Ministry of Hope

In spite of my worldly upbringing and life, there was always this longing for the church of God, as a child and also later, believing in God was often on my mind, but it took another 30 years before I decided on the age of 34, to become a Christian. In the spring 1980 one of the Nabors invited my wife Betty and myself to a special friendship service at the Baptist Church in St George Ontario Canada. We were just immigrated from Holland to this lovely village St George.

After that meeting we became regular churchgoing people, however, it took us another three years before we learned through Christian TV the simple message of salvation. First my wife Betty through a service on TV by Billy Graham and later for me, also by an Evangelist, we gave our lives to Jesus Christ and accepted Him as our eternal Lord and Savior. Short after we committed our lives to God and we were baptized at the St George Baptist Church.

After three years in the Baptist Church we moved to a Word-Faith Church in the Nabors hood. This Church was following the teachings of Kenneth Hagin by satellite TV.

After about a year, the son of the pastor developed a brain tumor at a young age, early in the thirties and died in spite of all the prayer, claiming and laying on of hands.

The services were outstanding and the love was present in the believers, a down to earth church for the little man and the forgotten people, quite different from where we came from where the standing of the people was much higher, here we had regular loving and caring people and a pastor called by God to Sheppard the children of God. This church was part of the Elim churches in the States and Canada. A Pentecostal church with a humble attitude and love for the people. We stayed at that church until we moved back to Holland . We left with much weeping for the love for each other had touched our hearts deeply. Through this assembly of God's people we were sold out to these Pentecostals and gave us much hope and trust in the Pentecostals in general

The result of this foreign gospel is that people are being robbed from their purpose for God and don't understand the sanctification process. They are not busy with the things of God and the Kingdom, but with worldly and personal gain and profit.( the attributes of Baal)

Always busy learning the crafty things of these teachers, to reach their goal, not God's goal for our lives

At best the result would be, that people would find themselves robbed from their money and see that they lost their hope and confidence in God, then they may turn away from this "other gospel" and return to the only truth, the Bible and study the scriptures for themselves and let the Holy Spirit speak through the Word and come to the knowledge of God for what He truly is.

Much worse is the outcome for the people who continue this road no matter the cost and keep denying the truth , they keep resisting the truth and keep running after gain for themselves, for satisfying their lust for gain in any way. This fleshly and worldly way will separate them from God more and more and will seduce them in their thinking, slowly but surely putting on the blindfold and lead them into idolatry.

Many of these teachings are mixed with cultic "New Age" thinking and can be traced by the contacts of these teachers through the involvement or past contacts they had or still have. They are wolfs in sheeps clothing.

Because of many of my own experiences and research with many different movements and ministries, I have come to the conclusion that a "new" gospel is trying to reach Europe from the U.S, Canada and parts of Africa. This "foreign gospel" is a mix of truth and lie, and will lead to the great falling away, where the bible is talking about in

2 Thess. 2:1-4 BUT RELATIVE to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and our gathering together to [meet] Him, we beg you, brethren,

2 Not to allow your minds to be quickly unsettled {or} disturbed or kept excited {or} alarmed, whether it be by some [pretended] revelation of [the] Spirit or by word or by letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] arrived {and} is here.

3 Let no one deceive {or} beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),

Since I have consulted some websites that can contribute to the insight and discernment of today's gospel. I am pleased to give them to you for further study on the subject, I have found the following helpful links for you.
I have to mention that the opinions expressed on these sites are not necessarily the opinions of Ministry Of hope.

Here they are:

• Back to the Bible is a Dutch ministry in which a group of concerned leaders have expressed their concern. Back to the Bible

• An other most valuable Website is the Apologetics Index, it will give you profound information, about persons, ministries, certain doctrines, cults, occult, too much to mention it all. I personally have found this site most helpful in my quest for bible truth. .
    Apologetics Index

• Then we have the website of Biblical Discernment Ministries, on this website you go to "discernment notebook", you will find valuable comments and an exposing of the many of today's prominent preachers and teachers. You will find that what they claim for themselves is genuine or not and their true personality is exposed. Most importantly is the insight of their specific and general teaching and preaching.  Biblical Discernment Ministries

These Web-sites will give you a wealth of information to discern today's modern gospel.

• 4 All things are centered around entertainment and blessing, this will keep the people captive in self indulgence, it is all about the "good feeling" and mistakenly taken for the Holy Spirit.

• *And as last the also a good source of information is to be obtained from Deception in the church Deception in the church

In all these web-sites there are more then 25000 pages and links to check out your believes.