From our email inquiries:

<< Hi, my name is M.R. and I have been using your website as a resource to help other believers understand that we are being inundated with false teachings and ministries. I wanted to give you some information on a new ministry in Virginia called the Church Resource Ministries - http://www.crmnet.org. The reason I am concerned about this ministry is that my sister and my brother-in-law have left the Vineyard in Anaheim of which was good but after reading this ministries history I found that they endorse
Dr. Peter Wagner views and practices.

I am curious if you guys can do some research on this ministry so that we can expose whether or not they teach sound doctrine or not.
I look forward to your response,
keep the faith that has saved and sealed us in Christ, M

<< Hi M,
In going a bit further this ministry you are looking at uses the program "innerChange" which is applied to gang members, and prisoners advocated by President Bush to Colson's Prison Ministry.
Colson is known to be ecumenical and pushing the Pope's agenda. Even participated in a book about the subject matter. "Evangelicals and Catholics Together."
Cephas Ministry

Subj: Re: reply to inquiry
Date: 8/9/03 1:00:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Cephas
To: xxxx@hotmail.com

Hi M.,
we appreciate your encouragement and that you are getting educated. We checked out the ministry you are concerned about and looking at their history is where you'll find the evidence that they are ecumenical WHICH IS THE POPE'S AND THE POLITICAL AGENDA.

From their website: What Is Our History?

Church Resource Ministries (CRM) was founded July 1, 1980, by a small group of men and women highly committed to world evangelization and convinced of the centrality of the local church in God's plan to reach the world for Christ. All of these individuals had broad experience in personal discipleship (primarily gained through staff or lay involvement with the Navigators) and all had a deep love for the local church with considerable experience in Christian discipleship training in that context.

Two local churches which were also very significant in the early days of CRM were Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, and the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, California. Both willingly provided an environment where aspects of CRM's ministry could be put to the test and tried.

Also extremely influential in the forming of the organization was the School of World Mission and Institute of Church Growth, Fuller Theological Seminary.

[FULLER IS WHERE THE THINK TANK BEGAN AND FROM THERE THEY WENT WORLD-WIDE MOST OF THE MAJOR WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES HAVE ROOTS IN FULLER TO CROSS OVER INTO ALL DENOMINATIONS WITH THEIR CRUSADES. ]

CRM is greatly indebted to the Church Growth Movement, of which the Fuller School of World Mission is the leading proponent,for providing much of the theoretical and theological understanding of the context toward which CRM's ministry was to be focused, namely the local church.

[PSYCHOLOGY SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN THE MINISTRY!! IT WAS FOUNDED BY SOME WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE LODGE IN EUROPE ]

Whereas CRM's Navigator heritage emphasized the importance of individuals and the one-to-one facet of disciple building,the Church Growth Movement provided a much appreciated emphasis on the sociological components of the evangelistic mandate. This additional emphasis on the behavioral sciences was, and continues to be, particularly useful to CRM in comprehending the complexities of the church and how the biblical essentials of discipleship and growth can be accomplished in that environment.
Imbedded in CRM from both the Navigator background and Church Growth thinking is a deep-seated spirituality and biblical passion for the supernatural hand of God to sovereignly work to bless and multiply His Church around the globe. No expertise or training for ministry replaces the Lordship of Christ exercised by the power of the Holy Spirit.

CRM's initial staff were motivated by the needs that they observed in the American Church for a quality of growth and discipleship that was taken for granted in organizations such as the Navigators, Campus Crusade for Christ and other mission entities.

[ Navigators were found to be involved with a large corporation using the church to aid corporation in setting up overseas. Campus Crusades is also ecumenical and political.]
[A book in the apostasy section, 7th page http://www.a2zbookdepot.com]
The Book:
Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil - by Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett
1) 960 pages, Publisher: HarperCollins; (May 1995)
2) Paperback: 1008 pages Publisher: Janice Temple; Reprint edition (May 1996) ASIN: 0060927232
click on BOOKREVIEW
http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo_corporations_or_thy_will_be_done.html

Click on this link to listen to interview with author
http://www.webactive.com/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn971010.ra&start= ]

Although there were notable exceptions, most American churches were struggling in the late 1970s and early 80s to incorporate basic discipleship training and Church Growth principles. Although the equipping,training and mobilizing of the laity was often given vocal support, the churches successfully producing healthy, multiplying disciples were the exception rather than the rule.

Consequently, all of CRM's early staff believed that the local church was the "sleeping giant of world evangelization"with vast untapped human resources waiting to be awakened and directed toward the fulfilling of Christ's Great Commission.

Before CRM was formed, counsel was diligently sought from a broad range of Christian leaders and well-informed Christian laymen and women as to the need for such an organization. Without exception,the advice was to move ahead. There was widespread enthusiasm for a mission organization willing to focus its energies on the Church, the training and equipping of her people, and the development of leadership.

One of the more perceptive and encouraging pieces of initial advice was from Dr. C. Peter Wagner, professor of Church Growth that Fuller School of World Mission and widely accepted as one of the leading church growth authorities in the U.S. today. Pete commented that he felt that there were at least 5,000 churches (of the nearly 300,000 or so churches in America at that time) which would be responsive to the kind of ministry envisioned with CRM. He went on to say that he believed eventually CRM staff would be involved in helping initiate churches as well as helping renew and strengthen existing churches.
[Peter Wagner has a Psychologist on his Board of Directors and is ecumenical ]

His foresight has proven true as this "second track" of church planting began to receive more and more time and attention from the organization's staff during the 1980s.

CRM's commitment in the beginning years was to"start small, go deep, and then think big" regarding the growth of the ministry and its impact. This was taken to mean carefully building solid foundations based on proven experience and expertise, selectively recruiting staff, and building a base in the United States which would serve to provide the manpower and resources for the cross-cultural and world-wide expansion of the work.

CRM's leadership realized at the organization's inception, and is increasingly aware today, that the needs of God's people in the US pale in comparison to the other numerous areas of the world where the Spirit of God is moving in unprecedented fashion.

CRM is deeply committed to the "ta ethne"of which the Great Commission speaks. This means the task for which God has called this ministry is not fulfilled until there is a viable evangelical church serious about and committed to the biblical mandate of world evangelization in every people group in the world.

Today, staff or staff teams serve in major metropolitan areas throughout the US, Europe, Russia, South America, Australia and Southeast Asia. Sixty percent of the staff are involved in direct cross-cultural ministry among a broad variety of different people groups. The staff minister across a broad social/cultural spectrum. CRM's ministry among the poor and disenfranchised, primarily in urban areas, is called "InnerCHANGE."

Although committed to historic Christianity and evangelical theology, CRM staff minister among churches from a multitude of various denominational persuasions. [who knows what Bibles or Statements of Faith ]

You see how erroneous this is.
Thanks for the opportunity to serve you,
In Christ Jesus,
Cephas Ministry