Many are walking around these days with there antennas clipped. Pretty soon they will take off their head lights.

My question is who is going around and vandalizing our churches by clipping off antennas and crushing head lights?

The answer is simple. They are the very ones who come over claiming that they are here to maintain us and care for us.

Look at all these movements and what do you find in common? They are all proud that they are a "caring" group with hundreds of "different" denomination joining.

"Look how big we are" they say. "Look how great we are", "come and join", everyone is joining - Super Church, multi denominational, cross-denominational, tear down the walls church, interfaith church, denominational alliances, reformed, non-reformed, miss-informed, un-informed, interfaith, no faith, faith in faith....

What is going on?

We are all being herded together into one barn...why?

Or maybe it's a slaughter house of some sort. Will the butcher spare the flock? Some of the flock? one of the flock?

I know. I am getting crazy. It's time for me to get my old antennas clipped, or else I will be called "church antagonist".

But keep your antennas. The falling away is on it's way.

I have found within the sites that support it all the clues to show that the Stephen's Ministry is far from what it is cracked out to be. Directed by Dr. Kenneth Haugk, pastor, clinical psychologist and founder of Stephen Ministries

Kenneth Haguk the psychologist was commended by many for his book which is promoted in the Stephen's Ministry called "How to deal with the antagonists in the church". A recommendation was given by:

http://www.wyrdweavers.org/files/cashi.html

where it says:

"Antagonism in the Church - How to Identify and Deal With Destructive Conflict - by Kenneth Haugk, 1988, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, MN. (ISBN 0-8066-2310-1) The definitive work on how to handle those who persistently tear down, antagonize, provoke, infuriate and destroy in circles and organizations. As a coven member, it will give you a very good handle on how to recognize abusive personalities. Written from the Christian viewpoint but easily adaptable to the Pagan milieu. A must-have if you read no other book on this list.".

Covens love this book. Why?

Another witch site supports it:

http://www.journey1.org/wars-bill.htm

and another witch site:

http://www.witchvox.com/wars/ww_bill.html

http://www.neopagan.net/ArchdruidicResignation.HTML

and the pagans swear by it:

http://www.wyrdweavers.org/files/unwritten_rules.html

Kenneth Haguek's book is a psychology filled mumbo-jumbo by psycologizing every part of our life.

The following are my comments based on my thorough reading of Antagonists in the Church

(Coincidentally, I had just finished reading Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People by Tana Dineen, Ph.D. a short while prior to Haugk's book and many of my comments involve both books.)

The author, Kenneth Haugk, is a "Christian" pastor and a clinical psychologist. A critique by a non-Christian sums up Hague's book:

"I want it to be clear in my comments, that when I talk about the "psychology industry" I talk about the "business" of psychology as described in "Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is doing to People," Tana Dineen, PhD, 1996. The business of psychology covers all aspects of our life, telling us how to work, how to live, how to love and play. We hear the theories on Oprah and Larry King, on TV news journals and supermarket tabloids. We all try to reach out to psychology for answers to some elusive experience we've had, which in turn are held out like a carrot by the psychology industry on the bookshelves, internet, TV talk shows and other sources. We all want an answer for what ails us, and the industry makes its money by providing us with answers-even before we've clearly defined our problem. All too often, we look to the industry to define it for us as well, and many don't even know a problem existed until it is pointed out to us by the media in some form. Haugk's book is obviously a product of this business. It is a "self-help" book with answers to an elusive problem, with no sound basis in the science of psychology. Although I'm no professional, it is not difficult to see from even a cursory review, that Haugk's book is not good science.

("http://www.petemoss.com/maimu/Spirituality/antagon.html)

Stephen Ministries is defined throughout every site that supports it as:

"An ecumenical program through which lay people provide service and support to others in the community."

Check the following pages to see how ecumenical are the Stephen's Ministry Northern California Ecumenical Media Resource Centre:

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/emrc/upd0008.html

or

http://www.blessedsacramenttoledo.com

Here is the gist of what it says:

"Is Stephen Ministry a Catholic based ministry? Although the Stephen Ministry program is designed to work specifically for each parish or church, the program is ecumenical in nature with over 200 different Christian denominations having a Stephen Ministry Program and thousands of churches involved.".

200 denominations ??? !!! Which thousands of churches?

Which ones?

Also, when a care giver is a catholic and the care receiver is a member of a protestant church or even a referral, guess where this poor individual will end up at? Church Saint Francis Assisi. Good luck.

Look at EVERY website that supports Stephen Ministries. What do you see? They are all either Episcopalian, Methodist, or Catholic or Protestant supporters of the Ecumenical movement. Even if you visit there official website:

http://www.stephenministries.com/

What do you find:

"For over 25 years Stephen Ministries St. Louis has been serving thousands of congregations from more than 90 denominations with biblical, Christ-centred training and resources for: one-to-one lay care giving

spiritual gifts small groups inactive members ministry

evangelism spiritual growth"

90 denominations? Who are they?

See for yourself:

http://www.stephenministries.com/stephen_series_denominations.htm

Roman Catholic Church Polish National Catholic

Embedded in between the lines as small entities when in fact if you cruise the internet you will find that much of these are adopted by Catholic Churches all over the glob. That is why every site you find where you see Stephen Ministries, look for the word ecumenical and see. In fact if you do a narrow down search for "Stephen Ministries" and "Ecumenical" almost all the sites pop-up.

Other protestant denominations which are bothersome like: Association of Vineyard Churches. This is where the holly roller cults sprout from, and of course you have Pentecostal Assemblies-Canada, and us all lumped together "National Missionary Baptist, Convention of America National Baptist Convention, North American Baptist".