way or another to NAR.

If you don’t know the names, that’s alright. Few do. But these names are becoming legendary among a growing number of charismatics. I was really into this thing.

Much of my acceptance of these men and their teachings happened during a serious mental/nervous breakdown. In 2009 I had heart problems, a super stressful job, and I took a trip to Korea to write the stories of North Korean defectors.

Somewhere along the line, I lost it. I ran out of adrenalin. I was a very sick man.

I was desperate for answers, and for a healing. My wife took me all over Seoul looking for charismatic-like places that might be able to solve my problem. I cannot tell you how awful all of that was. Some were after my money, others displayed manifestations that are so beyond description I will not try. But none produced healing. None.

When I came home after seven grueling weeks, the problem persisted and was not healed for months, when l God graciously got me on the right medication.

Yes, God refused to grant a simple — for Him — healing through any of the Korean meetings or my favorite TV preachers. I was even prayed for during this time by Heidi Baker, for by now the concept of “women preachers” had become a possibility. Nothing “worked” until my medicine kicked in. I give God praise for healing me in this medical way, but no credit goes to the so-called apostles of our day

Thing is, even in the midst of it all, their teachings made sense. And they hit me at a time when I needed help. I grasped for them as a dying man will do. I was so wanting to be whole like them, and I thought I was in the pathway to that wholeness by hanging on to them.

But as I grew strong again, I began to examine the men who were making these inroads into the established church, upsetting ecclesial governments, dividing churches into the haves and have-nots.

Years later came quadruple bypass surgery, and another breakdown due, they tell me, to the medicines used to put me out during the operation. There followed more hopeless days and nights, calling on God, getting prayed for here and there. Again, nothing until medication kicked in again.

I am well again. The message is now clear. God is a great healer and will answer our prayers when given in faith. But He will do it His own way, in His own time. I am to trust no man — or woman — for anything.

There is so much fakery going on in the church. As I continued to research the entire movement after my first sickness, I ran across the fakes regularly.

One such man was/is James Maloney. I went to one of his meetings near where I live, and began to dig into his teachings and claims. I made phone calls and wrote letters. The following treatise I give you in full as the result of my search.

I am spending a great deal of time with this man, as the learning of his ways and words will paint for you a true picture of what is going on today in charismatic — but especially NAR — circles.

This man’s ways are so typical of what is happening among us. We need more and more believers to examine these men, expose them, and send them packing.

Here are some passages to guide us in keeping far from deception:

“BE NOT DECEIVED” from every New Testament Writer

Matthew 24:4,(as in Mark and Luke) “Take heed that no one deceives you. Many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many.”

Mathhew 24:11 “Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. Lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”

Romans 16:17-18. “Note those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.”

1 Corinthians 3:12-13, 17 “If anyone builds on this foundation (Jesus) with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire… If anyone defiles the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."

2 Corinthians 11:4. “If he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted… you may well put up with it!

Galatians 1:6-8. “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you… to a different gospel, which is not another, but there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from Heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached, let him be accursed….”

Ephesians 4:11-14. God gave us apostles and other leaders… “that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting [they lie in wait to deceive as a snake]”

2 Timothy 3:13. “Evil men and impostors/seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

Titus 3:3 “We ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another…”

Hebrews 13:9. “Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines…”

James 5:19-20. “Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.”

2 Peter 2:1-3. “There were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them… and many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words….” [as seed giving, Rod Parsley]

1 John 3:7-8. “Let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous… He who sins is of the devil…”

Jude. 1-4. Addressed to “those who are called, sanctified, preserved (not just ministers) ……contend for the faith… for certain men have crept in unnoticed… ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ…”

Jude 8. “These dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.”

Jude 11-12. “They have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit… They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit…”

Jude 16. These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.”

Jude 19. “These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.”

Revelation 12:9. “The great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.”