Some of you may or not know that Joyce Meyer is here in Toronto speaking at the Air Canada Centre this weekend (see Joyce Meyers In Toronto 2010).

“Arguably Joyce Meyer is the country’s leading female evangelist,” wrote The Detroit News in Sept. 2003.
Unlike some ministers who can draw only one type of audience, Meyer’s messages cross all boundaries and attract people from all denominations, genders, races and income levels
( see The Detroit News).

As popular as she may be and as helpful as she may be to those, especially women, who suffer from self-esteem issues or those who focus on emotional well-being and personal development, we cannot overlook the danger of the prosperity teaching ‘gospel’ that she endorses. As much as we may appreciate how much personal temporal benefit we may receive from her teaching, ultimately her ‘gospel’ message is not a saving one. One is left to wonder how she can justify spending $23,000 of donors tax-free donations on a marble topped commode????
(see St. Petersburg Times )

Pastor John Piper helps us to see the errors of this teaching in the following video .

You may recall that we supported Lawrence Hughes in a public protest of the Watchtower’s ban on blood transfusion in an effort to educate the public and the law makers of this crime against humanity back in June of this year. While we were there we were met with a happy go lucky group of gentlemen who were attracted to our sign that says “CULTS KILL”. They were happy and go lucky because they were smoking marijuana out on the front lawn of Osgoode Hall. They took our literature and whole heartedly agreed with our cause. When we had finished telling them who we were and why we were there, we were about to ask them the same questions when one gentleman checked his watch and said they had to run. So we never really found our who they were or why they were there. That is until today when The Toronto Sun published the following:

Church seeks exemption to pot laws
Devotees ‘find God through cannabis’
By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: August 3, 2010 7:22pm

“Canadians are as good at religious tolerance as they are at hockey, a lawyer for members of a branch of The Church of the Universe argued Tuesday.”

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