Dave McElhoes (one of the mentors to the ACLN ) and a former pastor of Abbotsford Christian Assembly is an "apostle" in Ministers Fellowship International. The fellowship of Churches that Abbotsford Christian Assembly is a member of.
Ministers Fellowship International was founded and is led by Dick Iverson the restorationist.
http://www.mfi-online.org/pages/aboutmfi/history.php
Restoration is branch of teaching of the Latter Rain movement.
Restorationists -those who teach that the current Church needs to be led by modern day apostles and prophets. (restorationist =restoring the apostles and prophets).
The Latter Rain movement was declared heretical and rejected by the Assemblies of God, April 20th of 1949. But has managed to resurrect itself and replicate itself, into numerous seemingly benign congregations.
One of the early shapers of the Latter Rain movement was a man named William Branham. Branham was a "healing evangelist" who claimed to get his ability to heal from his angel. He would preach until his angel would show up then he would begin to heal and practice "words of knowledge". He taught that the Gospel was given in three forms the Egyptian pyramids, the signs of the zodiac and the Scriptures. On his tomb stone which he had designed in the shape of a pyramid he has the 7 churches of Revelations superimposed over men's names, (IE. Ephesian -the Apostle Paul, Smyrnia -Iraneaus) and of course the Church of Laodicea with his own name William Branham. He also taught that the Trinity was the "Babylonian Foundation" of the denominations, inherited from Roman Catholicism.
The Latter Rain is such a complex thing to explain that I will lead you to a web site that has a number of teaching links. http://www.erwm.com/Latter%20Rain.htm
After reading through some of the pages flip back to Ministers Fellowship International and see if you don't discern the same theme running through it. (IE. Tabernacle of David, the prophecy to Israel in Isaiah 60:1-5 being replaced by the Church, the godly seed IE. Joel's Army, the Church "establishing God's rule and reign").
Abbotsford Christian Assembly also shows on Revenue Canada under "Qualified Donees" support for Wind Word Ministries (in the amount of 4,600 dollars) which is an affiliated Ministry of Todd Bentley's Fresh Fire Ministries.
In a recent outreach to Mexico with Todd Bentley, Brent Borthwick the founder of Wind Word took numerous photos of "angels" that appeared in their meetings.
Which were available for purchase on a CD for ten dollars. It may be difficult to see but behind Brent Borthwick's shoulder are angels according to him.
But in case you can't discern it Brent has enhanced the photo for us.
What would the "mentor", "apostle" Dave McElhoes want to lead the ACLN into?
Are we sure that Abbotsford Christian Assembly (Mitch Borrows) is discerning enough to take leadership over the Churches of Abbotsford?
In His service, A. Berean
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