3_Bill Gothard's Heresies EXPOSED!
Bill Gothard's Heresies EXPOSED!
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This complex is now the campus for the Moscow College of the Advanced Training Institute, and also a Training Center and refuge for orphans and juvenile delinquents. News of the work in Russia has spawned invitations from Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Bolivia, Mexico, and China, as well as from many U.S. cities. (Source: IBLP Internet web site, 8/97.) As of mid-2000, more than 75 cities worldwide have become part of Gothard's "International Association of Character Cities."
In 1992, the mayor of Indianapolis invited ATI young people to come to the city and to work in a low-income, high-crime area. There was a news article in The Indianapolis News (8/20/92) about the city of Indianapolis considering a link with Gothard: "Lambart (representing Gothard) said the group does not promote religion or church, but simply deals with 'non-optional, universal principles of life. [This sounds suspiciously like paganism's "universal life principles."] ... The concern within the social services community is that we help a person ... without any sectarian overtones.'" Why was Gothard trying to convince the city that he helps the community "without any sectarian overtones," while with Christians he claims to be totally Bible-based? Is this consistent with God's Word? (Reported in the 10/92, The Biblical Examiner.)
In February of 1993, Gothard set up a permanent facility in Indianapolis (Indianapolis Training Institute), claiming that "the results are achieved through standards of excellence and practical life application of what is learned. Only then will young people learn to be problem solvers and become effective in helping others." (Emphasis added.) The county's juvenile court began sending young offenders to a Gothard rehabilitation facility, the Indianapolis Training Institute, which serves as a school for more than 100 children. Some families have complained to the state when it was discovered that the "intensive family counseling" provided consisted of "viewing 15 IBLP religious tapes" (The Indianapolis Star).
The Indianapolis experiment has now been developed into a character training program in other parts of the U.S. Gothard stated, "Twenty American cities and states and other nations have officially invited the Institute and those who have applied the principles of this Seminar to help them build stronger families!" As of mid-2000, there were 17 training centers worldwide.
Gothard is at the forefront of the character education movement in this country (CharacterFirst!), which at its top is connected with the global ethics people (friends of Planned Parenthood and the World Bank crowd). Gothard reported in 1997 that "a leading Democratic senator in Washington, D.C. has learned about this plan and wants to meet with us to learn more about it for the purpose of presenting it to Congress for national application. He stated that Congress is looking for a character program that works." (Emphasis added.) (Source: IBLP Internet web site, 8/97.) [Perhaps the anonymous Democrat senator desired to "character train" the then occupants of the White House?]
In 2000, IBLP purchased the Ramada Plaza Hotel in downtown Flint, Michigan, and has since turned it into the Riverfront Character Inn International Convention Center. The purchase was made possible by a multimillion-dollar donation from an anonymous donor. Gothard said he hopes the Character Inn will become a hub for IBLP -- part hotel, part conference center offering character training to individuals and groups. The rooms were being equipped with closed-circuit televisions to broadcast training videos and other IBLP programs. Yet, Gothard claims the CharacterFirst! program does not involve religion in any way. (Source: 7/9/00, The Flint Journal.)
CharacterFirst! is now being offered in more than 800 schools nationwide, and is required by law in 14 states. This character training (for K-6 children) appears to be quite similar to the unscriptural DARE program, which attempts to teach character to unbelievers. This is all part of the new character education movement in the country -- a mechanism to bring in a set of national core values which we must adhere to in order to be good citizens, and thus, maintain an orderly society. True Christians, however, won't fit into their new "core values" because the authorities allow no room for Biblical absolutes.9
One has to question, what will be the result of rearing a generation of kids who believe they can be a success in life without Christ? Second, what will be the result of teaching kids that they can have these good character traits without the Sprit of God. Worse yet, what if they actually can develop these good traits without Christ? Will they then think they do not need Christ? Third, the natural result of these classes will be that the kids will believe they are their own gods. They are the ones who are in control, and they are the ones who decide what is right and what is wrong. They have no moral standard to go by, that is, the Word of God.
One observer spoke with Ken Fahrenbruck, the director of Gothard's Character First! program. Fahrenbruck said he was a Christian, and he and his wife homeschool their children. He was asked about the attempt to build character without Christ, and the danger that could lead to. He said that he and the staff have also agonized over the same question, but Gothard assured him it was fine, and put together a paper justifying character education without God. [Source: The Biblical Examiner, Spring (March) 2002.]
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Character Training
In 1991, the head of the Moscow Department of Education (DOE) was supposedly amazed at the youth she met who were a part of Gothard's Advanced Training Institute (ATI) working in Russia. She invited more ATI youth to Russia and 320 responded to come and teach character in the public schools of Moscow. Moscow's DOE also gave ATI a five-acre complex to use. Since that date, more than 2,000 students have spent various periods of time in Moscow teaching in public schools, working with orphans, counseling delinquent teenagers, assisting pensioner teachers, and doing other community service.This complex is now the campus for the Moscow College of the Advanced Training Institute, and also a Training Center and refuge for orphans and juvenile delinquents. News of the work in Russia has spawned invitations from Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Bolivia, Mexico, and China, as well as from many U.S. cities. (Source: IBLP Internet web site, 8/97.) As of mid-2000, more than 75 cities worldwide have become part of Gothard's "International Association of Character Cities."
In 1992, the mayor of Indianapolis invited ATI young people to come to the city and to work in a low-income, high-crime area. There was a news article in The Indianapolis News (8/20/92) about the city of Indianapolis considering a link with Gothard: "Lambart (representing Gothard) said the group does not promote religion or church, but simply deals with 'non-optional, universal principles of life. [This sounds suspiciously like paganism's "universal life principles."] ... The concern within the social services community is that we help a person ... without any sectarian overtones.'" Why was Gothard trying to convince the city that he helps the community "without any sectarian overtones," while with Christians he claims to be totally Bible-based? Is this consistent with God's Word? (Reported in the 10/92, The Biblical Examiner.)
In February of 1993, Gothard set up a permanent facility in Indianapolis (Indianapolis Training Institute), claiming that "the results are achieved through standards of excellence and practical life application of what is learned. Only then will young people learn to be problem solvers and become effective in helping others." (Emphasis added.) The county's juvenile court began sending young offenders to a Gothard rehabilitation facility, the Indianapolis Training Institute, which serves as a school for more than 100 children. Some families have complained to the state when it was discovered that the "intensive family counseling" provided consisted of "viewing 15 IBLP religious tapes" (The Indianapolis Star).
The Indianapolis experiment has now been developed into a character training program in other parts of the U.S. Gothard stated, "Twenty American cities and states and other nations have officially invited the Institute and those who have applied the principles of this Seminar to help them build stronger families!" As of mid-2000, there were 17 training centers worldwide.
Gothard is at the forefront of the character education movement in this country (CharacterFirst!), which at its top is connected with the global ethics people (friends of Planned Parenthood and the World Bank crowd). Gothard reported in 1997 that "a leading Democratic senator in Washington, D.C. has learned about this plan and wants to meet with us to learn more about it for the purpose of presenting it to Congress for national application. He stated that Congress is looking for a character program that works." (Emphasis added.) (Source: IBLP Internet web site, 8/97.) [Perhaps the anonymous Democrat senator desired to "character train" the then occupants of the White House?]
In 2000, IBLP purchased the Ramada Plaza Hotel in downtown Flint, Michigan, and has since turned it into the Riverfront Character Inn International Convention Center. The purchase was made possible by a multimillion-dollar donation from an anonymous donor. Gothard said he hopes the Character Inn will become a hub for IBLP -- part hotel, part conference center offering character training to individuals and groups. The rooms were being equipped with closed-circuit televisions to broadcast training videos and other IBLP programs. Yet, Gothard claims the CharacterFirst! program does not involve religion in any way. (Source: 7/9/00, The Flint Journal.)
CharacterFirst! is now being offered in more than 800 schools nationwide, and is required by law in 14 states. This character training (for K-6 children) appears to be quite similar to the unscriptural DARE program, which attempts to teach character to unbelievers. This is all part of the new character education movement in the country -- a mechanism to bring in a set of national core values which we must adhere to in order to be good citizens, and thus, maintain an orderly society. True Christians, however, won't fit into their new "core values" because the authorities allow no room for Biblical absolutes.9
One has to question, what will be the result of rearing a generation of kids who believe they can be a success in life without Christ? Second, what will be the result of teaching kids that they can have these good character traits without the Sprit of God. Worse yet, what if they actually can develop these good traits without Christ? Will they then think they do not need Christ? Third, the natural result of these classes will be that the kids will believe they are their own gods. They are the ones who are in control, and they are the ones who decide what is right and what is wrong. They have no moral standard to go by, that is, the Word of God.
One observer spoke with Ken Fahrenbruck, the director of Gothard's Character First! program. Fahrenbruck said he was a Christian, and he and his wife homeschool their children. He was asked about the attempt to build character without Christ, and the danger that could lead to. He said that he and the staff have also agonized over the same question, but Gothard assured him it was fine, and put together a paper justifying character education without God. [Source: The Biblical Examiner, Spring (March) 2002.]
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