Stonecroft Ministries Expose by Christine Narloch

Schaumburg Christian Women's Club Luncheon 1990s.

The following is my first correspondence in addressing the errors exposed on Christine Narloch's accurate and detailed website.

January 7, 2008

Dear Jill,

Thank you for taking this matter of “earnestly contending” by former outreach chairperson and potential speaker for Stonecroft Ministries Christine A. Narloch of Women’s Connection Milwaukee.

Schaumburg Christian Women's Club Luncheon late 1980s.

Five years ago I had returned to Willow Creek and was awakened by some very strange and sad changes from when I had attended in the late 80s. When I called the old head of the women’s ministries, Kathy Dice, she was alarmed at what I was sharing, too. She had been let go after 9/11 cutbacks. She had taught some wonderful Old Testament women’s Bible studies for the women at Willow Creek. It is uncanny how similar this website about Stonecroft is to my website that I started when I began detailing my research about Willow Creek. Protestant No More: Willow Creek Community Church

Lane Henderson with my family at a Christian Women's Club Luncheon. Lane Henderson personally trained me in to lead and coordinate Friendship Bible Studies in the Schaumburg area in the 1980s.

The copies of actual Stonecroft materials discussing “unmet needs” on Christine’s website really showed how prevalent the psychology has become over faith and the Bible in the ministry. Obviously, Larry Crabb is not just a one-time speaker, but his ideology has been introduced into the ministry’s materials. Sometimes it is too hard to believe that something we have really appreciated and loved for so long has changed so radically that we need to “see it to believe it.” ( Larry Crabb Expose )

This is the 1974 Stonecroft Newsletter attempting to address why the Bible they require all to purchase for the Bible studies is using "girl" for "virgin" among other serious changes that were not addressed....( Good News Bible Exposed ) .

"He had a message for a girl promised in marriage...." (click the pictures to enlarge; see notes at end)

Not unlike Willow Creek, Stonecroft was a wonderful part of my fellowship and witnessing in the late 80s and early 90s. I had just shared this with friends a week ago as I sent out invitations to the Stonecroft study I plan to host in my home and shared my plans to get back with Stonecroft after 20 years. Perhaps unscriptural changes are too subtle to recognize at their onset or perhaps our culture has just become too enamored with the “human personality.” New Christian books, new Bible versions, and the impact of modernism on the Church have blinded many of us to the new terminology and ideology that is based on human wisdom. Also, Biblical separation, today, appears to be negative, critical, unloving, unkind, judgmental, extreme, narrow, bigoted, jealous, self-righteous and even “unscriptural.” Yet surely, God’s commands to separate from false teaching (2 John 9-11), the disobedient (2 Thess. 3:6, 14, 15) and the world (1 John 2:15-17) are not illogical, unreasonable or unloving. Psychology deals with the very same areas of concern already dealt with in the Bible. ( Unholy Hands on the Bible )


The Bible claims divine revelation, however, as it offers its explanations of why people behave the way they do and how they can change. Whether or not you are separated from God or relating with God will affect every attitude, choice, and action you make. Scientifically, we can record “external” aspects of human nature, but we must turn to the Scriptures for explanations of why people behave the way they do and how they can change.
Attending a guide meeting with my new baby in 1987.

What did we do before the 70s and the biblical counseling movement? More importantly, “What is your true source of motivation?” Having “YOUR NEEDS met” or “SERVING the Lord with your life” in whatever circumstances He is allowing you to be in for your good?


“Throughout Scripture problems of living are shown to be opportunities for spiritual growth. Problems of living are like torn up ground in a person’s life during which the Lord can work mightily through His Word, the Holy Spirit, and the Body of Christ.” (Bobgan; Mfairlady )

“One may ask, just because secular psychologies out in the world reek of anti-Christian bias, contradictions, and failures, does it follow that psychology in the church is also contaminated? Unfortunately what has been labeled "Christian psychology" is made up of the very same confusion of contradictory theories and techniques. Well-meaning psychologists who profess Christianity have merely borrowed the theories and techniques from secular psychology. They dispense what they believe to be the perfect blend of psychology and Christianity. Nevertheless, the psychology they use is the same as that used by non-Christian psychologists and psychiatrists. They use the theories and techniques devised by such men as Freud, Jung, Rogers, Janov, Ellis, Adler, Berne, Fromm, Maslow, and others, none of whom embraced Christianity or developed a psychological system from the Word of God.” (Bobgan)


The Bible reveals that it is spiritual issues that underlie behavior. To preach devotion first and blessing second, is to reverse God’s order, and preach law, not grace. Grace confers undeserved unconditional blessing to which devotion may follow, but does not always. For the Christian, everything in our lives is about God’s preparation and process of making us into Christ’s image (Romans 8:28-29). That’s how and why all things work together for good. It is good for the purpose of perfecting us. He blesses us as we continually grow.


“The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:7


Rather than focusing on problems (needs) or attempting to expose the heart, Christians are to be involved in active sanctification, growing in the fruit of the Spirit, learning to walk according to the Spirit, and with becoming like Jesus. It is only with opposition (problems) that resistance can build up and God desires to develop that strength in us so that we can more effectively fight the good fight of faith and grow strong in the Lord.


Sincerely,
Mary Fairchild

Esoteric Christianity:
Wheaton Illinois: Theosophical Society Headquarters
A Beka Book Homeschool Curriculum: "Bible Doctrines For Today," explains why ALL of the new Bible versions are derrived from a corrupt Greek text due to the involvement of occultists Westcott and Hort (click pictures to enlarge and read)

Can you tell me if Isaiah 14 is about Jesus Christ or is it about Lucifer? Well, Isaiah 14 is the biography of Lucifer. This is where Lucifer falls and it says “how art thou fallen from heaven…." and then it ends he is cast down to hell. But the NASB says it is about Jesus Christ and it even has footnotes leading to Scriptures in 2 Peter and Revelation 22 where Jesus is the morning star…. We have been so programmed by the advertisements to believe that the new versions are better. Most of us laughed at people when they said that the King James Version was superior..... (click to enlarge and read)
Some are waking up to this modern perversion of God's Word.....

THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND THE TEV

The TEV reveals a bias against the word "virgin." In the "King James Version" (hereafter referred to by KJV), we find "virgin" 14 times in the New Testament. The TEV removes "virgin from 11 of these places, and retains it in only 3 of these passages.

KJV Luke 1:27, "To a virgin espoused . . . the virgin's name was Mary."
TEV Luke 1:27, "He had a message for a girl . . . The girl's name was Mary."
This substituting of "girl" for "virgin" should be enough to convince the Bible believer to reject the TEV. Many girls are not virgins.

TEV CHANGES IN THE SECOND EDITION

The TEV was copyrighted in 1966 by the American Bible Society. A "Second Edition" was printed in 1968 under the 1966 copyright. The two editions are almost identical in appearance. There is nothing in the preface or anywhere else that would indicate the vast difference in the translating of Luke 1:27 in these two editions...

1966 Edition, TEV, Luke 1:27, "He had a message for a virgin . . .The virgin's name was Mary."
1968 "Second Edition", TEV, Luke 1:27, "He had a message for a girl . . . The girl's name was Mary."

Please note that "virgin" is found twice in the 1966 edition, and removed twice in the 1968 "Second Edition." There is no explanation of this wicked changing of God's Word.

Please note the following quotation from the preface of both editions. "The text from which this translation was made is the Greek New Testament prepared by an international committee of New Testament scholars, sponsored by several members of the United Bible societies, and published in 1966 . . . "The basic text was translated by Dr. Robert G. Bratcher . . . "

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE CHANGE?

If "virgin" (parthenos) was in the Greek text of the 1966, how did it get out in 2 years? Modern English has not changed that much in 2 years. What kind of a translator would put "virgin" in the text in 1966 and take it out in 1968? We deplore this kind of "scholarship". Was this manipulation of God's Word done to fool fundamental Bible believers? Even the National Council RSV did not remove "virgin" from Luke 1:27. The TEV is just one more attempt to destroy the Word of God and the Deity of our Saviour. The TEV removes "virgin" from 78% of the places where it is found in the KJV. Now instead of the "Parable of the ten virgins", we now have in the TEV, the "Parable of the ten girls". Shall we call that progress?

"Virgin" is removed in the TEV from Matt. 25:1,7,11; Luke 1:27; Acts 21:9; I Cor. 7:25, 28, 36,37; Rev. 14:4 and Luke 2:36. The TEV leaves "virgin" in I Cor. 7:34; II Cor. 11:2 and Matt. 1:23.

"VIRGIN" BELONGS IN ALL 14 PLACES

The Greek word "PARTHENOS" is translated "virgin" 14 times in the KJV. Any reliable translation should do the same. The translator of the TEV has inserted "virgin" in Luke 1:34, where it does not appear in the Greek text. This is interpretation and not translation. Obviously the translator does not believe in verbal inspiration. ( Tbaptist )

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