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world evangelization as ‘one of the greatest things that has everhappened in the history of the Church. ... I am thrilled with thePope and glad that he is calling the Church to this goal, to thiswork.’ e report said that Wimber had been told informallythat the Vatican had shown ‘a real interest’ in using VineyardMinistries International’s concepts for the decade ofevangelization ‘and possibly even myself to help train priestswho will be used as trainers in the program worldwide’” (“Offto Rome with Wimber,” New Age Bulletin, June 1988).e following witness to Wimber’s extreme ecumenism isgiven by Pastor John Goodwin, who formerly was with theVineyard movement. is is from “Testing the Fruit of theVineyard” --“Wimber’s extra-biblical forays also led him to accept practiceswhich the Church has rejected as unbiblical for centuries, suchas the use of relics (human remains and objects they’vetouched): ‘In the Catholic church for over a 1,200 year periodpeople were healed as a result of touching the relics of thesaints. We Protestants have difficulty with that ... but we healersshouldn’t, because there’s nothing theologically out of line withthat’ (John Wimber, Church Planting Seminar). ... Wimber isnot only open to Roman Catholic doctrine but activelyencourages the reunification of Protestants with the church ofRome. During the Vineyard pastors’ conference, he went so faras to ‘apologize’ to the Catholic church on behalf of allProtestants ... He stated that ‘the pope, who by the way is veryresponsive to the Charismatic movement, and is himself aborn-again Evangelical, is preaching the gospel as clear asanyone in the world today’” (John Wimber, Church PlantingSeminar, audio tapes, 5 volumes, unedited, 1981).Wimber wholeheartedly recommended the writings ofJesuit priests Dennis and Matthew Linn. He wrote: “FatherDennis and Matthew Linn are Jesuit priests who have writtenbooks which deal with physical, psychological and spiritualwholeness. ey are highly trained in psychology andcombine the best insights in this field with theologicalunderstanding, shaped by charismatic experience” (Abraham414