Foursquare Cult Links
The Foursquare Gospel Church of Aimee Semple McPherson and Jack Hayford has a history of scandal and disreputable affiliations.

• Foursquare Victims
  
• Experiences with Foursquare Churches.
• Foursquare and Children
  
• Children are prime targets for cult recruiters and Christian pedophiles.
• Aimee Semple McPherson, Foursquare Founder
  
• Prosecuted for faking her own kidnapping, twice divorced, died of a drug overdose.
• Foursquare and Christian Racism
  
• How is Foursquare connected with the Aryan Nations Church?
• Foursquare and the Worldwide Church of God
  
• Foursquare "covenants" itself with a notorious cult.
• Foursquare Aliases
  
• Foursquare Churches use different names.
• Foursquare Radio
  
• Foursquare radio promotes disreputable groups and individuals.
• Foursquare and Miracles
  
• Does Foursquare serve God or gold?
• Foursquare and Doctrine
  
• Foursquare teaches Neo-Montanism, Latter Rain, and Kingdom Now.
• Resources
  
• Contact people concerned with Foursquare and cults.
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Foursquare Victims
Experiences with Foursquare Churches.

• On-Line Resource About Spiritual Abuse
  
• Restoration Foursquare Church information.
• Deception in the Church
  
• Couple and Elder get kicked out of Foursquare for complaining about medical abuse.
• Congregation Stands Up to be Counted
  
• Topanga Christian Fellowship rejects Foursquare membership.
• My Story of Surviving an Abusive Pentecostal Church
  
• Surviving a Foursquare Gospel Church.
• Foursquare
  
• A waste of 25 years.
• Former Foursquare pastor's testimony
  
• A Foursquare church leaves Foursquare for the Orthodox church.
• Former Foursquare pastor, Roger Martinez
  
• Foursquare helped turn this prolific preacher of the Gospel into a crusader for atheism.
• Foursquare Pastors among Foursquare's victims
  
• 70% of Foursquare Pastors need a second job to support their families.

Foursquare and Children
Children are prime targets for cult recruiters and Christian pedophiles.

• Pedophile Convicted
  
• Foursquare LIFE graduate and Pastor makes a 40 year career out of molesting boys.
• Another Look at Accused Internet Apologist in Amsterdam
  
• Foursquare friendly RP Digest updates its defense of a convicted child molester and fugitive felon.
• Foursquare Molestation
  
• Demise was 15 when she was molested by the wife of her youth pastor at a Foursquare church.
• Selected White Trash
  
• East Valley Foursquare Church Youth Group.
• Church-sponsored Summer Camp Physical hazing
  
• 1994 (scroll down): A young boy wins lawsuit against a Foursquare camp supervisor.

Aimee Semple McPherson, Foursquare founder
"Sister Aimee" was prosecuted for faking her own kidnapping, twice divorced, and died of a drug overdose.

• Strange History of Pentecostalism
  
• Detailed "kidnapping" information from a Fundamentalist Baptist web site.
• McPhersonites, Holy Rollers, Apostolics Exposed
  
• Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson defends supernatural gifts in a debate.
• Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson
  
• Biographical information from the University of Southern California.
• Foursquare publishes Sister Aimee's nonsense
  
• She calls herself a "Protestant Catholic" and babbles about Martin Luther and Gutenberg smuggling Bibles to England in this rambling sermon.
• Benny Hinn's Move Into Necromancy
  
• Benny Hinn uses access to Sister Aimee's (and Kathryn Kuhlman's) tombs.
• Sister Aimee and Uncle Miltie
  
• Milton Berle visits Aimee Semple McPherson's secret "love nest."
• Sister Aimee and Uncle Miltie
  
• Book claims Milton Berle had affair with Sister Aimee; from review in NY Post.
• Aimee Semple McPherson Defense Fund
  
• Does Sister Aimee really need more wedding rings?

Foursquare and Christian racism
How is Foursquare be connected with the Aryan Nations Church?

• Clarence McClendon leaves Foursquare
  
• Pastor pulls largest black church from denomination, charging "politics, real estate and systematic racism".
• Christian Patriots At War with the State
  
• The founder of the Church that became Aryan Nations was a preacher for Aimee Semple McPherson while a Ku Klux Klan leader.
• William Branham
  
• He called the Trinity "a doctrine of demons" and taught "serpent seed," which is a basic doctrine of Christian racism.
• William Branham and Foursquare
  
• William Branham preaches again and again at Angelus Temple, Foursquare's headquarters church.
• British-Israel and Aimee Semple McPherson
  
• "International Church of the Foursquare Gospel founded by Aimee Semple McPherson based on British-Israel doctrine"
• British-Israel doctrine
  
• British-Israel is a Christian racist doctrine, based on flimsy evidence, and associated with Christian Identity.
• Racist Identity Sect
  
• Information on Christian Identity and Aryan Nations from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Foursquare and the Worldwide Church of God
Foursquare leaders help this notorious cult.

• The Painful Truth
  
• A collection of Facts, Opinions and Comments from survivors of Armstrongism.
• Foursquare with the Worldwide Church of God
  
• Foursquare leaders, including Rolf McPherson and Foursquare president Paul Risser, "covenant" themselves with WCG leaders.
• Is the Worldwide Church of God still a cult?
  
• The Two Faces of the Worldwide Church of God
• Jack Hayford helps the WCG get into the NAE
  
• Prominent Foursquare Pastor Jack Hayford helps get the Worldwide Church of God into the National Association of Evangelicals.
• British-Israel and the Worldwide Church of God
  
• Worldwide Church of God is also associated with this racist doctrine.

Foursquare Aliases
Foursquare Churches use different names.

• Foursquare uses the name, "Grace Chapel"
  
• This particular Grace Chapel Foursquare church is accused of being a cult.
• Hope Chapel is Foursquare
  
• The Hope Chapel Churches are Foursquare Churches.
• The Church on the Way is Foursquare
  
• Jack Hayford's The Church on the Way is The First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys.
• Potters House and Foursquare
  
• Potters House is a recognized cult which started in Foursquare.
• NewHeart is Foursquare
  
• California Neighbors Oppose Church Expansion, Citing More Noise and Traffic.

Foursquare Radio
Foursquare's KFSG radio station promotes questionable groups, individuals, and ideologies.

• KFSG Program Directory
  
• Who does Foursquare broadcast on KFSG?
• World Bible Society - with Dr. Ken Beshore: on KFSG
  
• Orange Co. Register 2/28/89 (scroll down): Ken Beshore charged with felony in a case involving molestation of pre-teens.
• A New Beginning - with Greg Laurie: on KFSG
  
• Laurie's Calvary Chapel denomination on cult expert Rick Ross' website.
• And The Word Goes On - with Bishop Omega Shelton: on KFSG
  
• Kenneth N. Shelton, aka Bishop Omega Yediduth Limmud Ben Judah, promotes the denial that Jesus Christ is currently the Son of God.
• Bible Answers Live - with Doug Batchelor: on KFSG
  
• Prominent pastor in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a reputed cult due to abuse, false prophesy, and heresy.
• Real Life - with Sonny Arguinzoni, Jr.
  
• Arguinzoni's Victory Outreach a reputed cult: article from Los Angeles Times.
• Focus On The Family - With Dr. James Dobson: on KFSG
  
• Letters of Support from people who agree with the dangers of Focus on the Family.
• David Hocking: recently on KFSG
  
• Defrocked for morals: article from Los Angeles Times.
• Beverly LaHaye Today with Beverly LaHaye: recently on KFSG
  
• Tim & Beverly LaHaye have had a relationship with the Moonies for years.
• Witness Lee: recently on KFSG
  
• The Local Church of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee is a reputed cult.
• United Pentecostal Church: recently on KFSG
  
• United Pentecostal Church is a reputed cult, and notoriously anti-trinity.
• KFSG Sale for $250 million cash.
  
• There seems to be no press release about immediately buying another FM station in the same market.

Foursquare and Miracles
Gullible Christians will believe anything.

• Foursquare 9-11
  
• Foursquare takes advantage of the 9-11 tragedy with genuine photographs of Satan.
• Foursquare Gold Miracles
  
• Miracles include teeth-cleaning and gold dust.
• Dental Miracles at Foursquare
  
• When you come to Church, bring your flashlight and a mirror.
• More Dental Miracles at Foursquare
  
• BC Christian News: Gold teeth hard to prove, useful for outreach.
• Midas Touch at Foursquare
  
• My wife has perfect teeth, and we wanted her to have a mouthful of gold teeth.
• Bogus Gold Miracles
  
• "TV evangelists forced to recant claims of God's divine dentistry."
• Gold Dust Phenomenon
  
• Gold dust is actually plastic glitter.

Foursquare and Doctrine
Foursquare teaches Neo-Montanism, Latter Rain, and Kingdom Now.

• Cleansing Stream
  
• What doctrine is this Foursquare promoted "ministry" based on?
• Neo-Montanism
  
• Pentecostalism is the ancient heresy of Montanism revived.
• Latter Rain and Foursquare
  
• Foursquare Pastor Herrick Holt helps start the Latter Rain movement.
• The Latter Rain Movement
  
• It continues its influence through "Kingdom Now" doctrines.
• Deliverance Ministries
  
• Concerns about Jack Hayford's 'Deliverance Ministries' on 'The Bible Answer Man'.
• Jack Hayford and "Kingdom Now"
  
• Does Foursquare Pastor Jack Hayford's song, 'Majesty', promote "Kingdom Now"?
• Jack Hayford and "little gods"
  
• Foursquare Pastor Hayford taught that 'we are gods' on his Living Way radio program.
• Pastor Jack Hayford and Promise Keepers
  
• Foursquare Pastor Jack Hayford on the board of directors of this controversial organization.
• Promise Keepers and Latter Rain Heresies
  
• Does Promise Keepers promote false doctrines?
• Charismatic testimonies
  
• What about Toronto Blessing and the Pensacola Revival?

Resources
Contact people concerned with Foursquare and cults.

• On The Edge
  
• Dealing with religious hypocrisy and scandal in ministry.
• Cultlink
  
• Christian information on cults, sects, new religious movements, trends, and renegade Christian groups.
• Walk Away - for ex-fundamentalists
  
• Skipp Porteous, a Foursquare LIFE Bible College graduate, helps provide this resource.
• Cult Awareness & Information Centre
  
• Information about Cults and Isms.
• Foursquare District Supervisors
  
• You can complain to your District Supervisor about abuse, but don't expect any help.
• Foursquare Cult Links
  
• I am interested in hearing from other victims of Foursquare.

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