You can by your own choice continue to follow the Shepherding Movement, but you might want to look at how it was founded more on the submission of man rather than submission to Christ. Here is what this movement is all about.I hasten to add that I do know that a lot of so called experts cast aspersions on learning and study and consider it irrelevant and a waste of time and as for reading a book, heaven help us.
Thankyou for confirming what I said.
One of the greatest scholars that modern day Christendom has every produced is Derek Prince. He was a man filled with the spirit; the youngest professor at Oxford University at the age of 25; had a Ph.D in Greek and Hebrew and taught languages.
Nice to know that he was a waste of space according to you and all his learning was not sanctioned by the Holy Spirit so it was a complete waste of time.
Ah well. I guess I will have to just ignore the fact that he has written numerous books that teach the scriptures that deal with the " news behind the news" so to speak and they are printed in their millions and sent to christians in countries free of charge because they cannot afford them.
Just think. All those milllions of Christian being led astray because the author of the books they read dared to read other books.
Founders of the Shepherding Movement were Don Basham, Bob Mumford, Derick Prince, Charles Simpson and Erin Baxter
These five “anointed” men began to teach on authority, submission, and discipleship. The doctrine that reshaped the charismatic community was that every individual must be submitted to another person and that all major life decisions should be submitted to a “shepherd or pastor”. It became a system in which elders or “shepherds” acted as spiritual leaders responsible for the entire church. Individual church members were assigned to specific elders and were “submitted” to them. Over time, a religious system developed in which a blind obedience to “man” was promoted.
Another doctrine that these leaders emphasized was “Covenant” relationships or “Spiritual Family”. When one entered into a discipleship relationship, it was permanent, as was one’s association with a group of believers. Members were in a “Covenant” with one another. If someone left the relationship or the fellowship group, they were breaking a covenant. These kinds of religious systems often place more emphasis on one’s “spiritual family” than one’s natural family. If a misguided shepherd is in charge of such a system, cult-like behavior is the logical result.
The end result of shepherding is that it puts the submissive person in a position of having two masters – Jesus Christ and a personal shepherd. Over time the shepherd gains more power and control over the one being shepherded, and Jesus Christ is terribly overshadowed. In other words, shepherding becomes nothing more than an idolatrous religious system. Unfortunately, all kinds of abuse resulted from the shepherding movement. Extensive documentation exists describing the abuses that took place. In hindsight, what started out as a method of accountability morphed into a system of enslaved people.
As time went by, the fruit of these doctrines became obvious to charismatic leaders outside the movement. Some of these leaders confronted the “Five” in what has been called the “Shootout at the Curtis Hotel.” The Fort Lauderdale Five eventually parted company, and Derek Prince and Bob Mumford distanced themselves from the teaching. Derek Prince, who withdrew in 1983, explained publicly that “we were guilty of the Galatian error: having begun in the Spirit, we quickly regenerated into the flesh.” Bob Mumford issued a “Formal Repentance Statement to the Body of Christ” in 1990 and was quoted as saying: “Discipleship was wrong. I repent. I ask forgiveness.”