"Eric was a youth pastor who struggled with porn and had to step down from ministry. He visited the Brownsville Revival, experienced deep repentance and complete deliverance, graduated from our ministry school and has now served on the mission field in Asia with his family for more than 20 years. Last year, we commissioned one of his daughters to go as a missionary to Japan. This year, we commissioned another daughter to serve in the Philippines. This is multigenerational fruit. Andy and his wife, Karyn, were powerfully touched in the revival, graduated from our school and were the very first missionaries to sign up. They have served in Mexico for the last 25 years, continuing to bear great fruit and with all their children serving the Lord. Andy recently wrote this: We are about to send out a Mexican couple to Asia in 2025; we are super excited about that! We continue to visit the homeless downtown and throughout the streets of Guadalajara, bringing them the gospel in creative ways from giving food, providing wound care as a nurse, and [more]. -- - Dr. Michael Brown
This is another tactic of Dr. Brown. Random ad-hoc experiential tales that cannot be fact checked or verified. Mind you, it also may be perfectly fine that Eric found deliverance from porn or that his family and Karyn's have produced offspring that follow in their footsteps. That is a very normal occurrence in life and seems especially so within the walls of churchianity. I pray that the generations further removed from the evil of Brownsville may not be as corrupted by it, but the reality is that unless they actually hear the real gospel, they too may be deceived. Serving in ministry, no matter how pious it may appear on the surface is irrelevant if the work being down actually scatters people away from Christ. The people in Matthew 7, saying "Lord Lord" are churched people. They were raised to believe that they were doing the work of the Lord only to discover on Judgment Day that He never knew them. I certainly hope that is not the case with these children and grandchildren. This is also not to downplay the very real work that some of them might be doing to feed the hungry and house the homeless. I just pray that is not accompanied by teaching them that God expects them to babble like a baby, foam at the mouth, and manifest epileptic behaviors to prove that they are "spiritual."
"Has it been worth it? Absolutely 100%. By life or by death. We have had death threats, rocks pelting me in the head, our churches burned down, stranded vehicles in the middle of nowhere, and insects infesting my toes with eggs. Would we do it all again? Absolutely 100%. Through it all God has been so faithful. It's just who He is. This is God's answer to the critics and mockers. This is the lasting fruit of a true move of God. Leann had friends who were powerfully touched in the revival and decided to relocate to Florida and attend our school, enrolling in 2000. After graduating, she moved with some other grads"mainly single women, like herself"to the Ukraine, where she remains until this day, right in the midst of the war. She wrote: I have seen Jesus do so much in Ukraine in the past twenty-one years, it's been an adventure and a journey. Jesus is alive and well, and changing lives across this land. " Ministry began all those years ago, traveling from village to village, gathering all the villagers together, and preaching the Gospel. Our team saw withered hands restored on several occasions, spines healed, a babushka who was completely hunched over get miraculously healed and start running down the road, as well as deaf ears opened. Many of those living in villages are elderly and they were so thankful that we came, as they felt forgotten. We would bring gifts of food and pray with them, they were so touched but the Lord. Many gave their lives to Jesus in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s." There were years of ministry in orphanages, children's shelters, children's rehab centers, and children's camps. So many children were introduced to the Bible and Jesus through our ministry. Many of the orphans I knew that were once little are now adults, and some are living their lives for the Lord to this day. I still have connection with some of those I ministered to 20 years ago. -- - Dr. Michael Brown
The mockery was the display from Brownsville of people violently manifesting the Kundalini spirit and then blaming it on the Holy Spirit. People pointing out your errors are not mocking you. Let us be clear, if true, the stories that Dr. Brown tells sound like great humanitarian work being carried out. No one is criticizing such. It is the tying of this work to the Pensacola heresies that is being properly criticized. Is it possible to raise people within the correct teachings of the bible, train them with the compassion of Christ and still see them go into all the world and clothe the naked while feeding the poor? Of course it is! It happens all the time! The premise here is that these friends of Leann only entered into ministry because they were powerfully touched at Brownsville. If so, that is truly sad but that does not make Brownsville somehow not false. I make this argument to people all the time about Joel Osteen for example. It is certainly possible that some people might truly seek out God and the true gospel by sitting through the heresy of Joel Osteen. They were not saved because of Osteen, however. They were saved despite him. Likewise, I am sure that Pensacola drove a lot of people into religion and hopefully some of them eventually heard the real gospel and got saved. They did not, however, get saved because of Pensacola, but rather in spite of it. I am sure some went on to do great humanitarian works in this world but that is not because of the false teachings of Pensacola. It is in spite of them.
"I was sharing Jesus recently at a meeting for refugees and an older man named Kolya, in his 60s, was in tears the entire time. I prayed with him, and he told me his whole life he has been searching for something that is true. He joined the communist party when he was young and saw that it was empty, he tried lighting candles at the orthodox church and he said it was empty. Now, because he has lost his home and came to our city, he met me and for the first time in his life he heard something that is actually true. Kolya said, "I have waited my whole to hear this truth about Jesus." He finally found the truth he longed for his entire life in his 60s! I have experienced many hardships since the war began. But I know I am in the place where I am supposed to be, and that's the safest place for me. Even though we hear explosions every week, sometimes every day. Even though air raid sirens blare off and on every day. Even though we have lived without power and water, mobile service, and internet for long periods of time. I am in the right place. There is such darkness and hopelessness, but I am here to shine the light of Jesus and help destroy the works of the enemy. Leann recently got married, but only after her husband-to-be was miraculously protected while on the frontlines of the very worst part of the war. Now, together, they are serving God courageously in that battle-weary land. This is the fruit of a real move of God, coupled with solid ministry training. Year in and year out, even decade in and decade out, the fire continues to burn. May the Lord send a fresh wave of revival to His people in America and beyond!" - Dr. Michael Brown
Brown tells anecdotal stories to pull at your heartstrings but remember, the premise here is that everything is chargeable to the great Brownsville outpouring. Kolya's deliverance is somehow now attributable to random people falling backward into trancelike states thirty years earlier. That is simply nonsensical. Dr. Michael Brown knows the real gospel. When he is not defending the indefensible or palling around with heretics like Todd White, he can preach the gospel correctly. So, I pray that Kolya heard the real gospel and responded in faith as Brown shares here. That does not change anything that happened in the 1990s, however. The sad irony here is that Dr. Brown vociferously demands that Christians must vote for a man who will mandate that the Ukrainians give up their land to the invading Russians. Our own hypocrisy can be difficult to see sometimes. The bottom line here is that Brownsville remains a horrific stain upon church history, but Dr. Brown could never admit that because Brownsville gave birth to his current career. It is what led to his nationally syndicated radio show. It is what led to the vast majority of the books he sells. It is what led to his standing and station at Charisma News. It is what led to his running the FIRE School of Ministry. It is his identity and to admit now that this was all based on demonic activities? That is simply never going to happen. It is far easier to tell third generation anecdotal stories about random people who may be doing some nice things and then use seven degrees of dubious separation, to lay that at the feet of people twitching on the ground, shaking like they have palsy. Do not confuse this beloved. People can get saved if they seek the gospel because of false teachers and counterfeit Christian experiences like Brownsville. They can go on to do great works, helping humanity as Christ has implored us to do. The legacy of that is not applicable, however, to the counterfeit. That just fosters the lies throughout generations. Watch the Brownsville videos beloved. God had nothing to do with it. The bible says that in these end times false teachers would go on deceiving and they themselves being deceived. Such seems the case here with Dr. Michael Brown.
Reverend Anthony Wade - October 28, 2024
