Then shortly after that this cancer spreads, to more of the elders, and up through the church officials where they are asked to fly out to Saddleback, for seminars and lectures on how their new process works.

While they are there, they will be given personality, and profile test, to see if they fit with their new team. Also they are asked to vow to secrecy agreements to prevent them from talking about any of this.

Meanwhile the cancer spreads, insidiously into the children’s department, where they change all the normal classroom teaching into one that furthers their goals for "their little future members".

Then one day you find that you don't have a minister any longer, it's a "Praise Leader"

Little by little this scourge makes its way into all departments until one Sunday it raises it's ugly head in the adult classes where it boldly begins to take over for your normal teacher. By this time it has run off most of the good and Godly people that dared stand in the way. They are now just about in full control, except for the body (the members). If they experience any difficulty with the remaining elders or the members, they have people ready to fly in that are trained for this experience. They are called "mediators" or “facilitators” but they are really consultants who participate in causing the changes to be put into place.

Their job is to compromise your beliefs and to convince you that you really don't believe what you think you do. This is a complicated process and it has many steps. If you want to read more about the complicated process used, search out information on the founding principle on which it is based: The HEGELIAN DIALECTIC. This term is based on a man’s name, “Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 German philosopher. His all-embracing philosophical system, set forth in such works as Phenomenology of Mind (1807), Science of Logic (1812-16), and Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817), includes theories of ethics, aesthetics, history, politics, and religion.” The “dialectic”, comes from two opposing arguments being formulated (thesis and antithesis) which are then merged into an agreed synthesis or “compromise”.

THESE SIGNS HAVE BEEN AT THE MADISON CHURCH OF CHRIST FOR SOME TIME!

1. There is a small cluster of members in the Homebuilders Class that have embraced and taught the Saddleback materials. On 02-25-01 the class was told that "entertainment" should not be an uncomfortable word for the church.

2. One or more of the Homebuilder class members, as well as one or more of the ministry staff have visited Saddleback, or Saddleback seminars. Now I wonder how many Elders have been to Saddleback?

3. We have already had a building program that was far more than this congregation could afford. For whom was it built?

4. The Madison Church of Christ now has a "Worship Leader" instead of a minister.

5. Sunday school classes for the children and youth have been changed.

6 Good and Godly members have been run off or they have left.

7. And now we have a paid consultant, which we are told is a mediator, who really participates in causing the changes to come about. Not only that, but he promotes Saddleback's Book, "Leading Congregational Change" on his website.