James

I know all about Sweet. But if you want you can email your stuff to me (in a nice written format) and I can put it up as an article for you as an expose by yourself and link back to you. Do note that due to times that are a changing and people’s beliefs change faster than they change their underwear, I ain’t endorsing anyone. If I put your article up you shall be under scrutiny by everyone who reads this blog. If you are ok, then you got nothing to worry about :) Holy Spirit abiding in each Christian will confirm the Truth. I got so much on my plate at the moment I dunno whether I am coming or going. Since one of my most recent articles a whole new can of worms has opened up. My email address is under the About this Blog page.

Dear Deborah,
I agree with you and heard from Steve Hayes who confirmed your words. Somehow I got the impression from the blog of his name. I agree he had nothing to with exposing Veysie.
Thanks for the clarification!

btw, if you would like to email me, I will send you my more comprehensive expose on Leonard Sweet (Veysie’s role model).

James

James Sundquist

I didn’t actually read your comment properly. But I must say there is NO ways that Steve Hayes would ever agree with me or expose Peter Veysie (as all these guys all fall into the same Emergent camp). Steve Hayes are friends with Nic Paton and Nic Paton interviewed Peter Veysie.

So judging by your comment and what I know about Steve and pals, something is not right here…

James Sundquist

James did you send this email to Steve Hayes ??

Your answer would be valued thank you.

Deborah (Discerning the World)

Have a look at this. Could this be a false that Steve Hayes on his blog claims he received an email from James Sundquist.
It is an exact replica of what James posted on DTW ????

Exposing Peter Veysie?
Steve Hayes’s picture
Mon, 2010-05-24 20:06 — Steve Hayes

I just received the most extraordinary e-main from one James Sundquist:

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I give you my highest commendation to Deborah of Discerning the World and
Steven Hayes for exposing Peter Veysie, Senior Pastor of Ridgeway
Ministries. I am grateful that you were able to warn as many saints as
possible on your Discerning the World site. I will try to help expand
your warning about Mr. Veysie and other Emergent Church plague pied pipers
in our own media database and various radio ministries we frequent. We
will sound the alarm on His Holy Hill reflecting the following letter to
Peter Veysie.
=== end quote ===

Now I only know Peter Veysie from his occasional posts and comments here, and I certainly don’t know enough about him or his views to “expose” him. I also haven’t looked at the “Discerning the world” site since the gratuitously attacked Nic Paton about 18 months ago, without actually disclosing the nature of his alleged offence.

So I would like to assure Peter Veysie that I have not “exposed” him in “Discerning” the world or anywhere else. Most of the posts there seem to manifest the works of the flesh rather than the fruit of the spirit, wranhling, Jealousy, backbiting and the like, and never having found anything edifying there, I don’t read it. http://www.emergingafrica.info/blog/2010/05/24/exposing-peter-veysie

James Sundquist

Hi James, thanks for your effort in emailing Peter Veysie but you were waisting your time. He is a Change Agent. http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/08/22/ee-mmergency-releasing-christian-youth-into-the-fire/

Dear Deborah,

I give you my highest commendation to Deborah of Discerning the World and Steven Hayes for exposing Peter Veysie, Senior Pastor of Ridgeway Ministries. I am grateful that you were able to warn as many saints as possible on your Discerning the World site. I will try to help expand your warning about Mr. Veysie and other Emergent Church plague pied pipers in our own media database and various radio ministries we frequent.
We will sound the alarm on His Holy Hill reflecting the following letter to Peter Veysie.

Thank the Lord for brave soldiers in Christ like Deborah and Steve who are willing to defend the faith! Well done thy good and faithful servants!

Kindest regards in Christ,
James Sundquist
Director
Rock Salt Publishing
http://www.voiceoftruthradio.com/james.htm

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Dear Peter Veysie,

Your email if public domain on the Internet. Your website is published by other websites and easy to find: http://www.ridgewayministries.co.za/who-we-are/team.html

If you don’t want to receive any emails that might disagree with you or any appeals from Christian victims, then you should state that on your website or wherever your email appears. I am preparing an answer for your questions and other responses I have received which I will send out to you and our media database. I think it is legitimate to ask if you believe so strongly in opposing ad hominem attacks on brothers in Christ, then why are you attacking me? It is also apparent from your email that you did not believe in exposing and opposing false teachers. And of course it is perfectly acceptable for Leonard Sweet to mock and belittle Online Discernment Ministries who are simply being good Bereans, obeying the Apostle Paul to study the Scriptures to see if these things (Sweet and Warren) are teaching be true.

Your response is very illuminating and will be very useful it helping us warn the rest of the body of Christ in South Africa and wherever else your name appears. It is indeed tragic that when pastors like you who are supposed to be watchmen on the wall no longer protect or warn the people but attack and discredit those who are not derelict watchmen on the wall. I will be sure to warn and sound the alarm to the many ministries I know in South Africa and Africa about you. If it is true that your interview stating Christianity is not exclusive where you state: “The sad thing about Christianity often is exclusivity.” Source: http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/09/20/peter-veysie-from-ridgeway-ministries-trying-to-bridge-that-gap/#more-6279, and that you promote the opposite of what Scripture states: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12, then you are a false brother and therefore NOT a Christian, and we are right in marking and exposing you and warning the Church that you are reprobate and apostate.

I am also confident that all of the church and Christians who have been dismembered and bludgeoned by Rick Warren’s Global Peace Plan will be comforted by your response as well! Your response is quite typical of Purpose Driven Pastors against any “resisters” who are driven out of their churches.

Sincerely in Christ,

James Sundquist

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On May 24, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Peter Veysie wrote:

James – How on earth did you get my email address and what kind of idiot are you to belittle and judge another brother who is one who loves Jesus and is a major role model to me ???? – get a life bru as we say is South Africa !!!!!

Peter Veysie
Senior Pastor
Ridgeway Ministries.

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From: James Sundquist [mailto:rock.salt@verizon.net]
Sent: 22 May 2010 10:24 PM
To: jean@ridgewaym.co.za; peter@ridgewaym.co.za
Subject: How Leonard Sweet Corrupts Scripture and Former Roman Catholic Priest Richard Bennett video Exposing Sweet and Emerging Church news release

Dear Pastors and Members of Ridgeway Ministries,

Regarding Leonard Sweet, I invite you to consider the following.

Kindest regards in Christ,

James Sundquist
Director
Rock Salt Publishing
http://www.voiceoftruthradio.com/james.htm

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Dear President Robin Baker, Dean, Faculty and Administration of George Fox University and fellow defenders of The Faith,

Please be alerted to the following news release concerning Leonard Sweet vs. Scripture:

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/leonardsweetquotes.html

&

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/Church/post-modern/leonard-sweet.htm

Also, I invite you to hear former Roman Catholic priest (22 years) Richard Bennett, President and Founder of Berean Beacon video exposing Leonard Sweet and Emerging Church:

http://www.bereanbeacon.org/audio/Hazards_unfolded_by_Emerging_Church_leaders.mp3

Richard Bennett, who also taught at Multnomah Bible College (now also becoming increasingly mystical) will be sounding the alarm on His Holy Hill later this month when he releases his DVD on the Mystic Plague in the Church. Having been a Roman Catholic priest for 22 years, he knows as much as anyone about the false teachings of the very Roman Catholic mystics that Leonard Sweet so admirably quotes. Richard Bennett is shocked that Christians leaders would promote the very heretics he just escaped from.

I also invite you to consider Pastor Bob DeWaay’s new book comparing Emerging Church to Scripture at:
http://cicministry.org/ [EDITED BY DTW: It has come to our attention recently that Bob DeWaay is TULIP Calvinist (see what calvinism is about here: http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2010/04/13/calvinism-a-heretical-doctrine-thats-what-the-bible-says . As much as Bob DeWaay's material on the Emergent church is excellent. DTW will not promote him.]

In Leonard Sweet’s response (http://www.leonardsweet.com/response.php) to online discernment ministries who are simply good Bereans searching the Scriptures to see if “these things (Sweet’s teachings) “be true”, Leonard Sweet attacks these defenders of the faith, but gives absolutely no Scriptural refutation, as the Apostle Paul requires, and ODMs have done, as I document in the websites enclosed in this letter. I remind Mr. Sweet that slanderers and those who bear false witness against a brother will not enter the Kingdom of God.

In this response Leonard Sweet uses Colossians Chapter 3 to defend his own teaching and philosophy. But Colossians refutes the very Colossian Heresy that Sweet espouses:

“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” (Colossians 2:8)

In other words mixing Eastern and Western philosophy, exactly what Sweet’s Cosmic Christ (and Rick Warren) and many Emerging Leaders promote. Many scholars confirm that gnosticism, mysticism and a higher spiritual formation experience and its variations is what the Colossian heresy was referring.
See:

http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue69.htm

Sweet further states in his response to defenders of the Faith:

“Jesus did not come to make us divine. Jesus came to show us how to be authentically what God made us to be–human. Because of the culture in

which we live, I have encouraged the daily ritual of starting the day by standing in front of a mirror and saying: “God is God and I am not.”"

It is true that God did not come to make us divine, but which Scripture (that Sweet can’t cite) teaches that Jesus came to teach us how to be authentically

more human? This is completely heretical! Jesus did not come to teach use how to be more human but appease his Father’s wrath through the

substitutionary atonement, and to crucify the old human (man) and become a New Creation, that many of Sweet’s friends and colleagues renounce in the

Emerging Church Movement.

Leonard Sweet may very well be friends with his fellow Emergent Church leaders such as Brian McLaren and others like Rick Warren and Richard Foster (another Carl Jung promoter), but Scripture states:

“know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4

So Sweet should not be simply critiquing Brian McLaren, rather exposing his deeds of darkness and publicly marking him and other mystics as a false teachers not quoting them and promoting them and repenting of the promoting them himself and stumbling countless children of the Most High God!

Finally, Leonard Sweet gives thanks for being introduced to Joseph Campbell (“Power of Myth”) disciple of occultist Carl Jung [whom Rick Warren -- a collaborator with Leonard Sweet] promotes in his SHAPE Personality Temperament Divination Profiling that I documented in my own book Who’s Driving the Purpose Driven Church (Published by Southwest Radio Church swrc.com), also published in The Conservative Theological Journal at Tyndale Theological Seminary and the Journal of Biblical Apologetics, and now posted on

Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qW6aroPRx8

I find it ironic that Leonard Sweet and his colleague Rick Warren would BOTH threaten whom Rick Warren call “resisters” and “enemies of the 21st Century” and Sweet himself says “change of be changed…Reinvent yourself for the 21st Century or die.” (Leonard Sweet, Soul Tsunami: Sink or Swim in the New Millennium Culture (Zondervan, 1999), p. 74-75). If you want to find out what happens to saints in churches who do resist these change agents? Read the case studies in my second book Rick Warren’s Global Peace Plan vs. Scriptural Teachings on Peace at theperfectpeaceplan.com. Both Rick Warren and Rick Warren are bitter/sweet as Scripture records sweet to the taste but bitter to the victims:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20

Sincerely in Christ,

James Sundquist
Director
Rock Salt Publishing
http://www.voiceoftruthradio.com/james.htm

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Michael

Sorry I didn’t even look at the number, just deleted it.

Peter

better yet come here and chat :) Tell us what you think, quote some scripture to back up what you think and then we will help you out.

Peter Veysie,

I have asked DTW for your phone number. Please expect a call from a few very friendly people [apologies if the background call centre echo is a bit annoying, but at least it will ease your need to be called]. They love discussion too, plus you can insult them – no problem – it gets lost in translation. Something emergents and post modernists are used too by now.

Oh yeah…I forgot to add.

The shepherd dude also told me that when a sheep goes astray and keeps going astray, well the shepherd has no choice but to break the sheep’s legs. Then the sheep stays in one place, has to get carried everywhere and grows closer to the shepherd during that time.

Oops, sorry, am I interrupting ‘summin?