Northwestern Book Stores Promote False Teaching
Published March 23, 2009 by Pastor Adam Gislason
Great Adventure Ministries

Growing up in Minnesota, I have been accustomed to purchasing books and other Christian items through Northwestern Book Stores (NBS) located in the Twin Cities. Let me say right up front that NBS have done a great job in the past of promoting the true gospel of Jesus Christ and that I have benefited greatly from their existence in my own personal Christian growth. However, over the past several years now, I have had a growing deep concern about NBS and its promotion of false teaching.

Last week before leaving on vacation, I walked into one of the NBS located in the Twin Cities. Honestly, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing-not just in the book aisles as I searched for Joel Rosenberg’s “Inside The Revolution” and Mark Hitchcock’s, “The Late Great United States” to read on vacation, but even more so what I was seeing front and center as I walked into the store.

I’m sad to report that false teaching permeates NBS and has become the norm in many Christian book stores and publishers all across America. It’s common today when you walk into Christian book stores like NBS to see the promotion of false teachers such as “The Shack’s” William P. Young, Joel Osteen, Rhonda Byrnes, T.D. Jakes, Joyce Meyer, John Avanzini, Benny Hinn, Neal Donald Walsh, Kenneth Hagin, Charles Capps, Oral Roberts, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Paul and Jan Crouch, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Todd Bentley, Paula White, Fred Price, Jerry Savelle, Robert Tilton, Marilyn Hickey, Morris Cerullo, Miles Munroe, Jesse Duplantis, Steve Munsey, Ken Clement, Ed Young, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen and St. Teresa Avila.

It’s common to see the promotion of false teachers from the Emerging Church Movement such as N.T. Wright, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Ryan Bolger, Wilbert Shenk, Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Erwin McManus, Dan Kimball, Scot McKnight, Elizabeth O’Connor, Nancey Murphy, Leonard Sweet, Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Donald Miller and Phyllis Tickle.

And we wonder why the church is so messed up!

I don’t know about you, but I get this sick-to-my-stomach feeling every time I go through the NBS doors and I have come to a point where I can no longer support NBS or any other Christian book store or publisher that promotes false teaching that goes directly against the Word of God.

A good friend of mine, who works at one of the NBS in the Twin Cities and who shares the same concern, checked me out and we got to talking about the false teaching that keeps flowing through NBS which led to a discussion on the “The Shack.” He said something that stuck with me that I won’t soon forget. He said, “It’s frightening enough that this book is sold here as a “Christian” book, but what’s even more frightening is that it’s ranked so high on “Christian” best seller lists.” For example, “The Shack” Ranked #4 on Christian Best Sellers Association. You may also be interested in knowing that the author of “The Shack”, William P. Young, has just recently admitted that he Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement.

Some of you may be wondering why Great Adventure Ministries links to the secular Amazon.com for our resources. When we first started this discernment ministry back in May 2008, we linked our resources to Christianbook.com. It didn’t take long to start seeing the promotion of false teaching all over their website. I can remember thinking to myself, “What’s going on with Christian book stores these days? They all seem to be promoting false teaching right along with Biblical teaching!”

To make a long story short-through a lot of prayer and consideration, we decided that it was better to support a secular company that doesn’t proclaim to be “Christian” vs. a company that promotes both Biblical teaching and false teaching that claims to be a “Christian Book Store.” Our philosophy is simple: If you’re going to be a “Christian Book Store”, than only promote “Christian” books that line up with the truth found in the Bible. Otherwise don’t claim to be a “Christian Book Store”-be a secular book store because that’s who you really are.

It’s time for Christian books stores like NBS and others to repent and start exercising Biblical discernment. My sense is that a lot of these false teachings exist in Christian book stores today because (1) their gate keepers have been deceived into believing that false teaching is Biblical teaching and (2) these books that promote false teaching are so popular in many churches today, that they dare not promote them or risk losing revenue. The Bible says that the love of money is “the” root of all kinds of evil.

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“The Shack” Ranked #4 on Christian Best Sellers Association
“The Shack” Author Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement
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