Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy is Destroying the Church

When over four thousand people gathered for the Lead Like Jesus Conference
in Louisville, Kentucky last year and thousands more watched by satellite in
churches across the country, there was nothing but approval and applause
from Christian leaders and the media. These events are being held several
times a year and are attended by nationally known Christian speakers like
Max Lucado, Rick Warren and Henry Blackaby. In fact, Rick Warren is on the
board of Ken Blanchard’s Lead Like Jesus organization. The stated purpose of
the conferences is to help people become leaders by following the leadership
habits of Jesus Christ. The purpose is not one of evangelism, but rather
teaching the traits of Jesus to help others achieve personal success.

Given the near complete absence of emphasis and concern over sound doctrine
in evangelical churches today, is it any surprise that conferences like this
are allowing a platform for New Spirituality proponents within the heart of
once Bible preaching churches? During the famous Downgrade Controversy among
believers in England in the 1870’s, famous London preacher Charles H.
Spurgeon took a courageous stand for sound doctrine in the face of false
teaching that was coming into the Baptist churches of his day. Today,
pastors like Max Lucado invite the false teachers into their churches to
teach Christians how to “Lead Like Jesus”. We’ve come a long way, baby.

Ken Blanchard’s Lead Like Jesus Conferences are a case and point. A look at
the Board of Directors for the organization is instructive. Besides Rick
Warren’s familiar face, we have Laurie Beth Jones, author of several books
including Jesus CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership. She is a
corporate leadership coach and she travels the world telling business
leaders how to be more effective and “spiritual”. There is a problem,
however. To be featured as a speaker at Christian conferences, Laurie keeps
some rather strange company.

Laurie was a featured speaker at the 1998 and 2003 Business
and Consciousness Conferences. This is the same conference that featured the
occult author and New Age guru

Barbara Marx Hubbard. Hubbard channeled a demonic retelling of the book
of Revelation that turns the Last Judgment into a mockery where those who
oppose world peace and tolerance are the goats, and those who embrace her
occult spirituality are the sheep. She says that those who oppose this new
spirituality are a cancer that must be cut out of humanity. (That would be
you and me as blood-washed believers.)

At the very same conference was none other than long time
occult teacher
Matthew Fox, author of The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, who
is currently calling for a “New Reformation” of spirituality where the
recognition of the Divine within will be worldwide in scope and
transformational for society. Those are just two who spoke at the same
conference with Laurie Beth Jones. What does Laurie believe that she would
willingly have her photo featured on the Business and Consciousness website
along with information for Shamanic healing, achieving altered states of
consciousness and Sacred Sexuality? Why would Ken Blanchard have her on his
board of directors for Lead Like Jesus unless he too believes the same
things or has no problem with them? (I have pointed out Ken Blanchard’s
numerous New Age ties in a previous column. His endorsement of Vijay Eswaren’s In The Sphere of Silence, published on June 4, continues to be
featured on the book’s website.) Ken remains silent as these questions have
been raised.

Laurie, like most who are undermining biblical teachings despises doctrine.
On her website she states this:

“First, we must remember what unites us rather than what
divides us, and cast aside doctrines
and tribal beliefs—the we’re-better-than-you-stuff. We don’t need to
lose our traditions
but we do need to gain the understanding that Jesus did not come to set
up a new religion,
but to teach us about the individual connections we each have with God.”

Laurie Beth Jones www.jesusceo.com

Laurie’s mission isn’t teaching sound, biblical doctrine and
sharing the Gospel, but as it says on her website header, to “recognize,
promote and inspire divine connection in myself and in others.” This would
explain why Laurie can float and cross pollinate so easily between
conferences of those who promote the doctrines of anti-Christ and those who
claim to be evangelicals.

So where are the Christian pastors who see what Laurie Beth Jones and Ken
Blanchard are doing? Where is the deep concern for truth here? Why does Rick
Warren who is also on this same board not see one of his purposes as
contending for the faith? Where is the passionate and fiery love for Christ
and His church that led so many martyrs to early and terrible deaths? Why is
there a Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy among nationally known leaders like Max
Lucado who invite this right into their church? Thousands of spiritual
leaders in San Antonio have been invited to attend a free breakfast for the
Lead Like Jesus Conference, drawing even more under the influence of Ken
Blanchard and Laurie Beth Jones. The need for watchmen on the wall in this
hour is desperate.

Jesus as a leadership role model is offensive to nobody. It is Jesus as
Redeemer that is the stumbling block to a dying world. The claim that we
need saving from eternal damnation and that we can do nothing to save
ourselves is offensive to the pride of man. But it is recognition of this
fact that drives us to Jesus Christ, the only Savior of the world.

Ken Blanchard and Laurie Beth Jones are Trojan horses coming right in the
doors of God’s house. The great delusion is upon the church and only those
with ears to hear will rise and shake off their somnolence before it is too
late.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and
my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 5:31

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what
fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? And what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? For ye are
the temple of the living God…Wherefore come ye out from among them and
be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I
will receive you. (II Corinthians 6:14-17)

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©
2005
Ingrid Schlueter

Ingrid Schlueter has been producer and co-host of the Crosstalk
Radio Talk Show on the VCY America Radio Network for 18 years. She
is author of numerous articles on current issues and is a regular
columnist for Wisconsin Christian News. She has also authored,
Parent Police: The UN Wants Your Children. Email:


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