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Article Evaluation

I am evaluating the Word of Faith Wikipedia article. Found here. It is a class C article that is of low importance to the WikiProject Religion and WikiProject Charismatic Christianity

One of the first things that I noticed that should be changed is the lack of citations found in the History section of the article. This is something that should be very easy to find neutral resources, yet there have not been used here.

The section titled “Bible passages” seems very odd to me. It feels as though a person who may be biased towards the WOF movement decided to quickly throw in every scripture reference used to affirm these beliefs without intending to explain them in a way that would show others how one would interpret them as a WOF member.

I would like to create an addition to this page that shares current popular teachers of Word of Faith and how their beliefs and theology differ from each other. This movement has recently found a resurgence with millennials and Gen Z due to churches like Bethel and Hillsong. These churches are not spoken of, nor any growth of this movement within the past decade or even two.

The criticisms

I also believe there could be an addition of facts about the population of Word of Faith believers, where they are found in the world, what denominations heavily subscribe to these beliefs, etc. There is also room to talk about how the Word of Faith movement has played a part in conversion therapy targeted towards members of the LGBTQ community and how the followers of the movement also impact American politics.

The first reference takes readers to “Christian Forums” and an outdated page at that. The second seems to be a blog heavily biased against the WOF movement that has not been updated in almost a decade. The fifth reference is linked to a deleted page from Creflo Dollar’s ministry website, there are also multiple references to Kenneth Copeland’s ministry page. Unless used to quote these preachers, this is the most biased towards WOF a reference can get. The AJC reference takes readers to another deleted page. The Harvest Ministries reference is also linked to an unfound page. Many other references take readers to a homepage rather than single articles themselves. Finally, many references are simply bible verses used by editors. I am not sure how one should feel about this, nor if the bible is an acceptable reference.

It is interesting that the only external links are to “apostle’s” ministry website.

In the talk page for this article, I found it a bit humorous that one editor has the username WordofGOD'Spower. I would suspect that this editor may be biased towards the topic of the article. Beyond this, it seems as though there have been very recent changes to this page by an unbiased editor who is looking to improve the overall quality of this article.

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TheCall (organization)

Possible Edits:


 * Updated list of events.
 * (They hide these quite well on the internet, so it will take some digging)


 * Different names for events.
 * The Call, The Send, The Response, The Briefing, Azusa Now, Esther Movement, Tent
 * Azusa Now is another series of events within The Call organization. Others include The Send, The Response, and The Briefing.
 * There are also events that were inspired by The Call. One of these is a group called Carry the Love that visits college campuses across the world for a 2-3 day worship time meant to inspire charismatic revival at each institution. Another in Ohio is called the Marked Ones. The Marked Ones tour was directly inspired by Lou Engle’s Azusa Now event in Cleveland Ohio on July 22nd & 23rd, 2017.
 * The Response
 * This event partnered Prophet Lou Engle with Rick Perry to
 * The website is no longer in existence yet the Facebook page for the organization has posted as recently as October 12th, 2018.
 * At this event, Engle tells the audience that the day Perry announced his presidential campaign, it rained heavily for five hours. He then goes on to say that some see this as a sign of God’s blessing on Perry’s presidency.
 * The Response has also had other, smaller rallies around the country. One of these was on Saturday, July 16th, 2016 at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Pastor Donna Barrett is the General Secretary of the Assembly of God (AoG) denomination and called the AoG churches to make attending the event a priority as “it is important to God.”


 * Large section on how The Call influenced the bill passed in Uganda
 * Topics in The Briefing

add events
Azusa Now, LA California, April 9 2016

Esther Moment March and Fast, Washington DC, March 8-11 2017

PreCall Rally for Azusa Now Cleveland, Toledo Ohio, May 18, 2017

Azusa Now, Cleveland Ohio, July 22-23, 2017

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As of October 2018, Lou Engle has announced the ending of TheCall organization and will be focusing on his newest endeavor, Lou Engle Ministries. This was announced on TheCall's website, where all other pages have been deleted other than Engle's press release. TheBriefing, which is an email newsletter rallying followers around political issues pertaining to TheCall's goals and giving prophetic assignments for intercession will be continued by Engle's dear friends, Paul and Cheryl Amabile. A new movement, Contend, will have what Engle believes to have the same DNA as TheCall and will be led by David and Audry Kim who are his spiritual son and daughter.

TheCall and Republican Politicians
TheCall stands for many of the same things the Republican Party does. The most prominent example being removing legal abortion rights from American women in pursuit of ending what many of Engle’s followers as legal murder within the United States.

The Call has also promoted anti-LGBT rhetoric around the world and believes that reversing the legalization of same-sex marriage would allow a miraculous mass healing of AIDS within the nation with 100,000 "ex-gays" leading the movement.

The Call and the GOP also share a sense of nationalism. The Call promote the belief that America is God’s favored nation and that it is their job to first take dominion over America and then the rest of the world. This has been preached at recent gatherings through Engle’ s acceptance and promotion of the Gulliver prophecy.

Rick Perry and The Response
On August 6th, 2011 Rick Perry and Lou Engle held The Response. This event was an all-day prayer rally held in Houston at the Reliant Stadium in which Engle called for prayer and fasting in support of Perry's presidential campaign. Prior to this, two Texan pastors, Tom Schlueter of Arlington and Bob Long of San Marcos contacted Perry in hopes to share a new revelation that God had ordained Texas to be "The Prophet State" and that he was anointed by God to lead the state and nation into revival. Perry engages in this rhetoric and goes on to say at the event that The Response was prophesied and anointed through the Book of Joel. At this event, Engle tells the audience that the day Perry announced his presidential campaign, it rained heavily for five hours. He then goes on to say that some see this as a sign of God’s blessing on Perry’s presidency.

Other Politicians

 * Sam Brownback
 * Sarah Palin
 * Newt Gingrich
 * Michele Bachmann
 * Ted Cruz
 * Mike Huckabee

Alternative Names and Supplementary Movements

 * The Response
 * Azusa Now
 * Esther Moment
 * The Send
 * The Briefing

= Final Edits TheCall = As of October 2018, Lou Engle has announced the ending of TheCall organization and will be focusing on his newest endeavor, Lou Engle Ministries. This was announced on TheCall's website, where all other pages have been deleted other than Engle's press release. TheBriefing, which is an email newsletter rallying followers around political issues pertaining to TheCall's goals and giving prophetic assignments for intercession will be continued by Engle's dear friends, Paul and Cheryl Amabile. A new movement, Contend, will have what Engle believes to have the same DNA as TheCall and will be led by David and Audry Kim who are his spiritual son and daughter.

Impact on American Politics
TheCall has multiple supplementary movements and alternative names for their events that are focused on different areas of interest to the group. This includes TheResponse, which was a chain of stadium revivals focused on rallying audiences towards different topics or political candidates. Another event sponsored by TheCall and Lou Engle was RiseUp. This event was held in Washington D.C on October 9th, 2017 and was created for Christian women to become advocates within the political sphere. Speakers at this event lead prayers for political figures such as Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Attendees were asked to pray for millions of children to be adopted, for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and for “the reform or the resigning of judges” within the Supreme Court. TheCall again has recently focused on rally Christian women with the Esther Fast. This three day fast held from March 8th-11th, 2017 called for women to pray for the support of the President of the United States, the ending of witchcraft, removing anti-Semitist beliefs America, and for the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Rick Perry
On August 6th, 2011 Rick Perry and Lou Engle held The Response. This event was an all-day prayer rally held in Houston at the Reliant Stadium in which Engle called for prayer and fasting in support of Perry's presidential campaign. Prior to this, two Texan pastors, Tom Schlueter of Arlington and Bob Long of San Marcos contacted Perry in hopes to share a new revelation that God had ordained Texas to be "The Prophet State" and that he was anointed by God to lead the state and nation into revival. Perry engages in this rhetoric and further promotes the belief that The Response was prophesied and anointed through the Book of Joel. At this event, Engle tells the audience that the day Perry announced his presidential campaign, it rained heavily for five hours. He then goes on to say that some see this as a sign of God’s blessing on Perry’s presidency.

Other Politicians Associated with TheCall

 * Sam Brownback
 * Sarah Palin
 * Newt Gingrich
 * Michele Bachmann
 * Ted Cruz
 * Mike Huckabee

SavannahHinde (talk) 18:36, 2 November 2018 (UTC)