Sadly, today’s churches, Christian retailers, and other evangelical organizations are rife with false teachers teaching false doctrine. Often, women (and sometimes pastors and elders) write to me, concerned over a particular teacher whose materials their church is using, and want to see evidence demonstrating whether or not this person is doctrinally sound and a good resource. The articles and resources linked below are evidentiary findings on some of today’s most popular teachers, speakers, authors, and current trends in evangelicalism. Please use them as teaching tools in the spirit of 2 Timothy 2:24-26 to help others understand the sin and false doctrine being promoted, keeping in mind that the people who follow them most likely simply don’t know they’re following false teachers.
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Please understand that this is not a comprehensive list of every false teacher in existence (there are thousands of them, so that would be impossible), and do not assume that just because you don’t see a particular teacher, ministry, or trend listed that he/she/it must therefore be doctrinally sound. I provide information here largely in answer to questions from my readers. In other words, if you don’t see a certain teacher/ministry/trend listed, it’s not necessarily because I don’t consider that person a false teacher. The top four reasons you don’t see a name on this list are:
- I haven’t been asked about him/her/it,
- I haven’t had time to write the article,
- It’s abundantly obvious that person is a false teacher (think: Kenneth Copeland, Todd Bentley),
- That person is too obscure (see title of this page).
Still puzzled about why you’re not seeing a name you came looking for? Read this (last section).
Looking for information on doctrinally sound or unsound Christian music? In addition to those listed below, check out my article The Mailbag: False Doctrine in Contemporary Christian Music.
You will see a few names in the list below highlighted in yellow. I have something of a “green light, yellow light, red light” system of categorizing teachers. You’ll find my “green light” (Go! – doctrinally sound, highly recommended teachers) teachers at the Recommended Bible Teachers tab in the blue menu bar at the top of this page. My “red light” (Stop! – false and biblically problematic teachers) teachers are most of those listed below. But because of the way people use my blog to research false teachers, it was most user friendly to also include the “yellow light” teachers below.
“Yellow light” teachers (Caution, slow down!) are teachers I do not believe scripturally qualify for the label of “false teacher” yet, but are biblically problematic enough that I recommend you not follow them or use their materials. Please READ the linked information carefully, and do not make assumptions about any teacher merely by seeing her name (or not seeing her name) listed below.
If you can’t find the name of the teacher
you’re looking for below…
Don’t see the name of the teacher you’re looking for in the alphabetical list below?
- Try typing the name of the teacher into the search bar (make sure you spell it correctly).
- Check out my article Is She a False Teacher? 7 Steps to Figuring It Out on Your Own. You’ll find out steps you can take to research the teacher for yourself, plus several trustworthy discernment sites that may have information on the teacher you’re looking for.
Alphabetical Listing of Teachers/Ministries
Organizations/trends are listed alphabetically by name.
Teachers are listed alphabetically by surname.
A few of the entries below contain more than one link. (For example: Lori Alexander. Click on both “Lori Alexander” and “(The Transformed Wife)” for two different resources.)
A
Lori Alexander (The Transformed Wife)
B
Baptismal Regeneration (taught by the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty)
Bethel Church (Redding, CA)/Bethel Music
C
D
E
F
G
H
Hillsong/Brian & Bobbie Houston
I
Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP)
International House of Prayer (IHOP)
J
K
L
M
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)
N
O
P
Q
R
Robertson Family’s (Duck Dynasty) false teaching of Baptismal Regeneration
S
SBC Women’s Leadership Network
She Reads Truth (Myers / Williams)
T
The Transformed Wife (Lori Alexander)
V
W
Nancy (Leigh) DeMoss Wolgemuth
Y
Yoga / “Christian” Yoga / “Holy” Yoga
Z
If you’d like to check out some great, doctrinally sound authors and teachers, click the “Recommended Bible Teachers” tab in the blue menu bar at the top of this page.
