Teachers to Avoid
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather expose them.
Ephesians 5:11
False teachers are nothing new when we look through history. They continue to lead people astray in our time as well. We, like many, had been taken in by different false teachings over the years. Each of us had our different beliefs before we found the truth. We wish we had had someone warn us. Once we found the truth, we began researching different beliefs and teachers. Since we ended up collecting this info and sharing it with others personally, we wanted to provide the information we had found for others who may be researching themselves.
***Disclaimer - you may see someone on here you follow. If so, we ask that you review the information provided and ask the Lord to help you discern if it is true or not and if they are someone you should be following. After all, we are to follow Christ, not men (or women). Ask yourself if you are defending the person or the Word of God. Do you know for yourself through study that what they said is biblical before you defend what may be their opinion (at best) or false teachings (at worst)? Have you read the verses used in the sermons in question to know the context? Does the context of the passage(s) match what the person used it for? Were they pulling a verse here and there to fit into a topical sermon that had more to do with the audience and/or seeing oneself in the Bible or were the verses read and context given? Our objective here is for people who may have been led astray by wrong doctrine, false teachers, bad theology, etc—as we ourselves were—to have their eyes opened to the true Gospel, true Jesus, true salvation, and true biblical teaching from Scripture alone.
If you’re interested in hearing more about our journey, we talk about that more in our videos.
Josh’s testimony:
On the Podcast
On Rumble
On Youtube
Courtney’s testimony:
On the Podcast
On Rumble
On Youtube
***If you are in need of a resource to help you discuss different false teachings with the people in your life, we highly recommend these 2 books—A Field Guide on False Teaching by Ligonier ministries and Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin. Both of these books are also available on Audible. If you would like to try Audible, using our link to sign up for a trial will get you up to 2 free audiobooks. ***
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Teachers to Avoid
Timothy Keller
Jonathan Cahn
Judah Smith
Rob Bell
Victoria Osteen (info on her is listed at the bottom of the post about her husband, Joel Osteen)
Glennon Doyle
Carl Lentz (Section on him at the bottom of this post)
Sabellius (taught heresy of modalism)
Arius (taught heresy - that Jesus was only a man)
Jeremy Riddle
Craig Groeschel
Tim Mackie & The Bible Project
Churches to Avoid
Elevation Church
IHOP (the church not the pancake house)
Passion Church
Music to Avoid
Sean Feucht (from Bethel/Jesus Culture)
Joel Houston (Hillsong)
Darlene Zschech
Cody Carnes (from Bethel)
Sinach (Strong ties to Benny Hinn)
Tauren Wells
Brooke Fraser (Hillsong)
Brian Johnson (Bethel)
Jonathan David Helser (Bethel)
Melissa Helser (Bethel)
Dante Bowe (Bethel)
Kalley (Bethel)
Brandon Lake (Bethel)
Kristene DiMarco (Bethel)
Paul McClure (Bethel)
Hannah McClure (Bethel)
Josh Baldwin (Bethel)
Bethany Wohrle (Bethel)
Hunter Thompson (Bethel)
Morgan Faleolo (Bethel)
Emmy Rose (Bethel)
Organizations to Avoid
Hillsong Conference
SHOUT! Music Publishing (side label created and managed by Hillsong church)
Orange (252 Kids/MarriedPeople Sunday school and small group programs; created by co-founder of Andy Stanley’s church; recommended by Andy Stanley and TD Jakes)
Celebrity Christians to Avoid
Justin and Hailey Beiber
Things to Avoid
Kids Books & Things to Avoid
How Great is our God by Louie Giglio
Orange (252 Kids/MarriedPeople Sunday school and small group programs; created by co-founder of Andy Stanley’s church; recommended by Andy Stanley and TD Jakes)
Jesus Calling for Kids by Sarah Young (she has many Jesus calling books in the kids genre)
Jesus storybook Bible and/or anything by Sally Lloyd-Jones (her theology is questionable at best & she has affirmed LGBT as well as depicting homosexual characters in her childrens books)