If you pay attention, you can see that none of them use much Word at all unless it is to support some viewpoint of theirs. They go on and on about a “new thing” and a “new revelation”, none of which is in the word. I know that God’s word will not change nor will he send a message through someone that does not line up with it. These people are all about money not to mention the fact that they teach false doctrines that line up with those that the antichrist will have according to the Bible. They play on people’s emotional nature to make them hang on their every word.

Don’t fall victim to these false prophets with “Third Wave” teachings. All we need is belief God’s unchanging Word, the Holy Spirit who dwells in all believers and the fellowship of True Christians to get us to heaven. No mega conference can fulfill those.

I attended a women’s conference last year, and it just seemed like everything was about money. It’s a shame. The Scripture tells us that we have freely received and we are to freely give….

Outstanding first post! I really wish that all new posters would first read yours to see how a person should enter a board the first time.

Hopefully you will visit often.

I attended a women thou art loosed conference in 1998 and initially felt that it was awesome to see 60,000 + christians all in one place prasing the Lord. Unfortunately throughout the weekend I witnessed some of the most inconsiderate, rude behavior that I have ever witnessed. I also realized that each of these conference has what I call a “Ringer”. A Ringer is the hottest evangelist/pastor who ministers toward the end of the conference and has the ability to make people give HUGE donations. Juanita Bynum was the Ringer at the ‘98 conference. There is usually a gimmic to collecting the money. She had people give a $98 seed offering and bring it up to the stage. I have to admit I fell victim to it back then. I literally saw ushers carry 40 -50 garbage bags full of checks, money off the stage. A couple of years later my husband went to a TD Jakes men’s conference. We had changed our giving practices by that time and always prayed together ahead of time about what we would give at any service, event, etc. I warned him to be aware of the “Ringer” and not to get sucked in to giving more than we agreed on.

The “Ringer” at that event was Eddie Long. He had attendees ball up there money and throw it at the stage. The men came back talking about how awesome it was to see all that money raining down. (I know some theives made out well that night)! Despite my warning, he fell for it and shelled out an additional offering!

My mother had a strange experience at a conference regarding the lesbian issue.

It was not a mega conference. It was a local one with a group called “Women Aglow”. She said that there was a very talented and clearly gifted spoken word artist who performed. The woman was impressive and my mother said she was anointed to do what she was doing.

In spite of that, my mother somehow felt uneasy about the woman but did not understand why.

That evening, as she was about to pray, the Holy Spirit brought that woman’s face to my mother, and spoke to my mother’s heart saying, “She is a lesbian”.

Once that happened, my mother said it was clear why she and several of her friends were feeling uneasy about the woman. Her spirit was unclean.

What I noticed a while back was that these mega conferences were always touted as though, you HAD to be there, or you would miss out on your word from the Lord. I noticed that with the 2000 or so people who paid their registration fees, etc., those who truly wanted to attend, but lacked the financial means (students, those who were living in poverty, etc), were never afforded any sort of sponsorship. These events were strictly geared towards those who could AFFORD to hear from the Lord….not necessarily those who needed to hear from him.

I must say that my church has an annual women’s retreat in which some pretty well known and annointed speakers attend and conduct seminars. One thing that I give my church props for is that women who cannot afford to pay to attend this retreat are offered sponsorship opportunties and members who are able are asked to give above their tithes and regular offerings to sponsor someone who is less fortunate. I actually had the privilege of attending a retreat on year on full sponsorship and was tremendously blessed.

I have to admit I have not been in several years though because at the last one I attended, I observed a spirit of lesbianism running rampant at that retreat. It was very obvious that one of the speakers even spoke on it, and everyone looked at her like she was crazy. But I could tell it was more about being a weekend getaway for a large group of closet lesbians and those looking to ‘experiment.’ That was the only time my spirit felt unclean about those retreats and I never heard the lesbianism issue ever addressed within our own church body, so I never went back.

However, my bible tells me whom the Son sets free is free indeed!!!!!

I’m just not doing it anymore. Growth!