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NAR to Christ with Dawn Hill
Why Bethel’s Finder’s Ministry Is Not Biblical
Episode Summary
In this episode of NAR to Christ, Dawn Hill examines Bethel Church’s Finder’s Ministry, the “prophetic training” of Dan McCollum, and the wider platforming of these ideas through recent conversations that include Lila Rose. These practices claim to use prophetic “intel” to locate missing people, pets, and lost items by activating “spiritual receptors,” employing double blind methods, and calling it a kind of scientific process for hearing God.Dawn compares these claims with Scripture and explains why they closely resemble New Age psychic methods and Christian mysticism rather than biblical prophecy. She also addresses the push toward ecumenical unity with Roman Catholicism and why unity built on experience and mysticism cannot replace unity in the true gospel and the sufficiency of God’s Word.Listen to the Episode
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Episode Notes
Key Themes
- What Bethel’s Finder’s Ministry claims to do and how it functions.
- The language of “spiritual receptors,” double blind prophetic labs, and the supposed prophetic scientific method.
- How these practices overlap with New Age remote viewing and psychic-style techniques.
- Misuse of passages like Luke 19:10, Romans 12, and the “two or three witnesses” texts to validate mysticism.
- Ecumenical partnership with Roman Catholicism, Eucharistic “miracles,” and appeals to Catholic mystics and saints.
- Why Christians must stand on sola Scriptura and the sufficiency of Scripture instead of subjective revelation.
Key Scriptures
- Deuteronomy 13 and 18 — testing prophets and rejecting divination.
- Luke 19:10 — Christ came to seek and save the lost.
- Romans 12 — spiritual gifts in their proper context.
- 1 Corinthians 12 — the Holy Spirit gives gifts as He wills.
- 1 John 4:1 — test the spirits.
- 2 Timothy 3:16–17 — the sufficiency of Scripture.
Episode Outline
- Introduction — why the Finder’s Ministry matters
- Saints, legends, and mysticism — how stories about Saint Nicholas and others are used to justify modern practices.
- Spiritual receptors and prophetic labs — the training model and its claimed “data”
- New Age parallels — psychics, remote viewing, and similar language and methods.
- Ecumenism and Rome — Lila Rose, Eucharistic claims, and false unity.
- Biblical testing — what Scripture actually teaches about prophecy, discernment, and sufficiency.
- Exhortation — come out of deceptive movements and stand firm in Christ and His Word
For Further Study
If you are coming out of the New Apostolic Reformation, New Age spirituality, or confusion about prophetic movements, we encourage you to open your Bible, study these passages in context, and talk with a faithful local church that preaches Christ and His Word clearly.You can find more resources from Dawn Hill at her page at Servants of Grace or at our YouTube.
Dawn Hill is a Christian blogger known as The Lovesick Scribe, and the host of The Lovesick Scribe Podcast. She is passionate about sharing the truth and pointing others back to Jesus Christ through the written Word as the standard of authority for Christian living and instruction while being led by the Holy Spirit into maturity. She is the author of NonProphet Woke: The Reformation of a Modern-Day Disciple. She writes articles for Christianity.com, Servants of Grace, and her blog posts have been shared by individuals such as Tim Challies. She will be featured in the upcoming docuseries, American Gospel: Spirit and Fire. She co-leads a women’s support group with Emily Massey called Snatched from the Flames, where they minister to women who have come out of the hypercharismatic and New Apostolic Reformation movement. She is a wife to Nicholas and a mother to Anabel and Ephraim. You can follow her on The Lovesick Scribe and Instagram.
