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committed to Scripture alone. e Promise Keepersmovement was founded by men involved in the Vineyard,including founder Bill McCartney. ough Wimber was notPentecostal, he accepted and popularized many unscripturalPentecostal-type practices, including “slaying in the Spirit,”“prophecy,” “words of knowledge,” and Pentecostal-style faithhealing.Wimber was a radical ecumenist who frequently spoke onthe same platform with Roman Catholic priests. In 1986,Wimber joined Catholic priest Tom Forrest and AnglicanMichael Harper at the European Festival of Faith, anecumenical meeting in Birmingham, England. e Festivalleaders sent the pope this message: “We are ready to join youin the united evangelism of Europe” (Australian Beacon,March 1988).Wimber actively encouraged the reunification ofProtestants with the church of Rome. “During the Vineyardpastors’ conference, he went so far as to ‘apologize’ to theCatholic church on behalf of all Protestants ... He stated that‘the pope, who by the way is very responsive to thecharismatic movement, and is himself a born-againevangelical, is preaching the Gospel as clear as anyone in theworld today’” (John Wimber, Church Planting Seminar, audiotapes, 5 volumes, unedited, 1981, cited by Pastor JohnGoodwin).is radical ecumenism is spread through Vineyard music.e Vintage Vineyard Music series is advertised as “Vineyard’sall-time worship classics THAT CONTINUE TO BE SUNGC ROSS-DENOM I NAT IONA L LY I N C H U RCHESAROUND THE WORLD.”In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Wimber managed themisnamed rock group “e Righteous Brothers.” He claimedthat his Christian conversion occurred in 1962 under theguidance of a Quaker, and by 1970 Wimber was pastoring amystical-oriented Quaker church.399