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Welcome to the 139th episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins talks with Costi Hinn about his book Defining Deception: Freeing the Church from the Mystical-Miracle Movement (Southern California Seminary Press, 2018).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- Why and how Christians should defend the truth.
- A real versus a false miracle.
- Doctrinal discernment and how Christians should engage in it.
- Why and how Christians should have hard conversations with people.
- What the third wave is.
- The facts surrounding Bethel Church and the mystical miracle movement and how true Christians should call Bill Johnson and his followers to repent.
- The five most concerning areas of Bill Johnson’s theology.
- The real role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Life and how the biblical record stands opposed to Third Wave theology.
- The nature of biblical healing and how the Bible stands opposed to the Third Wave teaching on healing.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.
Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
