The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

Many professing Christian leaders in the Church today have in fact changed their strategy so as to make what they teach are not easily detected.  For example the false doctrine of prosperity and Faith have been buried beneath the rubble of "The Grace Empowerment" and "Grace Revolution" as a "spiritual" front to promote the false teaching of prosperity (2 Cor. 4:1-2; 3-4).  Many within Faith televangelism attempt to teach on grace as if it has no strings attached to it but in order for the Faith believer to experience "true" prosperity is to follow the "formulas" of faith to live a prosperous robust lifestyle.  The false doctrine of prosperity teach in principle the doctrine of grace but in practice teach otherwise.  The doctrine of grace has nothing to do with "sowing" a seed into the televangelist's Swiss bank account nor does proof of one's spirituality is determine by the amount of things they possess materially. 

In order to address false spiritual leaders in the church is to call it by name. The reason is that there are people in the church today who are wondering who are these individuals, what exactly do they teach that appears to be so controversial, am I apart of a church or ministry that teach such false doctrine.  In Paul's letter in Timothy, Titus, and many of his epistles that he mentioned the "names" of individuals within the early church that were so reckless in their teachings so as to lead many people astray so as to influence them morally (2 Pet. 2:2). But yet there are other times by which the apostle Paul did not mentioned the names of these individuals, yet nevertheless Paul made clear that of their false teachings as to be reckless (2 Tim. 2:17, 18).    Their is a need to address false teachings in the church because of its philosophical worldview that does not represent biblical truth (Col. 2:8; 2 Pet. 2:1). The subtlety of false teaching is that it appears