Welcome to the 139th episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today's episode, Dave Jenkins talks with Costi Hinn about his book Defining Deception: Freeing the Church from the Mystical-Miracle Movement (Southern California Seminary Press, 2018).

What you’ll hear in this episode

* Why and how Christians should defend the truth.

* A real versus a false miracle.

* Doctrinal discernment and how Christians should engage in it.

* Why and how Christians should have hard conversations with people.

* What the third wave is.

* The facts surrounding Bethel Church and the mystical miracle movement and how true Christians should call Bill Johnson and his followers to repent.

* The five most concerning areas of Bill Johnson’s theology.

* The real role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Life and how the biblical record stands opposed to Third Wave theology.

* The nature of biblical healing and how the Bible stands opposed to the Third Wave teaching on healing.

About the Guest

Costi Hinn is the executive pastor at Mission Bible Church in Orange County, CA. He is a graduate of Dallas Baptist University and is currently completing his Master of Divinity degree at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is passionate about equipping Christians to boldly live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His testimony and refutation of “The Prosperity Gospel” have been featured on CNN, Christianity Today, and numerous other publications.

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