(Make sure to scroll down and check out the lists of teachers that propagate these aberrant beliefs. I would also encourage praying and researching the teachings of these people yourselves. It's very important to measure all teachings up to the authority of Scripture.)
"Next, I strongly believe that the doctrine of God is also crucial to our time. An accurate understanding of God as he declares himself in Holy Scripture, as the God who reveals himself to us by his divine attributes and properties, which attain the apex of his self-disclosure in Christ, is all but lost and despised in our culture. Postmodernism, with its relentless promotion of anti-foundationalism, is increasing its sinuous and sinister penetration into the church and is particularly being manifest in the teachings of Open Theism, Prosperity Gospel, and to some degree the emergent church. While it is true that each of these deviations has its own peculiarities, they all have this one common pervasive thread: foundationally they are all attacks on the character of God. Not only do they distort the divine attributes depicted in Scripture, but they also too often discard the historical church's understanding of them, most of which are captured in the creeds and confessions faithfully handed down to us by our forefathers.
About two decades ago the prevalent aspect of this ungodly assault on God and on Scripture was framed by the question, 'Has God said?' Like the serpent's words to Eve in the garden of Eden, seducing her to believe his demonic lies rather than the truth of the Word of God, the aberrant teaching of yesteryear constituted a frontal attack on the very authority of God. Today, this attack continues with the addition of a few subtle twists. In this scenario, God is still speaking, but he is speaking different words , so to speak. To the Open Theists, God speaks not on the basis of ultimate, absolute, and perfect knowledge but on the basis of knowledge that is limited, one that is contingent upon and conditioned by man's actions in history. To the Prosperity and Word-Faith proponents, God's Word is not his condemnation of man for sin and his provision of his eternal Son as his only acceptable, propitiatory sacrifice for sin, but a promise of the good life, health, and wealth, with some tidbits of spirituality tossed in for good measure. As one of the more visible proponents of this false teaching has written, we can and we must live our best life now. Where the emergent church advocates are concerned, a new 'conversation' is being undertaken in a very fluid and continuously emerging environment sometimes called a village. In this milieu, what is of utmost importance is not the objective propositions enshrined in Scripture and received and cherished by the historical church but a decentralized interfaith dialog aimed at achieving a widespread ecumenism, driven by an incentive to build the kingdom by reaching the world through the process of storytelling.
The point is that all of these distortions blatantly reject the centrality of the gospel message as it is reflected in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Modern 'reasoning' holds that, in order to meet the demands of the modern culture, God must speak a new word in new ways. The essence of these renegade doctrines is a concentrated assault on God, whose word is forever settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89) and who continues to speak to his chosen covenant people by his Word and Spirit. From Genesis to Revelation, his message is the same. He offers salvation by grace alone through faith alone in the sinless life of the God-man, Jesus Christ alone." pgs 102-103
- Michael Leach
from: http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Road-Journeys-African-Americans-Christianity/dp/1433505843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363716535&sr=8-1&keywords=glory+road%3A+the+journeys+of+10+african+americans+into+reformed+christianity
Word Faith/Prosperity Gospel Teachers
Joel Osteen
Joyce Meyer
T. D. Jakes
E. W. Kenyon
Kenneth Hagan
Benny Hinn
Emergent Church Teachers
Dan Kimball
Rob Bell
Brian McLaren
Donald Miller
Doug Pagitt
Neil Cole
Michael Frost
Alan Hirsch
Open Theism Teachers
Richard Rice
Gregory Boyd
Peter Wagner
Clark Pinnock
John E. Sanders
Thomas Jay Ooord
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