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“John would speak and Lonnie would minister. ey were thedynamic duo. Lonnie got up there and he’d wave his leathercoat and the power of God would come and people would befalling all over these old pews in these Baptist churches. AndLonnie would start climbing over the pews and start layinghands on people saying, ‘Speak in tongues! Speak in tongues!’And he’d hit them in the forehead and they’d instantly begin tospeak in tongues. So I was blown away by that...” (Steve Zarit,Vineyard church member, quoted in Frisbee: e Life andDeath of a Hippy Preacher).In one service in South Africa, Frisbee asked the childrenfrom 12 years old and under to come forward, and they allfell down “slain” (“Lonnie Frisbee in South Africa,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGXSac1TwM).Lonnie Friesbee died in 1993 of AIDS. His wife, who haddivorced him twenty years earlier, said, “At the end of themarriage he told me that he had been staying late in some gaybars” (Connie Bremer-Murray, Lonnie’s ex-wife, SpecialFeatures section of Frisbee: e Life and Death of a HippyPreacher).(For more about Lonnie Friesbee, see the entry on “CalvaryChapel.”)Wimber played a huge role in the spread of charismaticheresy throughout evangelicalism. He yoked up with C. PeterWagner at Fuller eological Seminary and taught a coursecalled “Signs and Wonders and Church Growth.”Wagner traveled deeper and deeper into charismaticdeception, eventually believing that he was one of the latterday apostles.When Wimber met Paul Cain in December 1988, he wasconvinced that the man was a genuine prophet of Godbecause Cain told him secrets of his life that no man couldhave known and because Cain foretold that a mildearthquake would hit the day he arrived. (A mild earthquakeis NOT an uncommon event in southern California!) WhenWimber accepted Cain into the Vineyard he did so with no187