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"Indigenous peoples have perpetually been put in the position of the mission field never fully recognized as been given gifts and callings and anointings to be coequal partners …" (Word To The World, show #541)
There are two false assumptions here that are used throughout the radio show. That full transcript along with my comments is available here:
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/lehmann.html
The first false idea is that indigenous peoples had "gifts, callings, anointings" before the Gospel had even been preached to them. The second is that there are many "anointings". There is clearly only one anointing of the Holy Spirit that all true believers share, and that is the anointing of the Anointed One, Jesus Christ. Furthermore it is implied that missions still don't recognize the importance of indigenous peoples in reaching the world with the gospel. This is patently false. LMI has long encouraged both in word and with finances any mission efforts by indigenous peoples. Twiss also states:
"...We're introducing native leaders and native ministry organizations to the greater body of Christ by partnering with people like Don Richardson, John Dawson and George Otis …" (Word To The World, show #547)
This statement clearly shows that the WCGIP is an outreach of YWAM (John Dawson) and the New Apostolic Reformation
(George Otis). Don Richardson, though he wrote an interesting book about cross-cultural ministry many years ago, which had some good ideas and some equally bad ones, has now apparently signed on to the WCGIP bandwagon himself. He is an endorser of the book Perpetuated In Righteousness by Daniel Kikawa, friend of Leon Siu, which we will cover in a moment.
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The WCGIP is clearly an arm of the Third Wave as further evidenced by the following:
"… And some exciting news. Mission America … at the last meeting in St. Louis a decision was made that every November, for
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LEON SIU
Leon Siu is a promoter of the ideas in the book Perpetuated In Righteousness by his friend Daniel Kikawa, who is also in
charge of the WCGIP gatherings in HI. In that book Kikawa makes up an elaborate mythology about Hawaiian culture claiming that Hawaiians already were worshipping God in the form of the bird god "Io" long before missionaries arrived (pg. 18, pp. 2). He claims that the Polynesian people were descended from Israel (pg. 62) that they can trace their genealogies back to Noah
(pg. 72-73) and that they knew the gospel because it was written in the stars (pg. 55). This is all fanciful mythology. Dr. Arnold
Fructenbaum of Ariel Ministries says of Kikawa's work:
"To claim the Polynesian peoples "may have been part of the nation of Israel for a time" is one of the more horrendous assumptions in the book. There is absolutely no truth to this whatsoever".
The problem is that Leon Siu continues to pray to the god "Io" as Jehovah. Io is a bird god. Micronesian Christians know that they were saved from worshipping animals, fish, birds, rocks and trees as gods when they came to know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The sin of trying to substitute YHWH for other gods is not new. Israel itself went up into the high places to worship YHWH in disobedience to the Law and ended up worshipping Baal there.
Leon Siu is a musician who continues to play in bars and makes drums with carvings on them for use in cultural hula events glorifying the false Hawaiian god Pele. In the radio program Leon Siu stated:
"So these are clues that we felt God had left (the Hawaiian people) and evidence that He's left as well as processes He has left in which our Hawaiian people can respond in a very natural way to God and really set things right
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between them and God." (Word To The World, show #544)
Siu uses the same claims as Kikawa that the Hawaiian people had a way of salvation prior to the arrival of missionaries. But how can they believe without a preacher?
1 Cor. 4:4 The god of this age had blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, which is the image of God.
Romans 10:14-15 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the on of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Throughout these radio programs there is a very bad attitude displayed toward Western missionaries and virtually no credit given them for being the ones with beautiful Gospel feet. Siu goes on to say:
"Way back 150 years ago when the gospel was first came to Hawaii ...immediately the Hawaiians set forth to become missionaries to other places … so they actually, Hawaiians were ones that evangelized Micronesia ..." (Word To The World, show #549)
You would think that the organizers of a very large event like WCGIP could get their historical facts straight for a radio program. The gospel came to Hawaii 182 years ago. They did not set out immediately to Micronesia but some 32 years later. The two Hawaiian Christian couples went along with Western ABCFM missionaries. The Hawaiians did not evangelize all of Micronesia but helped evangelize Kosrae, Pohnpei and the Marshalls. These missionary efforts were a joint effort of the ABCFM and the Hawaiians. Missions in
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the Church from this day forward, would be a celebration of First Nation's history." (Word To The World, show #548)
Mission America is a coalition formed by the "8,000 churches and nearly 1 million Lighthouses" of the Lighthouse Movement.
This movement is a direct brainchild of C. Peter Wagner and Ed Silvoso, and a way for the New Apostolic Reformation to gather information on all the "Christian" churches of the world and gain control over them. Notice that now the "new apostles" like C. Peter Wagner are dictating to the "Church" that the first Sunday of every November will now be dedicated to First Nation's history. I think it is great to have churches involved in supporting mission work, particularly mission work done by indigenous people, but that the "new apostles" think they can dictate calendar dates now for all the churches strikes me as the height of egotism. Who do they think they are? It's obvious; they believe they are "God's anointed foundational apostles" upon which the whole Church will now rest. They forget that the Church already rests on Jesus Christ and the Apostles of Scripture and that they can never meet the biblical criteria for "foundational apostles".
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