This article is a reflection on the current issue besetting churches and the Unida Church in particular. Church leaders are discussing a major issue right now. It is about the so-called G12 Vision. Many are now familiar with this term and history, but for those who are in the dark let me give you an overview.
G12 stands for the Government of Twelve People, twelve people after being taught and trained would eventually fathered 12 new believers and grand fathered 12 new believers. Disciples repeat the same process to promote church growth. Cesar Castellanos Dominguez of Bogota, Colombia who borrowed the idea from David Yonggi Cho after visiting Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea developed this pyramidal scheme for church growth.
The G12 methodology of growth can be summed into four categories namely;
1. Win-new believers are added to the open cell through friendship and by utilizing the prayer of 3 strategy ( three disciples meeting once a week and pray for three non-Christian each and inviting them to evangelistic events until these three people make a decision for Christ).
2. Consolidate-after joining the cell, new believers are consolidated in the Pentecostal-charismatic faith and sent on an encounter (these are weekend retreats-somewhat like an indoctrination camp where new believers are being re-oriented and re-directed into the G12 agenda).
3. Disciple-once the new believers (already brainwashed and re-focused) has experienced an encounter, they are sent to the school of leaders ( a nine month split into a three ten week sections course study of the fundamentals of the Pentecostal-charismatic faith as well as the principles of the G12 vision).
4. Send-during the school of leaders the believers begins to reach out through friendships and prayer of 3 to start their own open cell. Once they have opened their own open cell, one of two things happens.
a. The new cell leader stays in their own leader’s open cell. This cell gradually changes into a closed leadership cell (an exclusive club).
b. Or, more commonly, will join a separate leadership cell under their cell leader.
Church leaders have become aware of the G12 deception and fallacies. The “new believers” or “new disciples” targeted by this group are not new at all. These are actually the regular church members and also pastors and church leaders of certain church denominations who are in search of ways and means to help promote growth in their church but eventually becoming victims of a very crude deception by attending their conferences. The G12 in actuality is promoting division and exclusiveness in the church. The truth of the matter is that G12 originators are gathering disciples for themselves not for Christ. Pastors, church leaders and church members would become puppets of the twelve originators who would downgrade and down play existing church leadership to the detriment of the church. In reality a crisis of leadership will arise geared towards a confrontation of what is now and what should become. A church founded by Christ or a church founded by the G12 people. And the loser of this confrontation is the Church the body of Christ. Smite the shepherd and the sheep will go astray. The devil is so cunning the Christian church must watch and guard their sheepfold. Many have already found out about this deception and fallacies and have left the G12 movement. Let us not be caught off-guard and suffer the consequence of the errors of G12.
Get out of her right now!
