In my last diary, I mentioned that Shrub has appointed Brett Fuller to the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Fuller is pastor of Metro MorningStar Church in the DC suburb of Sterling, Virginia. He is the highest-profile black preacher in Every Nation, a network of charismatic churches. I myself am a former member of this outfit, having been sucked into a campus ministry run by their church in the Triangle.
Anyone who wants to know what makes these guys tick should look at a message preached by Jim Laffoon, Every Nation's chief "prophet," at Every Nation's 2004 conference. A former member posted a transcript at the FactNet message board. Excerpts follow after the jump.
Laffoon's message centers around the idea that Christians, in submission to restored "apostles" and "prophets," are destined to take over the world. He starts by talking about the world we live in now.
In Psalms 2 if you remember, later in Acts chapter 4, when the church is being persecuted, they’re trying to wipe them out as they’re spreading through Jerusalem, all of a sudden Peter stands up under the anointing, when they’re facing persecution, and uses this passage to illustrate God’s sovereign hand in the death of His son. God’s hand in what seemed like a dark moment. Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against His anointed one and says, let us break his values, let us shatter his standards, we will live any way we desire. We will have same sex marriage. We will cast prayer from our schools. We will rule this planet with ideologies that violate his very nature. This God is not going to chain us down. This God is not going to hold us down. And although it says these boasts are empty in this passage, when you look at our world you wonder, how empty they are.
But wait ... just wait! Even in the midst of all of this "darkness," God has a plan to take over.
It goes on to say in this Psalm, "The one enthroned in heaven laughs." I’m here to tell you today that God looks down from heaven, as much as He hates sin, He has a plan for the earth. He looks down at every movie mogul. He looks down at every empty educator. He looks down at EVERYONE stealing the values of our children, and says, "You’ve got to be kidding if you think you’ll thwart my plan on the earth. I have a plan you don’t understand! I have a plan for every campus! Every school! Every specter of society! Every region of the world! I have a plan! And though it’s so dark you cannot see it, my plan is going to win."
And what does this plan involve?
"When I’ve installed my king, ask of me, I’ll give you nations, not only that, I’ll make the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron scepter. Because if you ask of me, not only will I give you nations, I’ll begin to give you real rule and real authority." I’m utterly convinced, as I stand here tonight, that God has raised up this family in the earth to reach "every nation in our generation." But the ultimate purpose of God is not for us to reach every nation, it is to raise up a generation long after my generation is gone who because they have reached nations can begin to rule nations!
If that isn't frightening enough, Laffoon then mentions how God's supposedly going to let this come to pass.
I’m here to tell you tonight, there are strategic areas in the nations of the world that control everything that happens. Fortified areas. We go to nations where everyone’s been saved five times according to evangelists. But nothing changes. There are nations of the world where revival comes and revival goes and we long for it like a tide, EBBING and FLOWING but when it’s all done there’s no change! As I look at our own nation, as I look at the Western world, I look at these strategic areas, revival comes, revival goes, and they interpret the events to the common people. I look at the media. I look at the education area. I look at the entertainment business. I look at the judicial system. I look at our political systems. We could go on and on. But in every nation in the world there are areas resisting the penetration of God’s people YEAR after YEAR after YEAR after YEAR! They mock us! They laugh at us! We’re lame and blind but you can’t take us! You’ll never get in here. And at the very essence of our calling as a people is to raise up a generation of men and women from every sector of society from the medical field [builds with growing cheers], to the judicial field, to the political field, to the entertainment world, to the real estate world, to the finance world, to the corporate world, who have been SO well trained, SO well discipled, SO filled with the vision of God that they can go into the bloodstream of that area into the sewer of that area that has defiled so many and they can swim up as a disciple, into the heart of it and open the gates for the rest of us.
Look at this in light of Fuller's appointment. If we're to believe Laffoon, Fuller is about to "open the gate" for the rest of God's "overcomers" to gain more influence on our government and put it on the pathway of turning it into a Christian Iran. But wait, it gets better ...
And I’m here to tell you, by the spirit of God tonight, there is a mandate on this family, to raise up a generation of men and women as we go into every nation in the earth, and plant a church, at the very essence of that church is a heart to make disciples and train leaders. We’re not here just to train preachers. We are not here just to raise up teachers, no, we are here to disciple every area of life. And there is a passion, there is a fire in our heart! I look at the man God chose, his name was Joab, he was desperate and alone, he swam up into that city all alone, UP the sewer system, in the BLACK of NIGHT, and came up out of the water and opened the gates! Typically, by the time someone has swam up the sewer of that culture, by the time someone has paid the cost to get into a place where they finally have power, because they’ve never been discipled, the very waters they swam in have contaminated them and drowned their faith. I’m here to tell you by the spirit of God tonight that when you are discipled, when you are trained, that when you begin to understand that we are called to take these strategic power structures around the world, that we are called to take them, that we are called... and I appreciate George Bush, but I’m not interested in meeting the President, I want to disciple the next one. I am utterly, absolutely convinced that we will disciple the future leaders of every nation in the world. [cheers and applause] It is our mandate. And as we disciple them, that which is normally defiling, as I’ve prayed about this today, I thought of the man with leprosy, and God said, "go and dip in the Jordan River," he said, "man, it’s filthy, it’s polluted, it’s dirty, I’m not gonna get in that thing," but when he went by the word of the Lord not only did it not pollute, it transformed him! And there is a generation of men and women coming out of this family [cheers] DISCIPLED, ACCOUNTABLE, TRAINED, FILLED WITH EXCELLENCE, ENTERING EVERY AREA OF LIFE, SWIMMING IN THE SEWER, GOING UP THE DARKNESS... to open up the gates to the rest of us.
I read this, and it's hard not to envision a parallel between this strategy and how a virus operates. Key to this strategy--the college campuses.
As I look at this nation, as I look at the nations of the world, I’m here to tell you, that before we’re done, we’ll not merely plant a church in every one of the world’s nations, we will study, analyze, and penetrate the cultures that control her. Have you ever wondered why God has given us the youth of the world? Have you ever wondered why we’re on hundreds of universities? Have you ever asked the question why? When Moses and Aaron came together the only thing they understood was that we’re going to lead some people out of captivity and there’s a Promised Land. They never understood that out of their meeting would come the foundations of Judeo-Christian society. They never understood that out of their meeting would spring the very people that would spring the Messiah! Never understood it!
When I was at Innsbruck, one night in the middle of the night the Lord began to speak to me and I saw the globe. Explosions of fire, all over it. Wherever there was an explosion, there was a stadium with thousands of young people, but different than I’d ever seen. They weren’t being entertained. They were being equipped. The hotel room was just filled with the sound of a marching army. God said, "Because you’ve asked for the youth of the world I’ve given them to you. And I’m going to give you an army of young people like the world has never seen. And if you preach destiny to them and disciple them, you’ll make history."
God has given us the hearts of the world’s youth. We might shape them and mold them to go beyond reaching to ruling. I look for the day when God helps us train them and equip them how to think, how to affect their region, how to affect their nation.
And you wonder why so many of us looked at "Jesus Camp" and wondered, "Just what in the hell is going on here?" This is the EXACT same mentality.
Laffoon closes with a warning to all those who would dare stand in the way of this "divine" plan.
Yes, before it’s done, God will give us hundreds of apostles and prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors, thousands of campus workers, but it’s only the beginning, for they are going to equip the greatest army of professionals, and lawyers, and doctors, and entertainers, and fashion designers, and politicians, [cheers] and mayors, [building cheers and applause] and congressmen, and congresswomen, and athletes, and entertainers that the world has ever seen. And that’s why I say tonight, movie moguls beware, ungodly dictators be afraid, anti-Christ political systems be worried, [cheers] ungodly educators your day is coming. [Building cheers and applause] For we believe that the kingdom of God can come to the earth as it is in heaven. We believe that we are called to not only reach but to rule. We believe that we are called to change history. [full cheers and applause] We believe that we are called to produce a generation that will rule. I believe that one day we will leave to our children NATIONS and REGIONS and CONTINENTS! [continuing cheers and applause for 30 seconds]
And now, Shrub is appointing a guy who apparently holds to this philosophy--which is nothing more than fascism in Christian dress--to a post in his administration. Whether the Senate has to confirm him or not, we've got to shut this guy down. I know that I have a personal stake in this, having been burned by these clowns. But the signal must go out--Brett Fuller is a dangerous man.