Word of faith teachers and other issues

The Golden Rule is never to condemn any man or his ministry, worse make fun. Any minister worth his salt knows this. You do not run a man or his ministry down. And even when you yourself are criticised abt your sermons and ministry by others, you simply do not respond and continue to walk in love. Let God handle his own servants.

The late Kenneth E Hagin purposed in his heart many decades ago to walk in love. Hence he never answered his critics, not matter how sarcastic or slanderous they were. He let God be his defence, and went about doing faithfully what he believed God had called him to do.

I disagree. Sure one should be humble about such matters but Paul spoke to others about theological problems in others ministries and Christ did so also. Paul said that the judiazers preached another gospel and Jesus rejected and criticized what the pharisees were doing. Christ even said that the pharisees father was satan. We are told in many places in the bible to contradict theological errors in love. It is not loving to just ignore them. it is not loving to the ones under their ministry nor to the ministers themselves. The golden rule states that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves. To just ignore major theological problems is to not love your neighbor.

Maybe he had no answers to them. Not all of them came in an improper way. Why did he not answer any of them?

shouldn't one listen to the concerns of the critics instead of just ignoring them? The wise listen to correction. The stupid do not. That is what the Bible says.

I'm talking about servants of God here, not Christians vs non-believers, as in Paul (a believer) vs Pharisees (non-believers).

The golden rule I'm refering to is this unwritten understanding ministers of God who walk in love have.

They know better than to tear down another minister's ministry and ruin his reputation. They do not answer their critics (other ministers) and neither do they criticise other ministers in front of their own congregation.

They may correct or preach against a particular teaching or doctrine, but they leave out names.

I respect such ministers, whether I agree with them or not. But self-appointed "heresy hunters" are really out of the will of God and really a dying breed.

I'm sure they'd answer those who genuinely seek to know more or clarify issues. But he does not bother to answer those who were just out to run him down and humiliate him on national radio, in books, TV etc. If you think about it, its really pointless becos these people are not interested in learning but just criticising and proving all others wrong and himself right only. Proverbs tells us not to waste our time with such people. Besides all the books and explanations and sermons are out there. But if someone is bent on attacking someone, it just goes on.

I think the key word here is critic. IOW the person just wants to criticise. He's hardly what proverbs calls a man who heeds correction and yearns for Godly knowledge. The critic is the fool that simply will not listen.

I've read a lot of anti-WOF sites and one need only read a few paras to sense the unhealthy spirit of criticism and sarcasm they contain. Ministers names pop up, are judged, misrepresented, condemned called all sorts of slanderous things -- best of all the people who write such contents are supposed to be Christians.

Well there were no Christians in the strict sense at that time. The pharisees come from the jewish tradition that Christianity in many ways came from. So I do not think how Christ dealt with them is so easily dismissed because they were not Christians.

Many times the most loving thing to do is to pubicly rebuke someone. Matthew 18 makes that clear. In matthew 18 one can not only be rebuked pubicly but excommunicated from fellowship pubicly.

Scriptures show that we should preach and teach the truth in love. Not be silent and let others fall because of false teachings. That is very unloving.