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Wimber interpreted all of this as the power of the HolySpirit, but it was a deceiving spirit. e apostles and earlychurch leaders didn’t fall down and shake and speak inmeaningless gibberish, but the practitioners of paganreligions do those very things under the power of the devil.Wimber’s church experienced massive growth and kids“started baptizing friends in hot tubs and swimming poolsaround town.”It was at this point that Wimber le the Calvary Chapelsand joined Kenn Gulliksen and the Vineyard ChristianFellowship. Wimber soon became the leader of theFellowship.Wimber had bought into the “latter rain” end-time miraclerevival heresy and the new prophecy movement, and he andFrisbee traveled together to spread their “signs and wonderspower evangelism” to South Africa and Europe.“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).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.” Wagnertraveled deeper and deeper into charismatic deception,eventually believing that he was one of the latter day apostles.35